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Working the real estate world in San Jose, California.
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Here's a great idea if you are selling a home in San Jose or the surrounding Santa Clara County areas and want to stand out above the other homes on the market.  For just a couple hundred dollars, you can offer home buyers the incentive of providing mortgage protection coverage should they become...
12/09/2010
Remember 2008 when the San Jose housing market was really, really bad (as opposed to just being bad now)?  Congress passed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act with incentives for people to buy homes to support economic recovery; a big one being a tax credit for first-time homebuyers.  It was su...
12/08/2010
The title may sound incredible, but it reflects the goal of a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) homebuyer assistance program aimed at selling homes the FHA has foreclosed upon and now are owned by the federal Department of Housing and Development (HUD). There are, however, several strings atta...
12/06/2010
The California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) recently announced that it has resurrected its School Facility Fee Down Payment Assistance Program (SFF).  Despite the misleading sounding name, it is not a program to help school districts.  Rather, it is targeted to help low- and moderate-income fa...
12/03/2010
Check out the following homebuyer assistance programs offered by the Housing Trust of Santa Clara County. The Closing Cost Assistance Program provides 3 percent of the purchase price up to $15,000 towards the down payment, closing costs or other transaction expenses associated with a home purchas...
12/02/2010
The California Department of Real Estate (DRE) issued a consumer alert recently warning people to beware of imposter landlords when signing a lease or paying money to rent a home or condo.  Be sure the person acting as landlord is actually the owner of the property.  Imposters often are able to c...
12/01/2010
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Working the real estate world in San Jose, California.