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Entries from January 2009

Miami Real Estate – 5 Home Staging Tips

Jan. 8th, 2009

Staging a home is a crucial step in selling your house in today’s Miami real estate market. The house must look inviting and appealing to a potential buyer. The buyers must visualize themselves living in the house and must feel welcome and at ease when viewing the property. Miami real estate – These are the [...]

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Letting Agents; How To Utilise Their Services

Jan. 8th, 2009

The majority of those people trying to find a rental property will utilise letting agents as a matter of course. This is because letting agents should typically make the process simpler, take much of the legwork out of finding properties and also should provide the accountability that a professional body brings. The latter point, the [...]

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Buy-to-Let Property Fraud – Why the Law Must Be Changed…

Jan. 8th, 2009

Like its counterpart in the States – the Sub-prime mortgage scandal – buy to let property fraud in the UK has badly damaged not just the investors involved, but the whole financial fabric of the Global Economy. As the front page article in the Sunday Times last December exposed, thousands of innocent investors have had [...]

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Excellent Tips On Buying Bank Owned Foreclosure

Jan. 8th, 2009

Bank owned properties are those that are taken over by the banks after an auction or public sale on foreclosure. The minimum bid in these auctions is same as the mortgage balance that takes into account expenses like fees of the real estate lawyer, ensued interest, etc. While you buy a home through a home [...]

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Good Deals on Gilbert Properties: Tips on How to Find Them

Jan. 8th, 2009

Using a realtor is one of the best ways to find best deals in great subdivisions such as Power Ranch. You can avail of the product for less than half its market value from the top. Properties are also sold in bundles. This is very appealing to investors today because they can avail of a [...]

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Remortgage: Important Figures From the BoE

Jan. 8th, 2009

Finding a remortgage isn’t always easy – especially in the middle of a house price slump. Understandably cautious, most lenders are restricting their remortgage deals to people with a maximum LTV ratio of 60-80%. But is that such a prohibitive figure? And is the situation likely to improve or deteriorate? The latest Quarterly Bulletin from [...]

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Real Estate: Home Inspection When Buying New Orleans Properties

Jan. 8th, 2009

New Orleans real estate took a big hit with the multitude of hurricanes that have passed through the area in recent years. This means that there are deals to be had because a lot of people packed up and never looked back. Now, while there are some great buys in the New Orleans real estate [...]

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Deconstructing the Lease Option Agreement

Jan. 7th, 2009

Lease option agreements are an oft-ignored alternative method of selling real estate, and are just as often misunderstood. If you haven’t used them before, they can sometimes make an excellent addition to a landlord’s or real estate investor’s box of tricks. To begin, a lease option agreement is different from a standard lease agreement only [...]

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Real Estate Investing without Cash

Jan. 7th, 2009

Real estate is cheap! It’s time to buy! Oh wait… the economy’s a disaster, and you don’t have any extra money for a glass of wine with dinner, much less buying a rental property as an investment. So what’s the answer? Why, buying without a lot of money, of course. Here are three methods that [...]

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Top Ten Ways To Get The Best Home Buy

Jan. 7th, 2009

1) Get pre-approved by a reputable lender- Be sure you have a pre-approval letter in hand and present it with your offer to assure your strongest bargaining position. 2) Sell your present home first- Contingency offers are not at all appealing to most sellers. The seller has to typically wait until your house sells before [...]

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