Tax Credit Expires

April 30, 2010

With the expiration of the home buyer tax credit, some are worried that the real estate market will cave in. I don’t think this is the case. My article of April 20, 2010 detailing the First Quarter 2010 Atlanta Real Estate Market shows that compared to the same time period in 2009, the Atlanta Market [...]

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Spring Home Maintenance

April 30, 2010

Spring Is Here
Now that we have been through the time change and the days are longer, we now have time to get some of those spring home projects done. Hopefully this list will help you organize the projects that you need to do and of course if you think of any that have been left [...]

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Atlanta Real Estate – First Quarter 2010

April 20, 2010

January 2010
January 2010 stared a little slower than the experts anticipated. As fact would have it in January 2010 there were 2604 total closings, a decline of 8.9% in the number of properties sold compared to January 2009. The decrease came from the Single Family Detached properties which were down 11.5% while Single Family Attached [...]

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HAFA – Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives

April 19, 2010

This article is being published in an attempt to help put into layman’s terms some of the verbiage in the directives associated with the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives Program. I hope it helps.
Possibly one of the least successful programs the federal government has ever instituted is the Home Affordable Modification Program, known to some as [...]

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Atlanta Real Estate… The Last Three Years

April 1, 2010

It’s safe to say that over the last three years the Atlanta Real Estate Market has seen some amazing changes, most of which are not what we would call favorable. From the highs of 2006 it was inevitable that the market would experience some decline we just didn’t know how much of a decline there [...]

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Tax Credit Extended

April 1, 2010

In an unexpected move, Congress announced that the $8,000 first time buyer tax credit and the $6,500 move up buyer tax credit have extended until the end of 2010. This program has been extremely beneficial in helping to turn the housing market around. As fact would have it, with homes priced under $150,000 there is [...]

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