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Fresh Paint Can Be A Difference-Maker When Selling Your Home
Originally published November 16, 2011

Unless you’ve been living on a desert island, you know how tough it is to sell a home these days. In some neighborhoods, “For Sale” signs are as common as mailboxes. And the challenge is the same whether you live in a small row house or a McMansion.more More Arrow

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Mayor Gray’s Latest Program Provides Furniture to Homeless Veterans
by Stephen D. Riley
August 18, 2011 - Mayor Vincent Gray and D.C. Office of Veterans Affairs (OVA) director, Matt Cary, recently announced a furniture-donation program for homeless veterans and their families who live in Washington, D.C. Through the program, Fort McNair has donated $75,000 worth of bed frames, box springs, mattresses, refrigerators, microwaves, chest drawers, chairs, tables and computers to the National Capitol Veterans Coalition which has, in turn, provided the furniture to OVA, according to a press release.more More Arrow

Howard Awarded $10,000 Grant from Home Depot
by AFRO Staff
May 18, 2011 - Howard University was recently awarded a $10,000 grant for on campus improvements for finishing as a finalist in the Home Depot 2011 “Retool Your School” Campus Improvement Grant Program. The famed Washington, D.C. university was one of 11 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) to receive grants for their proposals of long-standing eco-friendly projects. more More Arrow

Double Whammy: Blacks in the Grip of Foreclosure/Wage-Concession Vice
by DougMiller
March 16, 2011 - African Americans may find themselves in the middle of a potentially devastating financial squeeze play, disproportionately pressed from one side by foreclosures tied to the ongoing U.S. mortgage crisis and constricted on the other by growing government demands for concessions from Black-heavy public employee unions.
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Graduate School USA Signs On as first Major Tenant of New Waterfront Project
by Stephen D. Riley
March 16, 2011 - Continuing with the design to revitalize Washington, D.C.’s Southwest Waterfront, mayor Vincent Gray announced on March 10 that Graduate School USA signed an agreement to establish what will be called the Center for Education and Training at the heart of “The Wharf” project.more More Arrow

Website Searches for Nation’s Strangest Homes
by AFRO Staff
August 19, 2010 - As part of their efforts to compile a list of the nation’s top 10 most unusual homes, toptenrealestatedeals.com is scouring local cities searching for residences that are quirky, unique or extremely unusual.
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District Property Tax Sale Begins Sept. 20
by AFRO Staff
August 19, 2010 - More than 6,100 commercial and residential properties with outstanding tax liens will be up for public auction beginning Sept. 20 during the city’s annual tax sale.more More Arrow

Harvard University Releases Housing Report
by Stephen D. Riley
June 17, 2010 - As victims of the housing market continue to look for signs of hope, on June 14 Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies released its “State of the Nation's Housing 2010” report.more More Arrow

Cash for Caulkers
by AP Wire Service
May 11, 2010 - WASHINGTON (AP) _ Homeowners could collect thousands of dollars in Cash for Caulkers rebates for renovating their homes with better insulation and energy-saving windows and doors under a new economic stimulus bill the House passed last week.more More Arrow