November 2009

Northside Manitowoc Home for Sale near the coveted N. 14th & Waldo Blvd intersection

Sunday, November 8th, 2009 at 3:26pm. 233 Views, 0 Comments.

This beautiful turn-key Manitowoc home is located only a football field length from the coveted N. 14th and Waldo Blvd intersection.  For starters this Manitowoc northside home has maintenance free exterior with it's newer siding, windows, roof, and concrete.  1031 N. 14th Street, Manitowoc, boasts a 24 x 30 detached garage which is fully plumbed for running water, has two floor drains, a designated wash bay, is fully heated & temperature controlled, fully air conditioned, painted floors for easy clean up, and is also wired for 100 amp service with its own breaker box.  Above the 24 x 30 garage is a fully carpeted and finished off rec room approximately 23 1/2 x 12.  Still not enough garage space?  No problem!  1031 N. 14th Street also has a smaller but…

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The net effect of government intrusions in the Manitowoc Two Rivers Real Estate Market

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 at 10:08pm. 162 Views, 0 Comments.

Phoenix Realtor Greg Swann suggested I share this with you:

As I write this, the entire real estate industry is on tenterhooks, waiting to see if the $8,000 first-time home-buyers tax credit is going to be extended.

It’s not really a tax credit, it’s a taxpayer-funded subsidy, a “gift” extracted by force from everyone who does not buy a house under the program. The money taken from taxpayers — either now or later by deficit spending — is money that cannot be spent or invested elsewhere.

And it’s not as though this were a zero-sum game. The actual marginal sales — the home sales that would not have happened without the subsidy — may have cost taxpayers from $40,000 to $75,000 each. And as huge as those numbers are, they ignore the…

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