This year was a very special Christmas for me. You see, I moved away from home when I was very young, and our lives have kept us away from home for many holidays throughout the years. No vacation time, the budget to tight, the weather threatening...many reasons. In hind sight, too many reasons! S
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01/03/2013
Your Top Home Ownership Tax Questions Answered Which tax benefits do home owners miss? Will you get audited if you take the home office deduction? Find out the answers to these questions and more before Tax Day. Read Visit houselogic.com for more articles like this. Copyright 2013 NATIONAL ASS
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01/02/2013
If you have never volunteered on a Habitat project, go and do it. Just like Rebecca and many REALTORS that volunteer many hours, you will come away with stories like this one, and it will change your life, I promise. Habitat is a HAND UP...NOT A HAND OUT! If you have been following my blog, yo
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01/01/2013
I hope Marc Savitt and the NAIHP have the clout to get Date out of this position. How can he stand up there and say that the banks had no role in the mortgage mess. Where in the world has he been?Yesterday I wrote a blog titled "Stupid Is, As Stupid Does, And There Is No Fixing It" which centere
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01/01/2013
If you have never been to New Orleans, make plans and visit. It is an amazing city and the scenery is beautiful. When we go, we love to just walk the streets and look at all the architecture and balconies full of flowers and ferns. Hanging Ferns, Balconies and Gallery’s make the New Orleans Frenc
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01/01/2013
Thanks Goodness! It is so frustrating that they waited until the very last minute to do this. That put a lot of undue stress on an already stressed seller and their agents. I sure hope we all remember this in the next election.You can all exhale. The Fiscal Cliff deal passed in the wee hours of l
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01/01/2013
Unfortunately, the way things are going, some of us baby boomers will not have anything left to pass long to our children and grandchildren. I fear the transfer of our wealth will go to the governmentAs I sit watching TV during the countdown to a New Year, there is a lot of press coverage of the
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12/31/2012
Things sure are getting out of control with all these supposed consumer protection laws. What happened to accountability of the consumer, there is no value placed on an educated consumer, one that knows how to make a decision in their own best interest.Sorry, I know it is not nice to say stupid,
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12/31/2012
The real answer is that almost anyone can buy a HUD Home at some point (if they can show proof of funds or have a written proof of pre-approval by a mortgage lender) but there are several "Bid Periods" that have occupancy requirements during that period. Asset Managers (AM) adhere strictly to Fa
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12/31/2012
Beautiful poinsettias...beautiful bright red has always been my favorite, but they come is many more colors now. But at the end of the holiday season, they slowly lose their blooms and then the leaves turn yellow and fall off. Pretty soon there is not much left but the stalks. Mercifully they
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12/30/2012
