You put in the insulation, you weatherize your home now, you will make up that money in a year or two years or three years, and then everything after that is just gravy.
Powerline systems allow data to be exchanged across existing electrical wiring in your home and now offers enough bandwidth to deliver high definition content.
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Satellite zoom-ups are driving the popularity of real estate upstart Zillow.com, where you can waste hours tracking down how much your neighbors paid for their homes (and what your childhood home now is worth).
And if you buy your home -- your first home -- anytime between now and December 1st, you can claim that credit this year, on your 2008 tax return, and receive that money in as little as 10 days.
With governors on the run with evolving tax regimes, the time to watch your home team advance is now.
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Google Now uses your Home location to show relevant information like weather, traffic conditions, and nearby places.
With mortgage rates still historically very low and the market stabilizing, you might want to go shopping now for your dream home while prices offer excellent value and the risk of losing money is far less than several years ago.
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If your dream is to travel around the country in a motor home, better get it out of your system now.
The lesson here: If you want to stay in your home as you age, start saving now.
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Now when your chicken is home alone, you can reach out to him (literally) by petting a highly amusing chicken doll whose sensors transmit touch data to an electronic jacket worn by the chicken.
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They also manufacture the now famous Roomba that automatically vacuums your home.
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Without getting too technical, this means your signal travels further into your home than any 4G signal that's available now, all things being equal.
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It's well past midnight, you're home with your brand new Nintendo Wii U -- now what?
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According to a web tool that puts the slick over your home region, the vast area of surface oil is now bigger than Massachusetts, Connecticut and Long Island combined.
The Golden State is now home to the seven worst cities for your lungs in America.
The home monitoring kit is available now, and instead of crashing your browser with too many embeds, we've decided to point you to the source below for the half-dozen demo vids.
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And you have now been sent home three months early, having achieved every one of your goals.
Even if you haven't tripped any covenants, you could still be out of luck if your business is backed by personal assets--such as a home in Florida that's now worth a lot less, thanks to the housing slump.
Apple says they've figured out how to implement third party multitasking without hurting performance or battery life, and they're demoing it now -- you just double click the home button and see a list of your apps, and you can just tap to switch between apps.
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The Google Now personal assistant can tell you if there's a traffic jam on your regular route home and suggest an alternative.
Now you grab the keyboard and with a few clicks have a sales brochure sent to your home -- or maybe even book a room at the spa, plus an airline reservation.
And now, in the finest American tradition, having carried out your mission, you've come home.
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But now, however much you have left over after subtracting automatic expenses and savings from your take-home pay is how much you have to spend on discretionary spending throughout the month.
Now, you've got search tool in your menu that you can jump into from the home screen which gives you a load of options for how and where you want to look -- a slightly more familiar format.
The living room TV experience can now be extended to a second or third TV and even remotely to a TV outside of your home using SlingPlayer on a NeoTV, without having to lease additional set-top boxes from your cable or satellite service provider.
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