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By reducing the principal balance, your lender recalculates your monthly payment based on the new, lower balance.How Does Mortgage Recasting Work?

Real estate is so localized that most federal based policy changes don't have massive influence.I can see him (semi-)privatizing Freddie/Fannie.

When an appraiser is adjusting a comp to match the subject property, he or she will use an adjustment based on the difference in square footage.

I'm not in touch with that co-worker now but I didn't even know about BP back then.

My agreement with the old PM outlines the process for terminating the relationship based on written notice. 

Reaching out to the community to make sure I'm not off base here to immediately think to decline this offer.  

I paid for the subscription for a few months and drew my own custom Google maps areas and color coded them red/yellow/green based on a "grade" I felt came from a few metrics like crime/average household income/etcI also really like realtors dot com new maps, if you search for an address and click on the map and then go to the top left and choose the Value slider it will give you a nice color coded map of which areas of a neighborhood are higher valued.

Typically, the tax is based on the assessed fair market value of the property at the time of the transfer, even if it’s not a traditional sale.

You might want to get in touch with @Andrew Freed and Jonathan Bombaci, they are locked into several of the MA meetups which are great ways to connect with other investors in real life.