Buying Opportunity

Housing Most Affordable in 18 Years – The HOI shows that 70% of homes sold at the end of 2009 were affordable to those families earning the national median income of $64,000.

Buy it or Sell it? Would you like to buy or sell Vatu Vara Island? Also known as Hat Island it is a cozy little hideaway near Fiji surrounded by a coral reef, lagoon and beaches for a cool $76 million…why not?

Better safe than sorry! Make sure anyone doing work on your home is licensed where required bonded and insured. Protect yourself from lawsuits from workers injured while working on your property and damage that may be done to your property.

Timing is everything. At least in this case it is! There are only 57 days left to take advantage of the first time homebuyer's tax credit of $8000--it expires April 30th--a house has to be under contract by then and close by June to take off taxes this year. Click Here for IRS.gov info on First Time Homebuyer Credit.

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