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Home Warranty of America™ offers quality home warranty coverage for houses, town homes, and condominiums that help homeowners avoid the high costs of home and appliance repairs and replacements. Since 1996, HWA has experienced incredible growth and offers multiple consumer and real estate professional plans and options nationwide.

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Dec 30, 2009 Housing Prices and Interest Rates: Do the Math Historic records show that home prices don't drop when rates rise. The trend is quite the opposite.
Dec 21, 2009 The Right Mix: Home Warranty of America Uses Technology, Social Media and Agent Engagement to Create the Perfect Blend If you're looking for an example of how to mix technology and the human touch, look at Home Warranty of America (HWA). Using a careful blend of database technology, social media and video and agent engagement, HWA has successfully created a platform that gives the company the advantage when it comes to being quick to market with innovative new processes in-house and online, product development and customer service.
Dec 11, 2009 If You Don't Buy a House Now, You're Stupid or Broke Interest rates are at historic lows but cyclical trends suggest they will soon rise. Home buyers may never see such a chance again, writes Marc Roth
Nov 20, 2009 What's Next for Mortgage Rates? Sometime in the next five months, the Fed will stop buying mortgage-backed securities. Get ready for higher rates.
Nov 20, 2009 Home Inspection Warranties It seems like a natural pairing. First the home inspector eyeballs the appliances, and then the home warranty company agrees to cover them. But it's not so simple in a business where honest advice is hard to find, and wariness about conflicts of interest is everywhere.
Nov 13, 2009 When Will Mortgage Rates Go Up? The tea-leaf indicators all point to a rise in interest rates—and therefore an increase in mortgage rates—by springtime.
Oct 12, 2009 How Much House Can You Afford? Yes, housing prices are down, but are you in a position to take advantage of them? Here's how to find out.
Oct 1, 2009 Foreclosure Fortune-telling - Adjust for Your Success It's clear there are many more foreclosures in the real estate market's future and we don't need a fortune-teller to enlighten us on that score. What we do need, however, is to know the level of foreclosures being forecast over the next few years, as this will likely be a crucial component for strategic business and life planning activities.
Sep 21, 2009 Helping Agents, Educating Consumers Building awareness of the importance of home warranties takes a clever, consumer-friendly approach, according to Home Warranty of America (HWA). That's why the Chicago-based firm introduced their cartoon mascot, Ollie the Orange, last year and has now taken it a step further with a new, educational, 10-minute consumer video clip.
Sep 16, 2009 Housing Affordability Made Simple Buying a house is a huge decision. Here's a way to help determine how much you can afford and if now is the time to buy.
Sep 4, 2009 Are You Still Wondering Whether or Not You Need to Engage in Social Media? Numerous articles have been written describing strategies for engaging in social media, who is on social media, and where it is headed.
Aug 25, 2009 Welcome to Real Estate Investing 101 and 102 If you think the real estate market is poised for a recovery, columnist Marc Roth suggests diversified opportunities for the regular investor.
Aug 19, 2009 How to Start Planning for Your Business 10, 20 or More Years Out While planning this far out may seem, well, far out, it is highly important to managing a sustainable business. Even if you're staying in the same town to the end, knowing how it will change over time is paramount to your success.
Aug 11, 2009 Residential Real Estate Forecasters Wanted! I think prices are heading higher. Many readers disagree. Here's how to figure out who's right.
Jul 27, 2009 Where the Real Estate Market is Already Bouncing Back Historically, the West coast is a real estate trendsetter and as sales there increase it suggests the rest of the country may soon follow. Want to know what is going to happen in the real estate market in the months and years ahead? Look west.
Jul 20, 2009 Now's the Time to Buy Your Dream House If you can afford it, home prices remain at an all-time low and selection an all-time high, writes Marc Roth
Jul 15, 2009 4 Easy Ways to Cultivate First-Time Home Buyers This article is about cultivating your first-time home buying clientele after THEY are snuggled in nicely. The average home turnover is about 11 years, with a range of 6 to 16 years, depending upon your state.
Apr 20, 2009 Green Facts and Energy Savings Ideas Start with small changes that make a big difference in your own energy use and the pollution we generate on our planet. If every American home replaced their five most frequently used light fixtures or the bulbs in them with ones that have earned the ENERGY STAR label, we could save close to $8 billion each year in energy costs, and together we would prevent the greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions from nearly 10 million cars!
Feb 5, 2009 What Can A Half Century of Housing Inventory Data and Past Recessions Tell Us? Like any other market, housing runs on supply and demand. Factors manipulate supply and demand like interest rates, employment, Wall Street, the Government, and consumer confidence to name a few. But do we always have to accept what inventory levels and demand are, or can we affect them too?
Jan 6, 2009 Opportunity of a Lifetime by HWA President, Marc Roth I believe with all my of my heart and intellect that we are smack dab in the middle of an opportunity of a lifetime. I don't care what business you are in, there is unprecedented opportunity for you right now, and if you don't act, you will look back several years from now with regret.