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Create a Home Emergency Preparedness Kit Preparing and keeping a fully stocked home emergency preparedness kit could be the key to your family’s safety if disaster strikes. Read Visit houselogic.com for more articles like this. Copyright 2013 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF...

Conway is one of the oldest towns in South Carolina. Conway serves as the government seat for Horry County.  When visiting Conway one will enjoy the beautiful old time charm of the south with tree-lined streets running through the picturesque historic district of Conway.  Be sure to take a stroll along the Riverwalk . For information about properties in the Conway area: Sue Lucas Broker Associate Re/Max Southern Shores 843-997-4595 www.suelucas.com   sl1586@sccoast.net Facebook

Understanding Capital Gains in Real Estate When you sell a stock, you owe taxes on your gain — the difference between what you paid for the stock and what you sold it for. The same holds true when selling a home (or a second home), but there are some special considerations. How to Calculate Gain In real estate, capital gains are based not on what you paid for the home, but on its adjusted cost basis. To calculate, follow these steps: 1. Purchase price: _______________________ The purchase price of the home is the sale price, not the amount of money you actually contributed at closing. 2. Total adjustments: _ ______________________ To calculate this, add the following: Cost of the purchase — including transfer fees, attorney fees, and inspections, but not points you paid on your mortgage. Cost of sale — including inspections, attorney fees, real estate commission, and money you spent to fix up your home just prior to sale. Cost of improvement...

Tips For Sellers Preparing For A Home Inspection  Move any smaller furniture that is blocking areas that the home inspector will need to get to (ex: outlets, electrical panels)  Clean out utility areas (ex: remove clothes from the washer/dryer)  Make sure all your bulbs are working, sounds silly but important (ex: attic, garage) Remove your pets to allow the inspectors to work thru the house without any distractions or potential issue THE MOST IMPORTANT TIP: LEAVE   Tips For Sellers During The Home Inspection If you decide to stay during the home inspection try your best not to try and "explain" things in the house, something you may think is a big deal might not be and visa versa Do not try and cover up anything, the home inspectors are thorough and they will find whatever you may have tried to hide and than they will search more to make sure they didn't miss anything Do not negotiate on anything during the home inspection, again something that may ...

Today I thought I would share with you all a recent experience I had.  I am sure many of you probably have had the same one as well.  It goes like this. You make an appointment for a Doctor ( in this case I was driving my step dad to his eye appointment) and he warned me he usually has to wait.  With that thought in mind I did bring my kindle with me, figured I would catch up on some reading... His appointment was for 2:30 for which we arrived promptly.  After signing in and updating some of his info we sat down to wait to be called. I was really surprised when they called him about 2:50.  I thought wow, that wasn't long at all.  I now settled in to read. At about 4:00 my step dad comes out, I start to stand thinking he is all done and ready to go......NOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT he hasn't even seen the doctor yet!!  He was inside the golden doors waiting in line with about 4 people ahead of him....Now for those of you who know me, I would have left if it ...