Cramming, not just for exams anymore.

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Normally, on this blog, I don’t get into politics much.  When something is directly related to real estate I might venture an opinion, but aside from that I stay pretty silent.

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Last year I wrote about Senate Bill 55 in the Georgia Senate.  Basically, the bill required the Counties to include foreclosures in assessments.  Previously, assessments for taxes excluded foreclosures, so they (falsly?) increased values and tax revenue to the counties.

While that makes it tough for the counties, it is a needed break for home owners.  The counties complained that they would lose revenues… well, the people are losing revenue, too.  They have to suck it up.

In the last year, the bill quietly passed and was signed into law by Governor Sonny Perdue.

Here is the link to the original post.

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I’m just wondering…

I have been reading a lot of posts and articles about the general state of the economy, and while there are some signs of stirring in the corporate world, some analysts think that the rise in the stock market has more to do with the fall of the dollar than the health of the stocks.

If that is the case, could we be looking at the beginnings of another stock bubble?

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Two years ago I wrote about whether it was time to sell here in Gwinnett County…  Wow have things changed in the last two years.

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