Livingston County Real Estate by Bob Smith
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2012
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My wife and I sometimes have a discussion about dates on food items. There’s a ‘sell by’ date, sometimes a ‘use by’ date, even a ‘best if used by’ date, depending on the product. She wants to dump them on that date, I tend to keep using them for a couple of days beyond. Sometimes it’s aestheti...
11/14/2012
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That question doesn’t just apply to buying a car. Part of the American Dream, for some people at least, is to own a new home. New, as in just built. Certainly there are benefits and disadvantages to either – a new or existing (used) home. Let’s look at a few of them. Existing homes. Dependin...
11/11/2012
Michigan’s Public Act 324 of 2012, which became law October 9, 2012 allows for retaining the Principal Residence Exemption (PRE) while in a long term-care facility if they meet certain conditions. There have been instances where a homeowner lost the PRE and had to pay higher property tax rates b...
11/09/2012
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I generally keep my politics to myself. I’ve opened up a little more this year and I guess this will be the ‘last hurrah’ on the general election. I may occasionally blog about political topics, but this is it about the election in which (hopefully) we are all voting tomorrow. I used to think i...
11/05/2012
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I made my choices on this year’s (very) long ballot some time ago, but I am still reading about candidates and ballot proposals voraciously. I attended local candidate debates, followed newspaper reports and articles from a multitude of sources (some from the liberal side, some from the conserva...
11/04/2012
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What can be greater than actually buying your first house? OK, that’s open to interpretation of course. But in terms of life moves, it has to be up there as one of the best and happiest times. It can also be stressful, if for no other reason, the lack of certainty. It definitely takes us out ...
11/03/2012
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In January of 2012, I finally gave up the Blackberry ghost and moved to a Windows Smartphone. Why, when everybody and their brother is going to iPhone or Android? Simply, because I wanted to be sure my new phone would integrate as completely as possible with my Outlook calendar and contacts, an...
11/02/2012
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) has an Economists’ Outlook Blog. Yesterday, it posted an article that claims 32% of all September sales were by first time buyers. For some time, that figure has trended closer to 40%, and was at a 50% level in 2009. The number of cash sales in this ...
10/31/2012
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