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Buyer's Resources
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General
Arizona Buyer's Advisory
Excellent resource guide provided by Arizona - listing all kinds of information a buyer may want to research and consider before purchasing a home.
http://www.re.state.az.us/PUBLIC_INFO/Documents/Buyer_Advisory.pdf
Arizona Swimming Pool Barrier Laws
Arizona wants you to be safe - if you're planning to have a swimming pool in your home ... make sure you understand the state, county, and city regulations and be in compliance!
http://www.aaronline.com/documents/pool_contacts.aspx
Checklist for Buying a House
One of the most important things you can do is to make yourself a checklist as you search for, find, and buy a home.
http://www.ourfamilyplace.com/homebuyer/checklist.html
Get upto $8,000 for buying a house!
Information on the Federal Tax Credit if you purchase and close a home before Dec 1, 2009.
http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=204671,00.html
Home Inspection Referral
A home inspection gives the buyer detailed information about the overall condition of the home prior to the purchase. In a home inspection, a qualified inspector takes an in-depth, unbiased look at your potential new home to:
- Evaluate the physical condition, structure, construction, and mechanical systems
- Identify items that need to be repaired or replaced
http://inspect-arizona.com
Lead Information
Information on lead based paint. Especially important if buying a home built before 1978.
http://www.epa.gov/lead/
Patty's Blog
View my blog on Trulia
http://www.trulia.com/blog/pattyfisch/
See if you qualify for a special Arizona Grant!
Arizona offers great incentives to purchase homes. Right now, there's a program where Arizona will provide 22% of the purchase price of the home toward your down-payment! See if you qualify!
http://www.yourwayhomeaz.com/
Local Directory
Crime Statistics
Search and map crimes reported to Valley law enforcement agencies. You can search by city, ZIP code or street name and by a specific crime type or all crimes. Incidents are listed by ZIP code and block number, not exact address. (Electronic reports are available for only the following cities: Avondale, Buckeye, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Goodyear, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Surprise, Tempe and Tolleson.)
http://www.azcentral.com/CrimeMaps/
Get a home inspection!
Home and real estate inspection services for existing, pre-sale and new homes by licensed and certified home inspectors. Find real estate inspection services you can trust. Just select an AZ ASHI certified home inspector with a simple zip code search for the area of Arizona where you are buying or selling a home. It's that easy to be secure in your choice of a home inspector
http://www.azashi.org/
Information on cities in Arizona
We've collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities as we could. We have over 74,000 city photos not found anywhere else, graphs of latest real estate prices and sales trends, recent home sales, home value estimator, hundreds of thousands of maps, satellite photos, stats about residents (race, income, ancestries, education, employment...), geographical data, state profiles, crime data, registered sex offenders, cost of living, housing, religions, businesses, local news links based on our exclusive technology, birthplaces of famous people, political contributions, city government finances and employment, weather, hospitals, schools, libraries, houses, airports, radio and TV stations, zip codes, area codes, air pollution, latest unemployment data, time zones, water systems and their health and monitoring violations, comparisons to averages, local poverty details, professionally written city guides, car accidents, fires, bridge conditions, cell phone and other towers, mortgage data, a forum and a social network with 600,000 registered members and 8,000,000 posts, blogs, 5,000 user-submitted facts, 17,000 exclusive local business profiles with photos, and more demographics. If you ever need to research any city, zip code, or neighborhood for any reason, from considering a move there to just checking where somebody you know is staying, this is the site for you.
http://www.city-data.com/
Sex Offender InfoCenter
Public information concerning the location of sex offenders within Arizona.
http://az.gov/app/sows/index.xhtml
Mortgage Loan
American Mortgage Specialists
Credit score under 620 and want to buy a home? Contact Ray Strahl at American Mortgage Specialist to see if he can find a mortgage program for you!
http://www.amsaz.com/
D&E Financing
Local mortgage broker with proven results!
http://www.dandefinancing.com/main.html
Get custom loan quotes - free, no credit inquiries
Find out what rates lenders and mortgage brokers are willing to offer you! Enter information to customize to your situation - anonymously. This means you'll find out what lenders can do for you - but you don't need to provide your Social Security Number or have your credit pulled (which can actually drop your credit score).
http://www.zillow.com/mortgage/
Homepath - Fannie Mae owned foreclosed properties
HomePath Financing
HomePath® Mortgage Financing
This special financing is available on Fannie Mae homes with the following logo:
The benefits include:
Low down payment and flexible mortgage terms (fixed-rate, adjustable-rate, or interest-only)
You may qualify even if your credit is less than perfect
Available to both owner occupiers and investors
Down payment (at least 3 percent) can be funded by your own savings; a gift; a grant; or a loan from a nonprofit organization, state or local government, or employer
No mortgage insurance*
No appraisal fees
Also eligible for HomePath Renovation Mortgage (see details below)
HomePath Mortgage financing is available from a variety of lenders - both local and national.
http://www.homepath.com/
Homesteps: Freddie Mac Foreclosed Properties
HomeSteps® 2009 Nationwide SmartBuy Purchase Program
Promotion Dates:
Initial offers received July 17, 2009 - October 30, 2009, with escrow closed by December 31, 2009.
Homebuyers:
Introducing SmartBuy, an exciting nationwide purchase program brought to you by HomeSteps (Freddie Mac). As a potential homebuyer you may be wondering, what makes a HomeSteps home a SmartBuy?
Start with the 2-year, comprehensive HomeProtect® Home Warranty offered on HomeSteps homes. Add to that, for a limited time, our generous 3.5%* Buyer’s Closing Cost offer! And know that HomeSteps homes are priced at fair market value. All add up to a SmartBuy.
http://www.homesteps.com/
National Listings
Free Home Search! (Username: Patty Password: Fisch)
This is a great way to find your next home. The information you see here is direct from the same database Realtors use. I can set-up a custom search tailored specifically to what you're looking for for free!
To see what information you'd get (and it's lots), just enter my frst name as the Username and my last name as the password:
Username: Patty
Password: Fisch
http://portal.flexmls.com/patty_fisch
Relocation
Find Salary Information
Free salary information, salary and benefits advice, career and job search help. Hundreds of salary surveys, compensation reports, and useful links.
http://www.salary.com/
Relcoation Resources
Manage the moving and relocation process with mortgage quotes and calculators, address change, utility transfer, city profiling, self storage locator, moving van line and moving truck rental quotes.
http://www.monstermoving.com/
School
Arizona School Information
Although there is no substitute for an on-site visit to the school to talk with principals and teachers, there is a significant amount of information about Arizona’s schools on the Internet.
Call the school district serving the subdivision to determine whether nearby schools are accepting new students. Some school districts, especially in the northwest part of the greater Phoenix area, have placed a cap on enrollment. You may find that your children cannot attend the school nearest you and may even be transported to another community.
http://www.ade.state.az.us
School Boundary Maps
Find out which schools district areas are mapped to...
http://phoenix.gov/EDUCATION/districtsaz.html
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