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The thought of starting a decorating project is exciting or scary, depending on your experience, your budget, your taste, or your time. If you’ve never done any decorating at all, you might feel that you don’t know how or where to start. If this is old hat to you, you might not know where to…

Ready to paint? A little color psychology may be just what you need to create soothing and productive moods. Here Veronica Smith, writer in SheKnows.com, presents us a room-by-room rundown of the colors believed to work best in each of the most important rooms of your home, and the moods they create. While there probably…

The reasons given for buying international property are numerous and varied. For some, cheap properties for sale abroad could become the holiday home they have always dreamed of owning. For others, a holiday home is not enough and they want to start a new life abroad. Affordable property is a huge plus, and it’s available…

The real estate market has certainly been hammered the last few years and people are still wary of it. Yet, there are some rays of hope after all this mess – a handful of ways in which our mindsets, habits, behaviors and approaches to money, mortgage and even life decision-making – have been changed by…

Real estate ads are filled with code. Have you ever stumbled across a “cute house” with “good bones,” a “newly remodeled kitchen,” or a “partial lake/mountain view”? Recession brought a whole lot of new lingo to Real Estate that few people knows their meaning. This article by  Tara-Nicholle Nelson in Forbes.com reveals the meaning of…

You’ve probably heard of feng shui before. But I’m guessing there’s a good chance, that while intriguing, it’s always seemed a little too complicated to pay much attention to, right? You’re not alone. So what’s the feng shui hype all about? Based on ancient Eastern philosophies, feng shui is a series of guidelines intended to…

To the average American, it might seem ludicrous to suggest that the United States is not in a recession right now. But economists’ fuzzy definition of the term makes it hard to say when a recession actually starts until we’re well into one. The behavior of the housing sector over this recession is unlike anything…

Home appraisals determine the market value of your home.  A home appraisal is one of the most important aspects of selling your home. The value determined in the appraisal can sometimes make or break your ability to get maximum value out of your home on the open market. If you’re selling your home, getting a…

Everyone selling real estate in México is subject to Impuesto Sobre la Renta ISR (Income Tax) also known as Capital Gains Tax. The Notario Publico in charge of the purchase/sale transaction is the one responsible to calculate and report the gain and the tax generated from it to SAT  “Sistema de Administracion Tributaria” (IRS). The…