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‘Encore: Last Month’s Most Popular Article’ Archive

January Article of the Month: The due-on time bomb

By • Feb 1st, 2012 • Category: Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article, February 2012 Journal

This article warns of the impending era of due-on-sale enforcement that will befall the real estate market in the approaching age of rising interest rates.



December Article of the Month: The homeownership confidence shift

By • Jan 2nd, 2012 • Category: Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article, January 2012 Journal

This article examines the financial viability of homeownership in the wake of the housing crash, and how the housing crash impacted ideas about mortgage spending and commuting.



November Article of the Month: Failure to submit all offers:a reportable offense

By • Dec 1st, 2011 • Category: December 2011 Journal, Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article

This article looks at the rule that all offers, written or oral and regardless of form, received by a seller’s agent must be promptly submitted to the seller for their acceptance, rejection or counter.



October Article of the Month: 10 ways to beat the real estate crisis

By • Nov 1st, 2011 • Category: Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article, November 2011 Journal

This article provides tips for building your brokerage practice and creating personal wealth during real estate’s enduring bumpy plateau recovery.



September Article of the Month: Rentiers and debtors: why can’t they get along?

By • Sep 30th, 2011 • Category: Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article, October 2011 Journal

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August Article of the Month: Home sales volume and price peaks

By • Sep 2nd, 2011 • Category: Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article, September 2011 Journal

These charts track sales price fluctuations of single family residence (SFR) resales in California’s three largest cities



July Article of the Month: The license disclosure myth

By • Aug 1st, 2011 • Category: August 2011 Journal, Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article, Journal Articles

This article dispels the myth that a real estate licensee who acts solely as a principal in a real estate sales transaction must disclose the existence of their license in order to comply with California real estate law.



May Article of the Month: first tuesday Forms-on-CD Version 4.3 – your professional toolbox

By • Jun 1st, 2011 • Category: Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article, Feature Articles, Journal Articles, June 2011 Journal

This article discusses the release of first tuesday Forms-on-CD 4.3 – a membership benefit FREE to all first tuesday students – and explains the program’s new enhancements and features, such as the ability to personalize your forms.



April Article of the Month: Americans dream for a home on unstable ground

By • May 2nd, 2011 • Category: Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article, May 2011 Journal

This article reviews a recent poll on American attitudes towards owning a home in light of the Great Recession and the housing crisis, and reevaluates the place of homeownership in the American Dream.



March Article of the Month: The home mortgage tax deduction: inducing debt and stifling mobility

By • Apr 4th, 2011 • Category: April 2011 Journal, Encore: Last Month's Most Popular Article

This article identifies the origin of the tax loopholes used to implement the nation’s housing policy, and proposes a tax benefit which rewards homeownership without first requiring a mortgage debt or resale.