If you’ve already done your taxes this year, good for you! Hopefully you’re looking forward to a nice refund check. If you haven’t filed your taxes, one reason may be that you expect to owe money and want to put it off as long as possible. Did you know buying a home can have a positive impact on your tax return? If you’re sick of writing that check to Uncle Sam year after year, consider this Continue Reading
Profiles of Philadelphia: Northern Liberties
Ask anyone what the hottest neighborhood in Philadelphia is, and they are likely to say Fishtown/Northern Liberties, two smaller neighborhoods that pretty much run together. Northern Liberties is north of Old City and bordered by Girard Avenue to the north, Callowhill Street to the south, North 6th Street to the west, and the Delaware River to the east. Fishtown is roughly bordered by Delaware Continue Reading
Profiles of Philadelphia: Fairmount
Fairmount, or the Art Museum district is considered one of Philadelphia’s premiere neighborhoods. Often paired with the Spring Garden neighborhood, the area was historically a home for prominent businessmen, but also diverse, as it houses Eastern State Penitentiary (and previously, many of the prison’s workers), and formerly Baldwin Locomotive Works and many breweries, opened in the nineteenth Continue Reading
Why Buying a Home in the Off-Season May Be the Right Choice
The spring and summer housing season is busy in Philadelphia. Without the hassle of winter weather, and the end of the school year right around the corner, many people list their homes Between March and July. They are hoping to capture some of the large number of people who want to close on a home in the late spring and summer months, before school starts again in September. There is definitely Continue Reading
First Time Home Buyers and Big Bang Theory
Since I actually have a background in bio-chemistry (super geek), I thought it would be a great way to kick off the blog by combining my expertise in both science and real estate. Watch a lot of those television programs about buy a house, and you might come away thinking that those beautiful people in that gorgeous home got there after a pea with the mass of a trillion suns exploded a long Continue Reading
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