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Talking About Your Home: BUYING A HOME: How to Assess the Real Cost of a Fixer-Upper House
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Friday, March 15, 2013. BUYING A HOME: How to Assess the Real Cost of a Fixer-Upper House. 1 Decide what you can do yourself. Do you really have the skills to do it? Some tasks, like stripping wallpaper and painting, are relatively easy. Others, like electrical work, can be dangerous when done by amateurs. Do you really have the time and desire to do it? Can you take time off work to renovate your fixer-upper house?
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Talking About Your Home: RETIREMENT: All-retiree housing isn’t for everyone
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Sunday, March 17, 2013. RETIREMENT: All-retiree housing isn’t for everyone. There seems to be a rule that if retirees move to a communal environment, it must consist only of other retirees. But some are challenging that notion by choosing intergenerational cohousing, living side by side with people of all ages, including singles, childless couples, and families with children. But other s prefer the energy and variet...
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Talking About Your Home: TAXES: 6 Home Deduction Traps and How to Avoid Them
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Monday, March 18, 2013. TAXES: 6 Home Deduction Traps and How to Avoid Them. Get an “A” on your Schedule A Form: Dodge these tax deduction pitfalls to save time, money, and an IRS investigation. Trap #1: Line 6 - real estate taxes. Your monthly mortgage payment often includes money for a tax escrow, from which the lender pays your local real estate taxes. Julian Block’s Home Seller’s Guide to Tax Savings. Don’...
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Talking About Your Home: MARKET TRENDS: Home prices finally returning to normal
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Saturday, March 9, 2013. MARKET TRENDS: Home prices finally returning to normal. After years of wild swings, the U.S. housing market is slowly returning to normal. The latest forecast from Fiserv (FISV) Case-Shiller predicts home prices will increase by an average of 3.3% annually over the five years ending September, 2017. Many of the metro areas hit hardest by the housing bust recorded the biggest price gains.
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Talking About Your Home: NEW DEVELOPMENT: 32-story complex planned for the Back Bay State picks developers for multiuse project over Pike
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Friday, March 8, 2013. NEW DEVELOPMENT: 32-story complex planned for the Back Bay State picks developers for multiuse project over Pike. A Boston development team has won the right to build a towering $360 million hotel, residential, and retail complex on state-owned property in the city’s Back Bay, adding to a surge of ambitious building proposals in the area. View the proposed development (PDF). The selection of W...
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Talking About Your Home: SELLING YOUR HOME: Patio Appeal May Add Value To Your Home
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Saturday, March 23, 2013. SELLING YOUR HOME: Patio Appeal May Add Value To Your Home. Patios are appealing because they can create a sense of peace, open space, freedom, and they can seem to extend the square footage of livable space on those good weather days. Let them soak in the energy of the home. The way it feels. The way it allows them to relax. Set some brochures out on a side table. Maybe eve...However, here...
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Talking About Your Home: March 2013
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Saturday, March 23, 2013. SELLING YOUR HOME: Patio Appeal May Add Value To Your Home. Patios are appealing because they can create a sense of peace, open space, freedom, and they can seem to extend the square footage of livable space on those good weather days. Let them soak in the energy of the home. The way it feels. The way it allows them to relax. Set some brochures out on a side table. Maybe eve...This is the l...
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Talking About Your Home: BUYING A HOME: The 7 Top Home-Buying Mistakes You Should Avoid
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Monday, March 11, 2013. BUYING A HOME: The 7 Top Home-Buying Mistakes You Should Avoid. Insanely low mortgage interest rates—and the knowledge that they’ll eventually go up again—make a lot of people feel like it’s time to buy a house. And maybe it is … if you go about it the right way. 1 Don’t … buy a house if you’re planning to move again soon. 2 Don’t … bust your budget. Love But that’s not a game you want ...
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Talking About Your Home: MARKET TRENDS: Real estate markets strengthen
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Talking About Your Home. Roberta's Realty Site And Live Blog. Search Jamaica Plain Homes. Sunday, March 10, 2013. MARKET TRENDS: Real estate markets strengthen. Nearly all twelve Federal Reserve. Districts reported modest to moderate growth in economic activity in the Fed's latest February Beige Book. Residential real estate markets posted the strongest results, with impressive growth throughout nearly all the districts as home prices rose amid falling inventories across the country, the report said.