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05/01/2008
Foreclosure home is great opportunity to buy home at low price. Here are pros & cons of buying foreclosures homes.
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  • Why buy homes prior to the filing of a Notice of Default ?
 
 
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Economic Stimulus Package
Does it help?
Recently congress passed an unprecedented “economic stimulus package” to remove the fear of economy slipping into the recession. The economic stimulus package is supposed to bring confidence in consumers and keep economy away from recession.

Many believe the move from government has come late and may not help the cause. By the time checks will reach to common person, economy might have touched the outer boundaries of recession.

Then the question comes this $300 or $600 check, how it is going to keep economy away from slipping into recession. People with bad habits are going to blow money on cigarettes, drugs, lotteries, the end result more money to state and federal government.

What would have been better idea is to grant low tax bracket to poor and middle class, for couple of years, counties providing relief in property taxes, lenders providing extension for low interest rates and good subsidy to industries for keeping jobs in US.

These small checks hardly make any dent into economy, these are good for lifting consumer confidence and good for vote policy. This sure saves government from tough questions from press and public.


The best ways to stop foreclosure
This is the worst nightmare of every homeowner to think about house going through foreclosure. Every home owner puts 100 percent in saving his or her home. The reasons for a house coming under foreclosure can be from “job loss”, “owned by widow”, “partner dispute”, “high debt”, “unable to pay high interest rate mortgage” etc. Read More Tips
 
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One time hot market real-estate market of bay area is going through real-estate downturn. Couple of years back it was common to see multiple bidding for single home and homes being sold over asking price. Lot has changed in last two years, except few pockets in Bay Area rest of the bay area has home price going down by 20-40 percent. Get more information... Information About Bay Area

One time hot pockets of Bay Area such as San Ramon, Antioch, Brentwood are having high rate of foreclosure. In this downtrend my heart bleeds for people whose house is going through foreclosure. It is hard to imagine people’s hard earned money going through the drain.

Having said that there is market for first time buyers, now is the chance from them to take advantage from low housing market.

Notices of Default for houses and condos
  • County - 2007 - 2008 - Yr
  • Q1 Q1 Yr%
  • San Francisco - 216 - 420 - 94.4%
  • Alameda - 1,578 - 3,194 - 102.4%
  • Contra Costa - 1,969 - 4,718 - 139.6%
  • Santa Clara - 1,058 - 3,074 - 190.5%
  • San Mateo - 382 - 911 - 138.5%
  • Marin - 118 - 314 - 166.1%
  • Solano - 914 - 2,091 - 128.8%
  • Sonoma - 407 - 1,392 - 242.0%
  • Napa - 88 - 284 - 222.7%
  • Bay Area - 6,730 - 16,398- 143.7%
Note: Source: DataQuick Information Systems read more
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Internet Home Research

With the internet access at your finger tips, the knowledge, tools needed for online home buying has become easy. Gone those days when you will move in to neighborhood and then start getting feedback about your neighborhood. Today, you can research on house, neighborhood, city, schools, jobs, crime in area, parks in area, hospitals in area etc. Today's buyer is more informed and more demanding about hose information.

Important thing for home buying is to complete your pre-buying things to do.

  • Select few neighborhoods, check last 10 years of property trend in this area.
  • If you are buying town home or planed community home, check which one has low HOA (Home owner association charge)
  • Check school area. Lot people move blindly into a good school area and later realize that there school does not fall into good school zone. Check with school if your house fall in their school zone.
  • Get free credit report and check how good are your chance of getting home loan.
  • Explore neighborhood and get reviews from community associations, go through local issues, check forpast history
  • Check for local parks, local hospitals, libraries, airports, and near by jobs
  • check real estate tax assessment from county website
  • Check for sex offenders from national sex offenders registry
  • Get Pre-Approval from Lender
  • Get in touch with Real-estate agent and provide him your requirements.
Online Tools to Research homes on Internet