by Dan Polimino | Feb 5, 2010 | Buying, Financing, Hawaii Real Estate, Investing
Sure, as a new home buyer you are going to get your $8000 tax credit for buying a home (provided you close before the deadlines) and you will begin to “itemize” your tax deductions (real estate property taxes, mortgage interest, and points) going forward each year. All of these can potentially save you allot of money on your federal taxes which one of the many reasons people chose to buy rather than rent.
by Dan Polimino | Sep 23, 2009 | Buying, Hawaii Real Estate, Luxury Market, Selling
As a student of marketing, I am constantly fascinated by the data that reveals how people purchases things. There clearly has been a major paradigm shift in the way people find and buy real estate. When I do consulting, I always tell the companies, “Let’s...
by Dan Polimino | Sep 14, 2009 | Hawaii Real Estate, Luxury Market
My brother is in charge of North American sales for the world’s largest concrete and cement manufacturer. If anyone would have a good perspective about the stimulus plan from the Obama administration, it would be my brother. You see, the idea of the stimulus...
by Dan Polimino | Aug 24, 2009 | Financing, Hawaii Real Estate
What is the state of lending these days? Does anyone really know? I speak with lenders all the time and I seem to get a different answer or different points of view with each one of them. It’s not that I think they don’t know the answer, but I honestly...
by Dan Polimino | Jul 24, 2009 | Hawaii Real Estate
No question, the internet has changed the face of real estate and everyone seems to be scrambling, trying to figure out how you win the real estate game online. There are social networking blogs, IDX data searches, mobile plug-ins for your phone, national real estate...
by Dan Polimino | Jul 13, 2009 | Buying, Hawaii Real Estate, Luxury Market, Selling
It’s safe to say that there has never been a bigger chasm between seller and buyer than what we are experiencing right now. Sellers are getting offers anywhere from 10K off their asking price to several hundred thousand dollars off their asking price. So where...
