There are
a few high cost areas, such as Los Angeles and New York where the threshold is closer to $ 600,000, but for the majority of the country the $ 453,100 rule of thumb holds true.
The vast majority of the country also has the same $ 453,100 loan limit, although
a few high cost areas have a higher zero down payment loan limit.
Not exact matches
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few of my coworkers came from the Bay
Area becuase of the
high cost of living (home price, and
high rent).
For example, the law that vehicles should be driven on the right side of the road, the speed limits in various
areas generally 15 — 65 mph depending, requirements of insurance, requiring testing and licences, making drunk driving illegal, etc. (George Will had written an article a
few years ago comparing possible AGW policy to a global 5 mph speed limit; sure there would be
fewer traffic accidents but would the
cost be too great (what about lives, health and wellbeing, and wealth benifits from
higher - speed transport?)
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few weeks ago I wrote about a TV ad which the McCain campaign was running which, in short, said that 1) drilling for oil in offshore
areas which are currently off limits is the solution to reducing
high gasoline
costs in the United States, and 2) that Barack Obama is the sole reason these
areas are off limits.
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few weeks ago I wrote about a TV ad which the McCain campaign was running which, in short, said that 1) drilling for oil in offshore
areas which are currently off limits is the solution to reducing
high gasoline
costs
Factors that have led to increases in homeowners premiums in the past
few years include rising home values,
higher repair and rebuilding
costs, and larger than average catastrophe losses in hurricane - prone
areas.
Manufactured homes serve many housing needs in a wide range of communities — from rural
areas where housing alternatives (rental or purchase) are
few and construction labor is scarce and / or costly, to
higher -
cost metropolitan
areas.