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Recently, a reader found the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog when he was seeking the answer to the question “How to buy a house based on Tax Value.” While this question could have been seeking a different direction, I believe this reader was trying to determine how to figure out the value of a home based [...]

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If you have no desire to sell your home, you might be interested in finding out how to lower your property taxes. Anybody who has been following the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog for any period of time can tell you that property values in Tallahassee have fallen as much as 25% in some areas, but [...]

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It does not take more than a minute (if you do a search on Google™) to find a blog or article written by a REALTOR® which extols the virtues of buying a home. And there is a better than even chance that “Now is the Time To Buy” will be included in the first paragraph [...]

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The Tallahassee Housing Market is undergoing a pleasant change right now. Most of the key indicators signal that we might be starting a recovery.
Is it due to the fact that we have spent two years selling roughly 50% of the number of homes that our market history sells? Or is it due to the Home [...]

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You will never find me writing or speaking as an expert in politics. As a matter of fact, I will go on record saying that I have a hard time paying attention to politics at any level, even though it has tremendous implications on the health and wealth of my family, my business, and my [...]

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Today’s post in the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog is a one-stop resource for the First Time Homebuyers Tax Credit. You will be able to understand the basic program by reading this, and you can also download several fact-filled documents on the tax credit.

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In case you did not hear the good news, the American Recovery And Reinvestment Act of 2009 (which President Obama signed into law last week) included significant improvements to the temporary First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit. While many might view this as a great benefit aimed only at the first-time homebuyer, the reality is that it [...]

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For those who have been watching, the Obama Stimulus Plan seems to be moving forward for him to sign it into law now. While I am no expert on the subject, it appears to contain roughly 286 billion dollars in tax cuts and 54 billion dollars for cash-strapped states, the package contains 311billion dollars in [...]

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If you have heard about 1031 Tax Deferred Exchanges but did not know how you might be able to implement one as a solution to your current real estate problem, then I hope I can stimulate a little thinking for you.
A properly structured 1031 exchange is the sale or transfer of property for other “like” [...]

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