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Tough talk on all things housing -- booms, busts, bargains and more -- from "Nightline" correspondent Vicki Mabrey
Vicki Mabrey is a correspondent for "Nightline" based in New York. She covers real estate as well as a range of national stories.
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On Fifth Avenue with Tim Gunn
I know this is the Realty Check blog, but stay with me here. Bad subprime mortgages led to financial market meltdown which led to fashion retrenchment (no pun intended), and that leads to my shoot with Project Runway guru Tim...
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November 25, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (3)
The Hidden Costs of Homeownership
In our Odell Barnes piece Tuesday night on Nightline, we showed pictures of a variety of houses. Tiny neat bungalows... a lovely brick cottage... a moderate-sized brick tudor... and a beautiful salmon-colored brick colonial, measuring 5,000 square feet, that is...
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November 21, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (5)
Response from Odell Barnes
Apologies... We posted Odell's response on Thursday, but in a hard-to-find spot on our site... Here it is today, hopefully where you would expect to find it... VM I appreciate all of the messages you have posted to the story...
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November 21, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (49)
Odell Barnes to Respond Tomorrow
We at ABC News and "Nightline" are both heartened and saddened by the number of responses we've received to the story we aired last night on real estate investor Odell Barnes. Heartened because we love hearing from you and knowing...
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November 19, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (131)
Secondhand Timeshares
Lo those many months ago I wrote about my Aunt Liz's rude awakening when she tried to sell her timeshare -- the one she and her late husband purchased four years ago for more than $50,000... which we've discovered is...
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November 14, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (21)
Realty Check: Are Timeshares Risky?
Tonight on 'Nightline' Vicki Mabrey will revisit the topic of timeshares and the many problems that can come with them. Tonight's report emerged after Vicki decided to blog about the topic a few months ago. On June 12th, she blogged...
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November 14, 2008 | Permalink | User Comments (9)
