National Real Estate News

XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL FOR THE SOLDIERS IN IRAQ

I received this email today and it is such a great idea. I am sending it to everyone that I know and I hope that some of you will follow up as well.

If you go to this web site, www.Letssaythanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed service.

How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send just one and it is FREE and will only take a second to send out. It be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these cards. Regardless of your beliefs about the war, the soldiers are over there and do need to know that we are thinking of them and support all of the effort they are making to protect us.

Please take a few minute to go to the above web site and send out a card, then pass it on to everyone else you know. We can make a difference in someone’s day. Thank you.

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Update on Tax Credit for Buyers and Sellers

This is the latest update regarding the regulations for the Tax Credit

TAX CREDIT UPDATE: The U.S. Senate and House have passed the bill that includes an extension and expansion of the home buyer tax credit. It now moves to President Obama for signature, which could happen as early as tomorrow.

Home Buyer Tax Credit Changes [PDF]

Frequently Asked Questions

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Tax Credit Extension for Buyers and Sellers

A Senate committee reached a compromise yesterday to extend the $8,000 tax
credit for first-time home buyers, a boost the housing industry expects will
help it pull out of its two-year-old downturn.

Lawmakers in Washington also added a $6,500 tax credit for other
primary-home purchasers and raised the qualifying income limits to $125,000
for single taxpayers and $225,000 for joint taxpayers, housing-industry
sources said.

Under the Senate panel compromise, buyers must have sales agreements in hand
by April 30, but they will have until June 30 to go to settlement, the
sources said. The measure still faces votes in the full Senate and the
House.

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Realtor.Com Can Posts Our Listings on Facebook

Realtor.com has a new link that can post our listings in about 30 seconds on Facebook. You can see all of our pictures, details of the homes and this program makes it easy for anyone. I just listed two great homes in Buffalo Grove and they should be up on the site by Friday.

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Year To Date Area Real Estate Report

Every month we get the Chicago Northwest report on the currently inventory of homes and sales that have taken place from our board. This is also a comparison of homes sales between 2008 and 2009. It is a great way to keep up with what is going on in the market.
Click on these links to open up the pdf files of
Attached Homes and Detached Homes properties.

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What is a Short Sale

Over the past year there has been a lot has been said about short sales and the difference between the short sale process vs foreclosure. These are words that were hardly used before 2008 and now we hear them almost daily on the news, on line and in the newspapers. I found this very simple explanation in the attached article which I hope will be helpful to you. I am well versed in this process and have taken classes and have my CDPE certification. Please contact me if you need help, as I would be happy to explain this all to you. We have a team of professionals that can help save your credit.

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