Mobile real estate apps help take guesswork out of house hunting and renovation
Mobile real estate apps take guesswork out of house hunting, renovation [April 25, 2014]
Author: Federal Title
5 safety tips for real estate agents
A female real estate agent who was preparing to show a vacant property in New Carrollton, MD was robbed on Monday, according to news reports. It appears the attacker took her purse and some personal items, but the woman will be O.K.
While...
Avoid the DC recapture tax ‘surprise’
If you are an agent listing a property for a decedent’s estate/personal representative in DC, help your client and the prospective purchaser avoid a potential big surprise – the real property recapture tax.
DC Office of Tax and Revenue has...
Split closings are (almost) never a good idea
The other day I handled a split closing – the buyer used Federal Title & Escrow Company and the seller used another title company – and things did not go so smoothly.
A closing already has many different parties involved: buyers, sellers,...
DC Council passes the Senior Citizen Real Property Tax Relief Act of 2013
Ten members of the Council of the District of Columbia voted for and passed the “Senior Citizen Real Property Tax Relief Act of 2013” earlier this week. The bill will now be submitted to DC Mayor Gray for his signature.
If...