February 4, 2012

Getting Your Home Buyer Rebate Check in 2010

Image by functoruser via Flickr Let me first disclose that I am not a tax professional and this should not be considered tax advice. Glad that’s over! When a home buyer client of mine e-mailed me recently with confusion about how to claim the home buyer credit in 2010 from the IRS, I knew that [...]

The real estate market catches a hint of Spring 2010

We had a bright and sunny weekend here in Northern Virginia, and a surge of home buyers were out looking at the homes for sale that had popped up late Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. A little marketing tip is to put a home into the MLS database Thursday to feed all the IDX sites [...]

Real Estate’s New Strategic Focus | April 30, 2010

Revised to include new 5405 instructions The world of residential real estate in the U.S. is facing an expiration date of historic proportions in 2010 that buyers and sellers need to pay attention to for a variety of reasons. April 30, 2010 is the last day that buyers and sellers can “enter into a binding [...]

It’s a race to finish the Home Buyer Tax Credit for 2010?

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REVISED for the extension (see new post below) If you are or have a friend who is thinking about buying a home and taking advantage of the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit, then there are some facts you need to know, and we need to talk today. Especially since everyone and their little brother/sister [...]