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Homebuyers are rejecting more offers than ever for ‘tiny’ issues. What’s a seller to do?

Real estate agent Shay Stein remembers not too long ago when buyers pledged to name their firstborn after homeowners to get to the closing table.

Now, buyers are asking for closing costs, repairs, or in some cases, insist on the availability of street parking or they’ll walk, Stein and other agents say.

“Last year, they were making offers within two hours of the house being listed and now they’re visiting the home multiple times and asking for all kinds of things,” says Stein, a Las Vegas real estate agent. “It’s like whiplash.”

It’s a change for buyers — and a

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Historic Nelson Pollard House to be fashioned into event center | News

Angela Janes has known for the past 10 years that she wants to open a business that functions as an event center and reception area. She just didn’t know where.

That changed this summer when she saw Logansport’s historic Pollard Nelson House listed for sale.

“I have kind of had my eye on running an event center for about a decade,” Janes said. “I just kind of get on realtor.com and see what’s out there. Over the years I’ve looked at lots and lots of houses, and nothing has ever felt right. When the Pollard Nelson House hit realtor.com, I

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Attorney Gives Rep. Jim Jordan A Scathing Personal Lesson In Hearsay

An attorney on Twitter clapped back at an account closely linked to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that suggested Tuesday’s shattering testimony before the House select committee investigating the US Capitol riot was “all hearsay.”

The House Judiciary Committee Republicans’ account which names Jordan as its ranking member in its Twitter bio labeled the astonishing testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson as hearsay.

“It’s literally all hearsay evidence. What a joke,” the post on the GOP account said of Hutchinson’s testimony about Donald Trump’s last days as president.

Hutchinson, an aid to former White House chief of staff Mark

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Journal Club 09-30-22 – Passive Income

Here’s Journal Club 09-30-22! Every week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After filtering through the articles on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this week. Be safe and stay well!


  • Are you wondering if you should open a 529 account to fund your child’s K-12 education? Or debating whether a Roth IRA or 403(b) would be a better fit for you? Well, The White Coat Investor addresses these questions and more around investing in – 529s, I Bonds, TIPS, S Corps, ETFs, and 403(b)s. Check it out. There’s a little something for everyone in there.
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These 10 cities are seeing the biggest jump in foreclosures as high home prices and property taxes bite

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  • Foreclosures are surging in key pockets of the US housing market.

  • A Realtor.com analysis identified 10 cities where foreclosures were seeing the biggest jump.

  • Overall, foreclosures have surged 13% in the first half of 2023, compared to a year ago.

Foreclosures are surging, thanks to higher home prices and property taxes biting into homeowner finances.

To be sure, there is no nation-wide wave of foreclosures coming like during the Great Recession, and the recent uptick hasn’t been evenly spread across the housing market, according to a new Realtor.com analysis.

But foreclosure filings have surged in key pockets

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The Hot Wedding Gift This Season? Money, to Buy a House

Published: Jun. 28, 2023 at 5:00 AM CDT

Eighty percent of recent wedding registry creators say that if they were to do it again, they’d include an option for people to gift money toward a new home

SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Crock pots and matching linens are out and down payments are in, according to a new survey from Realtor.com® and Censuswide. The research finds that newlyweds would rather skip traditional gift-givers in favor of financial gifts toward the purchase of a home, but many feel obligated to register for traditional gifts they

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Rent prices in Tampa Bay, other Fla. cities, fall for the first time since the pandemic

TAMPA, Fla. — The Realtor.com® May Rental Report found renters are beginning to see some relief, with the median asking monthly rent in the 50 largest US metros decreasing -0.5% year-over-year to $1,739.

Rent in the Tampa Bay area saw a decline of -4.0%, while there was a -2.3% decline in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford area.

Nationally, rent prices increased $3 from last month but were down $38 from the July 2022 peak. Realtor.com®’s 2023 Forecast Update predicts that rents will continue to drop, averaging -0.9% from 2022.

“In May, we saw the first year-over-year decline in rents, a sea-change from the