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Verification solutions provider Xactus acquires MassiveCert

Housing Wire

MassiveCert, in addition to flood zone determinations, provides elevation certificates, Letters of Map Amendment services, private flood compliance, and real-property risk assessment. Up until now, Xactus obtained data from third parties. Servicers, are you prepared for hurricane season?

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Role Play: Appraisers and their Intended Uses

Appraisal Buzz

The changes we’re seeing in our industry today and in the forms investors are requiring lenders to use to present our opinions of value, are changing in pursuit of optimization and efficiency. There can be a wide variance between what intended users require in terms of property data, think lenders versus tax assessors.

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Make Your First Investment Property an Attractive and Profitable Option

Cleveland Appraisal Blog

Today, Cleveland Appraisal Blog shares a few tips for first-time investors. When you’re about to buy your first real property outside of your primary residence, you should know whether you’re going into it with the intention of renting or if you want to flip and make an immediate profit. Decide on How to Proceed. Questions?

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Investing in Commercial Property for Sale in Columbus, Ohio? The Complete Beginner’s Guide!

The Robert Weiler Company

Also, find out what benefits the new tax bill brought to the commercial real estate industry, particularly for Ohio investors; these benefits might motivate you to make that buy decision quicker than you thought! TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Upside (and Downside) of Buying Commercial Property for Sale in Columbus, Ohio.

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What Is a Land Contract In Ohio? Full Guide [2021 Update]

The Robert Weiler Company

Learn how you, the real estate investor, can avoid the bank and make an agreement directly with the seller. As such, some investors that purchase Ohio property for sale for the purpose of flipping consider offering a land contract for their real property. Let us give you a lay of the land (pun intended)!

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Where Does Water Frontage End?

McKissock

Making a very long story short, an enterprising individual investor discovered the gap and legally acquired that 8-foot strip between the lots and the water’s edge. The homeowners balked at the proposal as well as the prices, and they united to fight this investor.

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What’s in a Sales Contract? Insights from a Seasoned Appraiser

McKissock

Secondly, the appraiser is likely familiar with the local real estate contract forms, customary terms, and conditions of real estate transactions in the area, and might be able to identify irregularities and comment on them. And then to complicate things even more, there’s the investor segment of the market.