IN THIS VIDEO YOU WILL LEARN

Why Buy a Home?

Seven Reasons to Buy –Including:
Learn the tax benefits and personal reasons for buying a home.

The Eight Steps of the Home Buying Process:
1.Preparing to Buy – Create a Plan
2.Choose a Real Estate Professional
3.Consult a Home Loan Professional
4.Determine Your Housing Criteria
5.House Hunting and Selecting a House
6.Preparing an Offer and Negotiating the Contract
7.Inspections
8.Preparing for Closing / Settlement

Your Host: Charles Kraus

Charles Kraus is a veteran real estate agent and Branch Manager for an international real estate company. He has been licensed since 1992 and has helped both home buyers and real estate agents understand the home buying process. Mr. Kraus is a top producing agent in Maryland and as Manager provides counsel, supervision and oversight for the real estate agents in his branch office.

Mr. Kraus is a Graduate of the Realtors Institute and the Maryland Association of Realtors Leadership Academy. He is an Associate Broker and Branch Manager for a real estate company in Annapolis, MD. Mr. Kraus has also served three terms on the Anne Arundel County Association of Realtors, Board of Directors and two terms as President of the Distinguished Sales Achievement Club of Anne Arundel County. He has also served two terms as Chairman of the Contract Forms Committee for the Anne Arundel County Association of Realtors. Mr. Kraus and his wife Pat are lifelong residents of Maryland and have lived and worked in the Greater Annapolis area since 1976.

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The First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit has been extended and expanded, and the details can be found in our most recent special edition.

For December, we take a look at the results the incentive had on stimulating home sales since 2008.

According to the IRS, about 1.4 million people have taken advantage of the first time homebuyer tax credit.

Not surprisingly, California ranks number one with the number of people filing a claim for the tax credit, while Alaska and Wyoming are among the states with the fewest number of claims.

But those numbers dont tell the whole story. For more, we go to Bryon Ellington. Bryon?
Bryon: Thanks, Jay.

According to the Internal Revenue Service, every state in the Union has participated in the First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit.

If we look at the results according to the total number of claims, heres how the rankings shake out:

California is number one with more than 160 thousand tax payers taking advantage of the first time home buyer tax credit.

Texas is number two with over 131 thousand.

And Florida is number three with over 105 thousand.

But when we look at the data in terms of per capita claims, or the percentage of folks in each state who took advantage of the tax credit, we get radically different results.

Heres a look at the top three in terms of per capita participation in the tax credit

Nevada is in the number one position with more than 20 thousand claims out of a population of 2.6 million.

Utah is in the number two position with over 17 thousand claims out of a population of 2.7 million.

And Arizona is in the third position with over 38 thousand claims out of a population of 6.5 million.

Whats more, we find Alaska moving from near the bottom of the rankings to number 26 above California! And Wyoming, the least populated state in the U.S., moves to number 16. Thats just a bit behind Texas in terms of per capita tax payer participation.

Back to you, Jay

Jay: Thanks, Bryon. Thats it for This Month in Real Estate. Thank you for joining us.

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This 60-Minutes special features experts that say 2010 is going to be worse. Millions more Americans are going to face foreclosure with their homes underwater, even prime mortgages. Home values are going to decrease another 30-50% in the most inflated markets. Get out now and go into safer assets.

Be ready investors and 401k holders, your stocks are about get cut in half AGAIN when this new panic across the entire platform of the housing market in 2010/2011.

Deflation, then more bailouts/stimulus, then serious inflation.

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Part 1 (Excerpt)

Forget the doom and gloom, First Time Home Buyers can buy with FHA

Thanks to my very great friend Brett Fallon for taking the time to be here in studio today. Brett is one of America’s finest financial advisors. And of course the infamous Dan Havey. Now we all love Dan Havey because he was instrumental in getting me into the mortgage industry about 14 years ago. Most importantly, Dan was instrumental in helping us put together the loan modification hotline and he is the author of Real Estates Future.

So today we have a few things we want discussed in regard to the economy, what’s happened, were wrapping up the year. You may have heard about this in the media, of course the media’s job is to scare you. Well our job is to tell you the truth. So Brett you have some data and some information that you wanted to share

Some of the things you hear in the media, you cant escape, its pretty much doom and gloom, sky is falling, this is the next Great Depression. It’s over for all of us and we should all just pack up and go. That kind of stuff is pervasive out there and creates fear and a lot of anxiety amongst people who are either investors, people who are looking to buy a house, looking to refinance a mortgage.

People dont realize there are certain tools that exist that we will talk about during the course of the show today. They should understand that some of the things that we discussed prior to today’s broadcasts were interest rates. Interest rates are at historic lows. Money is cheaper right now than it has ever been. We know the Fed recently reduced the Fed Funds Rate and that is the rate that banks are lending money to one another at.

Right now that rate is zero. Historically, that’s never happened in the United States before. The Fed’s idea is to help to unfreeze this credit market and we keep hearing all this talk about how credit markets are still frozen, that the global recession is deepening, there is evidence to the contrary of that. Some of the moves that the FED is making are working. We’re starting to see, and you and I were talking recently about some clients that were helping in terms of refinancing existing mortgages. Well, if the credit markets are frozen how come we got those loans complete?

Well, that’s a good point, and you got a call I think it was last Monday or maybe the Monday before, someone called you and asked if there was any money to refinance. What can I do? Well the reality of it is there is plenty of money out there for refinances, in some cases there’s issues with property values. That’s why there are different options for those types of people

Well from a buyer’s perspective, todays property valuation is a good thing, if I’m a buyer. Thats a good point too. People are interested in buying and the huge opportunity today. This is an unprecedented opportunity in my opinion, both in terms of the dollar and the real estate market. And for those who understand those dynamics and are willing to entertain the deal, they will be handsomely rewarded. There is no doubt about it.

And as we spoke on the last show, home prices in November for Maricopa County show that the median home price is down as low as $160,000 already. And it reminds me a lot about when I got into the industry, way back in 1989 and the type of financing we had then was FHA and Fannie Mae. And were back to that again now. We’ve got sanity back into the market and home prices have come down. But right now, it’s a perfect time, especially for first-time homebuyers or a move up buyer who can buy under the Fannie Mae limit of $417,000. If you can get into that range, and as we spoke before that 78% of the homes in Maricopa County that sold last month sold for under $250,000. I think that right now is the time just to get out there and find a house to move your family and children into with an FHA loan.

Michael, you don’t have to have exactly perfect credit do you? You can have a couple of dings if need be, right? You’re exactly right, each case has its own merits, every FHA loan is underwritten individually. There are many cases where collections are okay, there needs to be a explanation. You dont have to have the 720 plus credit scores like you do for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to get the best rates…

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Ernie Cabrera
REAL ESTATE AMERICA
(916) 439-4663
ernie@rearealtors.com
www.rearealtors.com

Listing #10027439
$425,000 (LP)

Price/SqFt: 179.17
102 Alvaston Ct, Folsom, CA 95630 Active (04/20/10)
Beds: 4 Baths: 3 (3 0) (FH) Sq Ft: 2372 Lot Sz: 11238sqft
Area: 10630 Yr: 1994

Directions: From HW 50 go East on E. Bidwell to Oak Avenue Pky going South (left),then right on Riley St, then left on Tindal Way,then right on Kerwin Way, and finally right on Alvaston Ct to address.

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