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Can you believe that buying a home is a big financial decision? Can you guess why? Did you know that the purchase of a home can affect your federal income taxes? How you ask? Let’s examine.
In recent years, many mortgage brokers have convinced buyers to commit to large loans with large interest rates. The mortgage brokers, however, did not discuss the financial burden and/or the federal income tax consequences.
Misconception about Mortgages
Some buyers came to the mortgage broker asking for or under the misconception that having a higher mortgage interest rate would give them higher write offs on their federal income taxes. However, many of those same buyers discovered at tax time that due to alternative minimum taxes the write offs were not what they expect and they did not reduce their federal income taxes at all.
Still yet, others did not consider that the pre-approval they received did not account for their utilities, grocery bill, clothing, entertainment, etc. as a result the purchase of their new home became financially overwhelming very quickly. The reason for this is the pre-qualification only evaluates bills and credit that is reported to the credit bureau. It does not reflect all of the expenses necessary to operate a home like the utilities, grocery bill, entertainment, etc.
Consider an Accountant Before Buying Your Home
If you are concerning purchasing a house contact your financial advisor or accountant, then the mortgage broker, then the Realtor to avoid most of the financial mistakes that are plaguing the market right now. If you already own your home consider contacting a financial advisor or accountant before refinancing your home, as well.
Originally posted 2009-01-17 14:54:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Tools for Freelancers Doing Their Taxes
So, it’s tax time. The time of year that strikes fear in the heart of even the bravest business warrior. And, if you’re a freelancer, you may be particularly worried about handling your taxes, especially if last year was your first year freelancing. There are a few special circumstances that freelancers face at tax time, for sure, but with the right resources, you can get all of your questions answered and be certain you’re getting your taxes done the right way – even if you want to do them yourself. Here are some tools to get you started.
June Walker – June Walker has been guiding the self employed through their taxes since 1979. Her website is a valuable tool for helping you work through the particular tax circumstances that freelancers encounter. You’ll find answers to every imaginable question on this site.
IRS Small Business and Self Employed Tax Center – Yes, the IRS can help you and give you good advice. The IRS Small Business and Self Employed Tax Center has answers to the most common issues faced by freelancers doing their taxes. You’ll get answers, forms and can even e-file through the IRS website if you choose.
National Association for the Self Employed – This organization can provide lots of information for those who are self employed – and not just at tax time. It is the country’s leading resource for the self employed, offering resources and tools to help with many aspects of self employment. Their tax resource center can give you lots of tips and answers to help you with your tax situations all through the year.
Turbo Tax – Turbo tax is used by many people in all employment situations to complete their taxes on their own. It works particularly well for freelancers because it walks you through each part of completing your taxes with simple questions about your earnings, deductions and special considerations for the self employed. Just be certain that you select the personal and small business choice when you go online.
H&R Block – Though H&R Block has been providing tax preparation services for years, but are fairly new to the online service. But, like Turbo Tax, with H&R Block online, you can do your taxes yourself and by choosing the right tax situation for you, ensure that all the forms are filled out appropriately. They also offer in person support for do it yourself filers. You have access to an H&R Block professional who will answer your questions, check your return and e-file it for you.
All of these resources can help you tackle the daunting task of your taxes all alone, even though you’re self employed. In most cases, using the online services offered here, you can be finished with your taxes in just a few hours provided you have all your records together.
Going freelance is nothing to be scared of – even at tax time. With a little help from these tools your taxes will be over and done in no time.
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Are you in the market for a home, but are unsure if now is the right time to purchase a home?Well, you are in luck.According to an article in the Chicago Tribune, properties are at its lowest prices along with the market having the lowest interest rate in over 30 years and recently the market experienced an increase in sales of homes.In “March sales of previously owned single family homes and condominiums in Illinois posted their second consecutive month over month gain, and for the first time since June, the statewide median price for a home rose from the prior month.”
Every county seen an increase, for instance,
Lake County sales increased by 65 percent
Kendall County sales increased by 51 percent
Cook County sales increased by 38 percent
There may be number of factors that are causing the increase in sales to include
8,000 non-repayable federal tax credit first time home buyer program
the lower interest rate on 30 year loans
Even though it is a good time to buy, it is still important to make sure that the buyer understands that in order to make sure that the home that he or she is interested in purchasing is a good investment the buyer needs to have a home inspection.The home inspection lets the buyer know the condition of the electrical, plumbing, roof, etc.The buyer will know based on this report if there are items that must be taken care of now or are deferred maintenance and can be taken care of in a couple of years.This information is valuable if the new potential homeowner does not have much money for unexpected repairs to the home.
Still yet, buyers are being advised that they will find good deals in this market that they would not have found two years ago.Sellers who are selling are being advised to list their homes lower to ensure that the homes are sold at a quicker pace and available to more buyers.
Originally posted 2009-05-04 05:10:37. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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The premium for home owner’s insurance is influenced by your credit and the replacement cost for the home. Since your home owner’s insurance can be part of your mortgage payment it is important to know ways to decrease the premium to lower your mortgage payment. There are three ways to decrease you home owner’s insurance:
Since it may take some time to improve your credit, a reduction in replacement cost is one way to decrease your home owner’s insurance. Some insurance company can decrease your replacement cost to 80% of the replacement cost. For instance, if the replacement cost is $100,000 it can be decreased to 80,000 as long as it is enough to pay off the mortgage and help you start over if the home is total loss. Incidentally, this is not recommended for a long term solution to the increase in mortgage or insurance premium.
Another way to decrease your premium is to increase your deductible. Remember on homeowner’s insurance you do not pay the deductible before a claim is paid it is simply deduct from the claim.
Still yet another way is to decrease your liability coverage.
There is an often overlook way to combat an increase in premium that is to find out what your home owner’s insurance when it is three months before your one year anniversary of the purchase of your home. Your insurance agent should have your renewal premium amount. If it is more than one hundred over your previous year premium shop for new insurance by calling other companies and get quotes or ask for the above changes to your present premium.
Originally posted 2009-10-31 05:00:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
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Twenty-four percent or 373,483 homes in Chicago were mortgaged for more than the homes were worth according to the latest report from First American Core Logic. This trend is up from third quarter number of properties in similar situation. In the third quarter of 2009, the percentage was twenty-one or 324,488 homes that had negative equity.
In an effort, to correct this trend mortgage companies are offering loan modifications to home owners that are under water with their mortgages. Contact your mortgage company for details.
Another issue that is topping Chicago news is utility bills. You may be wondering why is this real estate news. Well, the utility bill is part of the expense that can make or break your affordability of your home.
According to the Chicago Sun Times, the Citizens Utility Board filed a petition on Monday to protest the proposed Peoples Gas rate hike.
The rate hike is roughly an increase of $50 to $70 a year that is alot of money in these economical times.
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There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).
If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.
I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.
Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc� experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.
Most Bloggers Are Reporters
The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).
There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.
Don’t Replicate Your Teacher
If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a �guru� (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.
The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.
Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.
How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.
If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.
Report on Your Process, Not Others
The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.
It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.
Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.
You Are Already An Expert
Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.
Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of�well fear.
Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.
Reporting Is A Stepping Stone
If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from �scratch�, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.
Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.
Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.
This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
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Taylor-Brown Real Estate Talks' goal is to empower the consumer with education about real estate, insurance, and mortgage trends, news, terms, etc., so that the consumer can achieve financial wealth through listing and selling real estate.
Serena Brown is broker and owner of Taylor-Brown Real Estate. She is the author of this blog. She has also co-authored a book entitled Should I Short Sale My Home. She has authored a e-book How to Sell My Home. She will be authoring a book on real estate investing by April of 2010 and several reports. She has dual degrees in Business Administration and Electronic Engineering Technology. She prides herself on being up to date on all trends, news, and education related to real estate to include short sale, loan modification, etc. She also makes sure her clients are abreast of how these changes will affect them financial. Therefore, stay tuned for great information in 2010.
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