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Angie Hicks of Angie's Listoffered some tips for planning your remodeling project in today's Real Estate section.

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Angie Hicks of Angie's List wrote a great story about home remodeling projects for 2008, and she has some tips for Chicago Bungalow owners.

A recent poll by Angie's List found the Top 10 remodeling projects planned for 2008.
1. Kitchen/bath remodel
2. Landscaping/yard work
3. General remodeling
4. Flooring
5. Interior painting
6. Doors/windows
7. Deck/porch
8. Roofing
9. Exterior painting
10. Interior decorating

1,309 Angie’s List members took the 2008 home project poll.

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We have written extensively about the subprime mortgage situation in Chicago in the Sun-Times Real Estate section. and the best place to look at our coverage is right here at The Right Place. Just click on the "Subprime Mortgages" category.

This week in The Right Place I write about how innovation always has its shadow side.

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Today Chicago's most outspoken home inspector Tom Corbett writes about balloon frame homes and why people love them in Your Chicago House.

Also Sun-Times graphic genius Greg Good outdoes himself by providing an animation that show s what the ballon frame looks like here. .

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Arnie Collins gives us an update on the new Chicago Green Exchange, how it came to be and how it's doing in Friday's real estate cover called(Jobs plus profit) X do-gooder = Green Exchange.

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In May, Sandra Guy profiled Shakeela Muhammad, who was caught up in a mortgage rescue fraud deal, in a Friday Homelife cover story titled
SNARED: Two women take a stand when shady company moves in. Sandra also offered some suggestions for where to get assistance if you get caught up in a scam. She also wrote about a
study that found women take out subprime mortgages more often than men do.

On Tuesday July 3, The New York Times profiled Shakeela Muhammad

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Today I interview Jon DeVries, Director of the Mrashall Bennett Institute for Real Estate Studies at Roosevelt University in The Right Place. As a consultant to the building industry, DeVries has been a player in building our regional economy.

DeVries is most excited these days about a new initiative to encourage women leaders in Real Estate called The Goldie B. Wolfe Miller: WOMEN LEADERS IN REAL ESTATE INITIATIVE. The initiative is a response to a study by CREW that found the glass ceiling in real estate was as impermeable as in other industries. Ten women -starting out or mid-career - each year will receive stipends, special counseling and mentoring from women leaders in real estate at Roosevelt's real estate school. You can learn more about it
here.

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The city's new construction and demolition debris ordinance is succeeding— even exceeding — its initial targets. Read Craig Barner's excellent piece here.

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You might take heart in reading about a new neighborhood group that's living by its ideals. Read about Beyond Today.

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In Friday's Real Estate section we wrote about The Preservation Compact, an initiave to save rentral units in Cook County.

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I visited with some Bloggers in Rogers Park whose work has earned their neighborhood the rating of 5th bloggiest neighborhood in the nation according to Outside.in in The Right Place.

My attempt at light-heartedness made some of them unhappy. You can visit most of the blogs from the the 24/7 Howard Watcher's blog.
Enjoy!

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Today, we had an excellent package of stories on mortgage rescue fraud, which is on the rise. Sandra tells the stories of two women who were snared and are fighting back; reports on a study that has found women increasingly are paying more than they should for their mortgages; reports on legislative solutions that are pending in Illinois; and offers suggestions for help if you find yourself in a bad situation.

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We have great, well-researched article today by free-lancer Craig Barner that talks about the why's of all the new development along the Chicago River. It's cleaner, that's why!

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