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	<description>Your Guide To Urban Lot Hunting</description>
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		<title>&#8216;Urban gardeners&#8217; are bringing life to once-empty lots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wooden crates of Swiss chard, broccoli raab, Italian parsley and yellow watermelons lined the lawns of the New York Botanical Garden last week.
It was market day.
Although some visitors were there to see a rare species of regal lilies or Jerusalem sage, others were simply there to buy their week&#8217;s produce and maybe an apple pie.
Though [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tiny urban lots are full of challenges and rewards</title>
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		<link>http://urbanlots.net/trends/tiny-urban-lots-are-full-of-challenges-and-rewards/</link>
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		<title>Hot Trends: Lofts</title>
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In many cities, and because of modernization, lofts are the design of choice for young professionals as well as for the newlyweds. They offer work-live spaces, which are generally multi-level. The first floor is often an open space that can be used as an office, warehouse or commercial place of business. The upper floors feature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Take Care of Rental Property</title>
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It is important that you take care of your rental property before letting others use it. You have to keep in mind that it takes great management to oversee and cleanliness to maintain the value of your property. Make sure that the electricity works or the heater is not broken. Fix holes and remove unnecessary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanlots.net/tips/how-to-take-care-of-rental-property/</link>
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		<title>The Better Owner</title>
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As mentioned in the previous article “The Better Commercial Spaces,” it is indeed important to consider the people who would use your property. It means that this would become a give-and-take procedure that you have to do over and over again.  To be able to do this, you must first become “The Better Owner.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Development Continues to Eat Up More Land</title>
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In spite of the housing crisis, urban development has managed to gobble up a lot of previously rural lands even outside the suburbs. Fragmented land use such as developments that dot the landscape of previously fully agricultural land is continuing to mar the landscape and is sign that these areas will be inter-connecting soon resulting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanlots.net/general/urban-development-continues-to-eat-up-more-land/</link>
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		<title>Parking Lot Convenience – Pain for the Environment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as we love malls and other commercial areas with tins of parking to spare that does not drive you crazy in your daily battle for parking, studies in the US are finding that parking lots outnumber resident drivers by as much as 3 to 1. They also outnumber resident families by 11 to 1 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanlots.net/general/parking-lot-convenience-%e2%80%93-pain-for-the-environment/</link>
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		<title>High Mortgage Defaults Raise Red Flags</title>
		<description><![CDATA[High default rates on refinanced mortgages are causing a stir in the housing industry due to the fact they will compound the already fragile market and can cause another crash of the financial market. Mortgages are indeed so low that refinancing has become reachable for many who couldn&#8217;t have availed of the many refinancing offers. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanlots.net/information/high-mortgage-defaults-raise-red-flags/</link>
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		<title>Failed Urban Developments &#8211; Successful Homes for the Poor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of the luxury developments that have fallen victim to the current economic recession are being turned by the state into mass housing projects for the poor. This allows them to minimize the amount of people on the streets that gives rise to crime and other criminal activities such as gangs. Abandoned developments with developers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://urbanlots.net/information/failed-urban-developments-successful-homes-for-the-poor/</link>
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		<title>New Developments &#8211; Green Developments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New developments across the globe are turning to the growing concern in green technologies to showcase their projects making them green from the bottom up. Most existing properties are getting much needed green retro-fits that are turning them into partially green buildings. Homeowners are also adopting the green lifestyle, choosing products that does not impact [...]]]></description>
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