Posted on December 29th, 2009 by ronbell
Recently it has become possible to get a second opinion about your Washoe County property taxes. Valueappeal.com has a tax lowering new service which allows the homeowner to view a free tax assessment online and then can make an informed decision on whether to appeal – lower their property tax assessment. If you would like [...]
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Posted on December 27th, 2009 by ronbell
This is off of a Trulia forum for Reno homes that I belong to.  It is relevant so I will post it here first to avoid duplicate content on my own behalf.
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Filed under: CURRENT STRATEGIES, FORECLOSURES, LOCAL MARKET
Posted on December 26th, 2009 by ronbell
My dog Beau
In case you haven’t seen this video link I have below already and if you have, I am sorry as many of you suscribe to multiple feeds of mine. In any event, I am kind of proud of it so I wanted to make sure I didn’t leave anyone behind. (Especially my first time visitors), here is [...]
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Filed under: PERSONAL, UNCATEGORIZED, VIDEOS
Posted on December 20th, 2009 by ronbell
Enclosed is a great video explaining loan modification in the Reno Nevada area, debt consolidation and I talk a little about the Reno foreclosure, Reno bank owned home market. This video was shot at the Reno Real Estate Investor Groups December meeting. The speaker for the Reno loan modification is Ken Auld from imodification loan [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2009 by ronbell
A reader asks how to avoid a foreclosure assuming of course he can’t make the payments.
 Disclosure: I am not advising doing this, I am just observing and reporting of how I have seen the game played to the Homeowners advantage during-after a Reno Foreclosure.
OK, the classic stall besides the costly and in most cases not needed bankruptcy [...]
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Filed under: CURRENT STRATEGIES, FORECLOSURE HELP, FORECLOSURES, LOAN MODIFICATION, SHORT SALES
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by ronbell
Click the You Tube link below for the Card:
                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P82QqRzL15s
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Posted on December 15th, 2009 by ronbell
Reno homes will become even more affordable as the assessed Reno home values continue to decline. This is a mixed blessing as we continue to see library, fire, police, schools, social services et al close their doors or limit operations. The banks continue to underprice the market and create bidding wars which in turn create [...]
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Posted on December 14th, 2009 by ronbell
Here are some helpful tips that may help those involved in Short Sales. These key point have been provided by Ron Hoy from Coldwell Banker Select Real Estate as a simplification of the rules from the Treasury. Hopefully these can answer some short sale questions for you.
As of now, these seem to be the key [...]
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Filed under: LOAN INFORMATION, SHORT SALES
Posted on December 13th, 2009 by ronbell
Enclosed is a video we shot at the December Reno Real Estate Investors Group, Club. It is on Reno bank owned homes, foreclosures in Reno update, Reno loan modifications, Reno debt consolidation. If link doesn’t work, copy and paste into browser. I can help you if you have problems with it or hey, any real estate as [...]
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Filed under: FORECLOSURE HELP, LOAN MODIFICATION
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by Stephanie
Here is an interesting article from the Washington Post on the possible changes to FHA loans in Reno, NV and across the country. These changes could include increasing the down payment to 5% (currently 3.5%), decreasing seller contributions to 3% (currently 6%), increasing the monthly mortgage insurance, increasing the upfront mortgage insurance and increasing the [...]
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