| Home Business Office Deductions May be Taxable Upon Resale | Come tax time, most home owners who work out of the house are relieved they can count on certain home business office tax deductions.
Those tax deductions can come back to... |
| Should You Buy a Home With a Wet Basement? | Mold isn't the only concern in a home with a wet basement.
Shortly after I bought an 1898 Victorian in Minneapolis, my basement flooded. It was a hard July rain, the... |
| Buying and Selling Simultaneously is Trickier if Moving Across Country | If you have a home to sell, buying and selling at the same time involves a few more steps than those first-time home buyers face, but it can also be... |
| Buying or Selling in a Down Market Requires Strategy | At holiday parties, mall shopping or out to lunch with friends, anywhere I see people, I'm constantly barraged with questions about the falling real estate market.
Everybody wants to know where... |
| How to Cancel a Contract | Heres what real estate agents and brokers dont want you to know: contracts are not always 100% binding, even if the agent tells you that you cant cancel the contract.
There... |
| How to Figure Out if Buying Outweighs the Benefits of Renting | It might shock you to hear a Realtor say that maybe, just maybe, you are better off renting; yet the question continues to nag: should you buy or rent a... |
| Will a Deficiency Judgment After Foreclosure or Short Sale Come Back to Haunt? | Not a day goes by when I don't receive an email or phone call asking me whether a lender will file a deficiency judgment after a foreclosure or short... |
| How to Fire Your Real Estate Agent | So your agent hasn't called you in weeks and you want to cancel your listing agreement. Can you? How do you do it? How do you fire an agent?
What... |
| How Investors Can Buy Into a Delaware Statutory Trust | Odds are most real estate investors have never heard of a Delaware Statutory Trust.
Delaware is the second smallest state in the U.S., beat out for first position by Rhode Island.... |
| 12 Days of Christmas for Home Sellers | Once I start humming the 12 Days of Christmas carol, I can't get it out of my head.
Plus, for some reason, this December has been the busiest month for me... |