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June 2013
- Help I'm stuck in an Illinois real estate closing and can't get out!
- Early Cook tax bill may ruin your 4th of July
April 2013
- Why your BofA Short Sale to an LLC may be DOA
- Illinois Deficiency Judgment: Still rare, but it can happen
March 2013
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December 2012
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June 2012
- How I was banned from an underwater home forum
- Update on Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Act-no extension yet
May 2012
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February 2012
- Mortgage Debt Forgiveness may be extended through 2014
- What are an owner's last steps in a condo foreclosure?
January 2012
December 2011
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March 2011
February 2011
- Cook senior exemption now requires annual application
- Do I still need a trust with the new estate tax law?
January 2011
- Cook Co. real estate taxes will be due April 1
- High earners & strategic default
- Hammer time: 1099s coming soon for 2010 foreclosures
December 2010
November 2010
- Time to protest Palatine taxes is now
- Getting a mortgage after bk, short sale or foreclosure
- Cook Co. tax bills mailed yesterday
October 2010
- Strategic default in the news
- Monster in the closet: Collection agency or deficiency judgment?
- FHA mortgages get more expensive
September 2010
August 2010
July 2010
- File Chapter 7 - keep your guns
- FHA may tag Strategic Defaulters with Scarlet S for life
- Watch mail for Cook Co. suburban tax reassessments
- Getting credit after bankruptcy
- Tax credit extended to September 30
June 2010
- Forms for tax credit
- Strategic Default in Illinois: Q&A
- Strategic Default in Illinois - Last man out of a dead condo complex
- Buddha says: Seller should pre-inspect home
May 2010
- New law: Home title can be protected from creditors in living trust
- Is HAMP loan modification program dying?
- Speaking of septic, mold, radon and structural engineers...
- How to protest Cook Co. real estate taxes now
April 2010
- Living trust funding: Whose job is it?
- Will HAFA help speed up short sales?
- More buyers taking job loss insurance
March 2010
- Filing Chapter 7 in Illinois
- Check your Cook Co. 09 tax exemptions online
- Short sales improving
- How do I get a free nursing home?
- One less quirk to buying a Fannie Mae foreclosure
February 2010
- Investment property: When to file bankruptcy in a short sale or foreclosure
- The cost of probate
- Cook Co. 09 senior freeze and homeowner exemption forms are here
January 2010
- Unwelcome surprise: 1099 after foreclosure and short sale
- Cook County tax first installment 5% higher
- New form 5405 for home tax credit issued
- Foreclosure and deficiency judgments
- Best "cloud" programs
- Update on new short sale rules
December 2009
- Estate tax vanishes Jan 1: But watch out for capital gains tax
- Still waiting for new form 5405
- What's easier: Modify your loan or win the lottery?
- Buyers will need to wire funds to closing
- New HUD-1 form released
- Wait for new form to file for real estate tax credit
November 2009
- Bankruptcy filings sky high in Illinois
- Long and winding road in evictions
- Drama queen: The mortgage contingency clause
- Credit cards and bankruptcy
- The gnarley Cook 7% Expanded Homeowner's Exemption
- Condo mortgages tougher than ever
- Home buyer tax credit extended: The new rules
October 2009
- Illinois inheritance tax is alive and well
- Two steps and your will is done
- The Quirks of Buying a Fannie Mae Foreclosure
- Convenience bank accounts may cause probates
- Short sale vs. foreclosure
September 2009
August 2009
July 2009
- Supreme court gives retirement plan to ex-spouse
- Google maps to the real estate rescue
- How to get $8k tax credit asap
- FHA buyers can get downpayment from IL
June 2009
- FHA lenders now allowed to make loans for $8k tax credit
- Seller & attorney approval: Beware of killing contracts
May 2009
- One man's mortgage meltdown
- Stripping of foreclosed homes continues
- Lenders seeking money back after short sale
April 2009
- Good foreclosure blog
- Cook Co. predatory lending database protects FHA buyers
- Dealing with debt collectors
- Illinois 09 inheritance tax trap may be no more
- Renting a wireless card for a week
- FHA loans make up more than 30% of market
March 2009
February 2009
- Dropbox and Filecenter
- Bensenville pre-closing village inspection
- Cook Co. Senior Freeze applications mailed
- Ch. 13 can remove second mortgage
January 2009
- Newsweek: Can Facebook save real estate market?
- Most-used utility program
- 4% refi is gone
- How to buy real estate at the sheriff’s sale
- Mortgage lender fires her client
- Obama aims for $3.5 million estate tax exemption
- Large trusts may owe IL inheritance tax in 09
December 2008
- Closing volume has nowhere to go but up
- IRAs: No required distribution for 2009
- First-time buyer tax credit questions answered
- FDIC limits rise for living trusts
- How to create an Illinois Series LLC
- Are "Short sales" taxable?
November 2008
October 2008
June 2008
May 2008
- Choosing a blog platform
- So you want to buy a foreclosure?
- Real estate disclosure by trustee or executor
March 2008
- Can I get a copy of my uncle's will?
- You should be able to count your accounts on one hand
- Cook Co. Homeowner's & Senior exemption forms are here
February 2008
- The Subprime Mess...
- Buyer can cancel anytime if Real Estate disclosure not given
- Entry tax to Chicago increases
- What the candidates think about inheritance tax
- Greatest veteran's program that no one knows about...
October 2007
July 2007
April 2007
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January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
- What can't go in a living trust? Treasury Direct
- Screencast on Wills vs. Living Trusts
- The Illinois Deed Providers Controversy
October 2006
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April 2006
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August 2005
March 2005
February 2005
- How to Review a Living Trust
- Small Estates Can Hit $100,000
- Selling a Condo-Disclose Special Assessments
January 2005
August 2004
July 2004
- Assessment Notices Coming to Palatine Barrington
- Helping lawyers with weblogs
- Reasons not to use a mortgage broker
June 2004
May 2004
- Smooth Murabaha Closing
- Ding Dong the Exemption Postcard is Dead
- Which multiple listing service is for me?
- Bad Combo: Will and Safe Deposit Box
- Scan Away
April 2004
- Where's My Homeowner's Exemption Packet?
- Trusts and tax fraud
- Savings Bonds in Living Trust
- The Next Bucktown?
- Why LLC's Work for Real Estate Investors
- Internet Loans: Front Row Seat on the Titanic
March 2004
- Great Elder Law Blawg
- How Do Your Closing Costs Stack Up
- Land Trusts: How to Mess Up Your Estate
- Single Member LLC May Not Protect Assets
- How to Read Many Blogs at Once
- Real Estate Exchanges- in Reverse
- How to Clean Up a Disorganized Estate
February 2004
- $500 Discount Real Estate Listings Grow
- Medicaid for Those Between Home and a Nursing Home
- Robert Bruss Story on Living Trusts
- Will Your Homeowner's Insurance Hold Up if Your Property is Vacant?
- One of the Best Elder Law Sites on the Internet
- Mold is in the Air
- Illinois Security Deposit Hassles
- What to Do if Your Mortgage Lender Bails Out on You
- Truth about Annuities