Home Buyer Tax Credit Passes Senate 98-0!

The Senate voted today 98-0 to pass the HR 3548.  HR 3548 is a bill  that extends unemployment benefits for an additional 20 weeks and contains an amendment that extends the existing $8,000 First Time Buyer Tax Credit and adding a tax credit for Move Up buyers! Read More  Read More

Recording your documents will cost you more starting December 2009

Fees.  It’s an interesting word and many people don’t know just how many fees are involved in a real estate transaction.  Lender fees, title fees, inspection fees, notary fees, administrative fees, recording fees, if you’ve ever looked at a settlement sheet you’d be amazed at just how many there are.  Why so many? Read More  Read More

Extending the Home Buyer Tax Credit – So Close, Yet So Far Away

Here is the headline from the AP Story that ran yesterday “Senators agree to extend homebuyer tax credit”.  Look spretty good, doesn’t it?  Reading that, you would think we were in the clear, tax credits for everyone!   Well, I hate to rain on everyone’s parade, but we still have a long way to go.  Think of this process like looking at the moon through a telescope, it’s there, you can see every detail, you almost... Read More

Senate Voting today on amendment to extend the $8,000 First Time Buyer Tax Credit

According to a quick release from The National Association of Realtors today, the Senate is voting on an amendment to Extend Unemployment Insurance Benefits.  In this bill, there is an amendment titled “Dodd-Lieberman-Isakson Amendment to Extend and Expand the $8,000 First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit”.   Read More  Read More

Using The 99 Cent Effect to Sell Your Home Faster

The 99 Cent effect, maybe you’ve heard of it, maybe not, but did you ever wonder why prices end in 99?  Turns out there is a proven psychological effect (dating all the way back to 1800′s) with prices that end in 9.  Researchers at the Rutgers School of Business found that prices ending in .99 communicate low price to consumers and consumers are then more likely to buy. Read More  Read More