Real Estate Tax collection tumbled by sales slump

Homeowners who can’t sell their properties aren’t the only ones with heartburn. Fewer sales mean fewer opportunities for the government to collect taxes.As Laura Smitherman reports today, the economic and housing-market slowdowns are both eating into tax revenue, “with collections falling $73.5 million short of expectations.” Court revenue including recordation fees collected when homes change hands was $12 million (or 8.3 percent) below the forecasted amount for the last fiscal year, which ended in June.

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Grand Valley real estate market just right for first time home buyers


Grand Valley market just right for first-time home buyers - Grand Junction Free Press

Grand Valley market just right for first-time home buyers
Grand Junction Free Press, Colorado - Aug 21, 2008
By Rick Thurtle If you are a first-time home buyer, the news for you is good. Mortgage rates are relatively low and higher inventory and lower asking prices

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Sell Your Real Estate Property


Sell Your Real Estate Property
Every seller wants his/her home to sell as soon as possible and bring top dollars. There is loads of careful planning involved in knowing how to professionally spruce up your home that will send home buyers scurrying for their check books.

Some of the different ways which can make you get a good deal for your house are mentioned below:

1. Make yourself emotionally strong: - First of all, make your mind understand that soon this home will not be yours and now you have to make yourself feel comfortable to your new home.

2. De-clutter it: - People are in a habit of collecting junk. Logically, if you have not used it for a year, probably you do not need it. Then why not dispose it.

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