According to popular financial advice columnist Suze Orman, you should stop worrying about your home's value since the housing market is a known long-term performer. "Even when you figure in the past year's 10 percent dive, the national median price for existing homes has gained nearly 25 percent over the past five years," she says.

Reader's Digest ranks the Columbus area as the 4th cleanest city in America.

Columbus is the most affordable market for homebuyers in the U.S. among the 46 metropolitan areas studied, according to Moody's Economy.com

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