Consider A Lease With An Option To Buy When You Can’t Sell Your Home By Ilyce R. Glink These days, I’m hearing from plenty of homeowners who want to be home sellers, but simply can’t sell. Either there are so many foreclosures in the neighborhood that their homes are worth only a fraction of what [...]
3 Things That May Not Be Covered by Your Homeowner’s Insurance— But That You Still Need! By Linda Rey Don’t you just love buying insurance? OK, probably not, but don’t you just love when you have the right insurance in an emergency? No one wants to find out at the wrong time that what they [...]
6 Tips for Pushing Your Adjusted Gross Income Below $250,000 By Eva Rosenberg, EA One of the big delays in passing the “extender bill” last fall was the conflict over extending the Bush tax cuts to people with incomes over $250,000. The debate isn’t over. In this year’s State of the Union, President Obama said, [...]
Spring Real Estate Market: Preparing Your House For Sale By Ilyce R. Glink I know it’s a tough home selling market out there. In many parts of the country, home sales have dropped to levels last seen a decade ago. That means there are going to be more homes on the market, and fierce competition [...]
Four Ways to Protect Your New Construction or Renovations from Liability By Linda Rey If you’re building a new home or renovating an older one, you may have the line from “Field of Dreams” running through your mind: “If you build it, he will come.” Sure, they came to Kevin Costner’s magical baseball field, but [...]
Free Tax Services: Do You Qualify? By Eva Rosenberg, EA Approximately 70 percent of taxpayers qualify for the various free filing services available in English and Spanish, according to Eric Smith, an IRS spokesman. Do you? Sit down with a trained volunteer and get in-person assistance and some advice, or use a variety of online [...]
Real Estate Investing: How to Be a Good Landlord Although my husband, Sam, is a real estate attorney, and I write about real estate all the time, that doesn’t mean we necessarily enjoy being landlords. Truth be told, I like it, and Sam doesn’t as much. He says that’s because he has to do all [...]
Insurance Tips: How to Handle Your Policy When Taking an Extended Trip When you’re planning an extended trip, preparation means more than just making hotel and rental car reservations. You also have to think about matters back home. If you will be out of the country or away from home for an extended period of [...]
2011 Tax Filing Help: How to Select the Right Tax Pro for You Visit the Tax Homepage for more advice on how to file your taxes. So you want to hire a tax professional to handle your taxes. You can opt for a CPA or an EA to handle your tax return, but which is [...]
9 Things You Should Do to Get the Mortgage of Your Dreams By Sue Stewart, MortgageMatch.com Sue Stewart of MortgageMatch.com has more than 15 years of executive experience in mortgage finance and 27 years in the industry. She has overseen all aspects of major mortgage banking operations for leading home builders and real estate brokerage [...]
