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- Investor Report: Where to Buy Low, Sell High
Where are the best opportunities to buy houses at below market prices, fix them up and sell them at a substantial profit?
- Hot Market: Seattle -- A Lesson In Normalizing Markets
The numbers in Seattle are continuing an upward trend and a downward trend, depending on what you're looking for. Prices for the latest reporting period are up across the board. Four bedroom homes, for instance, have edged upward compared to year-over-year numbers from the second quarter 2007 by more than $5,000 -- and are up 11 percent when compared to the first quarter of 2008.
- Managing Your Time & Making a Difference: Summer Survival Skills for Working ...
Right about now for many of you, the summer season is taking its toll. Your child has that look. You know the one that stops you in your tracks and makes parochial school guilt look like amateur hour. Susie's mom is making homemade fruit sorbet or watermelon boats, has daily activities schedules and prepared from here until Labor Day and you are trying desperately to keep your head above water in a changing market with way more low tides than high. Makes a day at the beach is sound pretty appealing to you to given the circumstances -- right?
- Pop Off Popcorn Ceilings
Popcorn and a good movie, popcorn while sitting alongside a campfire, and popcorn on a Christmas tree are very appetizing but, these days, popcorn ceilings aren't.
- Weak Market and Fear of Inflation Among Reasons for Spike in Mortgage Rates t...
McLean, VA -- Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey® in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.63 percent with an average 0.6 point for the week ending July 24, 2008, up from last week when it averaged 6.26 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 6.69 percent.
- Real Estate Outlook: No Recession In Sight
If you want an independent, authoritative guide to where the economy is heading, check out the composite quarterly forecast of the members of the National Association of Business Economics.
- Two Types of Seller's Regret -- Which Would You Prefer?
Y'know, it's tough being a listing agent. No matter how good of a job you do, the margin for error is huge. If you sell the house too fast ... you blew it on the price and "cost your seller money." If the house takes too long to sell, well, we all know what happens then. We didn't live up to our promises and we disappointed our seller.
- Paint Primer
Painting the exterior of your home the right way can boost the value of your home, add a positive new color scheme or slather on a protective coat of loving care.
- Is the Media Responsible for the Real Estate Downturn?
[Note: To follow is an excerpt of an interview with Blanche Evans, editor, RealtyTimes.com and Donald K. Irvine, chairman, Accuracy in Media. To listen to, or download the show archive MP3, go to www.IncomePropertyInvestmentTalk.com.]
- Whatever Happened to Piggyback loans?
Wait till you read what's replacing such financial porkers. We usually define a "conventional" mortgage as financing with 20 percent down. Since most people don't happen to have 20 down much less 20 percent plus closing costs, there has always been a market for mortgages that somehow require fewer dollars up front.
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