Safe Harbor for Vacation-Home Exchanges, If You Follow the Letter of the Law
As promised, the IRS last month updated its guidance on the use of Starker exchanges for vacation homes.
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Feel at home with details before picking mortgage (Modesto Bee) Q: We are buying a house and are trying to determine whether a fixed-rate or variable-rate mortgage is better for us.read more...
Reducing Your Monthly Mortgage Loan Payments Just about everyone would love to reduce their monthly mortgage payments. There are several ways to accomplish this, and one of them is likely right for you.read more...
Inflated appraisals swelling mortgage-fraud schemes (Seattle Times) Have inflated appraisals helped fuel the current surge in foreclosures by credit-strapped borrowers? Are they at the core of many mortgage-fraud...read more...
US Mortgage Bank Earnings Will Be Hit In 2008 -S&P (Nasdaq) NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The chaos in the mortgage markets is only going to get worse and put a dent in U.S. mortgage bank earnings, according to a report released
Walking Out of a Mortgage And Into Years of Hurt The country's two largest sources of mortgage money have a blunt warning for anyone thinking about joining the growing "walkaway" trend, in which homeowners stop making payments and months later
2008 state-by-state ranking Closing costs for the states and regions surveyed are ranked and compared with last year's ranks.read more...
April 11th, 2008
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