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Archive for March, 2009
Money For Nothing – And a House for Free — OHFA rolling out 1st time homebuyer smorgasbord
March 27th, 2009 categories: For Home Buyers, Mortgage/Finance
Is it a beautiful environment for 1st time home buyers or what? The Ohio Federal Housing Finance Authority, on Monday, will be rolling out their newest offering, the Homebuyer Tax Credit Advantage Program. In addition to their other highly popular programs for 1st time buyers, (including my favorite the Mortgage Credit Certificates which creates an income [...]
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Historic Columbus Homes, Old Windows and New Ideas
March 24th, 2009 categories: Bexley, Clintonville, For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, German Village, Grandview, Olde Towne East
I ran across a post today that made an impression on me. I show a lot of homes in the downtown neighborhoods where the homes can be as old they can be in Columbus–oldest maybe 140 years or so.
Many buyers fall in love with the homes themselves but not the idea of the upkeep and [...]
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Need help with your existing mortgage? What new mortgage programs are available?
March 23rd, 2009 categories: Mortgage/Finance, Real Estate News
The Federal Government’s new site called “Making Home Affordable” is a good attempt to disperse information to those who need it most:
Refinancing
Many homeowners pay their mortgages on time but are not able to refinance to take advantage of today’s lower mortgage rates perhaps due to a decrease in the value of their home.
Modification
Many homeowners are [...]
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Columbus, We’re no Detroit. The median price of a home sold in Detroit in December was $7,500
March 21st, 2009 categories: Real Estate News
Yeah. You read that right. It’s from a Chicago Tribune article that has been making the rounds in the Real Estate.net world the last couple weeks. I read the article recently. I have always liked Detroit – old school, big, blue coller, Midwestern City with an interesting downtown, waterfront, and a MLB team. Yikes though.
Columbus [...]
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Downtown Columbus’ Neighborhood Launch – a quick update
March 20th, 2009 categories: Columbus News, Condos & Lofts, Downtown
s anybody buying those things? Uh, yeah. In the face of a virtual stand still in the downtown Columbus condo market, this downtown Columbus Neighborhood–being built to resemble an erected-over-time-Lincoln Park in Chicago-like atmosphere, is selling built units, especially one bedroom flats.
A Quick update on Downtown Columbus Condos and our newest of Neighborhoods.
In the video [...]
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I am a better marketer than your Agent
March 16th, 2009 categories: Columbus News, For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, Real Estate News
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Dwellicious – The 2nd Best Home Search Tool I know of
March 13th, 2009 categories: About Me?, For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, Market Updates, Real Estate News
If you are considering purchasing a home in the coming year, the first thing you might want to do—even before you’re calling me to be your Realtor—is to look at homes that are for sale in your Columbus Neighborhood of choice.
The more you look, the more you learn about the mini-real-estate-markets you’re interested in. You [...]
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Will a New Huntington Ballpark Add Value to Columbus Homes?
March 11th, 2009 categories: About Me?, Columbus News, Condos & Lofts, Downtown, For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, Grandview, Olde Towne East, Short North
Yesterday I parked over at the new Ball Park and walked around it. I love it. I am baseball fan and an Indians fan and the idea that this new Park is about 2 miles from my house makes very excited. I have tickets to the second game in the new stadium, a Sunday Afternoon [...]
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Olde Towne East’s Bryden Road — What happened?
March 10th, 2009 categories: For Home Buyers, For Home Sellers, Olde Towne East, Real Estate News
One of Columbus’ most interesting drives, in regard to historic housing stock, is up and down Bryden Road from I-71 to Nelson Road.
Huge, Drop dead beautiful homes that once housed Columbus Titans of Industry were flying off the shelf for huge sums earlier this decade. What happened?
I posted this on the Delicious Real Estate [...]
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