Category Archives: Finance

Waterfront Real Estate: The Ins and Outs

As with any type of real estate, waterfront real estate comes with a few special considerations. If you are purchasing real estate on the water, be it a river, lake or oceanfront, you’ll want to know for certain what your rights and responsibilities are to that water and its shoreline. For example, are you obligated […]

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Was that House a Good Investment? The Answer may not be so obvious

I am surprised how many people don’t know the difference between “enterprise value”, which is the sales price of a home (debt plus equity), and “equity value”, which is what is left at the end of the day when you sell your home and pay off the mortgage. In determining whether this was a good […]

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Warranty Deed vs. Quit Claim Deed

When you’re in the process of selling (or purchasing) a house, you will most likely, encounter several kinds of documents: all with different names and with different uses and functions. Two of the most misunderstood documents are the warranty deed and the quit claim deed. Many think that these two forms are alike, but they […]

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Want To Sell Your Home Faster? Try Home Staging!

Home staging tells homeowners how to prepare and market their home for sales in the real estate market. Professional home stagers are professionals that help you in preparing your home for sale. They help you create a very good first impression on potential homebuyers by taking care of your house and its appeal. Professional home […]

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Villas in Spain

Southern Spain is too good to be true; it has a large desirable coastline, a fantastic natural environment, one of the healthiest climates in the world and is culturally rich. Its geographic location gives it easy reach from Northern Europe. As a result there is simply nothing to beat a gorgeous Spanish Villa for holiday […]

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Valuation of Business Personal Property (BPP)

The huge range of assessed value for business personal property (BPP) makes obtaining substantial property tax reductions highly probable. It is not unusual for the range of assessed value for BPP accounts for similar properties to vary by 5,000%! For example, furniture and computers for companies within the same office building sometimes vary from $1 […]

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