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Hello fellow Lansing, MI area investors and RE professionals!I just saw this in my news feed:WLNS: Lansing to administer $27 million in emergency rental assistance grants.https://www.wlns.com/news/michigan/lansing-to-...
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What online resources do you find most effective and accurate when evaluating new markets and sub-markets or level one research as Ken McElroy would say?Some that I am currently using are city-data.com, bestplaces.net...
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http://www.dsnews.com/articles/bill-introduced-to-extend-federal-tax-exemption-for-forgiven-mortgage-debt-2014-01-14
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Will today’s fed news have a negative impact on residential real estate?
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The recently released update extension not only delays the tax filing deadline to October 16, 2023, it could also extend your 1031 Exchange deadlines until October 16, 2023 as well!
For example: Typically, if you wer...
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Hi guys,I just finished this article and have been following this story for awhile. Considering there is no legal precedence on this sort of thing, it could have serious ramifications reaching far beyond New York. Jus...
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On October 22, the CFPB finalized targeted amendments to the Dodd-Frank Act mortgage rules that took effect in January 2014. The amendments include: Points and fees cure. Under the Ability-to-Repay/Qualified Mortgag...
What was supposed to help the market, just went the wrong way. Yes, I understand why, but that doesn't help matters.
"The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate jumped 27 points from 6.26 percent to 6.53 percent on...
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The latest news about the nation’s foreclosure crises is that there is going to be a rise in the amount of foreclosures around the nation. If you go by the Warren Buffet formula of making money then this year would ...
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you see that news ? that FHA/VA said buyer agent still has be paid seller ?In other word, if seller doesn't want to pay buyer agent and the offer is coming using FHA/VA loan, it would be automatically rejected by sell...