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New home construction rose sharply in September, driven by a big increase in the volatile multiunit housing sector, including apartment buildings and condominiums.

Private residential construction starts were up 15 percent in September over the previous month, the Census Bureau reported today, due to a more than 50 percent increase in new construction of buildings with five or more units. The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 658,000 units was the highest rate of residential construction starts reported since April 2010.  

More young families choosing rentals

  At the same time, construction starts for single-family homes were up only 1.7 percent for the month, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 425,000 units, up from 418,000 in August. O Full Post…

As a large number of people use their credit cards while their stay in hotels and also the number of people who have access to this information, it has always been a matter of concern for hotel authorities to safeguard their guests credit card and avoid credit card frauds, scams and identity theft.

Almost 15 top hotel chains have now joined hands to fight against credit card frauds and scams. Top hotel chains such as Hilton Worldwide, Marriot International, Hyatt Hotels Corp. have come together. They announced that would work jointly under a project coordinated by non-profit association HTNG.

If recent reports are to be believed, 38% of credit card cases were from the hotel and hospitality industry.

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Are you throwing money away by spending more on products that have little to no lasting effect on your life? If we examine the why behind a purchase decision closely, we might find that just because mother paid $4.99 for Mead writing tablets, it may not be the wisest shopping choice today. One of the quickest ways to run up a shopping bill is to splurge on name brand or specialty consumables, so let’s take a look today on the 5 worst products to spend more on and reduce that bill.

What Qualifies as a Consumable?
Technically, everything we purchase is a consumable. C

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Too often we think money is the greatest thing in the world!  Think about it. How much time do we spend working for it, planning around it, worrying, reading and writing about it, and constantly thinking about it.

We can all agree that money wont be the most important thing in eternity, but we sometimes fail to realize that money isnt even the greatest thing in the here and now.

I came across a great post from Matt Perman who blogs over at Whats Best Next on 3 Things more valuable than money found in the Bible.

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Matt lists those as:

An Excellent Wife:

“An excellent wife who can find? Sh

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Surfing has been one of the top forms of recreation for a long time in coastlines facing the Pacific. Although it is not yet an Olympic event, it has already raved fans because of various competitions in the world that a surfer can join. Men and women join this sport and we have heard several women who have excelled in this event and have become household names. Because of the popularity of the sport, there has been a huge demand in the popular surfing brand apparels. Here are the top surfing apparel brands that you can invest on and which also are the top sellers in the plussize.com website.

First, there is Billabong. This is a popular Australian surfing brand and has started back in August 2000. Full Post…