Are You The Host With The Most for Thanksgiving?

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite Holidays. Having family and friends over, and being thankful for all the wonderful things in life is what it’s all about.

Now, cleaning up after is a different story. Here are some tips that'll make your Thanksgiving kitchen cleanup faster and easier.

Cut down on cleanup by selecting cookware that can go from oven to table to freezer.

Before beginning Thanksgiving prep, pick up depressing home clutter and clean out your fridge to make room for ingredients and leftovers.

Plan a potluck: Let your guests share the fun and bring dishes to share. Then make sure they take home their serving bowls and platters, which will cut down on dishes to wash and put away.

 You won't have to clean what you don’t get dirty. So line your turkey roasting pans with heavy-duty aluminum foil, or cook the bird in a bag.

Double- or triple-line garbage cans, which saves time when the cleaning campaign begins. After you toss a trash bag, there’s another waiting for action.

Soak pots and pans as soon as you transfer food to platters. Designate a small trashcan as the soaking spot, fill it will soapy water and dirty pots, and hide it under a sink or in a mudroom. That way, your sink is free throughout the evening to clean as you go and rinse dishes on the way to the dishwasher.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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HOUSING GAINS PREDICTED

More modest gains are likely this year, according to the most recent Kiplinger Letter forecast. The national average of appreciation in home values will be up 4 percent-4.5 percent, compared with a gain over 11 percent in 2013.

The top stated reason for this increase is rising mortgage rates, will increase to 5 percent or so for 30-year fixed rate loans by the end of the year. Another possible is that fewer investors are offering all-cash deals, with bargain prices and.

The Kiplinger letter forecasts that new-home building will accelerate again, helping to offset the construction drought of 2008-2012. Keep an eye out for housing starts this year to climb by 15 percent and top 1 million for the first time since 2007. Sales of new homes are predicted to be a bright spot.

Another prediction: More existing homes will go up for sale, as price hikes pull homeowners out from mortgages that are underwater, making them more willing to sell. Sales will climb by 4 percent, but inventory won’t be as tight.

Affordability, though declining, is still better than the historical norm: A median-price home costing 20 percent of household income. In 2013, it took just 15 percent of income to buy an equivalent home. When mortgage rates rise to 5 percent, it will cost 17 percent of income.

More moderate growth this year is not necessarily bad news, it signals a more sustainable, long-term growth trajectory that will help quell fears that another bubble is arising.

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The Marigny Special...

Faubourg Marigny was laid out in the first decade of the 19th century by eccentric Creole millionaire developer Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville on land that had been his family plantation just down river from the old city limits of New Orleans.  In the early 19th century, New Marigny was where white Creole gentlemen set up households for their mistresses of color (and their offspring) in the tradition of "plaçage."

Wide Elysian Fields Avenue, named after the Champs-Élysées in Paris, was designed to be the main street of the Faubourg Marigny. It was the first street in New Orleans to extend all the way from the riverfront straight to Lake Pontchartrain 8 km (5.0 mi) away.

The neighborhood declined badly in the mid 20th century, and the area around Washington Square was nicknamed "Little Angola" (after the prison of that name) for the dangerous criminals there. It came back strongly in the late 20th century. Profiteering around the 1984 World's Fair drove many long-term residents from the French Quarter into Marigny. Frenchmen Street developed one of the city's premier collections of live music venues and restaurants, and is a popular destination with music lovers from other parts of the city and knowledgeable out-of-town visitors in the early 21st century.

Faubourg Marigny is one of the centers for homegrown New Orleans Mardi Gras . The neighborhood is also home to the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Riverfront facility.

Faubourg Marigny is one of the most colorful neighborhoods in New Orleans, the architecture borrows heavily from the colonial French and Spanish and has elements of the Caribbean, this unique blending of architectural elements over the last three centuries has resulted in an architectural style unique to the city of New Orleans.

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French Quarter 10 days before Christmas

Such a great time!

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Great Time To be a New Orleanian!

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       Did you know? That today:
   Louisiana offers retirees low taxes – the Tax Foundation ranks LA as the 4^th lowest in the nation.

    CEOs ranked Louisiana 11^th best in the USA in which to do business (in 2006 we were ranked 47^th so major improvement)

      New Orleans is considered the #2 “Boomtown” in the country, measured by our rise in population, job growth in heavy construction, and motion picture & TV industry jobs

4 New Orleans is #3 (only behind Silicon Valley and San Francisco) in tech job growth

5 Louisiana is among the top two states for Public School policies

    95% of New Orleans schools are charter

7  New Orleans has risen from a 65% drop out rate to 5%, which is better than the national average

8  New Orleans is #1 in disaster recovery

9 New Orleans rated the best American city to visit by Travel & Leisure

1Port of New Orleans is #1 in the USA

  New Orleans ranks #2 as Most Aspirational City?!?

    New Orleans is America’s Fastest growing city!

FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LIVE IN THE WAREHOUSE DISTRICT, NEW ORLEANS

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A QUIET DAY IN THE QUARTER

It was quiet this morning in the French Quarter, also known as Vieux Carré - or the “Quarter” to locals. The walk through this community where residents take time to reminisce with neighbors about times gone by and to welcome visitors in the streets was pleasant and as exciting as it usually is. We had some interesting conversations with those who were strolling along just as we did, shared some laughs, and discussed the Saints…

Intimate and unique, New Orleans’ oldest neighborhood has exerted a spell over writers and artists since the time of Mark Twain, Lafcadio Hern and John James Audubon.

Hollywood celebrities and software magnates have joined the residential mix, keeping the glamour up-to-date, but it is the year-round local residents who keep the neighborhood vibrant.

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