About Lehigh County, PA

The Lehigh Valley Fall Horse Expo 2009 is coming to Ag Hall at the Allentown Fairgrounds. It will be held Saturday, November 21 from 10AM - 5PM.

There will be vendors, speakers, live horse demonstrations and Master Magician Mark Mysterrio.

Demonstrators will be:

- David Nemeroff on Craniosacral Therapy for Animals

- Patrick King on Developing a Connection with horses

- Musical Horse Ride and Cutting Demonstration

- Dodie Sable on Endurance Riding

- Caroline Rider on Natural Horsemanship

- and more

There will also be a roping clinic and roping contest for kids. This looks like fun.

Tickets are $6 and kids under 12 get in FREE and there is plenty of FREE parking.

I'll be there so I hope to see you there, too. It will be a day of fun for all ages.

Click here for more information.

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Lehigh Valley Real Estate & Homes - Free Upcoming Home Buying Seminar / Workshop being held in Allentown PA - Learn before you buy - Not only First Time Home Buyers - Repeat Buyers welcome too.

FREE Home Buying Workshop

WHEN: December 5, 2009

WHERE: RE/MAX real estate Office

3021 College Heights Blvd Allentown, PA 18104

Go to MapQuest to Get Door TO Door Directions

Registration is a MUST click HERE!

Seating is Limited to 25

We will hold a cancellation List
If you register and can not make it please contact us

Refreshments will be served

Future Workshops - scheduled by Demand

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

• Down Payment & Closing Cost Assistance Programs (state & local)
  
• How do you get the 8K Tax Credit or 6500 for Repeat Buyers
  
• How to Determine how much a home is worth to make an offer.
  
• How to make an offer on a home
  
• Negotiating Your offer with the Seller
  
• How to get the seller to give you... $5000 toward your closing costs
  
• No down payment Loans & 3.5% down payment loans
  
• How much are closing costs?
  
• Common Inspections to get on a home
  
• Foreclosures, REO's, Bank Owned, & Short Sales Explained
• How to get Full Detailed Listings of Homes that fit your specific needs
• and MUCH, MUCH MORE.
  

ALL Students will be given full written presentation materials to take home

Local Professional Instructors Include

Moriah Martin, Real Estate Agent
RE/MAX real estate, Allentown PA

John M Obleschuk
Mortgage Consultant & Renovation Specialist
Wells Fargo Mortgage

BELOW IS STILL PENDING BUT....

Moriah is working on Special Guests for Question & Answer Session
this may include lunch for our students

12:30 to 1:30pm

From

Local Credit Repair Company & Home Inspector

Other Lehigh Valley Real Estate and Home Buying and Selling Questions
10 Top Home Buyer Questions
Top 5 Lehigh Valley Seller Questions
What is a buyers Agent?
10 Things you should know about Buying a Foreclosure

*Lehigh Valley Real Estate - FREE Home Buying Seminar / Workshop in Allentown, PA * Moriah Martin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License

Here is what's happening in the Parkland and Northwestern Lehigh Area School Districts in Pennsylvania for October 2009 in Real Estate:

Recommendation:

If you're buying a home, it is important that you work closely with a highly-motivated agent who understands what's going on with the real estate market and local economy. He/She will be able to advise you on how to get the most for your money and what homes you may want to avoid, as there are homes on the market that are not priced at their fair market value.

If you're selling your home, it's also important that you work closely with a highly-motivated agent who understands what's going on with the market and local economy. Your goal is to net top dollar - which you may not achieve if you overprice or underprice your home.

The Trexler Nature Preserve has opened for all to enjoy in the Lehigh Valley area in Pennsylvania.

Gen. Harry C. Trexler, who died in 1993 and was Lehigh County's most influential citizen, left more than 1,100 acres in the Schnecksville area to the people of the county to enjoy the great outdoors. He wanted to help conserve some of our wildlife in the proper setting. Gen. Trexler loved the outdoors and gave the property to share his love of the outdoors with his fellow people and future generations.

Friday, October 30th, 2009, county and other officials formally dedicated the Trexler Nature Preserve. It is now open for hiking, walking, biking, horseback riding, bird watching, picnicing, fishing, and bow hunting in season.

For years, the Lehigh Valley Zoo, located in a small section of the property, was the only accessible part of the land to the public. A few years ago the county leased the zoo to a private operator. The county then developed a plan for the preserve.

The project included removing non-native plants, allowing native brush to grow and animals such as red fox, coyotes, deer, turkey and bluebirds to thrive.

Stream beds were also restored so people could fish.

The Wildlands Conservancy helped in developing the plan. Community groups such as The Valley Mountain Bikers, the International Mountain Bikers and the Lehigh County Equestrian Council helped build the trails and the Appalacian Mountain Club helped the county parks department with trail mapping.

For more information, click here.

A young gentlemen was pre-approved. While a small loan, it is significant for him since it is the very first house he has ever bought. The closing date is on the back end of November's Ides...

The supporting documentation was collected and the appraisal was ordered, yet over the weekend, he spoke to the Family Attorney. Mr. Attorney recommended that he shop around. Alas, the chap was "approved" at a local bank at an interest rate that was about a half percent lower than we quoted. So, he went that way.

Days later, meaning today, it so happens that the local bank turned him down. While getting into specifics may be a bad thing, they low-balled a legitamate rate they could offer him and their debt ratio requirements are tighter than an amateur porn star's balloon knot. (No, you didn't just write that. Yup, I did.) They turned him down.

So, we are starting over to an extent. The appraisal must be re-ordered and now we can actually send the file to Underwriting.

I'm a champion of folks shopping around, just not so late in the game.

The next time you shop, try the Family Attorney.