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U.S. Bank says it will cease eviction action against Martha Flynn while it determines its next step. That could include demanding the loan’s previous servicer, a unit of Wells Fargo, take the mortgage back, legal experts say. A Columbia County judge has blocked U.S. Bank from evicting a Vernonia woman whose home it purchased in foreclosure, concluding in a case with far-reaching implications that her lenders had not properly recorded mortgage documents.

Last week’s action appears to be the first in which an Oregon judge has halted an eviction and declared a foreclosure sale void after the fact. Full Article…

Selling income property is different from selling a home – think of it as the difference between business-to-consumer marketing and business-to-business marketing. So the normal staging process to make your home more interesting to a buyer is not really going to have the same impact. Rental property is separate, because it’s bought by investors who are qualified to look at income rather than new paint. Generally the numbers mean a lot more to them than the property itself.

There are many approaches for making your income property more productive.

1. Find out what the same sort of homes are renting for. I

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Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez said the loan will be provided by the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation and 10 other banks from Japan.

The loan will be used by Petroleos de Venezuela, or PDVSA, to upgrade two of Venezuela’s oil refineries, he said. PDVSA can pay off the loan “either with cash or petroleum,” Ramirez said.

Toyoaki Fujita, a representative of the Japanese Bank for International Cooperation, hailed the deal as an important step toward economic cooperation.

By Jennifer Leigh Parker, CNBC.com

Everyday expenses have a direct effect on the price of doing business, which is why we rank the cost of living for each state in CNBC’s Top States for Business.

So where would a business find a state where the cost of living is low? Our survey results show states with the best bang for your buck are in the South.

Kentucky tops our list with 50 out of the 50-point total for this category. Full Article…

Whenever I read or hear things about getting rich, the first thing I always think of is how I don’t really understand what “rich” means.

Rich is a nebulous concept that means something different to each of us. For a lot of us, it means having some quantity of money, probably a large one.

But what does it really mean?

Does being rich mean that you have enough money to pay for every reasonable need you might have in your life? Does it mean that you have enough money to pay for every reasonable want you might have in your life?

Or does it mean something completely different?

Whenever I start thinking about what it means to be rich, my mind starts thinking about scarcity and abundance. I’ll

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