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Quiet title lawsuit can clear title of missing owner Seller’s absent boyfriend still on property title DEAR BOB: I am a real estate broker with an opportunity to obtain a listing on a beautiful house. But there is one little problem. The seller says her boyfriend moved out about 15 years ago and she hasn’t …
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Warning: Flipping property isn’t as easy as it looks You come home from a long day at work and, while channel surfing, you come across a show in which guys are buying run-down houses, fixing them up and reselling them for huge profits before the first mortgage payment is due. Wow. What’s more, they claim …
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House ‘flippers’ work with no net Eddie King no longer has the moves that earned him a spot as a fullback for USC in the mid-1960s. But his ability to spot an opening and capitalize on it has earned him millions in another favorite Southern California sport — home flipping. Over the last 30 years, …
The Young and the Nestless Go to school. Get a good job. Buy a house. Start a family. Repeat. This five-point formula has reliably guided generations of young and clueless adults to economic prosperity. It’s what helped the Greatest Generation scale even greater heights on the home front and made the Baby Boomers boom. However, …
Charles Kovaleski: Is it too late for investing in Florida real estate? Close to one in four pieces of property sold in the past year were bought by investment buyers, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). And for these buyers, the payoff has been huge: Investment properties have increased in value 25.4 percent …
Making It Easier to Buy in Mexico When Thomas Keeling, a New York City firefighter, retired from the force in 2003, it took him less than a month to leave College Point, Queens, for this beach town about five hours south of Tucson. Mr. Keeling, 43, paid less than $500,000 for a 3,800-square-foot house with …