Certified Probate Real Estate Specialist Lydia Wietsma talks about the 7 mistakes people make

What is probate? Probate is the court process required to distribute someone's assets when that person passes without a Trust. Did you know that 95% of folks do not have a trust in place or have a Trust that is incorrect and will require some type of Probate. What is a Certified Probate Real Estate
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In the past, Broadtree “had predominantly financed our assets with government-sponsored entity debt,” said Ryan Albano, Broadtree's chief financial officer, referring to loans secured by agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. “That's certainly attractive from a cost-of-capital perspective, but we
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New York – Barclays has agreed to pay $2 billion in civil penalties to the U.S. government to settle a lawsuit alleging that it was involved in a fraudulent scheme to sell residential mortgage-backed securities. The announcement was made Thursday by the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn. The Justice
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Lance Lambert of Realtor.com notes that Ohio's got it easier than other markets in some respects. The average down payment in the Columbus metro is above Cincinnati (8.6 percent) and Cleveland (8.7 percent) but to truly appreciate how the local housing market compares, see how bad things are on
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Canada's economic output unexpectedly contracted in January, as the impact of tougher real estate regulations and oil sands shutdowns further applied to the brakes to an already sluggish economy. Statistics Canada reported that real gross domestic product declined by 0.1 per cent in January from
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From Freddie Mac's weekly survey: The 30-year fixed averaged 4.44 percent, down 1 basis point from last week's 4.45 percent. The 15-year fixed averaged 3.90 percent, also down 1 basis point from last week's 3.91 percent. The Mortgage Bankers Association reported a 4.8 percent increase in loan
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From J. Kibel/Indvl & AIF, J. Kibel/Indvl & AIF, J. Kibel/Indvl & AIF, S. Downes/Indvl & AIF and L. Kibel to Property Solutions, LLC, metes and bounds, formerly Lot …. From Maeb Family Trust, S. Simpkins/TR and S. Simpkins/TR to RC and RS Real Estate, LLC, Lot 2, 905 Lakeview Dr., Statesville, $16,500,
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Nearly a year on from the Global Crisis, many argue that the international banking system remains broken. Anat Admati discusses how the structure of banks makes them fragile, and why they should be regulated in order to withstand shocks. This video was originally published by the CORE Project in
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On the other hand, a robust registration form calling for job title, company, industry, and (for example) the types of questions attendees would like to see addressed in the presentation allows you to build an individual profile of each registrant: what they do, where they do it, their assumed place in the law
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An Uber spokesperson declined to comment to Fortune about the settlement. Herzberg was struck by one of Uber's autonomous vehicles on the night of March 18 as she crossed a busy street while pushing her bicycle. Although a human driver was inside the self-driving car as a precautionary measure,
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Investors sentiment increased to 0.92 in Q4 2017. Its up 0.07, from 0.85 in 2017Q3. It improved, as 22 investors sold Science Applications International Corporation shares while 81 reduced holdings. 40 funds opened positions while 55 raised stakes. 25.90 million shares or 1.37% less from 26.26 million
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Using the blockchain technology to disrupt the real estate market, Alt.Estate has a strong potential to become an industry standard for the blockchain-based real estate transactions. A strong technology stack, a go-to-market strategy with 10X leverage, a working prototype with three tokenized apartments
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It was the government's first official statement on the size of non-performing assets (NPAs) of Indian banks and how the buildup of such deadweight liabilities took place with both private and government owned banks. In reply to the Unstarred Question No 4614, Shiv Pratap Shukla, minister of state in the
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“The combination of Redfin's full service real estate brokerage, Title Forward, and now Redfin Mortgage is a hat trick for homebuyers in the state of hockey.” Redfin notes that its real estate agents are not compensated for recommending Redfin Mortgage or Title Forward. The company also said that it
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Keith Villa, the man who created the recipe for the popular Blue Moon beer, has a new project: a marijuana-infused beer made by his new brewing company. Instead of being brewed with alcohol, the beer will be infused with marijuana that is designed to mimic the effects of drinking a traditional beer.
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Meanwhile, though Kansas City is far from the largest industrial market, it is being spotlighted as a big-box industrial market to watch in a new Colliers International report. According to the CBRE survey, respondents anticipate that occupier trends with the largest impact on commercial real estate
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Powers founded The Strand Partners of Boca Raton and Los Angles, a private investment group. The firm makes “selective direct and fund investments across regions, strategies and asset classes,” according to its website. The company invests in real estate, the hospitality industry and natural resources
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[LONDON] Barclays Plc agreed to pay $2 billion in civil penalties to settle a US investigation into its marketing of residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and 2007. The probe resolves a rare Justice Department lawsuit that the bank has battled since the waning days of the Obama
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During the housing bust, nonbank lenders failed in droves as home prices fell and borrowers stopped making payments, fueling a wider financial crisis. Yet when banks dramatically cut back home loans after the crisis, it was nonbank mortgage companies that stepped into the breach. Now, nonbanks
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Institutions account for 42.53% of MGI's outstanding shares, a significant enough holding to move stock prices if they start buying and selling in large quantities, especially when there are relatively small amounts of shares available on the market to trade. Although MGI has a high institutional ownership,
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