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Online Customer Support Center Helps You Get More Out of LotNetwork.com

We have launched our new Online Customer Support Center and think you will really love how it enhances your customer service experience on LotNetwork.com and helps you get more out of your membership. The Online Customer Support Center is the newest feature that adds to LotNetwork.com’s customer-focused philosophy, and joins our existing 24-7 telephone hotline and customer support email interfaces.  Now there are 3 ways that you can get help and support on LotNetwork.com. Site Updates & Improvements You may have noticed that we’ve added a number of major site improvements at LotNetwork.com over the past few months. One of…

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Understanding Property Taxes

Whether you own a vacant lot, single-family home or a commercial building, you likely will pay property taxes. These types of taxes have been collected in the U.S. since early colonial days, and they are not going away. In the words of Benjamin Franklin…”Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” Here’s some information to help you better understand property taxes. What are Property Taxes? A property tax is a tax that is imposed by a local government entity, like a county, city or town, on the value of property in its jurisdiction. Unlike income or inheritance taxes that are connected to…

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New Years Resolutions for Selling Property in 2014 — And A Look Back At Some Hot Topics

Happy New Year from LotNetwork.com, and here’s to a great 2014 for you whether you are selling residential lots and land, buying property for a new home or project, or building and developing to sell new homes.  We covered many useful real estate and homebuilding topics in 2013, and will give you a brief overview of some of our most popular posts from the past year that you can use throughout this new year too.  List Now & Sell Your Property with these 3 New Years Resolutions Start off your new year with a fresh look at your property listings….

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Sell Land, Development Projects & Portfolios of Residential Lots with “Project Listings”

A frequent question we hear at LotNetwork.com is from sellers and their brokers asking how they should create their listings when selling residential development projects, land for development or multiple residential lots in bulk. Because LotNetwork.com was created to meet the needs of professionals in the homebuilding and residential real estate development industries, we have just the tools that are needed to help sellers market – and help buyers find! – these types of multi-lot and development property listings. A Common Need — Selling Multiple Lots or Development Projects It’s common for residential developers and homebuilders to need to sell…

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Analyzing Housing Markets: Hot Spots for High Income Homes

There are all kinds of information and data that you can use when evaluating housing markets for homebuilding and real estate purposes. A Washington Post article from a few years ago provides some interesting insight about where the highest earning citizens live in our country. Not surprisingly, this article was noting that many live in the DC area. Of note is that the article included a color-coded, searchable map of the US based on counties. US Map Shows Wealthiest Counties As an investment and housing market research tool, you can view this US Map tool to quickly identify the wealthiest US Counties based on Census…

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Finding the Right Business Partner to Improve Your Game in Real Estate, Homebuilding & Development

Most people in real estate and home building will consider at some point whether to team with a business partner. Let’s face it, sometimes it just does not make sense to try to do things on your own. And whether you’re embarking on a large-scale development project, building a single home or investing in your first real estate venture, the right business partner in the right situation could be the key to help you improve your game and your likelihood of success. Building partnerships can be a very broad topic (entire books and courses teach the subject), with a variety…

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Donating Land to Charities…and a Charitable Offer from LotNetwork.com

Charitable giving is big business in the U.S. It is estimated that $316.23 billion was donated in 2012 by American individuals, corporations and foundations. Americans donate money, clothes, food, their time, household items, cars, boats, homes, and…land. In fact, 2-3% of charitable donations involve land, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Land, whether a residential lot or large acreage, is often donated: 1)      to help a greater cause, 2)      as part of a family or corporate legacy, or 3)      for tax benefits or other financial purposes (or a combination of these motives). Land owners with unwanted property sometimes decide to…

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Flood Insurance Changes Could Drown Housing Markets

A new federal law that is intended to overhaul the nation’s flood insurance system could have devastating effects on homeowners, homebuilders and others in the housing industry in coastal and flood-risk areas. President Obama signed the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act into law in July of 2012, and it is being phased in over time. Much of the nation is not even aware of this legislation and its potential impact on American consumers and the housing markets, but the changes have many homeowners, homebuilders, real estate agents and government officials in coastal and flood-prone states scrambling. The Biggert-Waters Act seeks…

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