This is a brief summary of the recent government intervention of the Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac situation, written by Dave Linegar, Co-Founder of RE/MAX International.
It's amazing to watch what is happening in our national economy and I think it's important that we all pay attention to what's going on. It's time for Americans to start spending less and saving more and to regain our strength.
When traveling from your Nampa Home to your Boise job or from your Boise Home to your Canyon County job, there is traffic! Some times of the day are worse than others and the 55 speed limit is certainly a bother as well....
But, they are fixing the roads! YEAH! A nice wider freeway between Nampa and Boise will be great....and a long time needed!A much easier drive home is on its way!
As I mentioned here on sellidaho.com, in "6 Easy Steps to Selling Your Home", there are six key factors and efforts you must make to get your Idaho home sold quickly and for top dollar.
Now... With as many homes that are on the market in Idaho, buyers have options; lots of options! There are more "deals" out there than ever before on Idaho Real Estate! With IdahoShort Sales and Idaho Foreclosures on the rise, it's imperative that you do two things right:
Conducting a real estate transaction almost becomes second nature after 13 years in the business. I often take for granted the fact that for many people, the basics are still a little sketchy...
The much anticipated interchange on Interstate 84 and Ten Mile Road could happen yet! There has been a lot of discussion on the improvements of I-84 on Idaho real estate in the past several months.
December 31, 2009 Sales Stats for the Boise Real Estate Market:
This article has information available for current inventory as well as recent SOLD inventory of residential housing units for Boise, Meridian, Ada County, Canyon County, Nampa, and Caldwell.
Please scroll down to view the Idaho Real Estate information you are most interested in. (The following data has been extracted from the Intermountain MLS, an Idaho MLS provider for real estate for sale in Boise and surrounding areas as of January 1, 2010). This information is deemed reliable, but not guaranteed.
What a cool name! There are "stars" that live in Idaho; but most of them up in the Sun Valley area (at least for part of the year). Star Idaho is a quiet little town just north of Nampa and Meridian, just a few minutes from Boise, Idaho.
Star has a lot of quaint amenities to offer a small town; shopping, coffee shops, restaurants, oh....and some of the best Idaho Real Estate!
It's cliche to say that every journey begins with a single step, yet it's true. Leaders don't wait for everything to be perfect before they move forward. They don't wait for all the problems or obstacles to disappear. They don't wait until their fear subsides. Leaders take initiative.
Leaders know the secret of momentum: once you take the first step and start moving forward, everything becomes clearer and easier. If momentum gets strong enough, problems begin to take care of themselves and new opportunities arise. But the benefits of momentum only come into play once a leader takes initiative.
As leaders, why are we sometimes timid or tentative when we should be taking action? In my experience and observation, there are six root causes of our procrastination.
Find real estate available for sale in Boise Idaho here!
Just click here to view a list of Boise Idaho Real Estate for sale and/or refine your search for exactly what price range and features you're looking for! There are great buys on homes in Boise right now! Whenever you search for Boise homes for sale, remember, they're ALL virtually here on sellidaho.com!
Idaho real estate offers great opportunities right now! Canyon County, especially in Nampa, offers some great buys on real estate! Take advantage of this FREE link to our Idaho MLS networking connection with Intermountain MLS and search all current homes for sale listed by Realtors that are Intermountain MLS members! These links are for specific price ranges of Nampa homes. There are more links on the home page for other cities and price ranges.
There have been a lot of questions about short sales, foreclosures, REO properties, pre-foreclosures, Repos and other such distressed sales in our Idaho Real Estate market. In Idaho, we have our share. Lenders may entertain the idea of a short sale in this market, more than before, to avoid the costly foreclosure process.
While a short sale may be the last resort for many homeowners facing foreclosure, it also represents a great opportunity for potential home buyers and Idaho real estate investors. This article is designed to help answer a few basic questions about the substantial risk and reward involved in this extremely complex and often drawn out process for both buyers and sellers. For more information on the short sale process, please contact me at
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. Click here to search Boise Idaho Real estate.
Before a home owner curses the troubled housing market, he or she should take solace in the U.S. tax code, which makes buying a home a good deal for almost everyone.
Here’s why:
Mortgage interest deductions, including in some cases mortgage insurance premiums, reduce home owners’ tax liability by reducing income. The deduction includes interest paid on both a first and a second home.
Interest on home equity loans is also deductible — whether the borrower uses the money to remodel the kitchen or to take a vacation to Disney World.
Real Estate itself, is the most basic ownership of your piece of the world. Land ownership in the United states, consists of the property from your boundaries on the surface of the Earth all the way to the center of the Earth. In early America, settlers, engineers and surveyors set out across this vast country to establish the US Geological Survey to be able to describe real estate or real property by "meets and bounds" descriptions.
Without giving you the full lesson on geological surveys, Idaho Real Estate legal descriptions are based on the Boise-Meridian which runs from a specific point (The Initial Point) located near Kuna, Idaho. If you have ever read a true "meets and bounds" legal description for Idaho Real Estate, it will typically end with "...of the Boise-Meridian" or "BM". Thus the name of the city of "Meridian" because it lands on this geological meridian line.
Initial Point of Idaho
There are almost 54 million acres of land in Idaho. How do you know what land is yours?
Subprime adjustable rate mortgages have gotten a lot of publicity, but the holders of prime ARMs are also going into foreclosure.
"The fact is the pain of the changing real estate markets is affecting more than just subprime borrowers," says Keith Gumbinger, vice-president of HSH Associates, a New Jersey-based financial information publisher. "It's more important to think of it as perhaps an ARM problem and a rate reset problem, not just a subprime problem."
Here are the top 10 states with the largest percentage increase in the last year of foreclosure actions relating to prime adjustable rate mortgages.
Check out this up-to-date list directly linked from our active Intermountain MLS for Idaho Horse Properties!
Properties that will allow horses or accommodate horses can be seen right here! Some of these homes will have a barn or shop, others will just have enough room for a small pasture and yet many more may have large acreages. To refine your search, go here!
Whether it's fishing, hunting, snowmobiling, skiing, rafting, hiking or just getting out to smell the fresh wild flowers, IDAHO is a great place to settle in!
I've just prepared a small blog with some links to various Idaho outdoor activities, including the Idaho Horse Park, RV'ing, ATV's and dirt bike trails & more!
If you want to check out the great Idaho Outdoors, please take a quick visit!
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