Tips for selling your Highlands Ranch home fast

By Stacy Johnson

In the 30 years I’ve been investing in real estate, I’ve never seen anything like this housing market. Granted, all real estate is local and I live in Florida, which shares the title of worst market with California, Nevada and Arizona. Home prices here have declined up to 50%, and many houses have been on the market for years.

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Six Important Tax Saving Tips for 2010

By Mark Kennedy

Kennedy’s Six Top Tax Saving Tips for 2010:

1. People need to take advantage of the new 2010 ROTH IRA rollover rules to avoid having the Government take as much as 35% of their IRA value from their family when they die. They could be in for huge taxes if this is not done!


2. The Estate Tax is in unsettled territory and is temporarily repealed for 2010. But watch out, says Kennedy!…75,000 average Americans inheriting estates in 2010 that were not large enough for the Estate Tax, must take measures to avoid being hit with huge capital gains taxes for the first time since 1913!

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10 Tips - Highlands Ranch

By Steve McLinden

Entering 2010, many home sellers feel they're mired in the winter of their discontent, but there are signs the real estate market is on the mend. Sales activity is up, homebuilders are finally moving inventory and values are rising slightly in many American cities. At year-end 2009, mortgage rates stood at historic lows, spurring a wave of new applications.

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Beyond the mortgage payment

Before buying your first home, brace yourself for these extra costs. On his road to homeownership, Scott Leibfried has learned one thing: Expect the unexpected.

He and his wife had an offer accepted on a home, only to later find that foreclosure proceedings were about to begin on it. That's after they considered another home that was aesthetically pleasing but had major issues that came to light upon closer inspection.

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Highlands Ranch Information from City-Data.com

Some interesting facts about the Highlands Ranch area such as - population, weather, ethnic mix, surrounding schools, etc. See more details at the link below.


http://www.city-data.com/city/Highlands-Ranch-Colorado.html

5 WAYS to improve your home’s value

By David Jakubiak

In a tough real estate market, the difference between selling a home and watching it stay listed month after month can come down to making a few changes to capture the uniqueness of your home.

While budget busting renovation projects are one way to update your space, they are often far too expensive for people looking to sell their homes. But tearing out your kitchen and adding a new bathroom aren’t the only ways to get your house sold.

If you want to make some changes, but don’t want to empty your wallet, here are five affordable tips to help you improve your home’s marketability.

1. Know Your Market

Talk to your Realtor. This may seem obvious, but few people know better what buyers want.

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Buying Highland Ranch Real Estate - 10 questions to ask any Realtor

No matter who you choose as a realtor, make sure you ask these 10 questions if you're considering buying Highlands Ranch Real estate.

- Are you a full-time professional Realtor®?
- Do you and/or your company each have a website that will provide me with useful information for research, services, and how you work with buyers? Can I have those Web addresses now? And who does the emails? Can I have the email address now?
- Will you show me properties from other companies' listings?