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		<title>RSVP: Remodeling and Home Additions &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 15:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Selecting Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:47:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moving can be difficult. Just packing, loading, unpacking, even if it is your lifetime dream home, is a lot of work. And if you are relocating to an entirely unknown area it can be downright confusing trying to find just the right location, right home, and schools too? Where do you begin? <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpenncompanies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8495060&amp;post=312&amp;subd=mjpenncompanies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penn Homes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While most of us already know that brick is a beautiful, durable material that lasts for a very long time, many of us are amazed by how advanced the brick industry is with respect green building design and sustainability. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpenncompanies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8495060&amp;post=301&amp;subd=mjpenncompanies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Development Home Loans</title>
		<link>http://mjpenncompanies.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/rural-development-home-loans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penn Homes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are interested in zero down financing in Louisiana, we found one. Several families have been able to qualify for zero down programs that haven’t been available elsewhere. Purchase price limits vary according to whether a home is new or existing or if it is in a targeted or non-targeted area. Also, the homebuyer must use the house as his/her principal place of residence. And it just so happens that all of our Greenwood home plans in Southwind qualify for this incredible financing option.
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		<title>Bloom Box</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penn Homes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The company website says for a Bloom Energy Server that takes up the space of a normal sized parking space provides 100 kilowatts of power, the amount needed to meet the needs of 100 average homes. It also states that “customers generate their own electricity at a cost savings that typically translates to a three to five year payback on their investment. Now that sounds exciting! But how realistic is this for today?

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		<title>Home Buyer Tax Credit 101</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penn Homes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress has acknowledged the unique circumstances affecting members of the military, the foreign service and the intelligence community by making the following exceptions that apply to both the $8,000 tax credit for first-time home buyers and the $6,500 tax credit for repeat home buyers.
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		<title>Getting You Home Safely</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penn Homes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Building and remodeling shouldn’t be stressful. It should be fun. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mjpenncompanies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8495060&amp;post=259&amp;subd=mjpenncompanies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>King Day of Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Penn Homes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verbs agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.” Whatever your passion is, whatever drives you to get up in the morning out of your warm bed, whatever it is that gets your dander up when watching the news, become involved in that. “The time is always right to do what is right.” 
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