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Hawaii Real Estate and REALTOR Websites
0Hawaii Real Estate and REALTOR Sites
Hawaii Association of REALTORS®
Real Estate Commission Licensing Information
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Department of Taxation’s Electronic Services
Department of Taxation Alphabetical Forms List
Online Real Estate License Renewal
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Real Estate Specialty Organizations
Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Institute
Certified International Property Specialist Network
Council of Residential Specialists (CRS) formerly Residential Sales Council
Counselors of Real Estate (CRE)
Department of the Treasury Auction Information
Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM)
Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers (CRB)
Real Estate BUYER’S AGENT Council (REBAC)
REALTORS® Land Institute (RLI)
Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS® (SIOR)
Women’s Council of REALTORS® (WCR)
NAR Info – Careers in Real Estate
American Homeowner Education and Counseling Institute (AHECI)
American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI)
Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO)
Employee Relocation Council (ERC)
Mortgage Bankers Association of America
National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
National Association of the Remodeling Industry (NARI)
National Board of Certification for Community Association Managers
Web site of its parent organization, the Community Association Institute.
Tax Credit for Housing in Second Economic Stimulus Bill
1Housing tax credit in second economic stimulus bill
Federal Housing Tax Credit for First-Time Hawaii Home Buyers
The bill provides an $8,000 income tax credit to people who buy homes between January and November and lets people write off, as a deduction, the sales taxes they pay on new cars, trucks and motorcycles they buy any month this year.
* Available for all home buyers
* No repayment necessary
* Loan limits will be raised to $727,000 in high cost areas
* The tax credit will be raised to $8,000 with NO payback [a true credit]
Individuals who earn less than $75,000 annually will get a $400 credit to apply directly against their total income tax for 2009 and for 2010, and couples who earn less than $150,000 will get a tax credit of $800.
The bill provides tax breaks for people who send their children to college and install energy-efficient air conditioners in their homes.
The legislation also helps people who have lost their jobs, by letting them draw unemployment for more than a year. The current limit is 26 weeks and the bill extends benefits up to 59 weeks.
The bill provides a $2,500 tax credit for college tuition, books and computers. And it increases the maximum allowable Pell Grant for college students from low- and moderate-income families by $500 to $5,350.
The income tax credit has dropped by $100 and $200 respectively, so that it would now total $400 for individuals and $800 for couples (paid in 2009 and 2010), phasing out completely at $200,000 for couples filing jointly and $100,000 for single filers.
The bill also has over $50 billion in it for foreclosure mitigation, with Geithner’s Treasury plan signaling that the second half of TARP and TALF will be used to mitigate foreclosures through a government guarantee, drive down interest rates by buying another $200-300 billion of mortgage paper from the GSES’s thereby freeing them up to do the same with new mortgages, and Fannie has just agreed to lift the cap of 4 investment properties eligible for loans and raise it to 10.
First-time buyers, Hawaii Homes, home buyer, stimulus bill, tax credit


