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- Property Tax Protest Deadline Nears
- For most property owners, May 31 is the deadline for filing a property tax protest. Protesting property taxes is a simple, "Owner-friendly" process most Harris county residents don't take advantage of annually. This paper explains Some interesting facts about property tax protests: in 2006, 68 percent of appeals by homeowners...
- White papers 2007-05-29
- Tips On The Appraisal Review Board Hearing
- Even though most property tax appeals are resolved at the informal hearing, in some cases the homeowner will need to pursue the next step by appealing at the Appraisal Review Board ARB hearing. If a homeowner is not satisfied with the offer the appraiser makes at the informal hearing, the...
- White papers 2006-06-20
- Use The Appraisal District's Information To Reduce Your Property Taxes
- Homeowners are amazed to learn they can obtain a copy of the appraisal district's evidence at a nominal cost. This is referred to as a House Bill 201 package, and is the only information many homeowners use to successfully reduce their property taxes. Obtaining a House Bill 201 package when...
- White papers 2006-04-25
- Protect Your 10% Property Tax Cap
- Homeowners must annually protest their property taxes to preserve their right to a 10% maximum increase in their assessed value. The Texas Property Tax Code provides that the maximum increase in a homeowner's assessed value is 10% per year times the number of years since the property has been appraised....
- White papers 2006-04-24
- Appealing Property Taxes For Your Home: The Basics
- Property taxes are a substantial expense for Texas homeowners, averaging about $3,600 annually. To reduce this expense, property owners should annually review and consider appealing property taxes. While there is no guarantee that an appeal will be successful. Since the mortgage company typically disperses payments, property taxes tend to be...
- White papers 2006-03-31
- Home Selling Exclusions: A Great Benefit for Homeowners
- For many years, there were two tax concepts which helped save homeowners from paying a lot of capital gains tax: the "Roll-over" and the "Once in a lifetime." However, the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, signed by President Clinton on August 5, 1997, abolished both of these concepts. The roll-over...
- White papers 2006-01-30
- Homeowners Insurance
- The cost of insuring homes is expected to rise by 2.8 percent in 2004, the smallest increase in five years, said the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). The projected increase represents a substantial slowdown from 2003 when homeowner's insurance costs rose by an estimated 7.4 percent, the I.I.I. observed. The average...
- White papers 2004-06-02
- Homeowners Insurance Coverage's: An Actuarial Study of the Frequency and Cost of Claims for the State of Michigan
- The paper found that the nature of homeowner's insurance losses is significantly different for each of the policy forms, and that the perils have significantly different impact on the losses for those forms. The claims and loss costs vary significantly by geographical areas within Michigan and these geographical variations are...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Is Your Home Prepared for Frigid Temperatures?
- This paper gives suggestion for insurance claim against the property loss to homeowner. As many parts of the country experience frigid temperatures, it's important for homeowners to prevent weather-related damage to their property, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). Standard home-owners policies will cover most of the kinds of...
- White papers 2004-01-15
- Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI): New Law Requires Lenders to Cancel PMI
- PMI is extra insurance that lenders require from most homebuyers who obtain loans that are more than 80 percent of their new home's value. In other words, buyers with less than a 20 percent down payment are normally required to pay PMI. This article states that every homeowner will want...
- White papers 2003-10-16
- Homeowner's insurance basics
- Homeowner's insurance, also called property insurance, protects you from damages which includes Dwelling, Personal property, Liability, Living expenses etc. Like any other type of insurance, you pay a premium to buy a homeowner's insurance policy. An insurance company bases your premiums on which includes Claims in your area, Value of...
- White papers 2003-09-08
- Buying homeowner's insurance
- While the residential mortgage market continued to pace a modest economic recovery in the U.S. in 2002, homeowners found themselves paying more for homeowner's insurance. Homeowner's insurance protects homeowners from damages to there home that are sustained from bad weather, tornados, fire and similar casualty losses. Mortgage lenders require borrowers...
- White papers 2003-09-08
- Conference Report
- The article asserts that the key to restoring profitability is to put the “who” into homeowners rating. Personal auto insurance has long made use of rating variables reflecting the quality of drivers, while homeowners, rating has relied on traditional variables related to construction, fire protection, and territory. The growing use...
- White papers 2003-04-01
- Tax Breaks for Homeowners
- It’s no surprise that 67 percent of all households in the United States now own the homes they occupy. Subsidies and tax breaks for homeowners have become an American tradition and a political sacred cow that few politicians would dare challenge. But more important, federal policy makers realized some time...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Privileges Re: Insurer-Reinsurer Communications
- Homeowners' property damage insurance protects the insured against loss of a home or personal property. This article outlines some legal issues common to property damage insurance. Those issues are: Proof of Loss; Improper Claims Practice; Delay and Denial; Limitations on Action; and Valuation of Interest or Recovery. For each issue...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- You Can Go Home Again: Returning Home After a Natural Disaster
- In the moments after a tornado, fire or other disaster turns your home into a ruin; it's natural to feel lost. But there are ways to quickly find yourself on the road to rebuilding your house and replacing lost, damaged or destroyed personal possessions. There are several resources available to...
- White papers 2002-10-07
- Temporary Panel on Homeowners' Insurance Coverage:2001
- This report on Homeowners' Insurance Coverage, updates the issues affecting the affordability and availability of homeowners' insurance in New York State. The panel concludes that the New York homeowners' insurance market continues to improve as fewer and fewer New Yorkers are turning to the New York Property Insurance Underwriting Association,...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- Temporary Panel on Homeowners' Insurance Coverage
- The Temporary Panel on Homeowners' Insurance 2000 report provides updates on many of the issues that continue to impact the affordability and availability of homeowners' insurance in the Empire State. Accordingly, the Panel provides this update on the recommendations unanimously made by the Market Dynamics Subcommittee in the 1999's report.
- White papers 2000-05-01
- What is in a Standard Homeowners Insurance Policy?
- A standard homeowner's insurance policy includes four essential types of coverage. They include coverage for the structure of home, coverage for personal belongings, liability protection, additional living expenses in the event a person is temporarily unable to live in his home because of a fire or other insured disaster. The...
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- NAR Statement on Defeat of Economic Stability Act
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by National Association of RealtorsR President Richard F. Gaylord: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080923/NARLOGO ) "The National Association of RealtorsR is extremely disappointed in the actions of the U.S. House of Representatives today in failing to pass the...
- Articles 2008-09-29
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