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I was shocked at my new tax appriasal. Even though I haven’t received mine in the mail, the 2009 tax appraisals for Shelby County, including areas withing the Memphis City limits are now on line at County Assessor Cheyenne Johnson’s site. The media has been saying that Midtown would receive a modest increase, like 2% [...]
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House on Norwood, originally uploaded by joespake. MAAR has released the February 2009 home sales data athttp://joespakeblog.activerain.com/post/997717/memphis-area-home-sales-stats-february-2009 Check out the national Real Estate news you don’t find at the regular places athttp://joespakeblog.activerain.com/post/997766/this-week-s-real-estate-news-from-the-cutting-edge-march-23-2009 Facebook LinkedIn Twitter
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The Daily News reported yesterday that the Center City Revenue Finance Corp. approved payment-in-lieu-of-taxes benefits for The Horizon, a high-rise building under construction at 717 Riverside Drive. It approved a 10-year PILOT tax abatement for the first phase of The Horizon, which is being developed by Riverside Bluffs LLC. The CCRFC bent it’s typical policies [...]
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Historic Aerials provides historic aerial photos based on address or longitude/latitude coordinates. I was able to find aerials from 2006, 1971, and 1958 for most of the Memphis addresses I tried: my house, the Zoo, Rhodes College. It is heavily watermarked, and offers the aerial shots for sale, but its a lot of fun to [...]
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According to Wayne Risher at the Commercial Appeal, the developer of the Horizon luxury condos at Riverside and Channel 3 Drive is converting the units to luxury apartments. Part of the announcement is a request to the City and County for a 10 year property tax freeze, worth about $10 Million. As I recall, the [...]
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I have seen a lot (probably way too much) info on the Credit and Mortgage Crisis. This is the best explanation I have seen. Take a few minutes and watch it. This really is what happened………….. The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. So, as you can see, it boils down to [...]
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Yesterday, President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (aka “the stimulus”) into law. While it is the largest spending bill in America’s history, and no one in Congress had fully read it, the much talked about perk for first time home buyers did make it into the bill. Here is a [...]
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If you don’t want to read this post, at least watch the second video!Billions of dollars to bail out the financial markets, which they use a significant portion of to pay out billions in bonuses to Wall Street fat cats, all the while tightening credit. Wasn’t the bailout’s purpose to loosen the financial markets and [...]
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