Spring has finally arrived, with the opportunity for outdoor parties and gatherings – it’s time to find a patio installer to expand your outdoor space while enhancing your backyard. It pays to start early…careful planning will take time as you’ll want to decide on designs and products. Good installers often book in advance and will need to work your new […]
With interest rates and home prices at all-time lows, now is one of the best times to invest in rental property. Also, in many cities around the world rents are starting to rise. According to Reis, a real estate data firm, rents increased 3.7% in 2012. This is great news for real estate investors who benefit from both rising rental […]
An excellent read about two girls who had been switched at birth. One was Amish and the other a typical American girl who learned from a letter from a nurse who was getting older and could no longer contain the truth about the change. An Amish family in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area had raised Rachel Yoder and Ellie Shore grew […]
Although it can be said that we live in a visual society due to the affinity of technology with multimedia, the truth is that humans have always been a visual species. It is a well-known fact that the human brain translates all spoken words and other forms of communication into images in order to “read” them. If an image has […]
Money is the root of all evil as the famous saying goes, but money is really bad or we are denying that it has really contributed to the growth of the economy and finances of the world. Money turns bad when excess greed captures the human imagination, but it is a blessing if used judiciously and wisely. History is full […]
Many Arizona homebuyers are surprised to find that they can’t move into their new dream home, even after signing the closing papers and paying for the house, because the seller is still there. A frequent occurrence is that the buyer is ready to move in after the title company has handed over the keys and confirmed that the deed has […]
Lao Tzu says that “Those who have knowledge do not predict. Those who predict do not have knowledge.” Maybe, maybe not, but as someone who has been in the hard money loan business for 13 years as a lender, real estate agent and real estate investor and knows the California real estate market inside out, I would like to have […]
Well, there’s a headline I never thought I’d write. But it’s not what you think. As a real estate agent, some of the worst houses we sometimes see are owned by banks. In other words, foreclosures. It never ceases to amaze me that some people, certainly a minority, think it’s okay to trash the home they’re losing. It’s common to […]
There are many advantages to buying a house or villa in Cyprus. They include reasonable prices, low taxes, and conventional property acquisition procedures. According to the laws of Cyprus, a foreigner can buy real estate in Cyprus, be it a flat, lots or a house on a lot (not exceeding 12,000 square meters), only once. The purchase of commercial real […]
Are you used to seeing large numbers in the “property taxes due” column on tax returns? Property owners in Texas, a state with notoriously high property taxes, may be forced to allocate a “large chunk” of their operating budgets each year to property taxes. You should always be looking for a way to increase your return on investment, and reducing […]
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