ShareMood of the Market
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Many of my fellow real estate brokers and I have clients who have been house hunting, it seems, since time eternal. OK — well, since last summer. These hardy homebuyers have experienced competing with 30 other offers over the summer months, maybe got into and out [...]
January 18, 2010 | Posted in
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Lending guidelines are tightening (again) and the new Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Discloscsure Act (CARD) takes effect on February 22, 2010 – what’s a smart woman to do?
The old marketing adage “sex sells” is to “Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior” as your uncle’s old 35-millimeter vacation movies are to YouTube.
ShareHome Sale Hindsight
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Q: I’m trying to buy a house and have made offers on foreclosures and on regular homes. I’ve had about eight different offers rejected. Almost every time, the sellers said they took an all-cash offer. But after they closed, a bunch of them actually sold for less [...]
January 15, 2010 | Posted in
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Marianna Olszewski’s fresh approach takes smart women back to the basics of inspired financial planning and vision-driven entrepreneurship.
ShareREThink Real Estate
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Q: I heard from my agent that if you did a short sale in 2009 even if you have pulled cash out during the life of your loan, a law was passed that you will be exempt from the IRS taxing you. Has this law already been passed [...]
January 14, 2010 | Posted in
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Tara’s new white paper provides expert, real-life guidance on the whole-life impacts of walking away from your home.
ShareLaw of the Land
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In the case Emmerling, et al. v. Town of Richmond Zoning Board, et al., homeowners Craig and Lynn Emmerling applied for a permit to build a fence on their property. The town’s zoning board of appeals determined that a site plan review by the town’s planning [...]
January 13, 2010 | Posted in
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ShareBook Review: ‘Decoding the New Mortgage Market’
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Book Review Title: "Decoding the New Mortgage Market" Author: David Reed Publisher: AMACOM, 2009; 256 pages; $17.95
With the dawn of 2010, just about everyone I know committed to smarter, savvier, more strategic decision-making — especially in the realm [...]
January 12, 2010 | Posted in
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Last week I wrote about the consumer equivalent of dissociative personality disorder, how I’m seeing sane buyers and sellers, traumatized by the gyrations of the recent real estate market, split into multiple personalities.
On reflection, I think that column was more than a bit autobiographical. I feel [...]
January 11, 2010 | Posted in
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