Your due diligence inspections should include more than hiring a home inspector to look at the home and reviewing a current termite inspection. And your due diligence should start as soon as you have serious interest in a listing. Making an offer to purchase a home consumes a lot of time and emotional energy. Before …
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Real estate tips to guard against losing your home Time and time again, home-buyer wannabes state that the reason they are still fence-sitting is that they don’t want to end up in the same trouble the last generation of homeowners did. Well, there’s a very slim chance of that happening, given the changes in the …
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Q. What is a Homeowners’ Exemption? A. A Homeowners’ Exemption could save you at least $70 per year. If you own and occupy your principal place of residence on January 1, you may apply for a Homeowners’ Exemption that will exempt $7,000 of your home’s assessed value from taxation. Q. How do I get a …
New Prudential Real Estate Poll: Americans Increasingly Optimistic About Homeownership Prudential Real Estate, a Brookfield Residential Property Services company, today released a new national survey showing that Americans are significantly more optimistic about homeownership than they were a year ago. According to the second-annual Prudential Real Estate Outlook Survey, a full 60 percent of Americans …
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