I have written about this topic in the past but with the unprecedented buyers market we are currently in this topic certainly deserves to be reconsidered. Unless one has been living in cave the past two years it is obvious that any retirement account funded ...
[Read More] The Idaho Real Estate market has changed the past 24 months and no one will argue with that statement. I still find it interesting that many homeowners have not been given good advice in dealing with a challenging market. I hope these tips will shed some ...
[Read More] $7,500 Tax Credit Now Available to First-Time Home Buyers When Congress passed the housing rescue bill (The Housing Assistance Act of 2008) in July, we published an article about some of the tax traps contained in the bill, waiting in hiding for the unwary. ...
[Read More] Introducing SentriLock Kim Roller with SentriLock conducted these briefings and had on hand demonstration lockboxes which members can try out. “The REALTOR® Lockbox NXT” is the updated lockbox from SentriLock that is both smaller on the ...
[Read More] by J. Craig Anderson - Aug. 18, 2008 12:00 AM The Arizona Republic The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, signed into law by President Bush on July 30, has sparked numerous debates over its mechanisms to assist struggling homeowners, future homebuyers ...
[Read More] I recently attended a class held by an employee of Indymac Bank that has worked in the Loss Mitigation or "Short Sale" department of Indymac for 18 years. This speaker is the second speaker in 2 months to tell us that ARM loans will continue ...
[Read More] Pending Home Sales Rise, Wider Gains Anticipated as Buyers tap Housing Provisions WASHINGTON, August 07, 2008 Some improvement is projected for existing-home sales in the months ahead, with broader gains seen by the fourth quarter as buyers take advantage ...
[Read More] Idaho real estate prices seem to be falling almost monthly. Whenever I am asked to do a search in any price range I find that now as many as 7 out of 10 homes I show are either Idaho foreclosures or Idaho short sales . In the peak year of 2005 it was almost ...
[Read More] I had lunch with one of my mortgage lender friends this past Wednesday and I asked her if there were anymore Zero Down mortgage loans left. She said the only true Zero Down program remaining is the Ameridream Program which offers down payment assistance ...
[Read More] Dear Buyers and Sellers, How do you pick your agent today to help you purchasing or selling a house? According to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® over 80% of today's buyers are looking online prior to make a call to an agent. Sellers, the ...
[Read More] Realtor board promotes use of electronic lockboxes Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Nanea Kalani Pacific Business News Image courtesy: SentriLock Manual key lockboxes could become a thing of the past as the Honolulu Board of Realtors works to offer ...
[Read More] I am beginning to believe strongly in the saying " The more things change, the more things stay the same ". This is certainly true when it comes to good old fashioned communication and knowledge. A few years ago a local farmer called me and asked ...
[Read More] With all the talk about escalating gas and grocery prices consumers have had to learn to tighten their belts and budget their money they were not acustomed to being concerned with in the past. Many families have made some tough decisions to deal with the ...
[Read More] Top Cities For Jobs '08 MSN.COM MSN released a list of the Best and Worst states for jobs based on unemployment figures, and they offer the “mean” wage of each state. Mean wage is a term meaning that half the jobs pay more and half pay ...
[Read More] Home Sales, Prices Seen Rising in Late '08 First, the good news: home sales have stabilized over the last seven months and should increase slightly in the second half of 2008, NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun told a crowd of REALTORS® at NAR’s ...
[Read More] Lock mortgage rates now if you can For the past 12 months the Federal Reserve was aggressively lowering the discount rate in an attempt to stimulate the economy. When the Federal Reserve lowers the discount rate mortage rates normally rise. The reason ...
[Read More] Buying your next Idaho home should be a wonderful experience. It does not have to be a stressful and anxious experience. Follow these tips and you will be well on your way to making your next home experience one you will remember. 1) You have heard the ...
[Read More] With all the talk about Idaho Foreclosures we as Realtors are being bombarding by buyers looking for the "Best Deal" and want to buy one of those foreclosures everyone is talking about. Before you run out and buy one of these there are some things ...
[Read More] I have been pondering lately about our generation. Many events have taken place over the past 2-3 years that has changed the landscape of this country as we have known it. I started my real estate career in 1980 and now over 28 plus years later I look ...
[Read More] After months of searching for a location from Boise to Caldwell AFI Packaging has selected a location west of Caldwell Idaho just east of the town of Greenleaf as the location for a new start-up company. The new company managed by Drew Dalgetty will consist ...
[Read More] Idaho Real Estate buyers have been confused because every time they call me about buying Idaho Real Estate in Idaho I have to tell them that mortage rates have risen. They could not understand why mortgage rates were increasing when they heard on the news ...
[Read More] Parents and grandparents please, please read this carefully. I have written about this in the past and advised many indivuduals. I think it is time to write about this again. Those I mentioned this to a few years ago and put the idea to practice are well ...
[Read More] I have been listening to the media regarding real estate since my career started in 1980 and what I have observed is very interesting. Some of the most successful real estate investors purchased properties in every cycle of the real estate market and were ...
[Read More] Over the years the internet has caused more and more people to use the world wide web to search for homes. Over the past several years print advertising and open houses just have not worked the way they have in the past. In fact open houses the past 2-3 ...
[Read More] In March of 2008 Macy's National headquarters announced it would be signing a new 5-year contract to keep it's store at the Karcher Mall in Nampa Idaho . The reason this is news worthy is that in light of the fact that only last year Macy's ...
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