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2006
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If you want a house with character - perhaps even a history of its own - consider an older home. Middle-aged houses often reflect the love and care that have been lavished on them through such owner-added touches as crown moldings, carved fireplace mantels and built-in bookcases. Often older ho...
10/08/2006
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Just came across an e-mail that stated: "Please be sure you read the new federal guide lines for home loans. All of the "exotic" loans will be gone. The regulators want all loans to be fully amortized. In my estimation that could create 60 million foreclosures in the next 2-3 years."Granted h...
10/07/2006
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A long time ago, when I first started out in RE, the instructors taught the fiduciary duties that agents owe to their client. What duties do they owe to their customer? They said the agent must be fair and honest with the customer. The current RE textbooks still teach fair and honest, but I ha...
10/05/2006
A Manhattan Civil Court judge ruled in late August, that second hand smoke can constitute a breach of the warranty of habitability under New York States's Real Property Law. The case, Poyck v. Bryant , was started by condo unit owner Peter Poyck who leased his unit to the Bryants, who lived ther...
10/02/2006
