Yearly Archives: 2012

Santa Fe County, New Mexico, homeowners, business and residential renters and business owners who do not have flood insurance are encouraged to buy coverage now to get the best possible premiums before new flood insurance rate maps go into effect.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced today that it is charging an Albuquerque, NM, landlord with violating the Fair Housing Act by refusing to allow a tenant with disabilities to modify his rental home to enable the tenant touse a wheelchair, even though the tenant agreed to pay all costs associated with making the modifications. In requesting the modifications, the tenant informed the landlord that all of the work would be performed by licensed contractors and that if the landlord wished, he would pay to return the unit to its original condition.

Legislation sponsored by U.S. Representative Martin Heinrich (NM-1) to remove barriers between Native American families and homeownership was signed into law today by President Obama during an Oval Office ceremony at the White House. The Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership (HEARTH) Act, allows tribes to exercise greater control over their lands and eliminate bureaucratic delays that stand in the way of homeownership and economic development in tribal communities.

Legislation sponsored by U.S. Representative Martin Heinrich (NM-1) to remove barriers between Native American families and homeownership cleared the Senate today by a unanimous vote. The bill, the Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership (HEARTH) Act (H.R. 205), would allow tribes to exercise greater control over their lands and eliminate bureaucratic delays that stand in the way of homeownership and economic development in tribal communities.

Yesterday, a federal judge in Santa Fe, New Mexico sentenced Manuel Garcia, 70, currently residing in Los Angeles, California, to a 13-month prison sentence, to be followed five years of supervised release, for his bank fraud conviction. Garcia also was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $585,243.59 to U.S. Bank of Albuquerque, which was formerly known as First Community Bank (FCB). Garcia was ordered to surrender to a federal correctional institution to be designated by the U.S. Bureau of Prisons to serve his prison sentence.

EUGENE, OR - April 11, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Kevin Ramos and IDX, Inc. have teamed up to revolutionize the way Albuquerque, New Mexico home seekers search for properties online. IDX Broker software is synced to the search page Ramos hosts, creating a thorough and comprehensive database of Southwest MLS (SWMLS) Multiple Listing Service homes. Clients of Ramos can now easily and quickly experience a dynamic online real estate search without ever having to leave the convenience of the IDX enabled website of Ramos.

EUGENE, OR - February 6, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- IDX, Inc. has teamed with Susan Hadley to deliver Santa Fe, New Mexico property listings to Santa Fe area home seekers. Hadley has adopted IDX Broker software, giving her website a thorough database of detailed home listings for potential buyers to search through. As a member of the Santa Fe MLS (SFARMLS), Hadley has long had access to thousands of area listings, once reserved only for agents and brokers. Now, thanks to her IDX solution, clients of Hadley can experience the same level of access to the SFARMLS database of property listings, without ever leaving the convenience that the real estate website of Hadley affords

EUGENE, OR - January 26, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- The innovative technology of IDX Broker software is now easily accessible on the professional real estate website of broker Michael Dunn, thanks to his partnership with IDX, Inc. Now, Southwest MLS (SWMLS) are synced with the website Dunn hosts, integrating thousands of SWMLS properties on his search page. The revolutionary IDX Broker software has simplified not only the search capabilities Dunn boasts, but the entire online real estate search process for agents, brokers and potential buyers

Newport Beach, CA - January 5, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Located along the busy Tenth Street corridor in downtown Alamogordo sits an investment opportunity summoning buyers with its unique selling method – an online auction. As the first ever online auction of property in this small New Mexico town, Hillside Plaza is currently owned by a bank that is very motivated to sell it as evident by the minimum bid.