Discover North Seattle with Jay Silver

President Obama has just signed an extension of the $8,000 tax credit given to first time homebuyers. First time homebuyers are defined as those that have not owned a home in the last 3 years, and it works if you buy a home for sale anywhere - from Seattle, Washington all the way to Orlando Florida!

The bill also provides a $6,500 tax credit for "move up" homebuyers. Move up homebuyers are those that own a home but want to sell it and buy another. These homeowners must have lived in the home at least 5 of the last 8 years.

This bill also raises the income limit to $125,000 for single tax filers and $250,000 for joint tax filers. The home purchased must be $800,000 or less.

The new deadline is April 30th, 2010!

This is great news for many of you who were looking to buy a home but couldn't do so before the deadline.

There's more information, if you're interested. Just give me a call or shoot me and email if you have any questions!

- Jay

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I was just poking around on the internet and found a great website that has a lot of home safety tips. It's part of the Home Safety Council website and is definitely a one-stop resource for Home Safety ideas!

Here's the link: http://www.homesafetycouncil.org/SafetySaturday/sat_safetysaturday_w001.asp

Here's to a warm and SAFE holiday season!

- Jay

"The makers of Tylenol are recalling 21 children's and infant's Tylenol liquid products manufactured between April 2008 and June 2008 from warehouses and retail stores as a safeguard against potential contamination.

In a written statement, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Tylenol's manufacturer, said it detected bacteria in an inactive ingredient. While that ingredient was not used in any packaged final products, it was produced at the same time as those products..."

Read more on CNN.com by clicking this link: http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/24/news/companies/tylenol_recall/index.htm?postversion=2009092415

Northgate Park & Ride Will Soon Be Just A Park!

Join Mayor Nickels and the Northgate neighborhood at the groundbreaking/ground chalking event for the Hubbard Homestead Park. This Parks and Green Spaces Levy project converts the parking lot at 5th Ave NE and NE 112th St into a wonderful new park. On Saturday, September 26, 2009 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. help fill in the "paint by numbers" chalk rendition of the park. The morning will be full of community art, light refreshments and information on the innovative transformation of this park.

Karen O'Connor, Public Relations Speclialist with Seattle Parks and Recreation, sent me an email to help get the word out. The old Park & Ride behind Target is finally about to be torn down to make way for a 3.74 acre park! I'll update you with some more news about the groundbreaking party in a separate post soon.

Here's what Karen had to say,

"The King County Northgate Park & Ride located at 5th Avenue NE and NE 112th Street closes permanently on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 5 p.m. Seattle Parks and Recreation is starting construction of the new Hubbard Homestead Park. The groundbreaking will be on Sat. September 26 from 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Please watch for the groundbreaking celebration notification."

You can get more info on the project by going to the project page on the Seattle Parks and Recreation site here.