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  • Politics Is Like Hiring A Hitman
    by Scott Woods inPolitical on2020-08-13

    For me, politics is like hiring a hitman. I have values and things I care about. I care enough about them to at least bother voting for 5 minutes every year for one issue or another. And because I care at least that much, I vote for people who align with the ability to realize the things I care about.

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  • Punching Above Our Weight
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-07-24

    I believe our vote is the punctuation of our voice. Without that resounding exclamation mark, I believe our voices are just incoherent noise.

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  • BLACK PROGRESS AMIDST SOCIAL CHAOS
    by Roger Madison Jr. inPolitical on2020-06-16

    Recent events have raised the profile of historical injustice and inequities here in the USA. The entire world has taken note of the fact that BLACK LIVES MATTER.   We invite all of our friends to engage in actions that result in the greatest movement for change in our history. It is imperative that we take advantage of this opportunity to affect a positive change by ACTING IN OUR SELF-INTERESTS.

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  • Living in a Black No-Man's Land
    by Roger Madison Jr. inOur Community on2019-10-28

    There are many narratives that define the Black experience in America in this 2nd decade of the 21st century. Our striving over the centuries of our sojourn in this nation is a tapestry of every human experience -- oppression, enslavement, forced assimilation, dehumanization, exclusion, segregation, isolation, struggle, perseverance, achievement, excellence, celebration, mourning, despair, progress, setbacks, lynching, assassination, genocide, terror, self-hatred, low esteem, pride,...

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  • Fighting Racism
    by Scott Woods inOur Community on2018-10-25

    I had a boss who was racist. Not an outright bigot, of course; her toolbox was more subtle than most. We bumped heads a lot over inconsequential things. She frequently couldn’t keep my name out her mouth. Lot of gaslighting. You know…2018 style. I tried a lot of ways to combat or navigate her issues. None of them worked, and that’s saying a lot because I’m really good at fighting racism. But at the end of the day – every day – she was my boss, I had to deal with her, and that was that. Finally I...

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Rent to own in Denver

Armstrong Real estate from time to time answer questions covering the Denver Colorado housing market, regarding best time to buy, mortgage loans, and apartment rental guidelines

The question from the reader is that a reader is in need of a place in Denver but the rent amount is very high. The amount calculated is same as mortgage and the reader has no best credit. The reader want to provide the offer to the owner of the house that to rent the home with option to buy and ready to pay the property tax as the incentive. The reader is asking the opinion for the suggestion.

Ian of Armstrong Real Estate in Denver suggests that search for another house where you can find low amount of rent. If you are interested in the same house then it is better to decide in advance how to handle every possible contingency.

It is better to have a written agreement with everything in writing. The items you must include in writing such as what happens if the rent is not paid, who will pay for the maintenance items beyond the everyday wear and tear such as repairing or replacement of furnace or air conditioning. What will the percentage of cost to be spilt? Who will pay the property tax? How to get deductions from federal income tax return?

One more important consideration is required to be looked upon is the determination of selling price.

Will you leave the selling price up to the appraisal at the time of sale or set in stone with some formula now only?

How to decide the statement if one thinks the price is too low or too high? For how long the option of purchase last? Give the definite time period. It you do not exercise your option with any deadline; the agreement will become null and void. There are number of questions that need proper answers else a legal entanglement is sure to be the result.

You can turn for legal professional help to putting such documents or can contact to the company that renders services of peer-to-peer agreements.

The reader asks the next question at the time of buying mortgages from bank. The question is how much does it pay?

And why mortgage payments go to the bank?

Though you are the owner of loan and the guarantor of the security in which the loan is pooled, it is the bank that acts as a servicer. The bank is the primary interface between the borrower and lender.

Lots of things are important in determining the worth of mortgage property in Denver. The service in this example a bank is paid a fee for to administer the loan. The fee comes from the borrower’s payment before the principal amount and interest is forwarded to investor. A quarter of one percent interest rate is charged by the servicer.

So how much the investor pays for the loan minus the servicing charges versus guaranteeing mortgage backed security is depend on the multitude of factors and also varies from one company to another.

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