Should I Use an Interest Rate Buydown? Pros and Cons for Buyers, Sellers
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These days, high mortgage interest rates can mean paying hundreds of extra dollars a month for housing. That has led to an uptick in interest rate buydowns — money paid upfront to secure a lower interest rate. And it's not just buyers who are keen — some homeowners are offering seller buydowns to entice more shoppers to consider their homes.
The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa review high-risk comic debut
Book of the dayFictionReviewStephen Buoro’s tale of a teenager in Nigeria, hanging with his friends and hankering after white girls, ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster
This ticks all the boxes of a literary blockbuster. It’s a debut novel by a promising Nigerian writer and Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship recipient. It comes with a dreamy publication backstory involving an eight-way auction, pre-empt deals, meaty advances and praises galore. The book features a voice that is upbeat, familiar, catchy and breezy as a pop song:
5 Classic Rock Bands Every Beatles Fan Should Listen To
The Beatles outshine a lot of classic rock bands. Despite this, there are several other classic rock bands that deserve love from Beatles fans. John Lennon even called one band “Son of Beatles.”
5. The Electric Light Orchestra The book Lennon on Lennon: Conversations with John Lennon includes a radio interview with John from 1974. In it, John decided to play a certain song. “We’re going to play Electric Light Orchestra, from last year,” he said.
How Many Languages Does Rafael Nadal Speak?
Rafael Nadal is a winner of numerous Grand Slams and titles on the ATP Tour. Given his fame and title count obviously, he has traveled around the world and hence adapted himself by learning a lot of other languages other than his own Spanish or Catalan.
Which language does Rafael Nadal speak natively?Nadal was born in Mallorca, which is part of the Balearic Islands. Mallorca has two official languages, Spanish and Catalan, hence Nadal speaks those two languages very well.
Is the Alien in Nope a Metaphor?
Jordan Peele’s films are known for packing layers of meaning into striking, often sneakily horrific images — think of the way Allison Williams eats her cereal in Get Out or the tethers’ linked hands in Us. With Nope, Peele introduces a new monster: a people-eating UFO haunting the skies above a remote horse ranch in Los Angeles County. But what does this image of a flying saucer mean? In the context of a film that touches on Hollywood erasure and our own addiction to spectacle, does it mean anything?
JK Gives it some Heart.
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My wife rejects me | Life and style
Private livesLife and styleMy wife rejects meWe've shared 20 happy years together but since my wife told me she was attracted to a mutual friend she has shunned any form of intimacy. The situation is making me deeply unhappy. What should I do?My partner and I are in our 40s and have been together for more than 20 happy years. We have two teenage children, good friends and rewarding jobs. I love her very much.
Nina Agdal Holds Her Breast in Sexy Magazine CoverSee the Pic!
She also admitted, "I would love to be in a James Bond movie. I just want to lay there with a glass of whiskey and a cigarette while somebody comes in and kills me. I think I could pull that off."
This Agdal's second sexy magazine cover in one week. Last week, Sports Illustrated released their 50th anniversary cover featuring Agdal, Lily Aldridge and Chrissy Teigen all posing together topless in only tiny bikini bottoms.
You Brought This on Yourself: Drake Announces 10-Year Residency at Camp Flog Gnaw
Tough crowd. Things took a turn for the petty (and not Mrs. Petty, or the OG Petty) at this year’s Camp Flog Gnaw, when fans, expecting a much-hyped arrival of a VIP to close out the weekend’s festivities, were instead greeted on the stage by … Drake, a noted famous person with a lot of awards and a new cannabis line. That surprise seems pretty cool (!) to Vulture, but alas, the crowd wasn’t as forgiving — they proceeded to turn against Drizzy with boos and jeers, which, as NME notes, was because it was heavily rumored that Frank Ocean would be the secret headliner.
Joe Biden's 7 Grandchildren: Everything to Know
Joe Biden might be president of the United States, but to his grandchildren, he's just "Pop." Biden has seven grandchildren by way of his four kids. The president's son Hunter Biden shares daughters Naomi, 29, Finnegan, 22, and Maisy, 21, with ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, daughter Navy Roberts, 4, with Arkansas woman Lunden Roberts, and son Beau Jr., 3, with his current wife, Melissa Cohen. Biden's eldest son, the late Beau Biden, welcomed daughter Natalie, 19, and son Robert "