Saturday Reporter-Herald April 9, 2011 C1
Real Estate Matters
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CAR Northeast District meeting focuses on economy and politics
Transferring title may be complicated
and finances. Reynolds and others referred to discussions in Washington on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the possible decision to dissolve the two Government Sponsored Entities. If that happens, Reynolds said, it will change the entire way real estate is done. The financial crisis and subsequent lending restrictions have made Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac the source for nine out of 10 housing loans, Kurt Albers said later in the week. There are fewer options for private financing, he said, and a lot of people purchasing homes right now look to Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA loans as the only source to purchase a home. Speakers pointed to potential rules for the yet defined Qualified Residential Mortgages, such as required down payments equivalent to 20 percent of the purchase price on a home and the elimination of 30year fixed rate mortgages, as dangers to the real estate industry and preventing many people from the possibility of owning a home. Qualified Residential Mortgages
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here was a call to the 300 attendants at the Colorado Association of Realtors Northeast District meeting at the Ranch Thursday morning to step up politically, pay attention and share their ideas with their communities. “The political side of the real estate game is very important,” said Don Marostica, former executive director of the office of the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade, who spoke on population growth in Colorado, debt and political leadership. Marostica encouraged Realtors to get on committees and share their ideas and concerns. Randy Reynolds, 2011 CAR President and resident of Colorado Springs, encouraged Realtors to contact legislators and oppose the discussed elimination or cap on the mortgage interest deduction, a budget move on the part of the White House that the real estate industry is fighting. Reynolds said the loss of the deduction would lead to a jump in foreclosure numbers for homeowners already in hot water on their mortgage
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uestion: I am a big fan of your radio show and listen quite regularly. I have a question for you about selling a house to a corporation. I’ve been told that if one has a company, which is a registered corporation, that the owner of the home could sell their home to that corporation. What are the tax benefits behind selling a home to a corporation and would it be a regular sale? Wouldn’t there be capital gains tax to the extent allowable? What kind of paperwork that would entail? I am sure it is not as straightforward as just writing to the title company and having the ownership transferred. Answer: You’re right, transferring title from an individual to a corporation can be complicated. But the real question you have to answer is why would you want to transfer title of your home to a corporation? Transferring the actual title should I See Glink/Page C5
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Kurt Albers introduces Don Marostica, a speaker at CAR’s Northeast District general membership meeting Thursday.
Inside this week’s Home & Real Estate Realtor of the Week
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Loveland • Christopher Rolen from Gregory Bollig, 4318 Suncreek Dr, Loveland, $168,500, home • Joseph Mattison from Douglas Evans, 2815 Schooners Ct, Loveland, $520,000, home • Alice Newman from Fannie Mae, 13 Marmac Dr, Loveland, $157,500, home • Cory & Jessica Coombs from Matthew Huntsman, 6525 Seaside Dr, Loveland, $425,000, home • Jeanne Mcglathery from Loveland Midtown Development I, 1798 E 9th St, Loveland, $175,900, home • Brenda Rowell from Loveland Midtown Development I, 905 Libra Ct, Loveland, $221,800, home • Eleuterio Ulibarri from Quality Service Group LLC, 3983 Rollingwood Dr, Loveland, $209,900, home • Harry & Anne Ramsey from Mark Deters, 5515 Cedar Valley Dr, Loveland, $620,000, home • Gary & Debbie Teresi from Federal Home Loan Mortgage, 3604 Canter Ln, Loveland, $285,900, home • Barbara & Barbara Parker from Shirley Leis, 1813 Empire Ave, Loveland, $185,000, home • Dane & Stephanie Butler from Daryl Clark, 2861 Chickaree Pl Sw, Loveland, $155,000, home • Charese Feuerstein from Deutsche Bank National Trust C, 4116 Red Bird Pl, Loveland, $167,000, home • Brent Bertsch from Fannie Mae, 2355 Alexis St, Loveland, $112,000, home • Linda & William Truman from Fannie Mae, 200 Colt Dr, Loveland, $345,000, home • David & Sarah Read
from Joshua Green, 1212 E 7th St, Loveland, $225,000, home • Joshua & Melodie Green from William Linville, 1658 Box Prairie Cir, Loveland, $203,000, home • Loren & Kirsten Lew from Bruce Campbell, 868 22nd St Sw, Loveland, $149,900, home • Bryan Puderer from Harry Chigas, 3343 Sedgwick Cir, Loveland, $270,000, home • Albert & Laurie Hollis from David Hazen, 3861 Poudre Dr, Loveland, $145,000, home • Lauren & Trent Bratten from Brandon Rubenstein, 1919 Rangely Ct, Loveland, $209,000, home • Jesse Moore from Ultimate Investments Group LLC, 1919 Crystal Ct, Loveland, $155,000, home
Berthoud • Joseph & Kathleen Maple from David Baker, 920 Bunyan Ave, Berthoud, $273,000, home • Yushan Li from Sfr 20102 Reo Corp, 1337 Paramount Dr, Berthoud, $650,000, home • Robert & Carol Leyner from Janet Blair, 1233 Wagon Wheel Ct, Berthoud, $414,000, home • Stacey & Sarah Schult from Karen Chandler, 103 E Welch Ave, Berthoud, $175,500, home
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• William & Beverlee Marshall from Brown Family Trust, 871 East Ln, Estes Park, $675,000, home • Thomas Friehe from Lynne Henderson, 720 Little Prospect Rd, Estes Park, $400,000, home • Douglas & Mary Otte from Mason Willis, 1787 Olympian Ln Unit A, Estes Park, $202,500, condo
Johnstown • Kevin Vigil from Ronald Edwards, 4409 Quartz Ln, Johnstown, $193,000, home • Derrick & Catherine Pauly from Susan Horn, 4320 Cobblestone Ln, Johnstown, $213,500, home • Daniel Breed from Mejias Invest Inc, 486 Castle Pines Ave, Johnstown, $179,900, home • Jeffrey & Karen Peeler from Jason Disponzio, 5313 Cherrywood Ln, Johnstown, $181,700, home • Bette Jacobs from Oakwood Homes LLC, 3801 Beechwood Ln, Johnstown, $174,600, home • James & Connie Dennis from Roger Thompson, 324 Estate Dr, Johnstown, $285,100, home
Milliken • Hall Partnershi from Colo Front Range Holdings Inc, 23000 State Highway 257, Milliken, $1,740,000, home • Colo Inc from Hall Windsor Family Partnership, 3260 Center Dr, Milliken, $625,000, home
Windsor • Darrel Elmore from Charles Crane, 123 Apple Way, Windsor, $144,500, home • Tiffany & Travis Bergquist from Todd Machacek, 1032 Raindance Cir, Windsor, $311,000, home • Robert & Joymay Chipman from Melody Homes Inc, 626 Lanley Dr, Windsor, $216,900, home
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Jack Tregenza BROKER ASSOCIATE/PARTNER, THE GROUP, INC. Location: 5401 Stone Creek Circle, Loveland, CO, 80538 Contact: 970-679-1572, jtregenza@thegroupinc.com Designations, Affiliations & Accolades: Certified Luxury Homes Specialist, Certified Relocation Professional, Certified Residential Specialist, Graduate of the Realtor Institute, member of Who’s Who in Residential Real Estate in North America. Served as President and Treasurer of Board of Realtors (NJ), Served as member of the Board of Education and the Educational Services Commission. Years of experience: 28
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NAR study finds Americans prefer smartgrowth communities
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has been replaced, but she still needs work done in her kitchen. My question is how to either refinish cabinets, or paint over the stain. Answer: Are the cabinets wood or laminate? How much damage was done? Did they warp? Didn’t the homeowners’ insurance cover replacement of the damaged cabinets? I have in the past written about painting wood cabinets as a low-cost alternative to replacing them. There have been do-it-yourself programs on TV that have demonstrated this technique. But from what I have seen up close, this cosmetic treatment doesn’t last or, in many cases, doesn’t look very good, no matter what the hosts or the makers of the paint designed for this job say. I’d go back to the insurance company about replacing the cabinets.
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2096 Vista Drive, Loveland Custom home with incredible quality & style. Located on The Olde Course at Loveland. Secluded back patio. Kitchen w/granite countertops, large island, 5-burner gas range & double ovens. Main floor office, formal dining & living room. Heated shop & heated driveway. Mature yard.
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are exempt from the 5 percent risk retention on home loans now required of banks as a result of the financial overhaul legislation last year. Brian Werner, Public Information Officer for NISP, the Northern Integrated Supply Project, also known as the Glade Reservoir proposal, spoke about the need for water storage to sustain a growing population in Northern Colorado as well as the need for reserves in bad drought years. He encouraged Realtors to pay attention to the news they hear about the project. Locally, Barbara Koezler, CAR local government affairs director for the Northeast District, cited the ACE project in Loveland as good news for the region, and the planned Leprino cheese factory coming to Greeley as a sign of growth for Weld County. Koezler cited the defeat of the ranked voting proposal in the recent Fort Collins municipal election and an installation of a new city council that she described as the first business friendly council in years as other local successes. Ryan McMaken, Community Relations with the Colorado Housing Department gave a Housing Economy Update for the first quarter of 2011. • Colorado unemployment numbers have risen in the past few months despite maintaining rates below the national average during the financial crisis. • The lower than average unemployment caused high new growth numbers, with 20,000 new households a year, McMaken said. However, compared to the Rocky Mountain region as a whole, Colorado’s personal income is not improving. • Income is down for renters and holding relatively steady for Colorado homeowners, while inflation was high in the second half of 2010. High inflation and an increased cost of living — McMaken referred to March 2011 food prices at their highest in 36 years — will cause central banks around the world to raise interest rates, a bad thing for homebuying, he said. • Colorado has been below the nation in foreclosure numbers and the number of 30-day delinquency filings since the beginning of the financial crisis. • Foreclosure numbers in Colorado originally peaked in 2007 before the rest of the nation, a result of predatory mortgages rather than the
job market, McMaken said. The number dropped a bit in 2008 and jumped in 2009 when Colorado was slammed with job loss like other states. Foreclosure numbers were down again in 2010, McMaken said, referring to Mortgage Banker’s Association Data. • Colorado home prices didn’t reach as great a bubble as the rest of the nation and therefore didn’t fall as hard either, McMaken said. Home prices and transactions have bottomed out again after rising as a result of the housing tax credit. The tax credit didn’t permanently buoy prices as expected, McMaken said. • Overall, new home sales are very low, he said, keeping construction jobs low, too. As the housing market creeps back, he said, the first in demand will be pre-existing homes until the market heats up enough that the demand for new home sales is more significant. •Multi-family rental housing is the star of the real estate market right now, McMaken said, and will remain more dynamic than in previous years when policy kept it on the back burner with a greater focus on homeownership. Higher rents will eventually lead to a greater demand for homeownership. Governor Hickenlooper was originally scheduled as the event’s key note speaker but was unable to attend. In his place was David Thompson, the new Global Business Development Director at the Governor’s office, as of this past Monday. Thompson said Colorado is ranked 16th in the national marketplace and that 2010 saw a rebound in exports, growing by 13.7 percent to $6.7 billion, below the 2008 numbers but recovering from the decline in 2009. The state’s exports to the Asian market are strong, and while concerned about the recent catastrophe in Japan, there are many opportunities throughout the region, he said. Thompson said in his new position at the governor’s office he will bring jobs to that state and he will be focusing on increasing exports to China, like meat and other agricultural products. He encouraged the crowd to keep innovation in mind, referring to his previous experience in real estate including the Riverfront Park development in Denver. “You don’t have to change the product, just the way they are perceived. We live in the best state in America,” he said. “We have to support each other and get through this.”
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develop plenty of tubers, so amend your planting area with organic matter. Dig a furrow and pop your seed pieces 10 ast year, my spouse built a small inches apart, covering the pieces with raised bed for growing potatoes, three inches of soil. The secret to gettaking pride in engineering with ting a bounty of spuds is to hill up the sides that are added as we hill up the soil along the growing shoots of the plants and making plans to eat perfect young plant; potatoes will form all spuds. But Mother Nature had other along this stalk. As stems reach four ideas, sending hoards of Psyllids to the inches tall, bury them in more soil, Front Range. Those small, dark, sap leaving the top inch of plant uncovered. sucking bugs wreaked havoc on tomaRepeat this several times until the hill toes and potatoes alike, stunting their is as tall as you’d like. growth and production. Growing potatoes in straw is reputed After all of my spouse’s work and to give the tubers better size, shape, dreams, we ended up with a handful of and color of than those grown in soil. potatoes no bigger than marbles. But Straw has the added benefit of reducthis year we’re back at it, because garing weeds, keeping roots cool and condening, like baseball, starts fresh every serving water. year. And like the sport of summer, Choose a flat, sunny location out of we’re improving our lineup and the wind for the straw patch. If there is chances for success by growing potano place in your yard without wind, toes in three different ways: hills, straw, keep the straw from flying to Kansas by and trash cans. encircling it with a chicken wire cage Plant them soon; four-to-six weeks that can be opened for harvesting. before the last frost. Start with certified Place seed pieces on the soil, cut side disease-free small, whole seed potatoes down, spacing the spuds 10 inches (or cut them into 2-ounce pieces) pur- apart. Cover them with six inches of chased at garden centers or on-line; clean, weed-free straw. As the stem don’t use potatoes from the grocers. If grows up out of the straw, add another cutting up potatoes for seed pieces, be six inch layer. Repeat a third time. Dursure to leave at least one good eye per ing the summer, if the straw compiece and let them wait a few days to al- pacts down, add more, tucking it in low the cut side to heal before plantaround the plants. ing. Pay close attention to watering the potatoes; they should not be alFluffy, deep soil means potatoes will
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The secret to getting a bounty of spuds is to hill up the soil along the growing shoots of the young plant.
lowed to dry out, nor should they become soggy. A soaker hose laid across the surface of the soil helps irrigate the potatoes evenly. If you don’t have space for blocks of potatoes, try planting them in deep, clean, new garbage cans. Simply drill a few holes in the bottom of the can, then fill the bottom six inches deep with potting soil. Place seed pieces five inches apart and cover with four inches of soil. As the stems grow up through the soil, cover with more potting mix as described above until the plant reaches the top of the container. Once you’ve finished hilling up your plants, mulch with straw to keep the soil cool and prevent sunburning of tubers. Go lightly with fertilizer; you want the potatoes to form tubers, not a lot of foliage. Give them a shot of balanced liquid fertilizer about six weeks after the sprouts topped the first layer of straw or soil. If you want new potatoes — young, small tubers — harvest a few plants just after they bloom. Leave the rest to mature into August or September, and once the vines die, unearth your bounty.
Carol O’Meara is with CSU Extension in Boulder County. Contact her at 303-678-6238 or comeara@co .boulder.co.us.
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hese days, hybrids are either panned or praised in the world of gardening. Not that hybrids are such oddities. A hybrid is merely the offspring of two parents that are not genetically the same. You and I are hybrids, as are many wild and cultivated plants soon to be popping up along roadsides and in gardens. In the case of plants, hybrid offspring, each genetically different from their parents, might be better able to tolerate colder temperatures, grow in less fertile soil, or make larger and tastier fruits than their parents. Or not — it’s the luck of the draw.
HUMAN HELP FOR MOTHER NATURE? But why leave such marriages to chance? The mule is a hardy and useful animal, more so than either of its parents, but not one designed by Mother Nature. A human has to bring that horse and donkey together. To guarantee that a hybrid vegetable or flower is imbued with selected traits, those traits must first be isolated by inbreeding the prospective parents for many generations. Ironically, the effect of this artificial hybridization is opposite to that of natural hybridization. Natural hybridization promotes genetic diversity and better general adaptation of plant populations to existing or new conditions. Artificial hybridization narrows the genetic playing field, yielding homogeneous populations superior only in selected traits.
HYBRID HISTORY The first artificial hybrids — they were corn — hit the market in the 1930s and have been big hits ever since. And no wonder. Those fields of hybrid corn sometimes yielded twice as much as old-fashioned corn, with ears that ripened more uniformly. Then, uh-oh, a black cloud moved in over that corn field. By narrowing the genetic palette, some unaccounted-for pest could move in, wiping out all the plants. And that’s just what happened when Southern corn blight devastated the commercial corn crop in 1970. A threat of some pest run amok can similarly haunt large plantings of artificial hybrids of any vegetable or flower. That uniformity could have additional drawbacks for us backyard gardeners. At harvest time, for example. I’d rather pick a few ears a day for a week or two than have to deal with four dozen ears of corn ripening all at once. Or a dozen heads of broccoli. And while rubber-stamp uniformity is a plus in a very formal flower garden, such a trait could be boring in any other flower garden.
HYBRID ALTERNATIVE The alternatives to artificial hybrids are open-pollinated, or non-hybrid, vegetables and flowers. These varieties generally, but not always, yield less then artificial hybrids. Count among open-pollinated varieties some of the finest-tasting vegetables in the garden: Early Jersey Wakefield cabbage, Brandywine tomato, Sweet Italia pepper, Golden Bantam corn. Because hybrids yield more and do not “come true” from seed, so must be purchased, seed companies offer fewer and fewer varieties of open-pollinated varieties each year. Fortunately, you and I can collect seed from openpollinated varieties for planting in subsequent years. That’s how each summer I get to eat Belgian Giant tomatoes, an utterly delectable variety that I originally got from a nursery in Maryland back in 1979. Every year I save seed for replanting. “The Garden Seed Inventory” by Kent Whealy (Seed Savers Exchange, 2005) lists sources for open-pollinated vegetable seeds, and “Seed to Seed” by Suzanne Ashworth and Kent Whealy (Seed Savers Exchange, 2002) and “Saving Seeds” by Marc Rogers (Storey Publishing, 1991) tell how to save your own vegetable seeds.
On the shelf: container garden always in season MARY BETH BRECKENRIDGE MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
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ive your container gardens year-round appeal with the ideas in “Continuous Container Gardens.” Authors Sara Begg Townsend and Roanne Robbins have devised planting plans that let you swap out plants each season, giving you four seasons of beauty from a single container. Some of the planting schemes retain just a plant or two from season to season, while others keep most of the plants. Twelve plans are offered in all, for 48 different looks. Townsend and Robbins also offer guidance on choosing plants and pots, planting the containers and caring for the arrangements, so you’ll get the best results. “Continuous Container Gardens” comes from Storey Publishing and sells for $19.95 in softcover.