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1031 Tax Deferred Exchange - 5 Important Steps There are as many reasons to seek a 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange as there are investors, but the fact is that completing such a property exchange can save you a significant amount of capital gains tax when you decide to sell your existing investment property and to acquire another one. Although you should always check with your tax advisor and attorney before you proceed, here are the basic steps to successfully exchanging a property under the 1031 guidelines. 3 Home Interior Design Styles - Wabi Sabi, Shabby Chic, and Design Psychology Before you relate Wabi Sabi to Shabby Chic style, understand that the Wabi Sabi way of life starts with simplicity, whereas Shabby Chic interiors often fill spaces with a lot of interesting finds, which can end up with too much to care for and eye clutter, according to Design Psychology principles. 7 Signs of Predatory Mortgage Lending Financing a new home mortgage? To avoid being a victim of predatory loan practices, learn to recognize the seven warning signs. A Beginner's Guide to Real Estate Investing When you first decide that you want to begin investing in real estate, it can be a nerve-wracking and somewhat frightening experience. After all, a serious mistake can be disastrous. That's the bad news. The good news is that you can minimize your chances of making disastrous mistakes by simply following a simple formula. A Few Novel Uses for Common Household Products Many household products can function well in areas quite different from their initial intended uses. Here are a few examples: Add Plants to Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity in Your Office Recent research reveals that distributing plants throughout the office workplace can both lower stress and enhance employee productivity. American Home Builder Tips for the First-Time Home Buyer Market The key to successful home building is to know your target market. Every market niche has specific lifestyle needs that must be met if you hope to succeed. Once you set your sights on a specific market segment, you must satisfy their needs and desires, because your clientele can make or break you. In this article, we'll focus on how to push the buttons of first-time home buyers. American Home Builder Tips for the Senior Baby Boomer Market Although they're loathe to admit it, Baby Boomers are rapidly becoming senior citizens. However, just has been the case throughout their lives, the fact that Boomers are entering their golden years has made the senior market the fastest segment of the real estate market today. If you're a builder, this can mean more sales for you, but you'll have to do some target marketing to attract Boomers to your homes. Are For-Sale-By-Owner Home Sales Getting More Popular? It's not easy to sell a home yourself, but it can be done. There are many things to remember when trying to sell a home without the benefit of a real estate agent, but many people across the country do, and the trend may actually be on the increase, according to statistics from a number of sources. Backyard Landscape Plan - Think About Your Family's Lifestyle First If you've been considering changing you're home's landscaping, don't forget to consider your family's lifestyle as you create your initial plans. Everyone's routines and daily activities need to be considered before you make any significant changes. Bathroom Remodeling on a Budget Remodeling the bathroom is one of the most often tackled projects when it comes to updating a home, but it can get to be quite a spendy endeavor. If you're one of those folks who are looking to remodel the bathroom in your home but are put off by the price tag, consider these bathroom remodeling ideas. Bathroom Remodeling on a Budget - Remodel Your Bathroom in Stages Remodeling the bathroom, one of the most often tackled projects when it comes to updating a home, can get to be quite a spendy endeavor. If you're one of those folks who are looking to remodel the bathroom in your home but are put off by the price tag, consider remodeling in stages. Bedroom Makeovers: Feng Shui, Design Psychology and Bed Arrangement The bed represents the beginning and ending of life. In the past, people were conceived, born, and they died in the same bed. You spend more time in your bed than in any other piece of furniture. So, follow Feng Shui rules or Design Psychology principles and place your bed with the head facing Beginners Often Wonder Where They Can Find Great Real Estate Deals One of the first questions new real estate investors ask is where they can find great deals. It's only natural, since they've often been eagerly watching the various infomercials that crowd late-night television and they're eager to cash in on what seems to be the easy money available in real estate. Bullet Proof Your Real Estate Investing Everyone knows that making a mistake in a real estate investment can be costly - or even disastrous. However, there are ways to bullet-proof your investing. Here are a few tips on how you can do it: Can I Still Make Money Buying Real Estate In Today’s Market? For years, investors have been buying real estate to make money and build wealth. Today however, the media would have you believe that the real estate bubble has burst and that you can no longer make money buying real estate. Newspapers and television reports love attention-grabbing headlines. But, are headlines based on facts or designed to get you to tune in? Can You Still Make A Profit Investing in Real Estate With Fixers? Real estate investors have made money by buying unloved houses, fixing them up, and then selling them for years. It's not a new real estate investing method. But what if you live in an area where homes sit on the market and sell at less than full price? Can you still make money investing in real estate by fixing houses under such market conditions? Create a Luxurious Bathroom with a Designer's Touch It seems as if bathrooms have undergone more radical changes than any other room in the modern home over the past few years. In fact, it's been less than a century since bathrooms were first brought inside of the home, and since that time, their evolution has been ongoing. Modern bathrooms bear little resemblance to their utilitarian counterparts of bygone days. Curb Appeal: Home Sellers Only Get One Glance to Make an Impression If you're selling a fixer for a rock-bottom price, investors love ugly houses. However, if you want to get top-dollar for your home, you must make home shoppers get out of their car and see what's inside. Decorative Area Rugs: How to Care for Area Rugs A well-crafted, beautiful area rug can not only make a dramatic statement in a room, but it can also be a sound investment, and if you give it the proper care, it can be passed from generation to generation. Does Your Home Make You Sick? Home Health Hazards Although Americans spend nearly 40 billion dollars a year on lawn upkeep, the fact is that they actually spend nearly 90 percent of their time indoors. It may be an interesting paradox, but all that time spent indoors increases their chances of being injured or made sick by the various health hazards that exist in many American homes. Eight Tips for Beginning House Flippers Fixing and flipping houses is only one way to make money investing in real estate. Many real estate investors start with a fast flip as a way to make money quickly. After a few houses, they expand into other real estate investing strategies like landlording or larger properties like apartments. If you want to get started in the real estate business, here are eight tips to consider about fixing and flipping houses. Extraordinary Garden Ideas Is it time to think about how to turn your garden from ordinary to extraordinary? Some times it's just more fun to stay home! Financing a New Mortgage? Beware of "Predatory Lenders" Learn the basics of mortgage lending, so you'll know when you're being charged too much for a loan or for things you don't need. Recent legislation enacted to expand the categories of discriminatory lending activities associated with discriminatory housing practices. Fixing Houses: Make Space in Bathrooms Without Tearing Down Walls Some rehabbers don't mind tearing up a house to make it fit into a desirable area. For instance, many older homes in Los Angeles get torn down to the foundation with just a few walls left. However, most rehabbers like to update a home with new fixtures and features without tearing into the house. Plus, many houses just won't turn a profit with too much reconstruction. One way to update an older home is to make bathrooms feel larger. Google Base and Real Estate Listings - Ignored by Real Estate Agents? Google has expanded again, this time moving into the world of real estate--or at least real estate listing services. It seems as though real estate agents haven't taken to Google Base in all areas. Hardwood Floor Refinishing - Tips for Doing It Yourself Everything necessary for doing it yourself will be available at your local hardware store. Once you finish, you'll have a gorgeous floor to be proud of. Home Buyers, Start Planning Your Housewarming Party NOW! A new home is exciting on a number of levels, of course, but one of the nicest bonuses is that buying a new home affords a perfect excuse to throw a party. Then, especially if you haven't entertained in a long time, it's possible that your housewarming party will rekindle your desire to have guests over on a regular basis for friendly gatherings. Home Sellers Upgrade Their Houses to Promote Sales Homeowners are increasingly beginning to feel that they need to do something extra to attract buyers, and the HIRI figures would seem to indicate a slowing market and increasing competition for buyers. Home Sellers: Three Spaces that Pay You to Redesign Home sellers who pay close attention to the details that home buyers want will sell for more money and help sell a home in record time. The key, balance between costs and payback, gives you the highest return on your time and investment. Home Stagers - Can They Help You Sell Your Home for More Money? Although it's not a new concept, staging your home is an important part of getting it sold--and for top dollar. Traditionally, homeowners themselves have been responsible for making their homes presentable for showing, but with homes costing more and competition getting stiffer as the real estate market softens, that trend is changing. Home Stagers? Judging by the number of folks who claim to call themselves "Home Stagers" today, you'd think it was the world's largest growing industry. Home Staging for a Quick Sale and More Profit Every home seller is looking for two things: a quick sale and a good price. That's a given. However, there are ways to help insure that you'll meet both of those goals. Home Staging Your Empty House - Without Moving in Tons of Furniture If you moved before selling your home, you might be left with a vacant house costing you double mortgage payments. Here are some home staging tips to help you. Home Staging: Cutting Edge Interior Design Tips for Selling Read about new techniques for marketing houses; find out how these fresh, new interior design home staging ideas will help sell your home faster, and for a higher price than the competition! Home Warranty - How Does this Service Help Sell Your Home? What's the difference between a buyer's and a seller's warranty? Now that the real estate market is cooling somewhat, you'll more likely to find your competitive home sellers offering a seller's warranty. But what exactly is a seller's warranty? How to Help Your Teen Prepare for a Strong Financial Future Why should you help your teen set up banking and credit accounts? Credit expert Jeanette Fisher explains how to jump start your children's financial future. How Will The New Solar Energy Initiative Affect the Real Estate Market? It's yet to be determined what effect SAI will have on America's sagging real estate market, and that may actually be beside the point in the initial stages of the program. In time, home buyers will undoubtedly begin to insist upon having solar technology built into their real estate packages. Interior Designer Dorothy Draper - Inferior Desecrator? Although Dorothy Draper is no longer a household name, she had an enormous effect on American interior design ideas in her day, and though she had her detractors (like Frank Lloyd Wright and others), there's no denying that she was the one who made the profession of interior designer possible for all those who came after her. Interior Designer Elsie de Wolf - A Rebel in an Ugly World Elsie de Wolfe started out as an actress, making her debut on the stage in 1890 as a member of the Empire Stock Company. In 1935, Paris experts named Lady Mendl the best-dressed woman in the world, which was high praise, coming from best-known the place in the world for high fashion at the time. Kitchen Remodeling on a Budget There are a number of ways you can stay within your kitchen remodeling budget, beginning with staying on top of every dollar that goes out. Kitchen Remodeling: First Step Kitchens have evolved to match people's cooking habits, since most women now work outside of the home, share cooking duties with their husbands or significant others, prepare only a few meals from scratch. To reflect those changes, modern kitchens are designed with multiple work areas, including islands, to allow more than one person to work in the kitchen at one time. Lawn Care and Fertilizer Create a Great Looking Lawn One of the things homeowners take the most pride in is a great-looking lawn. It can be time-consuming and frustrating, but with persistence, you can keep your lawn looking beautiful. Here are a few lawn care tips and one fertilizer tip. Make a Wise Home Purchase and Avoid the Top 14 Home Buyer's Mistakes Many home buyers rush into a home purchase without getting enough information. A home purchase, probably the one of the biggest investments of your life, needs informed and cautious consideration. Don't let impulsiveness or ignorance ruin your enjoyable home search and purchase. Here are 14 common home buyer's mistakes to avoid: Mortgage Elimination Scam It's every homeowner's fantasy: to own their home free and clear. There are lots of legitimate ways to pay off your mortgage loan faster, but here's the latest scam for folks hoping to eliminate their entire 30-year mortgage--in less than a year. New Year's Resolution for Renters: Buy a Home in 2006 Are you still renting a home or apartment for yourself or your family? If so, you're losing money. Besides losing out on making money with real estate, renters don't get the same satisfaction of home enjoyment that benefits home buyers. If you're renting, make one of your New Year's Resolutions to buy your own home. New Year's Resolutions: Save Your Credit and Your Marriage Before you whip out your credit cards this year, consider this: more than 70 percent of divorces in America are brought about due to financial problems. It's so easy to use your credit cards to buy items you want. But stop and think first. Normalization: Code Word for Slow Down in Real Estate Sales? Real estate people and economists may not like the term "slow-down." They prefer the term "normalization." However, whatever you choose to call it, the market seems to have slowed considerably from its frenzied pace of the last few years. Organic Certification - What Will Be Its Future? Some organic produce enthusiasts are cheering about its increasingly widespread availability. But does this easy access weaken certification standards and hurt small farmers? Prepare Your Roses for Long-Lasting Display Few flowers look as nice or smell as wonderful as fresh roses. They're perfect for cutting and bringing into the house to enjoy, and if you take a little extra care in cutting and preparing them, they'll last much longer in that special vase. Ranch Homes Come Full Circle Over the years, the ranch style home has become almost reviled for its lack of character. However, the humble ranch does have its boosters, who say it's actually a quite livable style of home that offers a number of advantages. Real Estate Investing: When is a House Good or Bad? Bad can be good when it comes to real estate investing, as long as it's not too bad! When you're just starting out as a real estate investor, you'll want to look for... Sell Our Home - Home Staging Tips Beyond the Basics Many home sellers wonder why their home languishes on the market. They've deep cleaned, freshened paint, priced it right, and staged the dining room table with china. Are you begging your listing agent to: "Sell my home" and thinking about dropping the sales price? Slow-Down in Real Estate Market Isn't Slowing Furniture Sales The real estate market may be slowing down, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding slow-down in the number of sales of furnishings that will go into people's homes. In fact, the opposite seems to be happening across the country. Staged Homes - 12 Top Reasons to Stage Your Home for a Sure Sale If you're selling your home or investment house, take advantage of home staging trends. Here are twelve key points about staged homes. Tips for Stripping Wallpaper: How to Get Rid of Ugly Wallpaper! I hate stripping wallpaper! Our Queen Anne Victorian, circa 1878, had layers of wallpaper, painted over, papered over, and painted over again and again. While stripping the wallpaper, I realized that many homemakers get wrong advice for this horrendous task. After years of experience on over 30 houses, I offer my tried and best tips: TV Reality Shows on Flipping Houses and Real Estate Investing Terms Explained The TV show "Flip this House" spurred a lot of interest in making money in real estate by flipping houses. However, the show only tells part of the story. Often, the viewer never gets to know if the renovated house sells or not. Also, many real estate investors think of "flipping houses" in a different light. Vacation Home and Investment Property Sales Climb People are buying more getaway properties than ever before. In 2005, in fact, four out of every ten home sales were bought either as vacation homes or investment properties. Water Gardens Like all gardens, water gardens require a certain amount of care, but the results can give you years of pleasure. What Does Organic Food Certification Mean? The term "organic" is being tossed around quite a bit lately, and you'll soon be seeing a big jump in the number of organic choices when you visit your local Safeway or Wal-Mart store. That's because the demand for organic produce, milk, and meat has been steadily increasing, to the point where the giant retail chains have begun to take the trend seriously. In turn, there will be a growing concern over the certification process as factory-style farms begin to muscle their way into the organic fo Who Sells Your Personal Credit Information? It's not well known, but if you have recently applied for mortgage credit, the information you shared was probably sold within twenty-four hours of your mortgage application. Why Isn't Your Home SOLD? If your home for sale isn't generating offers, there a few actions you can take to make up for the slow real estate market.