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		<title>New disability access requirements will take effect in early 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Americans With Disabilities Act was passed 20 years ago and required retail and other commercial business owners to renovate their properties to make them accessible to the disabled. For the first time since then, the U.S. government has comprehensively revised the requirements. The new requirements will go into effect on March 15, 2012. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buying or selling real estate at an auction can be complicated</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A small but growing percentage of real estate is being sold at auction. The advantage of an auction for a seller is that the property will definitely be sold quickly, although usually at a lower price. So auctions often attract sellers who simply want to unload a property, such as a lender that has foreclosed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some estates can save money by filing tax returns – even if they don’t have to</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And people with older wills should have them reviewed now, due to a new law from Congress A federal estate tax return doesn’t have to be filed every time someone dies. In fact, most estates never have to file one. In 2011 and 2012, a return has to be filed only if the person’s estate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to get a better appraisal value for your property</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Home appraisers are the unofficial umpires of residential real estate sales, deciding whether offering prices are fair or foul. But much more often than in the past, they’re striking out deals and sending buyers and sellers back to the dugout. Each month, between 10 and 20 percent of real estate agents are seeing accepted offers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unmarried couples buying a home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the not so distant past, the typical homebuyer was a married couple. But today, there’s a huge increase in the number of unmarried couples who are buying a home together. It might not sound very romantic, but it’s a good idea for such couples to think about what their financial obligations will be regarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Large home mortgages in RI are more difficult to obtain.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rhode Island Attorneys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting October 1, 2011, large home mortgages on expensive houses are harder to get – because the U.S. government is trying to gradually play less of a role in the mortgage market. Currently, government-related entities such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac guarantee or purchase the majority of home mortgages in the U.S. Lenders are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update your will and review your beneficiary designations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that your will does not determine who gets your IRA or your 401(k) account when you die? That’s right – these accounts are “non-probate” assets, which means they’re not covered by your will. Instead, they will generally go to whatever person you named as the beneficiary when you set up the account. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sellers could sue after buyer’s deposit check bounced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A man agreed to buy a house on the Rhode Island coast for $1.2 million. He wrote a deposit check for $120,000, and signed a contract saying it was a cash deal and wasn’t contingent on his being able to arrange financing. However, the man told the seller that he needed some time to deposit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choosing the right right person as your executor or trustee.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you name someone as an executor or a trustee in your will – or before you agree to be an executor or a trustee – it’s a good idea to review exactly what responsibilities are involved. These are serious jobs, and sometimes people don’t give enough thought to which person should be chosen. Often, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust property could be tied up by a long-term lease</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 13:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Rhode Island man put some property into a trust. The trust was designed to pay regular income from the property to the man’s son. When the son died, the property was to go to his grandson. The trustee (a bank) entered into a long-term lease for the property. The result was that when the [...]]]></description>
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