In the child’s fairy tale, in order to save their lives the tailor’s convinced the King they were weaving his clothes from Gold, of course they could not do that, yet none of the Kings advisors dare mention he had no clothes. When the king went out through the kingdom in his woven gold clothes ...

01/27/2013

Power on interest rates on Purchasing

1 Comments

The power of interest rates on purchasing When looking at today’s market concerning interest rates the best perspective is look at the economy in the recent past. Since the economic events of 2008 the Federal Reserve has committed to driving interest rates down to spur sales in the housing sector...

01/27/2013

simpler home office deduction

0 Comments

The IRS today announced a simplified option that many owners of home-based businesses and some home-based workers may use to figure their deductions for the business use of their homes. In tax year 2010, the most recent year for which figures are available, nearly 3.4 million taxpayers claimed de...

01/22/2013

year end rental market report

2 Comments

Year end rental market report this INFORMATION is a composite of over 15,400 SEPARATE ads in 2012 and over 87,000 in the last five years. #1 about 13% fewer units advertised for rent 2012 COMPARED to 2011 #2 about 5% increase in pricing in APARTMENTS for rent 2012 COMPARED to 2011 #3 about 3% inc...

01/20/2013

Yellowstone County looking 10 years back

0 Comments

Thought it might be fun to do the ten year comparison for Yellowstone county home sales Soooooooo I thought let’s compare today to ten years ago to today and see what we shall see #1 Population 2002 132,165 vs. 2012 51,814 an increase of 14.86% ...

01/08/2013

BABY BOOMERS AND OTHER MYTHS

0 Comments

RECENTLY WAS READING AN ANALYSIS OF WHAT IS TRANSPIRING IN THE LABOR FORCE ON ONE OF THE GREAT TENANTS THE REASON THE NUMBER OF “NOT IN THE LABOR FORCE IS GROWING IS BABY BOOMERS ARE RETIRING AND LEAVING THE WORK FORCE NOT THAT PEOPLE ARE GIVING UP LOOKING FOR WORK. IF PEOPLE WERE GIVING UP LOO...

01/08/2013

national new single family sales

1 Comments

I always marvel at the lack depth of the questions main stream media. For 2012 all the talk about the “recovery” of the new construction single family sales market. Soooooooo I thought let’s compare today to ten years ago to today and see what we shall see #1 employment 2002 130,341,000 ...

01/07/2013

Market update december 2012 end of the year

2 Comments

Market Update at a glance December 2012 We are now through the year and the good numbers continue to roll through the housing market here in Yellowstone Count, Inventory lower by 23%, pending sales up by 24%, closed sales up by 18%, new home permits up 80% all outstanding performance for the resi...

01/06/2013

November National new contruction Numbers

1 Comments

New home contuction continues to show improvement as the genral housing market does. the question is what happens whne the fedral reserve takes away the sugar high of low interst rates. whith rates where they are basically the federal resrve has lowered the interst cost by about 47% since 2007. W...

01/05/2013