Buy and hold investors often find themselves in the appliance market. Smart tag-ice]landlords[/tag-ice] and investors know there are many ways to cut costs and get the best deals. One thing sure and certain is retailers’ profits are getting smaller and slimmer so they are now relying more and more on warranties.

Popularity: 19% [?]

Thank goodness for Generation X. They’re the young folks born between 1965 and 1979. They’re now entering the real estate market for their peak house- buying years. And just in time. A slower market, still reeling from all of the dizzying street theater of the last three years needed some ballyhooing upwards.

Popularity: 21% [?]

Are you getting ready? It’s coming. One of the best investment opportunities in years. This is not late- night infocommercial fluff. Here are the facts you can take to the bank in 2007-2008.

[tag]Foreclosures [/tag]are rising. A lot of people have been proclaiming that for some time. What’s different now is the sheer number of them.

Popularity: 22% [?]

A funny story was told about a city man who moved to a farm outside of Nashville. He wanted to raise some cattle and hay but didn’t have the right tools. One night, as a storm was approaching, he had to get the hay in fast. So why not pile what you could salvage into the trunk of your Mercedes E350?

They’re being called [tag]exurbanites[/tag], and no one’s laughing at them now, especially in Tennessee which ranks sixth in the nation for the exurbanite population. According to the Brookings Institute, there are 438,600 of them living in the Tennessee exurbs. I wish I could make it 438,601.

Popularity: 14% [?]