A Saturday evening at the Black Stallion in Hampton

FINALLY, AFTER 20 MILES, my legs have warmed to the point where I no longer complain about the cold.
Now I can actually focus on my surroundings, if only I could see more than the faint outlines of farm buildings, snow-plastered road signs and the big dipper suspended above this expanse of flat land that stretches [...]

Income Tax on Foreclosure Homes

Imagine losing your home to a foreclosure and then getting socked with a big tax bill.
Distressed home owners who have their home foreclosed or sold as a short sale last year could get an unpleasant surprise from their mortgage companies in a form of 1099-C.
However, you are exempt from the tax if one of [...]

Investing in Real Estate Once Again

Thinking about investing in Real Estate?  Read this week’s article from Realty Times to learn that you are not alone:
Savvy investors are always the first to jump in a potentially profitable housing market and a new survey indicates things are heating up.
More than 12 percent of homebuyers today plan to purchase a home as an [...]

Great Buys on Foreclosure Homes in Orange Park Florida Get a Free List

Great Buys on Foreclosure Homes in Orange Park Florida Get a Free List
Free Foreclosure List!
Don’t pay for a foreclosure list. Let me send you one for free.

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Be sure to Type “Foreclosure List” in the description.
 
Foreclosures don’t last long. Get a list of homes emailed to you daily…
so you find the [...]

ACORN loses funding from many Bay Area backers

I’m not sure what moonbeam, Gerry Brown will do about this but it is a start.
The troubles of the nation’s largest community organizing organization, ACORN, are being felt in the liberal Bay Area, where there is normally no shortage of supporters of the group’s efforts to provide free tax help and other services to low-income [...]

11161 W Lily McKinley Dr Surprise, AZ. 85374

Shayne Kilber | Keller Williams Realty Professional Partners | 623-853-6644

11161 W Lily McKinley Dr, Surprise, AZ

Nice REO home for sale in Surprise, Arizona.

4BR/2.5BA Single Family House

offered at $132,660

Year Built
2000

Sq Footage
2,441

Bedrooms
4

Bathrooms
2 full, 1 partial

Floors
2

Parking
2 Car garage

Lot Size
6,325 sqft

HOA/Maint
$0 per month

DESCRIPTION

Nice REO home for sale in Surprise, Arizona. [...]

90+ foreclosed homes available for 11/25/09 in Birmingham Alabama

90+ foreclosed homes available for 11/25/09 in Birmingham Alabama. Happy Holidays!! I hope everyone has a great and safe Thanksgiving holiday and I am looking forward to stuffing my face with food!!
Today’s list of foreclosures in the greater Birmingham Alabama area are located in the following cities/areas: Gardendale, Birmingham, Center Point, Grayson Valley, Trussville, Carrington [...]

Avoiding a Home Foreclosure

By Ken Tibesar, CDPE (Certified Distressed Property Expert)
Licensed Realtors® that have the designation Certified Distressed Property Expert are available to assist the estimated 1 out of 8 home owners facing foreclosure.
The current U.S. housing market and financial crisis have caused tremendous stress and heartache for families across America. Chances are this crisis has impacted someone [...]

Buy Foreclosure Homes to Create a World of Extreme Happiness

Buying a home tops everyones priority list when it comes to investment. Also, we want a beautiful abode where we can spend our lives with our family members sharing every moment of joy, happiness and sorrow together. People those who have long been dreaming of buying one such home but because of monetary constraints had [...]

Voluntary Loan Defaults are Increasing

Over half a million borrowers walked away from their mortgage in 2008. This represents twice the number in 2007. One bank states that one in five borrowers defaults willingly, even if they are able to afford the mortgage payment. Borrowers are looking at their homes as if it were a business and realizing that it [...]

Home Foreclosures Affecting Mental Health

… from The Washington Post
It’s official: The economy is bad for your health.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine questioned 250 homeowners going through foreclosure and found that 47 percent showed symptoms of depression, with 37 percent exhibiting signs of major depression. The rate was especially high considering previous research showed that [...]

Buy Foreclosed Homes Now – Buy Foreclosed Homes

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Locate properties scheduled for foreclosure sales by checking classified newspaper ads for listings under Foreclosure Notices, Auction Sales or Sheriff’s Sales.
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Step 2
Notify local real estate agents and attorneys that you’re interested in purchasing foreclosed properties.
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Step 3
Check with local lending institutions and government agencies – such as the Federal Housing Administration, Veterans Administration or Department of [...]

FORECLOSED MOBILE HOMES FOR CHEAP!!!

Hurry don’t miss this opportunity to pick up a park foreclosed home.
Wait. What is a “park foreclosed home”? you ask.
Well, occasionally a home owner who owns their mobile home out right (that is there is no underlying mortgage on it) gets behind on their space rent and decides to deed the home over to the [...]

Drawbacks To Purchasing a Foreclosed Home

 
 
Drawbacks to Buying Foreclosures 
In general, as the popularity of speculating on foreclosure property increases and more people are competing for the property, prices increase and bargains are fewer and more difficult to find.  
The competition to buy pre-foreclosure properties is stiff and homeowners are unlikely to offer the property at less than the outstanding mortgage value [...]

Buying a Foreclosed Property

Foreclosure occurs when a lender or other lien holder (person or organization that has the right to seize your property for payment on a debt) takes possession of a property because the property owner has failed to make regular, timely payments, and other efforts to collect the money have failed.
Most people know that foreclosure can [...]

Foreclosed Homes – Meaning, Benefits and How to Buy

What are foreclosed homes?
When all rights attached to the home are relinquished by the owner on default in payment of its mortgage amount, the property is said to be a foreclosed home. On failure of the mortgage payment on the house, the lender initiates for the foreclosure and sells out the house to recover the [...]

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I Told You So… The Stimulus Was a Bad Idea

My dear blog readers- let me draw your mind back to an entry of mine entitled “Why I think the stimulus plan is a bad idea.”  It was one of my most popular entries- even getting a space on the blogroll at cnn.com!  Now we have had several months of the plan, and I have [...]

Helpful Tips to Avoid Home Foreclosures and the Foreclosure Process

Foreclosures are occurring at an alarming rate and have been for quite some time. No one likes to talk about losing their home, but the fact is, more and more Americans are in fact, in foreclosure or have already lost their home.Need some advice on avoiding foreclosure?Here is some general information about foreclosures.Several states have [...]

Orlando Foreclosed homes are rotting away — and stripped bare

Foreclosed homes: Forsaken and now frightening
Foreclosed homes are rotting away — and stripped bare
By Mary Shanklin | Sentinel Staff Writer
June 20, 2009
Manny del Valle, who runs a business cleaning up foreclosed homes, looks at the thousands of dead bees inside a foreclosed home in Kissimmee. (ROBERTO GONZALEZ, ORLANDO SENTINEL / June 18, 2009)
The [...]

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