The Michigan Senate passed legislation to hopefully stimulate the housing industry in Michigan. A similar stimulus package was passed by the Michigan House last year which would give homeowners a 18 month moratorium on the “pop-up” tax. What’s the “pop-up” tax? It is tax in Michigan that effect h
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03/31/2008
Downtown Ann Arbor is characterized by architectural diversity as a result of the growth that began in the early 1800’s and has spread outward. When I first moved to Ann Arbor, I was amazed at the vibrancy of all the older buildings. Living in downtown Ann Arbor is a quality of life-style and th
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03/31/2008
Taxes Lowered Taxes Lowered Over a month ago, when we were getting our yearly tax assessments in Michigan, I sent out an email to my past clients and offered to help if they needed any help in fighting their assessments. Michigan is in a declining market and yet the values of some peoples homes
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03/31/2008
HOME WARRANTIES ***Updated*** We had and inspection on 1941 Geddes in Ann Arbor, the seller is in Arizona, an elderly woman. Before the Realtor, who is also their neighbor left for her vacation she had the house winterized. It is an older home and pipes run through the unheated underground gara
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03/30/2008
Today I was awarded the prestigious e-TWIT designation. The e-Twit designation was started by Linda Davis and Bob Carney. You receive this designation when you have 100 followers on Twitter and have twitted 1000 times. It took me awhile to receive this…. @GotBob said I was too quiet. Imagine tha
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03/28/2008
During the Christmas Holidays, I spent some time going through all my bookmarks on Active Rain. I was able to delete quite a few because I had learn the technique. Many times when we are reading posts, you see in the comments, "good job, bookmarked for later." I love this Active Rain Feature Her
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03/27/2008
The “MATCH” letters went out on Friday, across the United States and I’m sure there is a number of incoming University of Michigan Residents trying to decide if they should buy or rent in the Ann Arbor, Michigan area. Here is a Rent or Buy Calculator that will help you decide if you should Buy o
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03/24/2008
Real Estate is Like A Roller Coaster Friday night we were having dinner at Bridgewater Bank in Saline, MI. It was crazy snowing and the restaurant was not too crowded, so we lingered. No one was in a hurry to get out and scrape their windshieds to go home. We were with Debi Gould and her husband
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03/23/2008
To those of us who live in Ann Arbor, we have always thought we were exempt from the rest of the state of Michigan when it came to the housing industry downturns. Not this time. A quick look at Foreclosurenet.net will give you a list of all the foreclosure homes in Washtenaw County. There are 29
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03/19/2008
Lately I have had a few calls and comments on my blog asking how do you do that? What they have been asking about is Vflyer and Real Estate Shows. Vflyer is incredibly easy to use. You can create flyers and email them to your contacts, or sphere of influence, leave brochures in the homes and s
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03/18/2008
