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The nation's biggest bailed-out banks have unintentionally entered a new line of work: slumlording. In some cases, major banks have created whole neighborhoods of abandoned and deteriorating foreclosure properties -- and a blight on local municipalities.

Today's sluggish housing market has little margin for error: Make an ill-conceived or poorly researched home purchase now, and you'll almost certainly pay the price later. To avoid that, make sure you have the right answers to these three questions before you buy your next home.

You drive home from your job and there it is: a sign saying the house next door has been foreclosed on. According to new research out of Harvard and MIT, your own home's value just dropped about 8.7%. Yep, just like that. The research found that the value of your house drops every time another...

The house sits behind an upholstery shop on the corner, and while I'm too young to know for sure, I'll bet the upholstery shop has thrived since the streetcar ran down Gladstone Street in the 1950s. The house, like mine, was built in the first few decades of the 20th century. An old grande dame,...

When I was growing up my parents could remember what kids meal specials were valid on any given day at local restaurants, which was no simple task given the varying age restrictions placed on these deals. Nowadays parents don't have to keep a Rolodex of specials in their heads thanks to the meal...

Just in case you need to feel better about the situation in your current neighborhood, head over to AOL to read tales of un-neighborly behavior which are enough to make anyone's blood boil. While these tales of chaos in the neighborhood don't have a direct correlation to personal finance, your...