Author Archive for Renita Davis
Renita Davis has been writing on housing, real estate and environmental topics for 15 years. With a focus on public relations, marketing and reporting documents, she works behind-the-scenes to produce award-winning copy for newsletters, speeches, advertorials, award entries and annual reports.
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Preparing Your Atlanta Real Estate for a Disaster-Prone Environment
Do you remember the kid from elementary school who was accident prone? If there was a mishap on the playground, he was probably involved. If anyone broke a leg on a field trip, you could bet she would be the one. Maybe that kid was even you!
In recent months, the US has been disaster-prone, with [...]
Earthquake Insurance: Who Needs It?
If the Washington Monument were somebody’s home or private business, do you think the owner would have carried earthquake insurance? Yet, here it is, uninhabitable and closed to visitors and earning potential. Who would have expected such a thing?
While this is not an effort to use scare tactics, perhaps it truly is time for owners [...]
Buy, Rent, Then Sell Atlanta Real Estate
Back in the good old days (you know, a few years ago when people were buying homes like crazy), many Atlanta real estate investors could buy a home, fix it up a little, and flip it for a nice profit. It was easy because demand was high and loans were plentiful. Part of that demand [...]
Mortgage Help For the Unemployed
If you bought your Atlanta new home before January 1, 2009, and you are currently receive unemployment benefits, you may be able to get a 12-month forbearance on your mortgage. Until the Treasury Department changed the rules in July, lenders were required to give only a three-month forbearance period.
Of course, there are rules. In this [...]
Foreclosure Market Sees Progress
Slowly but surely, things seem to be moving forward in the foreclosure market, where both notices of new foreclosures and size of shadow inventory (homes that have been or are being foreclosed but aren’t in the marketplace yet) are down. The good news was recently reported on the Equifax Personal Finance Blog by guest author [...]
