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Banks & Financing

How to Appeal Your Home’s Property Tax Assessment

  There it was, tucked in the pile of today’s mail: a letter from the Tax Assessors’ office. It seemed like just yesterday that the ...
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Banks & Financing

Winning Strategies for a First-Time Homebuyer

“If we know exactly where we’re going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we’ll see along the way, we won’t learn anything.” -M. ...
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Banks & Financing

Marinas: Investing in This Asset Class

The basic premise of a commercial real estate investment is this: a property is purchased, the space within it is leased to rent-paying tenants, rental ...
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Banks & Financing

Innovative Real Estate Financing Strategies

Even though it may seem increasingly challenging to finance and buy a home these days, there are options for qualified buyers who do their research ...
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Banks & Financing

When to Lock in Your Mortgage Rate? A-S-A-P

Recently, the U.S. broke a financial record that wasn’t much to celebrate: inflation hit a 40-year high. For those looking to buy real estate, all ...
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Banks & Financing

To Buy or to Rent? Understanding The 5 Year Rule

To Buy or to Rent? Understanding The 5 Year Rule   Being a first-time home buyer in today’s real estate market can seem daunting. Besides ...
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Banks & Financing

Don’t Think You Can Pull-Off a 1031 Exchange in a Hot Market? Do a Reverse 1031 Exchange Instead.

  In this real estate market it is much easier to sell than buy, which makes it especially difficult to effectively do a 1031 exchange ...
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