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		<title>Blame Ricky Rubio For Your Minneapolis Duplex Property Taxes</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2011/07/07/blame-ricky-rubio-for-your-minneapolis-duplex-property-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2011/07/07/blame-ricky-rubio-for-your-minneapolis-duplex-property-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing Ricky Rubio play for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Even though he&#8217;s partially responsible for the high duplex property taxes in Minneapolis.
OK, to be clear, he alone isn&#8217;t responsible for it.  The Target Center is.
In 1995, the city of Minneapolis bought the Target Center. As part of its agreement with the Timberwolves, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Minneapolis Duplex Market Survive Without The Tax Credit?</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/09/18/can-minneapolis-duplex-market-survive-without-the-tax-credit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[$8000 first time home buyer tax credit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the sand in the hourglass of the $8000 first time home buyer tax credit begins to run out, an article in the New York Times this week reported there are doubts that the housing market can function without it.
The Times article estimates that as many as 40 percent of all home buyers this year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Ways to Paint Your Minneapolis Duplex Green</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/08/03/eight-ways-to-paint-your-minneapolis-duplex-green/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2009/08/03/eight-ways-to-paint-your-minneapolis-duplex-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not easy going green.
Oh, we all know there&#8217;s a push to do it. But let&#8217;s face it. It&#8217;s downright expensive. Where are you going to get the money?
Well, thanks to a salad bar full of recently passed and pending green legislation, it will soon be easier to finance these projects than ever.
Let&#8217;s start with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Tax Credit As Downpayment Would Jumpstart Duplex Market</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/05/04/using-tax-credit-as-downpayment-would-jumpstart-duplex-market/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2009/05/04/using-tax-credit-as-downpayment-would-jumpstart-duplex-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 19:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While things seem to be heating up in the Twin Cities duplex market, some states are cranking up the thermostat even further by implementing bridge-loan programs that advance first time home buyers the cash they need to purchase a property.
For all intents and purposes, the loan acts as a second mortgage that becomes due whenever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota Legislature Offers to Prolong Housing Crisis</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/04/23/minnesota-legislature-offers-to-prolong-housing-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2009/04/23/minnesota-legislature-offers-to-prolong-housing-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the greatest housing crisis in U.S. history,  Representative Ann Lenczewski has introduced a bill to the Minnesota House of Representatives that&#8217;s sure to prolong the pain.
HF2323 is a measure intended to address the state&#8217;s looming budget shortfall.  It seeks to reduce spending and raise taxes in order to balance the budget.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does A Minneapolis Duplex Qualify As A First Time Home?</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/18/does-a-minneapolis-duplex-qualify-as-a-first-time-home/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/18/does-a-minneapolis-duplex-qualify-as-a-first-time-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buying A Duplex]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the mud settles in the puddle of the first time home buyer tax credit, some of the cloudier issues have begun to clear. 
The other day a reader asked me to point him to actual documentation that an owner occupied duplex qualified for the first time home buyer tax credit.
He also asked whether he was inferring correctly from IRS literature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes We Can! Home Buyer Tax Credit May Change Again</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/13/yes-we-can-home-buyer-tax-credit-may-change-again/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/13/yes-we-can-home-buyer-tax-credit-may-change-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m starting to get dizzy. 
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  is reporting that the $15,000 home buyer tax credit, which was replaced with a reduced first time buyer tax credit in the economic stimulus package may not be dead yet.
Our hero, Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson, who sponsored the $15,000 tax credit amendment in the Senate&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Forces Rush to Buy First Minneapolis Duplex</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/12/congress-forces-rush-to-buy-first-minneapolis-duplex/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/12/congress-forces-rush-to-buy-first-minneapolis-duplex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Los Angeles Times, yesterday&#8217;s compromise between the House and Senate versions of the stimulus package now features a $8000 first time home buyer tax credit.
While details have yet to emerge, and this has yet to be signed into law, this credit is significantly lower than the proposed $15,000 credit featured in the Senate&#8217;s version [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minneapolis Duplex Buyers Need to Become Lobbyists</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/10/minneapolis-duplex-buyers-need-to-become-lobbyists/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/10/minneapolis-duplex-buyers-need-to-become-lobbyists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legislation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t usually write two blog posts in a day, today&#8217;s events in Washington DC compel me to do so.
The Senate just passed the stimulus bill. Now it&#8217;s up to negotiating committees from the House and Senate to settle the differences in their versions of the bill. And when it comes to housing, it&#8217;s important to note [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Done With Magic Lamp For Minneapolis Duplex Market</title>
		<link>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/06/congress-done-with-magic-lamp-for-minneapolis-duplex-market/</link>
		<comments>http://duplexchick.com/2009/02/06/congress-done-with-magic-lamp-for-minneapolis-duplex-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Lundin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We kept rubbing, but it looks like we&#8217;re not going to get three wishes after all.
The plan submitted to the Senate by Nevada Republican John Ensign that would have encouraged banks to lend at interest rates between 4 and 4.5 percent was defeated yesterday by a resounding margin. I think it would have helped, but [...]]]></description>
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