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Reports on the passage of the Second Mortgage Loan Act in New Jersey designed to protect home buyers from mortgage loan dealers who take advantage of homeowners mired in mortgage debts. Nature of the scheme developed by mortgage loan companies to take advantage of the homeowners who are having problems paying for their homes; Provisions of the Second Mortgage Loan Act; Landmark cases where courts have granted homeowners to waive mortgage payments once the courts find out that mortgage lenders have violated mortgage lending rules.

Homeowners who live in the country but gain their livelihoods elsewhere are fortunate people. Their attractive houses are surrounded by splendid big lawns. Yet in this idyllic existence there is a flaw. The owner has to spend so much of his time cutting his lawn to make it look splendid that he never seems to have any left to sit in his chair. In the city a man faced with this impasse would sell a lot at an exorbitant price to some home minded couple. The country dweller, however, has to think up something else, he gets sheep to mow his lawn and to add a pastoral touch to his land.

The article features the town of Toledo in Ohio. The town is located at the western end of Lake Erie on the Maumee River. It is a town of home owners and has few apartment buildings. It has a coal-shipping port which is considered the greatest in the world as of January 1948. The handling of coal at Toledo was one of the most impressive scenes in transportation.

Focuses on essentials in buying and building a house. Need of homeowners to compute exterior and interior repairs; Estimate of the reproduction cost of houses; Problems of house builders to obtain temporary construction loans.

Explains how the article author's neighborhood welcomes African American homeowners and keeps white families from moving away in Baltimore, Maryland. Purchase of a house of an African American in the neighborhood of the author; Arguments pertaining to the economic threats posed by the presence of the African American; Belief of the author that a mixture of white and African American families is both inevitable and compatible with good living.

Focuses on housing policy and housing problems in the U.S. under the administration of President Richard Nixon. Policies on low-cost housing; Proposal by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights for the president to issue an executive order barring agencies from moving into places without low-cost housing; Views of home owners on housing laws; Income gains and improvements in housing quality in suburban areas; Indications of social policy and public administration.

This article focuses on a new kind of service organization that furnishes its members with prompt and fair-priced assistance for household emergency. For many of America's 31,000,000 homeowners, a service that furnishes reliable contractors for everything from a leaky faucet to a major renovation is the greatest convenience since the invention of installment buying. It is safe to predict that no other family expenditures will provoke more outraged howls or lingering vexation. The National Association of Better Business Bureaus reports that it received 31,937 complaints concerning home repairs in 1958, and 30,955 complaints about service calls for appliances.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles that were published in the previous issues of the journal "The Saturday Evening Post." "We're Always on the Spot," which commented on school boards of education; "Help for Homeowners," which focused on the seeming panacea for homeowners in dealing with the various trades or craftsmen; "Boston's Old Howard Burlesque House Would Make a New-Type National Shrine," which focused on the efforts for the establishment of "The Old Howard Theater" as a national theater shrine.

The article discusses a case where homeowners in Arizona filed a lawsuit against the seller and demanded damages because of a leaky roof. The seller refused to pay the damages because he did not claim that the roof was in good condition. The Supreme Court ruled that the claim of the homeowners is not valid in real estate.

The article focuses on a Court of Appeal decision to have the auctioneer of a house acquire his commission from the home owner who also turned out to be the highest bidder of the property in Georgia. It says that the auctioneer argued that he was entitled for the commission since he was hired to sell the property to the highest bidder without price restriction.

Highlights the apology of a couple who were guests in a house owned by Mrs. Faverslot. Condition of the wife; Activities done by the husband during their stay at the house such as lawn mowing and plumbing; Dispute between the homeowner and the wife.

Presents a legal case filed in 1946 over the illegal construction of a doghouse by a homeowner in Kismet Acres, New York. Arguments presented by both the defendants and prosecutors in the case.

Comments on key public issues featured in past issues of 'The Atlantic' periodical in 1972. Impact of the oil importation program on the transportation sector of the U.S.; Legal struggle between black homeowners in parts of Chicago, Illinois, and various real estate interests.