Cleveland Real Estate News

Buying a home is something that involves a lot of investigation and information. It’s a big investment, maybe the largest any of us make.  It’s important to do it, but sometimes hard to fit into our busy lives.  First time home buyer classes, seminars, meetings, are held by various groups, and sometimes people don’t attend [...]

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The numbers are numbing. Allegedly, one investment company and 41 people who worked for it,  were responsible for 453 fraudulent mortgages in Cuyahoga County . Apparently, most of these homes are again in foreclosure. You can read about it here from the News Net 5 website and here from a website called Daily Mortgage Fraud [...]

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We are all, except for the professionals, getting up to speed on green energy terminology.  For me, getting up to speed on the technology itself is a learning curve.  Something I haven’t explained this past week.  When I talked about getting small businesses up and running with solar energy, it’s because I understand solar better. [...]

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I really think some really creative and neighborhood useful  ideas are going to come out of our vacant house issues.  One of the few times that phrase make lemons out of lemonade might apply in a serious way. Much has been proposed and written, but I found this blog post…. Anne  Trubek lives in Cleveland [...]

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Joe Crea of the PD loves to give us lists that make our Pavlovian glands start salivating.  Today he does a list of 12 outstanding sandwich shops in NE Ohio.  He mentions Grum’s Italian sub (I always love their roast beef but what do I know!).  It’s in Cleveland Heights.  Crea included Almanar Market on [...]

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The union contracts for Toledo workers were just renewed in April but today’s Ohio Supreme Court decision puts in question whether or not there will be a grandfathered period of time (length of union contract) when city workers will still have residency requirements.  The decision is in line with what was decided for Akron earlier [...]

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Home owners are still finding themselves in trouble with their mortgages.  Some are anticipating being in trouble because they can see what is coming, financially, in the future.  The problem can seem complex but at some point you have to decide, do you want to go through a short sale or do you want to [...]

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It seems like a long time, because it has been! Since May, my client and potential buyers have been trying to resolve an issue to allow buyers to get a loan on my sellers’ property.  I wrote about it here.  We are now relying on The City of Cleveland to draft a letter explaining the [...]

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Every person has their own view of what makes a place a neighborhood, what makes them feel connected, belonging to a community. I have my own sense of what makes me feel like I belong. Like I have a sense of place.   I grew up in Cleveland, went to college and lived in Massachusetts, [...]

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You could argue that most of Britain’s climate is similar to our NE Ohio climate.  Our growing seasons are short but potentially plentiful. This garden story is in today’s Washington Post. It’s about a community garden in Todmorden England.  They explain how this cooperative style garden allows people to get their dinner ingredients from the [...]

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