FAQ’s 2009/2010 Tax Credit

Even though you ‘re not a 1st time homebuyer, (that is, you’ve already owned a home), under the NEW bill that just passed Congress in Novemeber AND provided you ‘ve lived in your existing home as a principal residence for five of the past eight years you are entitled to $6,500 in tax credit. Uncle Sam will actually pay you to buy a new home as part of the government’s latest stimulus package.

Also good news, the recent bill , as before,  gives 1st time homebuyers who purchase now through the end of April, 2010,  the $8000 tax credit.

The best news – how you make your money 2 ways –  these buyer incentives will now make homes like yours in the Northland Kansas City area very very attractive and will go a long way to keeping prices up, which means even more equity in your home. You gain twice.  You get the $6500 in tax money, when you buy a new home, and you’re sure to get even more money for your current home because  buyers will scramble to get their tax incentives before its too late.

Click on the link to find out what your current home is worth , right now, in today’s market. Just  fill in a couple of blanks about your property for an evaluation.  We will “run the numbers”, check the competition, compare the features of your home with the others in the area. We will shoot you over an email summary of the likely price range you can expect in today’s market. You can also search for homes for sale in our area or all over the USA at our search site: www.TheHomeFinderTeam.com . There is absolutely no charge nor obligation for these services.

Questions? What’s it take to be eligible?: FAQ’s 2009/2010 Tax Credit 

• Click  here: What’s My House Worth? to help you and to help us determine the likely market value of your property.
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 Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints for an impressive season and an even more impressive Super Bowl victory yesterday. 

BUT THAT WAS YESTERDAY!  And the end of the 2009-2010 NFL season! 

For many of us it is also the end of winter, and the games, temperatures, weather conditions etc of winter.  And although there is still snow on the ground, and  perhaps more to come ( see Ground Hog Day), there is a huge and psychological culminating sense of winter season completion with the last football game of the year. 

The drive home after work, now with a little more daylight, allows for a cruise through the nicer neighborhoods. Weekend open houses, all spruced up for the visiting curious, ever increasingly for-sale signs pop up  like tulips, phones begin to ring, Facebook begins to hum with activity about someone’s search on-line, revealing a “great deal” to be had on Such-n-Such St. Then, the big one –  someone you know tells you they have just bought a new house. They begin to describe all the really attractive features: fenced yard for the puppy, a freshly painted pink bedroom for the little baby girl expected just weeks away, a finished basement for dad to watch the Royal’s  spring season, a “kitchen to diet for”. In my, now nearly 25 years of REALTOR experience in Northland Kansas City, from Weston, MO  to Washington Street in Liberty, from the Platte River to the Missouri River, every year it is the same: beginning in early February, the temperatures rise just a little, the sun sets a little later, and folks begin to think of change, of renewal, of a new place to call home.   

I hope you are ready. I know I am.  Dark days and darker colder nights are diminishing. Soon. you too, will feel that urge to stretch out and seek out a new place to enjoy all those joyful activities of warm, and wonderful spring and summer days.  But you must start now. Uncle Sam’s Spring Fling ( Stimulus Tax Credit ) too, will  come to an end,April 30th.  

Don’t you deserve congratulations, too?

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I have a client who takes care of small children for the teachers who work in the Park Hill School district. Because of personal circumstances,she will be selling her current home and move locally to another location.

 Because her client base , the moms and dads who leave her to care for their little ones, she must move to another home to rent in the same Park Hill area. 

 She needs your help. If you or someone you know is looking to rent out their 3+ bedroom home in the Park Hill area to a really nice reliable person who will running a small business in the home, please contact me by email:  john@niceguyworkshard.com, or phone my directly : 816 777 5457. Thanks, john

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Many of you have been using our property search site: www.thehomefinderteam.com. Perhaps you have the site bookmarked in your “Favorites” There has been a technical mix-up which now prevents access to  that site.

We are working on the fix and are asking you to go to

http://www.sandysmith.remax-midstates.com/ 

then login as you normally do and enjoy finding homes, saving them as favourites, and creating “wish lists” as you have always done. We will let you know  of the correction soon. Meanwhile, happy hunting

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