The US Congress has extended and expanded the homebuyer tax credit. President Obama still needs to sign the bill [...]
November 5th, 2009 | Markus Azadeh | 1 comment | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Tax"
First-Time Homebuyers: Why You Really Ought To Reconsider The Deadline For The $8,000 Tax Credit
Thinking about delaying your home closing until November 30, 2009, the deadline for the $8,000 first-time home buyer tax credit? Find out why this might cause you a big headache [...]
August 24th, 2009 | Markus Azadeh | 1 comment | Continued
Capital Gains Exclusion Rule To Change January 1, 2009
Mortgage guru Dan Green reminded us a couple of weeks ago that the newly passed Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 is not all just “fun and games”.
August 14th, 2008 | Markus Azadeh | 1 comment | Continued
Chicago Transfer Tax, Or, City Hall’s Greed Knows No Bounds
The dust on the recent CTA pension plan bailout hasn’t even settled yet, but City Hall already has a new plan to alienate Chicagoans (or future Chicago residents) [...]
February 19th, 2008 | Markus Azadeh | 0 comments | Continued
Funding The CTA Pension Fund On The Back Of Chicago Homebuyers
As a kid, I would frequently get in trouble for mischievous acts committed not by me, but by my younger brother. Such is life when you’re the older sibling, and I’ve been repeatedly witnessing this mechanism in other families, to this day [...]
January 15th, 2008 | Markus Azadeh | 0 comments | Continued
Wanted: Homes For Rent In Edgebrook. And In Sauganash.
It’s a strange and interesting phenomenon, at the same time: I’m starting to get phone calls from folks who are in the market to rent single family homes in 60646 [...]
October 1st, 2007 | Markus Azadeh | 1 comment | Continued
No to SB1674 and No to SB572!
Dan Green gave us a heads up on this in his Mortgage Reports Blog yesterday. At issue is SB1674, the Senate Bill which would significantly expand upon the Predatory Lending Database program that was once called HB4050 [...]
May 30th, 2007 | Markus Azadeh | 2 comments | Continued
Linda, I loved reading about your childhood memories on Ionia, and other places in Edgebrook. Believe it or not, it's ...
I lived on Ionia in the late 1950's and early 60's.
We called it the Prairie. We went sledding on ...
