I want to buy a home in a new community subdvision in Houston, Tx. Do all required a maintenance annual fee?
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A lot of new home subdivisions are being built as common interest developments.  If you want to buy a property in one of these developments you must join the association.  In every association I have ever herd of there is always some type of fee.  Sometimes the fees are small, just some type of management fee.  Other times the association pays for gardening, maintenance, roads etcetera.  I know in some areas it can be hard to find properties that don’t belong to some type of association.  They do however exist; you just have to find them.  Oh, I almost forgot, if you decide to buy in an association community, read the CC&R’s VERY carefully.  They often have strict requirements about what you can and can not do to, on or in your own property.  \nBest of luck to you.
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$95/sqfeet is an good average for a very good site and very good house in Houston. If you go outskirts on 290 or Katy, you may get it cheaper at around $65/sqft at nice neighborhoods.\nGo south, it is probably around $55-$65/sqft\n\nBest way to find out is to check realtor.com and make some searches in the zip code that you are interested in
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Check to see if you have a "by owner" business in your city.  They will help and you wont have to pay commission.
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Yes they are called property management co.s. They traditionally charge 10% of the rent and keep some of your money as prudent reserve for minor repairs. One must shop to find good ones in your area.
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That's not going to happen.\njust because that would require a full time webmaster to keep up with all the changes.\nA big place like LV is going to have two section 8 offices.\none for the city and another for the county.\nAll of those offices should have current listings but they change daily.  \nIt's possible to call an office have them Fax you a current listing.\nthe only other choice you have is the newspaper will have some listings the say section 8 approved. but if you find a place you like just call and ask the owner if he'll take it.\nhttp://www.lasvegasnewspapers.com/lvclassifieds/category_display.jsp?category=rent&display_day=0\n\nKeep in mind there steps you'll have to follow.\nonce you find a place it will be inspected before it can be aproved even if it was aproved in the past.\nyou can move in before that but if it fails inspection you may  be stuck with the lease.
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Depends...state specific question. Contact your local Association of Realtors.
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You've paid a lawyer for this, why aren't you asking the lawyer? Why are you near Houston? Are you planning on staying in that area? Why is it costing you more than if you were someplace else?\n\nContact the office of one of the US Senators or the Congressional Representative for your district. They may be able and willing to help you.
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My dad owns two appartment buildings besides the house we live in. One is a triplex and the other one is also a triplex but with a corner store.\n\nWe try to do all the maintainance ourselves, and if we cannot, we call someone, after researching best price for quality.\n\nKeep the rules tight, no loose ends. Always take the rent for a new resident for the first and last month. That way if they run away (happened to us twice), you do not actually lose anything.\n\nIf the tenants stay in the building for a long time and they are good, we try not to increase the rent much each year. For example, the grocery store guy gives started at like 700 per month, but after like over 15 years, we capped it at 1250.
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Assuming you're building on your primary residence, yes. The county code says that "Any additions, alterations or repairs to single-family residences performed by the property owner upon his own property, provided any addition or alteration shall not exceed 1,000 square feet or the square footage of the primary structure, whichever is less" are exempt. If you are not the owner, but are building it on a single-family residence, then the total cost must be under $5,000. Otherwise, no, you need a permit. The relevant section of the source below is 18.2
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There is such a thing as No Money Down financing.  I did thatabout two years ago.  You have to pay an additional insurance payment each month.  We refinanced after a year, and the value of the condo went up, so the insurance payment is gone.
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Yes and no.  By the way, I am a real estate agent in Texas, although currently not active. Keep in mind also that rules and laws in every state are different.  You can confirm everything I'm going to tell you by talking to an experienced real estate agent or realtor and a real estate lawyer in your state.\n\nWhen you say "trade in", it's not like a car where the same company that sells new cars also buys used cars to immediately resell to someone else.\n\nThere are mobile home sellers who sell used mobile homes who can purchase your mobile home from you at the same time that you are purchasing a new house from someone else.\n\nYou can also find someone to buy your mobile home while you work the deal so that at the same time, someone else is selling you their house that you want to buy.\n\nYou can also sell your mobile home at the same time and to the same person who is going to sell you their conventional house.  Why would anyone who's selling their house to you buy a mobile home from you at the same time?  Good question!  If your mobile home is worth $10,000 and you were willing to sell it to the home seller for $8,000 in return for the convenience of you being able to move out of your mobile home and into their conventional home on the same day, why not, if the house seller felt he or she could make $2000 on the deal for their trouble by purchasing the mobile home from you and immediately turning around and reselling it to someone else for $2000 more than they paid for it from you?  It's also possible that the house seller might be interested in purchasing the mobile home from you and then renting it out to someone else who would want to live there.  Everything is negotiable in home purchasing and of course, the numbers I'm giving here are only examples.  What you negotiate with the home seller can end up very different.\n\nAs long as everything is above-board and legal, there's no problem.  You assure this by finding a real estate agent or realtor who is experienced and can advise you and get everything properly in writing.  You should also let a real estate lawyer oversee the transaction to keep you out of legal trouble.  This is partly the real estate agent's function but a real estate agent is just not as knowledgeable in the law as a lawyer.  And you're dealing in big money, so it's prudent to use both.  You should be sure and deal only with a REAL ESTATE lawyer.\n\nBy the way, if you find a real estate agent who says you can't do what I just told you, I suggest you keep looking and find one who's a little older and more experienced.  And maybe a little more hungry. (Some agents aren't that experienced and others might not want to be bothered with stuff that's out of the ordinary).\n\nAfter all this, as long as you find a bank that will finance your home purchase for whatever amount you need after subtracting the mobile home price from the house price, based on your income and credit rating, your in like Flint.\n\nGo for it!
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Try www.century21.com and maybe find a local agent that way.
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I am assuming that you are referring to Connecticut Housing Finance Authority. Whether you are or not (CA and CO) they are all basically the same. You either have to be a first time homebuyer or not have home ownership interest with in the last three years. The only exceptions to this is 1) if you are purchasing with in a census targeted location with in the state 2) Recently divorced and can produce documentation of the separation. \n\nOther areas that you have to be concerned is that there are income and sales price limits for specific locations based on township and/or targeted census locations. \n\nThere is a lot more information, but I am not going to post it, but you can either email me if you have any more questions. You can also go to their website at WWW.CHFA.ORG.
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It depends on regularity of usage. If it involves a membership- monthly fee is most common, for others per use.
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In California our lendor did not require it, and we ended up not paying for an inspection.  We had no problems.  Most home builders will provide a pretty decent warranty that you can use to fix things that come up (and they will) during the first year.  \n\nA walk through is generally required and you will probably find somethings and they will probably point out some things they are aware of....if something makes you think an inspection is needed go for it....but I'd save the money.
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In a condo, you own the physical unit itself, and pay maintenance for common areas; with a coop, you own shares in a corporation and allow yourself to "rent" your unit.  Your maintenance is much higher in a coop than a condo.  In a condo, you can vote on issues; with a coop, you vote for a representative for the shareholders, there is also the agent's rep, and usually the sponsors' rep on the board.  Sometimes when you sell a coop, there's a flip tax that has to be paid back to the coop board.  We bought a coop on Long Island in 1990 - big mistake - the maintenance was high when we bought - $800 (you pay the underlying sponsor's mtg.; taxes; garbage; water; super's salary; managing agent's fee, etc. thru maintenance in a coop), and eventually got to $1,200 per mo. due to balloon payments on the underlying mtg.  When we wanted to sell, we were in a jam - you can lower the price and take whatever hit you want, but you can't change the monthly maintenance - it took us 2 years to sell (I had a 2 bedroom unit and had three children there - it was rough) - we took a $20,000 loss but it was worth getting outta there!
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In the event of a loss, they will pay for you tol live comfortably at a substitute location While your home is made right again.  If power, gas, and water was not something you were paying at your old location but you are required to pay for at the temporary location, they will pay for that.  If it was something you would have paid anyway, then no.