by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Oct 24, 2018 | Home Ownership, Real Estate Facts & Figures
Arizona’s homestead exemption allows a person to protect from certain creditors up to $150,000 of the equity in the home they live in (house, condominium, or mobile home). It applies only to non-consensual liens. A non-consensual lien is one which arises from a...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Oct 19, 2018 | Home Ownership, The Attorney-Broker Advantage
Recently I read a letter from a Canadian that owns a home in Arizona about a construction defect. The letter was in a magazine catering to Snowbirds, and the writer was complaining because he had been told that due to Arizona’s real property tax classifications,...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Oct 2, 2018 | Home Ownership
Santa Fe/Pueblo. Flat roofs, parapet walls with round edges, straight-edge window frames, earth-colored stucco or adobe-brick walls, and projecting roof beams (vigas) typify the Pueblo style. Ranch. A development of the Prairie and Craftsman styles, Ranch homes are...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Sep 28, 2018 | Home Ownership
Liability Issues. If the benefitted land owner plans construction on the property subject to the easement, the easement should require the benefitted party to indemnify and hold the other owner harmless from any liability resulting from the work. The benefitted party...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Sep 13, 2018 | Home Buying, Home Ownership
Feng shui is a Chinese philosophy that has the goal of achieving an auspicious and harmonious environment. It is important to Chinese-Americans, with 86% of those surveyed saying that feng shui will play a role in a future home-buying decision, and 79% saying they...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Sep 11, 2018 | Home Ownership
Here are some of the styles of older homes you will encounter in the South-West: Craftsman. Smallish single story with full or partial-width porches framed by tapered columns, overhanging eaves, and exposed roof rafters. Similar to, but usually slightly bigger than,...
