Cleveland Real Estate News

Watching the evening news I heard the sound bite: coming up a story about the possible end of an era for a beloved car line. My mind immediately went to my parent’s 1956 Bel Air. For most of my life my parents had a Ford, because Dad worked at Ford and loyalty reigned. But early [...]

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local author Casey Daniels has another Pepper Martin book for you — join her at the Great Lakes Brewery next week or on line at one of the links below.    Beautiful, gutsy, shopping-obsessed…Pepper Martin is everybody’s favorite PI to the dead. Now she’s back in her fourth adventure, “Night of the Loving Dead,” and [...]

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I guess it depends on how it is spent. One thing I like seems to be something The Ohio Assn. of Mortgage Brokers likes too. That is the provision that calls for Federal monies to be available to lenders so lenders can renegotiate loans with clients and give them better interest rates. That all sounds [...]

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Most of my home buyer clients wistfully wish they had 20% of the price of the home they want to use as a down payment. Lots of reasons, but the main one is that once you can hit that 20% mark, you don’t have to tack on extra monthly PMI insurance  charges to your mortgage. [...]

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Okay first, an update on the American Reinvestment and Recovery portion of the Stimulus Package the President signed in Denver today. The home buying tax credit?  It’s still only for first time home buyers. But, it’s now officially $8000 instead of $7500. Yes I know it’s been bantered around for a few days now but my [...]

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I read the Teresa Dixon Murray article in yesterday’s PD and felt a bit of a rant coming on. After talking with two colleagues today it became clear that getting (as Paul Harvey used to say) the rest of the story out there is needed here. I’m talking about the article Theresa wrote about the [...]

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Cleveland Heights is one of those communities a lot of people put at the top of their fantasy lists.  Meaning, all things being equal, a lot of people would prefer to live there as opposed to anywhere else (and yes, it’s high on my list too). Luckily, Cleveland Heights has a home buyer program that [...]

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Yeah I know, we still have to wait for a final passage and who knows, maybe even a bit more tweaking. But I wanted to fill you in on at least the Recovery and Reinvestment Tax Act portion of the Stimulus package, as it stands now. Yes, the House raised the amount of tax credit [...]

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Rather than reinvent the wheel, go to this post on Brewed Fresh Daily to get the details. Peace Out – 3C

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