Liz Warren
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Here is the lastest info for you to download concerning the $8,000 tax credit. Take advantage of this opportunity today!
Call or email me now for area homes this program will work for. Selection is fantastic! Homes in Brightwood, Rhododendron and Welches will qualify!
Call me now at 503-705-3090!
WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
Waiting for your ship to come in? Think you need to win the lottery to become a millionaire? Waiting for your inheritance to come through? Dream on - but don't hold your breath. The truth is that "steady as she goes" is the watchword for accumulating real wealth. In baseball terms, the method would be to hit plenty of "singles" and "doubles" and forget about the "home runs."
Consider this method for becoming a millionaire: At age 25, begin setting aside just $100 each month. Invest the money at 12% - yes that is do-able! At age 65, you would have accumulated $1,176,477. In other words, if you never increased the $100 per month, regardless of all the raises and increases in income you experienced over your lifetime, you would have over $1,000,000 in your investment account.
Now let's say you received a very modest $1,000 per year increase in pay over your 40 year working life. By putting aside an additional $250 each year (just 25% of your yearly raise), an additional $191,772 would be added to your million-plus nest egg.
Better yet, here's the easiest method. Beginning at age 20, put $2,000 per year into an IRA for just three years. Never add another nickel to the account. At age 65, the account would be worth $1,153,180.
What if you're already 45 years old (the average age at which Americans begin saving)? You would need to put aside $1,100 each month for 20 years at 12% - giving you $1,187,106 at age 65.
Financial security requires patience, persistence, and self-discipline (sort of like real-life). Spend less than you earn, and put the rest to work for you. It's a simple formula that few ever attempt, yet it yields unfailing results!
This is an awesome cabin with all the upgrades completed! Just reduced by $15,000! Located right on the creek with a huge sunny deck and tall vaulted ceilings!!!! Now only $240,000!
When is the perfect time to purchase on Mt. Hood? Well opportunity is knocking on your door RIGHT NOW! Check out today's market cycle. Many people purchased in 2005 and 2006 at the top of the cycle but now we are in the low risk segment. We have plenty of properties to choose from, interest rates that are the lowest in decades, and anxious sellers. The combinations couldn't be better to make that investment now!
There are a lot of black bears in our local area. Humans are coming into more contact with them especiallyl in our summer months. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is having a presentation on black bears and how to avoid problems and what to do if you have a problem bear.
We have to live with them so lets find out the best way to do it
Thursday...........May 28th
7:00 pm
Located at the Hoodland fire station in Welches.
Here we go, the April numbers for sales in our Mt. Hood area are in. Total sales are down around 48% from last year's numbers. The next post will show what has sold over the past
PLEASE RELEASE ME!
Remember the song "Please release me, let me go"? If you've ever felt that someone or something had a hold on you and wouldn't let go, perhaps you needed an "attitude adjustment."
Why? Unless you are literally chained to a wall, people and things don't have a "hold" on you. It is you who have taken hold of them, and refuse to let go. It's so easy to latch on to the situations, relationships, and baggage of others - believing it possible to have some control over their outcome.
The result is never-ending worry, sleeplessness, feelings of helplessness, and other symptoms of being "out-of-control." Anger is another matter - there seems to be so much of it today. TV shows are full of it. Anger is directed at family, the boss, the spouse, or anyone else in sight. Yet anger results from feeling that things or people are not doing what you think should be done. Anger is felt when you can't control the outcome.
The truth is we are only in control of our own lives and actions - nothing more. Buddha had it right when he said, "Learn to let go." Martin Luther said, "Let go and let God." Regardless of who said it, or how it was said, letting go will open many doors of happiness in your future.
THESE SHOES ARE MADE FOR WALKING!!
Remember one of the ancient sayings from your first-grade teacher? It went something like this: "We learn to do by doing."
So . . . from "Chicken Soup" comes this story by John Holt:
"Not many years ago I began playing the cello. Most people would say that what I am doing is 'learning to play' the cello. But these words carry into our minds the strange idea that there exist two very different processes: 1) learning to play the cello; and 2) playing the cello. They imply that I will do the first until I have completed it, at which point I will stop the first process and begin the second. In short, I will go on 'learning to play' until I have 'learned to play' and then I will begin to play. Of course, this is nonsense. There are not two processes, but one. We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way."
How do we learn to swim? Do we get the basics in a classroom, taught to us on a chalkboard, and then hit the pool like Mark Spitz or Esther Williams? How about riding a bike? Do we study the laws of physics, the effects of gravitational pull, or other Einstein-like theories, and then launch ourselves into the top spot in the "Tour de France?" No - we just fall down and scrape our knees a lot.
Want to add new direction to your life? Begin walking in that direction. Put one foot in front of the other. In other words, "Just do it!" It all begins with your imagination harnessing the power of your mind and the energy of your body. Once you choose a new role for your life, don't learn the part - act the part. One other thing - don't let that "single thorn of experience" deter you!
According to recent news events, things are improving slightly in the home sales department in the US. Well, perhaps a little. But, what is really selling? If you take a look at the first quarter numbers, according to NAR, the National Association of Realtors, half of all home sales were to first time home buyers.
It's also known that half of all sales in the first quarter were foreclosures and short sales. So, we have investors picking up foreclosers and short sales and first time home buyers picking up the rest. These sales are homes at the bottom of the pricing scale causing the median price of homes to decrease at a rapid rate. The mid and high end price ranges are not moving causing these homes to continue to decline in pricing.
Sure sales have increased in California, Florida and Nevada. These are states that have the most inventory and depressed prices in the US. Investors and first time home buyers are starting to work this inventory over but when will the recovery hit the rest of the pricing ranges? Stay tuned.
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