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Tiffany DuBose, R PB
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Having a Great Month!
Tiffany DuBose
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The Offer: There's More
To It Than Just The Price
Fixating
on price in real estate may cost you the
deal:
Sellers who decide that a specific
dollar figure will buy their home and
won't budge from that bottom line may
sell themselves short.
Buyers who drop out of a transaction
for a property they love because the
seller's counter-offer shocks them may
be quitting before they have really
started negotiating.
When a buyer makes an offer to
purchase a house, condominium unit or
commercial property, the purchase price
is a prime consideration, but it
represents only part of the total value
offered to the seller. Problems may
arise for both sides
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of the transaction when this
fact is forgotten.
The value expressed in a
buyer's offer to purchase, or in
a seller's offer to sell,
involves 5 key elements -- a
financial package:
Purchase Price, the stated
amount of
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Taxpayers Seeking
Homebuyer Tax Credits, Refunds Must File Paper
Homeowners
filing for the home buyer tax credit are not
allowed to use electronic filing and must file
hard copies due to special documentation
requirements.
Earlier this year, the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS) deployed new home buyer tax credit
forms and instructions requiring forms that will
force taxpayers to file on paper, rather than
electronically.
The new home buyer tax credit filing rules
are to ward off a repeat of 90,000 taxpayers who
fraudulently claimed the credit, according to
the U.S. Treasury.
Under the new and expanded home buyer tax
credit rule , the credit is worth up to $8,000
for first-time home buyers and up to $6,500 for
qualifying existing home buyers, in both cases,
who buy a primary residence or have one built.
The tax credit is refundable. A credit
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Buyers: Why Green is Worth It
For
new and existing home buyers alike, the options
to "green up" homes abound.
Green upgrades on homes offer two-fold
benefits. They contribute to a healthier
environment, both now and in the future, and
they can save homeowners big when it comes to
energy costs.
How much impact does a green home have on
the environment, you ask? The government reports
that Energy Star qualified homes built in 2009
are the equivalent of:
Eliminating emissions from 51,645 vehicles
Savings 312,399,672 lbs of coals
Planting 85,372 acres of trees, and
Saving in the environment 612,678,574 pounds
of CO2.
Many homebuyers shy away from green
construction and green upgrades because of the
upfront cost. But while some estimates
have put the construction cost difference at 17
percent, recent estimates from The World
Business Council for Sustainable Development put
the cost of green construction only 5 percent
higher than traditional.
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Easy Interior
Design
With
all the time you've been forced indoors during the cold
winter months you've probably found some aspects of your
interior design that you'd like to change. Well, there's
still another month of cold weather ahead of most of us,
and being stuck indoors may provide the perfect excuse
for making some much-needed changes to your interior
design.
Interior design professional Emmy Spreng has a
wealth of cheap and easy tips for improving the interior
design of your home. This week she'll walk us through
color and layout, and next week she'll offer some
guidance on lighting and
Daily News and Advice
Read about the events shaping the
Real Estate market today, find current interest
rates, or browse the extensive library of advice
and how-to articles written by some of the top
experts in Real Estate. Updated each weekday.
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Tiffany DuBose
E-mail:
tiffany@aprhi.com
Web:
http://www.aprhi.com
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Aloha Paradise Realty Inc.
(808)
674-2371
94-1036 Waipio Uka Street 110
Waipahu, HI 96797
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