You've heard the stories. Movers load up your stuff one day and hold it hostage the next, demanding more money and threatening to dump your precious treasures if you don't pay.

A couple of years ago, my husband was transferred to another city, so we leased out our home with a purchase option. (The tenants had a poor credit rating.) Now, however, we want to get out from under the home and sell it. What should we do?

Sales of existing-home sales increased in May with buy- ers responding to lower home prices, NAR says. Existing-home sales including single-family, town homes, condominiums and co-ops increased 2.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of

Homebuyers are looking for a steal; home sellers are looking for an out, and homebuilders and banks are selling homes at cut-rate prices. Combined, these conditions have triggered a wave of lowball offers to buy homes in distressed U.S. housing markets.

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Pundits love to make predic- tions as to when home prices will stabilize in U.S. housing markets. But even well-respected forecasters and analysts may disagree, and even if a forecast proves true nationally, your local market may behave in a wildly different way.