Makeover tips to sell your home, don't get an extended warranty & doctor's secrets - Today in Money 11/29

Makeover Tips That Can Sell Your Home
The year a home was built helps determine which renovations are most likely to pay off for sellers, experts say. To uncover the top age-appropriate home improvements and repairs, Bankrate asked top experts to share their suggestions for houses by era: pre-1960s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Here's what you should look for first to avoid a home makeover misstep.
Makeover tips that can sell your homr - Bankrate.com


Why You Don't Need an Extended Warranty
This holiday season, shoppers are expected to spend over a billion dollars on extended warranties for laptops, flat-screen TVs, other electronics, and appliances. And almost all of it will be money down the drain.
ConsumerReports.org - Why you don't need an extended warranty


10 Things Your Physician Won't Tell You
A good primary-care doctor - someone to coordinate your health care, help choose your specialists and be the first to diagnose just about any problem - is the key to good medical treatment. But they're getting harder to come by. One big reason fewer medical students are specializing in primary care is pure and simple economics. In 2006 primary-care doctors earned an average of $171,519. That might sound like a lot to most working people, but it's less than half of what dermatologists made that same year.
10 Things Your Primary-Care Physician Won't Tell You - SmartMoney.com