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Question: How many people have put their “prime” homes up for sale and have received “0″offers?

My neighbors homes are in stable area:Schools are award winners.The police & fire protection rated highest in our midwestern State: Close to outstanding shopping, medical, and transportation. Everyone wants to live here!
So I thought.
These homes are the newest and best, 3-5 years old, and are bargain priced in the 300-500,000. range. Many are telling me that they got into the homes with little down, and flexible/fixed loans which had premiums go up hundreds as the taxes, insurance, and other “adjustments” to numerous to mention went well above their earning powers, so they are wanting out.
Some are selling off other assets to keep up, others are using credit cards to make ends meet.
Real estate agents tell them the market is slow. Some lower the asking price below what they had to pay for them.
Still no interested buyers.
Foreclosure simply means an empty home bought by a foreign subsidiary.The morgage holder makes $$ but shows a loss, legally!
What’s next?

Answer: Could be a slow market in your area. What are employment conditions like?

Maybe the house you’re talking about is priced too high.

(AFX UK Focus) 2009-12-29 04:38 Glance-PRESS DIGEST – Financial Times – Dec 29

Financial Times

2009 Affordable Housing Vision Awards: Lisa Alberghini

Loans against paychecks are now less painful since Barack Obama ascended to the US presidency.
Obama as a matter of principle is very much in favor of cash loans and has gone out of his way to make it easier for the person seeking this type of loan. Earlier, people who took such loans were hit by sky-high interest rates and repaying the amount with the interest tacked on caused people to slide deeper into debt. This made the whole matter of taking out cash advance loans to meet with an emergency or other such reasons, redundant. People tend to forget once you take a loan you have to pay it back. Once these loans are availed of, the ball is firmly in the lender’s court.
Obama now has made matters easier for the consumer by placing an interest cap of 36 percent on cash advance loans. Loan-seekers have been further helped that the president has encouraged the extension of the time limit should a person be unable to repay in the given period of time. Interest rates sometimes shoot up to the thousands of percentage points driving those who had taken cash advance loans to the verge of despair.
Obama’s siding with the consumer has meant a lot of shady operators have fallen off the payday loan tree. Many lenders literally earned their living from the high interest rates gouged from the hapless people who happened to take out a loan in a time of crisis.
Banks, too, also have stepped back from cash advance loans as the interest rate cap has made it unfeasible to offer the service. Also, the paperwork involved just does not make offering cash advance loans economical. Interest on loans is one of the main sources of income for financial institutions and the 36 percent proposed by Barack Obama simply did not make the exercise worth it.
If you are in need of fast cash it would be wise to use a multiple lender website. These websites do not issue payday loans themselves but rather they make the payday loan companies compete over your business. You can fill out one online application and instantly get multiple quotes from various lenders. They are free to use and the link below will take you to a top performing site.

Easy Cash Advances (http://www.myeasycashadvance.com/).

Wisconsin Making CDL Changes to Meet Federal Regulations

Wisconsin is making several changes to its commercial driver license program, after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration found a number of discrepancies between Wisconsin statutes and federal regulations.

Federal First Time Buyer Tax Credit

Question: How much will my stimulus payment be? All tax info is included. Need help with IRS calculator?

I don’t get the online calculator because I didn’t use any of the IRS forms, I filed online through HR Block. My main question is the about the amount of child tax credit that it asks you to enter. Is that the initial child tax credit or that plus the additional child tax credit combined? That makes a 600 dollar difference in the amount the calculator tells me I am going to receive. child tax credit is 383 and the additional child tax credit is 1617. I am not sure which one they are asking for. All of my info is below, please let me know which amount I am to enter and how much that means I’ll get back if possible. My spouse did not work in 07 and I have 2 dependents. Thanks for your help.

Total income: 28,144
AGI: 28,144
Standard deductions: 10,700
Total Deductions: 24,300
Exemptions: 13,600
Taxable income: 3,844
Income Tax/ Tax Before Credits: 383
child tax credit: 383
Federal Withholding: 102
EIC: 2,455
Additional child tax credit: 1,617
Total Payments: 4,174

Answer: Your rebate will be $383 plus $300 for child.
The rebate payment is equal the amount of tax liability on the return (tax liability on the return Form 1040 line 46 or Form 1040A line 28) with a minimum amount of $300 and a maximum amount of $600 for individuals.
For information on stimulus tax rebate read: http://taxipay.blogspot.com/2008/04/list-of-articles.html

Michelle Singletary: Tweaking toward a better future

WASHINGTON — Despite a still funky economy, many people are doing well.