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Avoiding Surprises With Home Construction Renovating a home can indeed have an impact on the title. Or maybe two impacts. These concern liens and permits. Whether you are buying a renovated home or plan to remodel the house yourself, be…
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How to Do a Home Sale Between Family Members
The Non-Arm’s Length Transaction Most home purchases are arm’s-length transactions. That is, they normally happen between people who didn’t know each other before the house sale. When strangers sell and buy, each side is motivated to negotiate in a self-interested…
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Blockchain Makes Headway in Carbon-Busting
Not Ready for Prime Time in Mortgages, But… Despite the growing pains and the volatility, crypto assets (the good ones, at least) are finding their use cases. Numerous financial and tech giants are offering customers digital asset options, and investing…
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What Is an Implied Easement, and Could Your Property Have One?
An easement gives someone the right to use or control part of somebody else’s land. An easement can be deliberately created through the land owner’s permission. The parties can formalize this by writing up a grant deed, a quitclaim, or…
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Does the Government Seize People’s Homes?
Rising Profile Ahead for Eminent Domain When you think of eminent domain, what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of land that suffered some kind of toxic dumping or spilling, so that the government has to take it in order…
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Divorce, Property Division, and the Quitclaim Deed
Parting of the Ways Co-ownership of a house can unwind in several ways. One way is through divorce proceedings. You might be wondering how this works, and what kind of decisions have to be made. You might have questions about…
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Can I Quitclaim My House Into a Living Trust?
We’re glad you asked. You might have heard that a living trust can… All of the above are reasons many people use this method of passing their property along after they die. And a home is a typical piece of…
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The Bahamas: Reborn as a Blockchain Real Estate Hub?
Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and Andrew Yang made appearances at the Crypto Bahamas conference this year. The blockchain company FTX, one of the event’s hosts, boasts Tom Brady in an Ambassador role. Co-hosting the event was SALT, the geopolitical thought…
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What Are Plat Maps?
A Closer Look at Closing Documents In each county a recorder of deeds keeps documents that show the makeup of the neighborhoods and the individual properties in the county, and the history of the titles. In addition to the real…
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Check on That Empty House.
Left Unoccupied? Clever crooks in Ohio, Maine, and many other regions are swindling people out of their homes by recording fraudulent quitclaim deeds. They’re doing it now, and they’ve been doing it for years. But now, property values have exploded.…
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Property Tax Assessments Rising Again in 2022-2023
You Might Be Eligible for Tax Breaks If you’re a homeowner, or you’re in the market to buy a home, the last thing you want to hear about is rising property taxes. But check those bills. Even though we expect…
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What’s a Hardship Affidavit?
Finding Mortgage Relief Options A homeowner’s hardship affidavit or hardship letter is a formal request to modify a home loan, to assist the mortgage borrower through financial problems. Some lenders don’t require the document. Their websites guide the borrower through…
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How Emerging Technology Could Change Our Future Home Lives
Floating Towns and Flying Cars? We’ve witnessed astounding high-tech changes in our lifetimes so far. The internet, and then the phones and apps people have invented for it, all jump to mind. Indeed, technology is considered the main growth sector…
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Unlocking Your Home’s Equity Without Selling: A Guide for Retirees
Options at Retirement Age and Earlier The closer we get to retirement age, the more we start thinking about how to avoid pulling from our retirement accounts too early or too much. For many homeowners, home equity is starting to…
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Can Buying a Home Offset Inflation?
As the Economy Gets More Complicated… We’re not going to hide the ball — the short answer is yes. Buying a home is a very good way to build a store of potentially lifetime value and stay a step ahead…
