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		<title>Ailing Schools Turn to Voters for Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal By JOE BARRETT MORROW, Ohio—The housing boom has left the sprawling school district based in this former rail town on the Little Miami River with gleaming new buildings and a dilemma over how to keep them funded. Three times in the past 15 months, voters have rejected levies that would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Median home prices climbed in 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dayton Daily News By Tim Tresslar, Staff Writer DAYTON — The median price for single-family homes in the four-county Dayton area rose 21 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the last three months of 2008, a new report says. In the fourth quarter of 2009, a home’s median price — half cost more, half cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure filings surge 51.7 percent in January</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dayton Daily News By Tim Tresslar, Staff Writer DAYTON — Foreclosure filings, which had been waning locally, surged by 51.7 percent in January in the four-county Dayton metro area, according to a report released Thursday, Feb. 11. In January, 1,420 properties in the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) received a default or auction notice or were seized, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohio foreclosures dip in January despite warning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Columbia Business First RealtyTrac Inc. on Thursday cautioned that communities should brace for a surge in foreclosures in the coming few months following a drop in mortgage failures nationally in January, including in Ohio. The Irvine, Calif.-based company, which compiles and sells foreclosure data, said it tracked 11,105 default, auction and bank repossession notices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigation by Federal, State and Local Task Force Leads to Mortgage Fraud Charges Against Six People Involving Million-Dollar Plus Houses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 29, 2010 by Ohio RealEstateRama A two-year investigation by the Greater Cincinnati Mortgage Fraud Task Force has resulted in a seven-count indictment charging two Cincinnati area home builders, a former Huntington National Bank vice president, and a self-employed tax preparer and interior designer with participating in a mortgage fraud scheme to sell four high-end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habitat for Humanity issues call for volunteers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Springfield News-Sun By Tom Stafford Sunday, February 7, 2010 If you’ve considered helping Habitat for Humanity, but haven’t picked up a hammer or made a sandwich, Dawn Stutz says this is the time. Those who volunteer now, the director of the Clark County affiliate says, may be involved in more than helping a deserving family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home show offers ways to make your house a dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dayton Daily News By Amelia Robinson Sunday, February 7, 2010 DAYTON — As its aluminum vents effortlessly swung open and shut, the Solara Adjustable Patio Cover caught Terry and Joy Kiggins’ attention as they strolled around The Miami Valley HomeWorld at the Dayton Expo Center on Sunday, Feb. 7. “I like this awning,” Terry Kiggins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is now a good time to refinance your home?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Springfield News-Sun By Jill Kelley Sunday, February 7, 2010 Charles and Nancy Henson of Centerville refinanced their home mortgage last year, and Charles Henson said it was not a difficult decision. “The rates had dropped, and we wanted to do something a little more secure,” he said. “Our previous rate was 5.625 (percent). When the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Area video stores closing as part of bankruptcy filing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tom Michaels Internet News Director February 5, 2010 6:09 AM DAYTON, Ohio &#8212; A video-rental company dealing with bankruptcy will close most of it&#8217;s local locations. Today&#8217;s Dayton Daily News reports that Movie Gallery Inc. plans to close six of its Hollywood Video and Movie Gallery stores in the Dayton area. The company filed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film not football, movie theater offers free popcorn Sunday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Amelia Robinson &#124; Friday, February 5, 2010, 11:35 AM Dayton Daily News From Meredith Moss, Staff Writer Here’s a good deal for those looking for something interesting to do while everyone else is watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 7. The Neon movie, 130 E. Fifth St., Dayton is offering free popcorn on [...]]]></description>
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