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Do Neighborhood Watch Groups Cut Crime and Insurance Costs?

Your neighborhood watch program isn’t guaranteed to cut crime in your community, but if it does, that can lower insurance costs and raise property values.   Some studies report a reduction in crime after a watch starts, while others found an increase, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ report looked at 18 studies...

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Experts on Real Estate

Our agents are experts because we learn from experts.  View one of our instructors on Fox and see what he says about now being the time to SELL! Keep checking RuhlHomes.com for the most up to date information on the real estate market! Steve Harney on Fox Business News from Steve Harney on Vimeo. ...

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Housing Market in Q-C ‘bubbling’

The Quad-City housing market remains strong, according to the annual prediction of a national real estate firm. Housing Predictor, an independent real estate research firm based in Destin, Fla., ranked the Quad-City region 24th on its Best 25 Real Estate Markets, according to editor Mike Colpitts. The ranking looked at 234 U.S. markets. The survey...

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Rental Prices Jump 11.6 Percent in 2010

 You would think that with the housing crisis in full swing that there would be so many homes available to rent that rental prices would go down. Seeing the recent numbers from HotPads you would be wrong. The average rental price in 2010 increased by 11.6% during the year. That is a huge jump on many levels: For families on a fixed income,...

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