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When trying to decide whether or not to move to an active adult community, several personal behaviors should be considered.  Many people believe they should move to an Active Adult community because it means "immediate friends".  Moving from an established community where long term relationships ...
01/06/2010
With today's technology, people often begin their search for a new home on line, using any of a number of websites as well as google earth, or web sites of individual agents.  Many agents have IDX (internet data exchange) links on their sites so that people interested in real estate can input cri...
01/04/2010
Charles Dickens sums up my sentiments of this past decade, the start of the twenty first century succinctly in Chapter One of A Tale of Two Cities.        "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it ...
01/04/2010
My friend Jennie and I went to an early dinner last night at Texas Roadhouse to celebrate the end of 2009. By all signs, 2009 was not the best year.  We both bogged down in all the economic jargon, the poor real estate market, the March dive of the stock market, the rhetoric of another "Great Dep...
01/01/2010
[gallery]    Life is full of things we promise ourselves we are going to do, or promise others, and so is the case with George Zoritch to whom I promised a roast lamb dinner...and never delivered.     I first met the acclaimed ballet dancer after I had ordered  "Ballet Russes" from Netflix.   I w...
11/06/2009
The new Mortgage Disclosure Improvement Act (MDIA) promulgated by the federal government is not much of a change for lenders who were ethical and disclosed costs initially;  but for those unscrupulous lenders who performed "bait and switch" during the home buying heyday, lamentations are rampant....
08/05/2009
Many out of town people come to Tucson with the idea of purchasing property.  In today's real estate market, they can cherry pick amongst bargain properties.  But now, with new requirements set forth by lending institutions and the federal government, a little planning goes a long way.     From t...
08/04/2009
   We have been working for a few weeks now trying to determine what type of property to purchase...single family, duplex, home with a guest house...for an investment property.   Trying to sort out what is most advantageous for a new investor is not always easy since there are so many things to c...
08/03/2009
Purchasing real estate is one of the prirmary reasons the consumer should make sure the credit score does not contain errors.   A difference of 1 % between a 5.5% loan and a 6.5% loan is $128.56 a month.  At 5.5%, payments principal and interest are $1135.57 and and 6.5%, $1264.13 a month,   Over...
07/30/2009
In this era of people tightening their belts, pulling back on many purchases, and the occassional missed payment, credit scores can be severely bruised.   A credit score can impact  many facets of life, from obtaining the job since many companies now look at credit scores as a component of evalua...
07/29/2009
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