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Nov 03 2009

Using a Simultaneous Close to sell your house creatively

category: Finance, General, Real Estate author: admin

Image by sean dreilinger via Flickr

Simultaneous Closings are the new hot item in the real estate industry.  What is a Simultaneous Closing?  There are many different types.  One is when a home seller creates a note for the buyer to facilitate the sale of his property, and then sells the note to an investor at [...]

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Jul 14 2009

Home Buyer requirements during the Credit Crunch

category: Finance, Real Estate author: admin

The US Government has passed enactments to ease up the troubles of home buyers, when they addressed the problems arising out of the foreclosure crisis. The US economy is facing challenges and struggling hard to avoid recession.
So in the changed scenario of credit crunch, a home buyer in the Real Estate market should be aware [...]

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Jul 10 2009

Illinois Foreclosures and your Credit Score

category: Real Estate author: admin

First the statistics about foreclosure; for May 2009 – there were 321,480 properties that turned up in foreclosure filings in the country. The total number of properties affected by foreclosures and listed for distress sale in the entire United States is 1,979,063. In the State of Illinois, which is the 7th ranked in the top [...]

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Jul 07 2009

How to make your Retirement Account a wealth building tool

category: Real Estate author: admin

Although there are many Governments and Private sponsored Retirement Plans, four of them are widely popular. A 401(k) Retirement Plan (referring to the section of Internal Revenue Service code) is the foremost. This Retirement Plan is applicable to most of the salaried class of people under any employer. During the term of their employment, the [...]

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Jul 05 2009

Champaign-Urbana, IL, residential rental property market

category: Real Estate author: admin

Champaign city of Champaign County, Illinois shares its existence with its sibling city of Urbana, to be known as the Twin Cities. The residential rental property market is mostly dependent on the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The rental property market is catering to the housing needs of the student community, coming from the entire [...]

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Jun 23 2009

1104 South Duncan, Champaign, IL 61821

category: Real Estate author: admin

Here is a great property that would serve well as an investment or as a starter-home.  Feel free to contact us with any questions.

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May 26 2009

The Credit Crisis Visualized

category: Economics, Real Estate author: admin

I know it’s been too long since my last post, that is going to change.  I’ll begin by sharing this visualization of what caused the downturn in our economy.  I think you’ll find it fascinating.

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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Sep 05 2008

The CPI and Your Wallet

category: Economics author: admin

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.
Difference between CPI and cost-of-living:
CPI solely measures the change in the value of the “basket of goods” over time.
Basket of Goods = goods and services purchased [...]

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Aug 06 2008

Hello Champaign!

category: General author: admin

On this blog, I focus on being a resource for those who are Real Estate Buyers and Sellers in Champaign County. Therefore, I will keep the company promotion down to a minimum.  I am not a Real Estate Broker or Sales Agent.  Rather, ‘I’ buy and sell Real Estate, I don’t ‘represent’ buyers and sellers [...]

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