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colorado springs real estate: Did You Know (Colorado Springs/CO stats)?? - 08/01/08 03:52 PM
Here are some fun rankings that our city has received recently. I thought They would be fun to share. 1. Colorado Springs was named “DogTown USA 2008” by Dog Fancy Magazine. The criteria used to select the winning city included plenty of dog-friendly open spaces and dog parks, events celebrating dogs and their owners, high vet-to-dog ratios, abundant pet supply and other services, and municipal laws that support and protect all pets. (07/08) 2. Colorado ranked as the slimmest state for the 18th year in a row. MedMD Health News reports that Colorado cuts the leanest figure, with 18.7% of its … (0 comments)

colorado springs real estate: A story to make you think. - 06/30/08 06:31 PM
I came across this story today and I just had to comment on it (http://www.gazette.com/articles/denver_37790___article.html/bus_monument.html) Here we have a gentlemen who openly admits making 25/hr by..........pan handling. The sign he holds says " OLD-TIRED-SICK-HUNGRY CREATIVE BROKE. "Now I'm no financial genius but making 25/hr hardly characterizes somebody as "broke." Nor is he sick or hungry. This guy makes his money by deceiving us. Now I will give him credit for being brutally honest but this proves the problems with our welfare system. This guy isn't paying taxes, is receiving free health care and is able to eat for free via churches, … (0 comments)

colorado springs real estate: Buyers emerging..... More and more - 06/19/08 06:41 PM
Data is starting to show that home buyers are starting to jump off of the fence and beginning to put in loan applications to buy property. While I think it's fair to say that this doesn't mean that the market is going to be experiencing an immediate rebound it is great to hear of some positive activity. With interest rates rising slightly, many buyers are wanting to get in on the current low rate while there still is time! More and more economists are saying that the market bottomed out (8) weeks ago and now the bar is starting to rise. … (1 comments)

colorado springs real estate: Colorado Springs to raise property tax??? - 06/17/08 05:09 PM
Here is a clarification from the mayor followed by my thoughts. Lionel Rivera says: As a point of clarification, when I used the term “shift” I mean just that. As an example; We could ask our citizens at a City election to replace the 0.4% Public Safety Sales Tax with a 5.32 mill levy. It would be the same dollar amount, but a more stable funding source. Lionel Rivera-Mayor Hmmmmm. I must admit that the property tax in Colorado Springs is low for the national average. One could also argue that it's a well known fact that we pay the second … (0 comments)

colorado springs real estate: New FHA rules for "flipping properties" - 06/16/08 03:07 PM
With new rules and regulations on FHA loans it always is a challenge staying on top of all of the new information. I recently had a closing that almost didn't go through because FHA said that the seller had not had the property in her hands long enough for the borrowers loan to go through. She had the property under an LLC (that she owned) and then transferred the property to herself when she disbanded the LLC. Even though she was the same owner FHA still insisted that she had to have the property (in her name only) for a minimum … (1 comments)

colorado springs real estate: Fred Crowley Helps Sniff Out The Truth About The Colorado Springs Market - 06/16/08 11:44 AM
I had the pleasure of speaking with Fred Crowley (Southern Colorado Economist) about his data on Colorado Springs and its real estate market. Fred gave a lecture on how we are actually seeing a 1.8% annual increase in property values (remember, that number is an average for all neighborhoods combined.) Granted, if one were to track the data back 10 years you would find that in general, Colorado Springs properties generally appreciated about 5%/year. Though the numbers are down I think that it's important to realize that things could be much worse. We have an office in Las Vegas and the … (1 comments)

 

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