Archive for Real Estate Tips
Higgins Lake Real Estate Financing
Evaluate Your Adjustable-Rate Mortgage – Higgins Lake Real Estate Financing If you have an adjustable-rate mortgage, be sure to investigate your loan options well before the rate on your ARM resets. An adjustable-rate mortgage, or ARM for short, is attractive to homeowners because the introductory interest rate is often lower than rates […]
Northern Michigan Property & Casualty Insurance
Purchasers of property should research insurance for the property they are buying during the contingency period. It is common practice with insurance agencies to require a C.L.U.E. (comprehensive loss underwriting report) when they quote and offer to insure a property. The C.L.U.E. report may report losses that may have occurred over the past 5 years. This could be […]
Real Estate News You Can Use Roscommon County
Roscommon County Real Estate Update Most everyone is concerned about what to do with their bank accounts since they are earning the lowest interest rates in decades. The stock market is soft and volatile. The media news spots are asking you to buy gold. What is one to do? The answer is to have and […]
Distressed Higgins Lake Homes Foreclosed
July 1st Your Township Treasurer Mailed Your Property Tax Bill………………… it is the largest bill of the property tax year. You may have noticed that in some of the northern Michigan township’s assessments are still on the rise. Even though the assessment increase may not be the reason for your tax increase, increasing assessments are […]
Higgins Lake Houghton Lake Roscommon Michigan Buyer’s Agent
What is buyers agency and how can it assist you in a real estate transaction? A buyer’s agent is one who acts on behalf of the the buyer under a buyer agency agreement. Buyer’s agents will disclose any known information about the seller that may be used to benefit the buyer. Call me BEFORE you schedule […]
Use Land Contract’s To Close Real Estate Transactions
Why use bank mortgages when you as the seller can be the banker. Seller financing is coming back into vogue again. During the past months Ken Carlson Realty has closed a number of transactions using land contracts. There is becoming a voracious demand for creative financing for sellers and buyers. Many property owners have no […]
Lansing Politicians Responsible For Tax Assessments Out Of Control
Adding insult to injury Higgins Lake and Roscommon area tax payer’s are seeing their annual assessment notices arriving in their mail boxes. My email inbox is full and my phone is ringing with tax payers upset and angry. They are frustrated because they can not understand why, if their assessment has been reduced, why are their […]
Real Estate Tax Information About Higgins Lake Roscommon
Here on my real estate blog, I will endeavor to address a diversity of content related to the ownership of property. Although we will be discussing many topics, taxes tend to be high on the list of concerns, espcially when dealing with waterfront real estate on popular recreational lakes like Higgins, Houghton and Margarethe. Taxes […]
Roscommon Higgins Lake Tourism Fuels Real Estate Sales
This past year Roscommon County officials approved ORV designated access along it’s county highways to ORV trails throughout Roscommon County. Off Road Vehicle “ORV” operators are welcomed to the northern Michigan county of Roscommon with it’s 3 beautiful inland lakes and thousands of acres of public lands for recreational use. Knowing where to find access […]
Real Estate Buyers Start Your Engines
With all the doom and gloom in the air these days, it is time to encourage investors from the first time real estate buyers to the seasoned property investor to be determined to get into the market NOW. Whatever amount of money you may be willing to invest in property, the investment may pay better returns than the […]
