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Tips for Selling Your Home to a First-Time Buyer
A federal tax credit of up to $8,000 is nudging many Americans into buying a home for the first time — good news for those trying to sell one. Still, selling a home isn’t easy in most markets today. To get the typical first-time buyer to bite and submit an offer, a house has to…
Sluggish Market HITS!!! The Westchester Suburbs Hard!!!
The effects of a sluggish real estate market are everywhere. Read this article and learn more about the Westchester County NY market being affected. GET A FREE LIST OF DISTRESSED PROPERTIES DELIVERED TO YOU DAILY!!!!!!!! After reducing the price on his house in a tony New York City suburb to less than he paid for…
Foreclosures HALT Economic Recovery!!!
More than two years year after the housing market tanked and the foreclosure rate began rising, the ongoing wave of distressed home sales is weighing on house prices and crimping a long-awaited economic recover On Wednesday, President Obama signed off on the government’s latest response to the crisis, a whittled-down bill aimed at helping millions…
Loan mod: Go it alone?
Last week, I went over the steps involved in getting a loan modified. This article examines which, if any of these steps, may require a borrower to seek help. Read More>>>
Top 10 Moving Tips
HGTV’s FrontDoor.com offers 10 time-saving tips to make moving fast and efficient: Some valuable tips to help you with your move. Hope these Help 1. Make a moving schedule. Starting 60 days before the move, use a week-by-week checklist to keep the process on track. The tasks to accomplish further from moving day might seem…
Who’s Under Your Roof? The Real Risks of Unlicensed Labor
As a leader in real estate, I am repeatedly asked specific questions about today’s market – especially in today’s economy. In an effort to provide more information to my community, I am sending you this Top 5 in Real Estate Social Networking Systems “e-Article,” in which I provide useful real estate information to my real…
Loan Mods Can Be the Answer!!!
source: Inman News The housing crisis in the San Francisco East Bay Area and in many regions of the country has reached dire proportions, with seemingly no end in sight. But it doesn’t have to be this way. There is a five-step solution to fixing the foreclosure crisis caused by poor lending practices of recent…
Buyers Jump at the Opportunity to Buy Foreclosed Homes
source:Builder magazine Buyer jump at the opportunity to purchase homes in foreclosure, or some state of distress. read more… Joint survey by RealtyTrac and Trulia also found a growing level of wariness about buying a distressed property. For better or worse, the share of Americans interesting in buying a foreclosed home has increased in…
How Long Does a Loan Modification Take?
source: Realty Times Understandably, homeowners who apply for a loan modification tend to get a little antsy and perhaps even annoyed when they apply for a loan modification and then fail to hear anything for several weeks, especially if they continue to receive late payment notices and nasty phone calls from collection agencies. Many homeowners…
Dredging of Pollutants Begins in Hudson
Source: NYTIMESThis information was written in the NYT.I think this is a good thing. After long battle, E.P.A. and G.E. begin a cleanup of PCB hot spots on the Hudson River. Hot spots of PCBS are mapped by GPS, and a dredge barge scoops up chunks of river mud putting it into a hopper barge,…
Your Payments are Late!| Will a Loan Modification Save Your Home??
source: realty times This article has some good information on helping you understand the new Obama Loan Mod. program. It has useful information The Treasury Department recently released its Home Affordable Modification Program Guidelines (part of its Making Home Affordable initiative), which include eligibility requirements to determine which homeowners qualify for relief under the plan….
AMAZING|Homes not Selling: Bank Decides to Demolish Homes. WOW!!!
I found this article in the Wall Street Journal. I thought it was a clever way to handle the Real Estate Crisis. A video of a backhoe knocking down homes in Victorville, Calif., was posted on YouTube by the founder of a Web site called Vision Victory. A Texas bank is about done demolishing 16…