Miami Property Values Exposed
Monday, April 18
I own property in Miami Beach, which is one of the nineteen cities, six towns, and nine villages in Miami-Dade County. Some of those cities, towns and villages have been growing in popularity, and as a result, real estate values are going up. Lately, it’s come to light that some well-known for...
RED ALERT!! HELP! HELP! ...Please share!
Thursday, April 14
OKLAHOMA SB 695 will force landlords to pay the unpaid water bills of their tenants. This is absurd. Next will they require the electric, gas, cable and phone as well?This will mean that landlords will have to increase the amount of deposit there tenants will have to place in order to protect the...
Good Deals: Buy Homes In Flint MI for $14,000
Monday, April 11
According to East Central Association of Realtors in Michigan, the median price of a home in Flint is currently $14K. Plagued by plant closings and job losses in the auto industry, high crime rates, devaluation of real estate since the mortgage crisis, and the recent municipal financial and wa...
How Much Income Do You Need To Buy A Home Now?
Sunday, April 03
I honestly don’t think most people know how much income you need to qualify for a mortgage to buy a home, so that’s why I’m posting about it.These statistics come from an HSH.com article, and they are based on National Association of Realtors fourth-quarter 2015 data, assuming a 28% front-end deb...
Housing Crisis: The Right House At The Right Time May Be Hard To Find
Friday, March 25
Right now, the residential housing market is teetering out of balance in several ways: 1) 25% of US home sales were cash transactions in February 2016. This is an unusually high percentage, and it seems to indicate real estate investors are buying a large percentage of homes. Parents and grand...
How Is Housing Changing As The US Population Ages?
Tuesday, March 22
Without generalizing too much, we’ll agree that the needs of aging people affect their personal housing choices. For people in their 70s, 80s and 90s (and even 100s) who are healthy and active, what ranks highest on their list of priorities when they select a home? Most people prefer to avoid ass...