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		<title>Spring Advertising Campaign Set to Kick-Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 13:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real people with a real message!  That's the theme of these three television commercials that are starting to run on WGAL, Fox 43, WHP 21, Comcast and Viamedia.  They will run through the Spring buying season and end during the latter part of May.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomblefko.com&amp;blog=5527531&amp;post=2448&amp;subd=tomblefko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Strategies to Put You on the Right Path for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What are you doing to prepare for success in 2011?  The status quo is no longer acceptable.  Doing nothing is not an option anymore.  If you aren’t progressing, you’re falling behind.
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		<title>What&#8217;s Really Happening in the Real Estate Market?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Association of REALTORS just published a slideshow on the state of the real estate market in these uncertain times. No fluff or unsubstantiated wild statements.  Just facts!
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Primer for the Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lancaster County Association of REALTORS® Government Affairs Department, headed up by Frank Christoffel, IV, passed this Q&#38;A along regarding the latest information on the potential extension of the homebuyer tax credit which includes an existing homebuyer credit that was not part of the first bill.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomblefko.com&amp;blog=5527531&amp;post=2019&amp;subd=tomblefko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home Prices Continue to Strengthen Nationwide</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another month - another positive sign!  The Standard &#38; Poor's/Case-Shiller home price index rose 1.2 percent from June to August which reflects a positive trend for the third month in a row.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomblefko.com&amp;blog=5527531&amp;post=1859&amp;subd=tomblefko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peering Through the Fog</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are more and more positive signs that the fog is starting to clear in the residential real estate market.   Gone are the dense, pea-soup like conditions from a couple of months ago that caused buyers and sellers to try and drive through it at 5 mph.  It appears that they've put their collective feet on the accelerator and are now driving more confidently, albeit still with the headlights on.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tomblefko.com&amp;blog=5527531&amp;post=1775&amp;subd=tomblefko&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Home Prices &#8211; Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The S&#38;P/Case-Shiller home-price index has been quoted far and wide as the definitive read on the housing market.  For months, it hasn't been a rosy picture, but today that changed.  For the first time in three years, the index showed an increase in nationwide housing prices of .5% for the month of May.

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