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  • Faqs On Insurance To Protect Your House
    By: Arush Keerthi | - What does home owners insurance entail?

    Protect your life times investment such as your home. In times of a disaster, theft, flood, subsidence, collision etc if your building gets damaged, such a policy will help you claim compensation for repair or reconstruction. If it is protection of your items then you can claim compensation for its replacement.

    Is content insurance covered in buildings insurance?

    No, if you apply for building policy, it only ...
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  • Why Is There A Need For Home Owner's Insurance?
    By: Arush Keerthi | - You have your most valued possession such as your home at jeopardy in case a calamity was to strike. Dont you think it is worth protecting your life long investment such as your house? Doing a little bit of research on the home owners insurance quotes, will save you your priced investment. The policy rates are often influenced by the applicants age, location of the house, its value and your credit scores as well.

    The amount depends on your age, location of your house, value ...
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  • The Energy Performance Certificate And The New Homeowner
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - Now that the financial markets are improving, it looks like the housing crisis might be coming to an end. It is getting easier to secure a mortgage, and it looks like the next few months will be a buyers' market in the UK. We take a look at the new style Home Information Pack and the inclusion of the Energy Performance Certificate to take the confusion out of the essential paperwork that is handed over at the point of sale.

    A Home Information Pack contains all the information and ...
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  • Reference Letter For A Tenant Seek Assistance!
    By: Gyan K | - Reference letter for a tenant is provided by a previous landlord and an employer to a new landlord, referring the tenant. Based on these reference details the landlord decides to rent out his property to this particular tenant. He further verifies the tenants background information in order to ensure that he has a genuine tenant in his buy to let property.

    There is Landlord Reference pack made available to a new landlord. This pack of landlords reference will be sign ...
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  • Tenant Reference A Boon To Landlords!
    By: Gyan K | - Choose the right tenant for the right house with the help of a tenant referencing agency. A professional tenant verification agent has enough of expertise in detecting a fraud tenant and will avoid referring any such tenant to the landlord. A financial status report of the tenant is a good indication of whether he is likely to default on rental payments due to lack of money.

    The root cause for all kinds of rental problems is the tenant himself. Therefore, it is advised by experts to ...
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  • Rent Guarantee Insurance How Does It Help A Landlord In Protecting His Rents?
    By: Gyan K | - Rent guarantee protects your rental income flow from being disrupted. In other words, it helps a landlord get his rent on time. Incase a tenant defaults on rent and a landlord has an insurance of rent protection then his insurance premiums paid will cover up the rental loss. The insurance cover will kick in to protect landlord from bad tenants. It is best to consider such an insurance cover if you have greater mortgage commitments.

    Do not let go of your rental income.

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  • Energy Performance Certificate What Does This Hold For A Landlord?
    By: Gyan K | - Energy Performance certificate is meant for buildings which are for commercial or domestic properties are built, sold or rented. This means that sellers require them for private sales and landlords need to provide them to prospective tenants. A tenant is provided with an EPC by a landlord free of cost. It tells a tenant or a prospective client how energy efficiency is the building on sale or rent. The better the energy efficiency rating, better is its value. Carbon dioxide (CO2) ratings are show ...
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  • Epc Certificate Enhance Your Building's Energy Efficiency!
    By: Gyan K | - EPC or Energy Performance Certificate has been made compulsory to all landlords. It has been made mandatory since 1st of October 2008 and is a legal requirement to provide all new tenants in England and Wales with this certificate known as Energy Performance Certificate.

    It has been made a mandatory document along with an HIP. It offers a carbon footprint of households. Such certificates are not valid for any building that is not self contained. This means that if a tenant shares h ...
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  • Rent Guarantee Insurance Your Solace In Times Of Calamity!
    By: Gyan K | - Have you ever contemplated on what happens to your rental property in case of a natural calamity or a mishap? If you have never applied for any kind of insurance to protect your rental property then you are in for a big trouble. You not only lose your rental income but also cannot cover up any damages to your building.

    Moreover, your problem augments if you have not done any tenant background check or have not sought the help of tenant reference agency. In such a case, any eviction ...
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  • Rent Guarantee Scheme Protect Your Rental Income Flow!
    By: Gyan K | - Are you planning to rent out your property? Take enough care to safeguard your rental property as well as your rental income. Alleviate any damages caused to your building by seeking the right solution. In order to compensate the damages to your property get suitable rental property insurance. Rent guarantee scheme helps you to cover up the damages to your rental income.

    If your tenants are defaulting on your rental payment or are absconding the day you come to collect rent from the ...
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  • Rental Guarantee Various Solutions To This!
    By: Gyan K | - Have you faced problems in the past? You may have incurred loss due to a rent defaulter. Unable to meet your expenses as you earned less for that particular year due to loss of rent. You may loose several pounds in rental income and legal expenses to claim for your rent. Some insurers won't cover properties if tenants are claiming benefit, whether you are using private sector leasing or not. In case, a private sector leasing is covered, then, you can request for a higher premium. Need a solution ...
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  • Local Authority Energy Performance Certificate Initiative To Reduce Household Bills
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - Local councils have committed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to help meet European targets in 2012. Part of this commitment involves encouraging home owners to have an energy assessment to identify energy waste in the home. The assessment is the same as the audit performed for an Energy Performance Certificate. This is an interesting move because until now Energy Performance Certificates were only required as part of a home information pack; but the new move, promoted to residents as part of ...
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  • Global Warming And The Energy Performance Certificate
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - Global warming is now something we cannot ignore or deny, the government now recognises that is a big problem that the entire world needs to deal with together. For quite some time there have been many different schemes to get people recycling and living greener. What has been most helpful has been in the introduction to the energy performance certificate, brought out in 2007. Here in this we article we look at what this certificate wants to achieve and why.

    When they were introdu ...
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  • Rent Guaranteed - How Can You Claim Back Your Lost Rent?
    By: Kirthy Shetty | - Tenant rent guarantee assurance and rent on time insurance are provided by your tenant credit check company. You can make a claim, in case you have got your tenants referred from them. You should have signed a tenancy agreement and have evidence of your tenants employment. Proof of tenants identification, any two proofs of which a clear photograph is compulsory. In addition to this, you should have requested for his credit checks too. These credit checks are carried out by the te ...
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  • Rent Guarantee And Tenant Credit Checks!
    By: Kirthy Shetty | - Your rent guarantee and tenant credit checks are both inter related. How? If your tenant credits are of a good standing then it goes to prove that your tenant has been in good financial condition. Not only that, it also talks about the tenant himself, if he has had any defaults on loan payment, County Court Judgement, arrears, bankruptcy filings, this would in turn reflect on how punctual he is in repaying back rent. Based on these details, a landlord can take his decision on whether to rent his ...
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  • Rent Guarantee With A Tenant Reference And Agreement
    By: Kirthy Shetty | - Rent Guarantee Agreement is signed between a landlord and a tenant before occupying the rented out house. This can be purchased online, for both domestic as well as business legal situations. Avoid any expensive charges of any solicitor or lawyer. Reach out to agreement experts to work on your papers. No more running from pillar to post, no more personal visits, you can have your documents emailed to you easily and you pay them online.

    Get rent assurance and avoid any damage to you ...
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  • Hip And Epc Certificate!
    By: Kirthy Shetty | - Energy Performance certificate makes possible to compare ratings with benchmarks. In order to understand the energy efficiency of a building, home owners opt for EPC. It is mandatory to have this certificate as part of a home information pack.

    If your home is to be built, rented or sold, you will require HIP compulsorily. It provides all vital information that a buyer needs to know. It helps a seller too, as he would know what are the positive points and drawbacks of his house. Befo ...
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  • Energy Performance Certificates Help The World Chill Out
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - Global warming is something we're all concerned about. We've seen the images of polar bears losing their habitats and experienced the fact that summer now consists of two weeks of unseasonable warmth in April then a miserable and grey June, July and August. Energy Performance Certificates have been brought in so that property owners can see where they are using too much energy and can make the appropriate alterations to their energy use in order to reduce emissions.

    In 2007, Ene ...
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  • The Potential Success Of Energy Performance Certificates
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - Loss of energy through badly insulated houses accounts for around forty per cent of carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union. This means that buildings with poor energy efficiency are actually responsible for more emissions than all the vehicles on the roads at present in Europe. In a bid to reduce the emissions from homes, governments have introduced an Energy Performance Certificate. We take a look at what this means, and if it is possible to combat global warming with this type of legi ...
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  • Energy Performance Certificate Gets Green Light
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - The G8 summit is well under way, and for the first time all the countries have agreed that global temperatures should not rise more than a further two degrees. This means that emissions of greenhouse gasses need to be slashed by fifty to eighty per cent by 2050, a target that some speculate may be impossible. It seems that although governments have recognised the need for action, there is no definitive plan of action to follow. We take a look at how the UK government are trying to meet targets t ...
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  • Energy Performance Certificate Is It Indispensable?
    By: Kirthy Shetty | - Homes be it built, rented or sold will require an energy performance certificate. It is commonly known as EPC and it records how energy efficient is a property and is offered an A-G ratings. Based on these rating an energy efficiency of one building can easily be compared with another building of the same type. Usually, the certificates are valid only till 10 years and not beyond that. Better-rated homes should have less impact through carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. These EPCs should make it po ...
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  • Energy Performance Certificate Set To Target Climate Change
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - In a bid to address the impact of modern living on the global climate, governments around the world are introducing measures that will help reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. It is believed that the degree of climate change can be lessened by introducing energy efficiency into everyday living and using renewable energy. As such, the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) has been introduced in the UK. We take a look at what an Energy Performance Certificate is and how it ca ...
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  • How An Energy Performance Certificate Can Help Lower Emissions Forever
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - Energy Performance Certificates have been introduced as mandatory to help improve the energy efficiency of buildings within the United Kingdom to meet EU standards. If you are buying or selling a home, an energy performance certificate will be required whenever a home is being built, sold or rented out. The certificate is set out with letter bands to highlight how energy efficient a home is, A being the most efficient and G being the least. Currently the average stands at a D, but the government ...
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  • Business Energy Performance Certificates - A Beginner's Guide
    By: British Gas Business PR | - What are Business Energy Certificates?

    Business energy certificates measure the energy usage of a particular building. These certificates are a vital component in highlighting the overall energy efficiency of a property, and offer support on how improvements can be made to lessen a buildings energy consumption in the future.

    What types of Business Energy Certificates exist and what are the differences between them?

    There are two types of busin ...
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  • Smart Energy - Going Solar
    By: James Johnson | - An awareness of the importance of energy efficiency is at an all time high and likely only to get higher still. Renewable or more effective energy sources are no longer just topics pushed by companies peddling their wares but are now international news headlines and political agendas.

    With the recent revelation that all UK homes are to be fitted with a smart energy meter by the year 2020, this further emphasises the point. Energy performance certificates are now a legal requiremen ...
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  • Potential Of Energy Performance Certificates To Save Money And The Planet
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - The media has been full of news about the economic downturn and falling house prices. As a result, first time buyers are finding it increasingly difficult to get a mortgage through banks and building societies to buy a property. This has led to widespread demand for rented properties, but what some people may not be aware of is the need for an energy performance certificate to be produced by the landlord.

    Since October 2008, it has been law for landlords to produce an energy perfo ...
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  • Find Out Why Energy Performance Certificates Are Required!
    By: Sadhana | - Anyone who is buying or selling a house, will need an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). This kind of certificate may also be required if you are constructing a new house andare looking forward to rent out the house. Basically, the certificate keeps a check on how energy efficient a property is. It acts a label much similar to the ones provided with domestic appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines.

    This comes in handy if you wish to sell a home in future or le ...
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  • Can An Energy Performance Certificate Save The World?
    By: Dominic Donaldson | - A European Union Directive has seen the introduction of a new energy rating system for buildings, and it is now compulsory for owners of properties in the United Kingdom to be able to produce an Energy performance certificate when selling or renting a house. The certificate gives a rating according to a set of parameters measured by an inspector designed to help the owner identify the improvements that could be made to the energy efficiency of a building thereby reducing the carbon dioxide emiss ...
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  • Energy Performance Certificates - The Essentials
    By: James Johnson | - Just as home information packs have become the bedrock of legal importance when buying and selling homes, so the energy performance certificate also now has become a prerequisite by law.

    Since October 2008 the EPC, (energy performance certificate) has been a legal requirement whenever a building is built, rented out or sold. A sliding scale from A to G rates the energy efficiency of the building. A home or building with an A rating is the most energy efficient and obviously the op ...
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  • Commercial (epc) Energy Performance Certificates
    By: Paul Davis | - You will have heard of the residential Energy Performance Certificates or EPCs that were instituted last year as part of the Home Information Pack legislation, but did you know that there is a Commercial Energy Performance Certificate that is currently being rolled out?

    It is easy to assume that because both the residential and commercial EPC share the same name that they are similar entities and require similar surveys or skills, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is ...
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  • Energy Performance Certificates - A Must Have!
    By: Sadhana | - Energy Performance Certificates, also known as (EPC). An Energy Performance Certificate is needed for all homes which are built, rented or sold. If you are buying or selling a home, then it must have a certificate. This kind of certificate is also required for construction of new homes for rented houses. Not many are aware of EPC. Read further if you wish to know in depth about this.

    The certificate records how energy efficient a property is as a building and provides A-G ratings ...
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  • Bpf Plans To Persuade Big Firms To Invest In Becoming Landlords
    By: Karl Hopkins | - With repossessions almost doubling and other property owners facing negative equity, the BPF believes a professionalised, branded rental sector, where big firms provide long term homes to rent, is what is needed.

    Current government policy is still focused heavily on ownership. However, many housing associations are facing real problems as shared ownership schemes are left vacant due to a lack of lending, with banks seeing such initiatives as 'sub prime' given the high proportion o ...
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  • Call For More Regulation Of Letting Agents
    By: Karl Hopkins | - The provisions of the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 should be extended to lettings and management agents recommends Professor Colin Jones's Review of Regulation and Redress in the UK Housing Market published by the Department for Business.

    Professor Colin Jones, of Heriot-Watt University took into consideration the problems across the housing sector that are damaging consumer confidence. Jones calls for the simplification and strengthening of existing redress provi ...
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  • Letting Agents Get Away With Money For Nothing
    By: Karl Hopkins | - There are stories there of overcharging, failure to take up references, failure to collect or pass over rent, poor or non-existent paperwork, and failure to respond to requests from either landlords or tenants.

    Landlords in London and the south east also complain that many agents expect to be paid when tenants renew their agency initiated tenancy agreements, even if they have had to do nothing to secure that renewal. Worse still, and what seems to annoy landlords even more, is tha ...
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  • Landlord Fined After Ignoring Notices
    By: Karl Hopkins | - A Peterborough landlord was fined and landed with a repair bill after ignoring council demands for improvements to his rental property.

    Maroof Hussain, of Windmill Street, Millfield, Peterborough, was found guilty in his absence and fined 435 pounds on each of two offences of failing to comply with notices issued by Peterborough City Council. He was also ordered to pay the city council's costs of 375 pounds and a victim surcharge of 15 pounds.

    A January 2006 inspect ...
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  • Absent Landlords Make Vat Demand Stronger
    By: Karl Hopkins | - Cutting VAT on the renovation and repair of residential properties from 15 per cent to 5 per cent would encourage owners of empty homes to bring them back into use - and thereby clear council housing waiting lists.

    If only a tenth of the country's three quarters of a million empty homes could be brought back into use, there would be no need for any family to remain homeless and in temporary accommodation this Christmas, it said. But although help had been given to homeowners facin ...
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  • More Rental Property Part Of Government Deal
    By: Karl Hopkins | - An 18m pounds deal to provide more rental accommodation and affordable housing has been announced as part of the Government's programme of action to tackle current difficulties in the housing market.

    The deal has been done through the Government's National Clearing House with Bovis Homes, which enables house builders to sell their unsold stock to Housing Associations for use as affordable housing, either for rent or low cost home ownership.

    This is the largest deal ...
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  • Landlords Warned Not To Cut Back On Safety Checks
    By: Karl Hopkins | - The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has again warned all landlords to ensure gas appliances are safe for tenants following the successful prosecution of a landlady who failed to ensure the safety of gas appliances in one of her properties.

    Aruna Pravin Kukadia pleaded guilty on 15 December to a breach of Regulation 36(3) of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998. She was fined 5,000 pounds with 3,719 pound costs.

    Health and Safety inspector Andrew ...
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  • Landlords Guide To Safety Rating System
    By: Karl Hopkins | - When a local authority identifies a serious health and safety hazard under HHSRS it can order the landlord to make immediate improvements to remove the hazard, or even shut the property down altogether. This fact sheet, prepared by the Energy Efficiency Partnership for Homes gives details.

    What does the HHSRS include?

    There are twenty-nine categories of hazard included in the HHSRS. These include:

    * Excess cold/heat
    * Damp and mould growth

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  • Landlords - Were You Ready For Epcs?
    By: Karl Hopkins | - Since 1st October 2008, all rental properties with a new tenancy in England and Wales have been required to have an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC).

    Why should you care?

    Because your prospective tenants will be able to easily see how energy efficient and environmentally friendly your properties are, and if you have invested in energy saving measures your properties will perform well and will really stand out from the crowd. If not you may find them harder to r ...
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  • Are You Complying With Energy Performance Requirements?
    By: Karl Hopkins | - Since October 2008 landlords offering property for rent have been required by law to provide prospective tenants with an Energy Performance Certificate for their property to let.

    Certificates (EPCs) have to be provided free either when (or before) any written information about the property is provided to prospective tenants or a viewing is conducted.

    They will not have to be provided if the landlord believes the prospective tenant is unlikely to have sufficient fun ...
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  • Home Information Packs Packages Uk
    By: lizabeth | - What is Home Information packs (HIP)?

    HIP means Home Information Packs, introduced by the UK government in August 2007. Because there is fear the property industry will be hit with the cost. In England, 1 June 2007, all home owners will need to prepare a Home Information Pack before putting their home up for sale. Nowadays, according to a plan a property doesn't Buying and selling. One in four transactions collapse before contracts are exchanged, wasting time and mo ...
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  • Home Information Packs @ Templarreports.com
    By: Guri Williams | - What is HIP?

    HIP means Home Information Packs, introduced by the UK government in August 2007. Because there is fear the property industry will be hit with the cost. In England, 1 June 2007, all home owners will need to prepare a Home Information Pack before putting their home up for sale. Nowadays, according to a plan a property doesn't Buying and selling. One in four transactions collapse before contracts are exchanged, wasting time and money. The solution of these p ...
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  • Succeed With Email Marketing
    By: kh | - Direct mail has long been considered an effective marketing tool. Now, in this digital age, direct email marketing has taken over. It has many advantages including cost, flexibility and immediacy.

    Unlike direct mail, email marketing campaigns are not constrained by weight limits or postal restrictions. Email marketing is instant and allows multiple links to be imbedded in the message, driving traffic to company websites.

    Email marketing is also likely to be better ...
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  • Apply For An Energy Performance Certificate
    By: James Copper | - An energy performance certificate, while spouting the theme of energy efficiency and clean air for all, is not welcomed by all of its United Kingdom population. Some view it as a costly Big Brother piece of legislation, although most of these haranguers sincerely believe in renewable energy as a beneficial concept. They just dont like being dictated to.

    June 14, 2006 was the birth of the energy performance certificates in the United Kingdom, first for residential homes for singl ...
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  • What Domestic Energy Assessors Do And How You Can Become One
    By: James Copper | - As a UK-based domestic energy assessor (DEA) you can get lots of assistance and training from the NHER. Part of this help is in the form of software related to your job of issuing Energy Performance Certificates.

    The NHER service is online and helps you actually produce the energy performance certificate as part of your job as a DEA. You can access this EPC software from any Web-enabled device.

    You can customize it and make it your own as you go about your domestic ...
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  • How To Become A Qualified Domestic Energy Assessor
    By: James Copper | - A UK energy inspector must take a series of lectures, workshops and hands-on training to pass the testing and earn the diploma as domestic energy assessor.
    For those who have not had any practical training as an energy inspector, one of the course packages offered by the NHER sets aside the classroom lecture method and involves one day of workshops broken up into small groups and one day of home energy assessment visits.

    No more than 15 can participate in these energy cour ...
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  • Are You Earning Top Bank Cd Rates?
    By: Gerald Greene | - Bank CD rates are moving higher as the Federal Reserve Bank continues it's "measured" effort to control inflation by raising the Federal Funds rate. The US economy is still growing at a reported 4%-5% rate and is beginning to show increases in the inflation rate, especially in the food and energy sectors, which the government manages to leave out of the core CPI calculations.

    Government economists seem to believe that if they just leave out the costs of food and energy prices incr ...
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