Attention house hunters! Don't change your financial picture right before a home purchase!

While you are seriously home shopping, don't make any big purchases on credit. Don't buy a car or purchase an expensive vacation. Any significant purchases will alter your financial picture, and the banks don't like to see sudden changes just before issuing you a loan.

Be aware that positive changes -- such as paying off balances on all your credit cards -- are exactly the kind of financial moves you should be making, but these won't immediately show up on your credit report. It may take months for those newly low balances to boost your credit scores. So plan ahead -- even once the bank has run a credit check and you have been approved, they may decide to do a final re-check.

Wait to make any big financial moves until after you own the house you have your eyes on.

-Michael

Michael Corbett is Trulia's real estate and lifestyle expert. He is also the host of EXTRA's

In March of 2013; I will be traveling with a group of about 20 other individual to El Salvador for Habitat for Humanity.

This is my wish come true!
I anticipate this experience to be unlike any other and I am so excited to be able to be picked to be a part of this.

To make this short and sweet:

• I encourage you to visit my webpage and make a donation! Help support Habitat for Humanity & my Global Village Team. I am fundraising my own trip so anything is wonderfully helpful and appreciated.
  
  http://share.habitat.org/stacy-berry-santa-ana-el-salvador-shull-team

• Are your curious about what I am doing? Visit http://www.habitat.org/ to learn more about what I will be doing during my week in El Salvador and what your money will be providing for these people.

Please feel welcome to forward my online link for donations on to others (family, friends, etc)

Also, please don't hesitate to contact me with questions!

Thank you so much!
God Bless,
Stacy

The Floacist released her single "Soul" a few weeks ago, which describes the reasoning between her split from Marsha (Floetry). Here's the lyric video, where fans can read Natalie's point of view in full detail.

The Floacist "Soul" Lyric Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD04GSEvny4

The Floacist

Well hello I am new to this and i really cant say what I will be writing about for this first post im not sure if you can comment but im pertty sure you can so anyways if you could give me some tips on what you guys like to hear and read about comment and give me some ideas... Thanks :)

I just wanted to write because I am so frustrated. My son has been extemely ill for about 1 1/2 years. No one seems to be able to solve the problem of his seizures and losing consciosness. He has been hospitalized at least 5 times in the last year.

He has missed a great deal of work due to his illness. He was just off for about a month again. Because of these issues he hasn't been able to keep his bills up. His landlord has been pretty patient but he needs his rent money. He is currently 3 months behind. If not paid in 7 days the landlord is going to evict him.

He tries to work when his health allows but it just isn't enough. He is married and has 2 children. His wife works but at a low wage job. He has two daughters, one 11 and the other 5. The oldest daughter came to live with him late last year when she was abandoned by her mother.

She is the sweetest little girl but is having several problems adjusting and gets so scared when her dad gets sick because she is worried about what

For Marie Claire's third annual Women on Top Awards, we combed the country for the up-and-comers leading thought-revolutions, creating businesses, and making names for themselves in fields from the military to the arts. None is a day over 40, with a couple of notable exceptions: We've added a "Super Woman" category to celebrate women of any age who made their mark on 2012. But their accomplishments speak for themselves...

It is so hard as a writer to find your niche. I seriously think you could spend a lifetime and not know what exactly it is unless you are shown how to find it. After taking numerous classes and reading many articles on the process of finding your niche, I think I've finally found mine. I knew it couldn't be just blog posting and photography. There had to be another special genre that I was missing.

I found out not too long ago that my grandmother had told my mother that she thought I would be the next Erma Bombeck. I guess as a child, I must have made some dry, witty, or sarcastic comment that lead her to this conclusion. Wonder why she would think that? So I decided to investigate. I, personally, have never read any of Erma's books. She apparently passed away in 1996 at the age of 69. Erma, why didn't you live longer so you could give me some pointers?

Money is very tight in this household right now so running to a chain bookstore with my 1979 Plymouth Volare is not an option. I

madarinBeing a mandarin teacher in shenzhen,I could always hear my lovely

oversea students say"Bu hao yi si" rather than "Dui bu qi", whenever

they want to express "sorry".
Hmm...Well, yes,most of the time they have almost the same

meaning.but,there are some differences.
Now look at the picture above.If you are breaking up with a

girl.REMEMBER,DO NOT USE "BU HAO YI SI" instead of using"DUI BU QI".The

latter one may break her heart,but the first one,however,may break your

own head!

Why?
The reason is that,Buhaoyisi may deliver a potential feeling of "Let's

keep the distance for some reason!"And, the "some reason",are easily

taken by strangers as"politeness" but by people who are familiar with you,however, as "you are now disgusting".
AND,if you use it in a very sarcasitic tone[or the ones may be supposed

to be sarcastic]...
WHEN YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR EX-GIRLFRIEND SUDDENLY TURNED INTO AN ANGERY

DINOSAUR...
IS THERE ANY