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Welcome to BCHBA
The Excitement is Building
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Join us for the upcoming 2010 Spring
Showcase of New Homes
2010 Dates:
March 6-7, and
March 11-14, 2010
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Promote the Spring Showcase of New Homes
Print a poster and display it in your place of business
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Thank you for attending our 2009 Fall Showcase of New Homes. We look forward to seeing you at our
2010 Spring Showcase.
2010 Dates:
September 18-19, and
September 23 - 26, 2010
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We hope that you enjoyed
The Home Expo 2010
For More Info -
click here!
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Mission: Dedicated professionals providing excellence in housing through education and innovation for the betterment of members and our community.
The Brown County Home Builders Association is a trade organization made up of members who help make houses into homes. Members include builders, developers, banks, furniture and appliance dealers, paint and flooring companies, landscapers, and businesses selling lumber, windows, lighting, doors, insurance, brick, tile... and much, much more!
To receive more information about the Association or to apply for membership, please contact the Brown County Home Builders Association at:
811 Packerland Drive
P.O. Box 13194
Green Bay, WI 54307-3194
Phone: 920-494-9020
Fax: 920-494-5965
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$8,000 Home Buyer Tax Credit at a Glance
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The tax credit, effective November 6, 2009, has major benefits for both new and existing home buyers.
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It extends the $8,000 tax credit until April 30, 2010, for first-time home buyers.
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Further, a new $6,500 tax credit has been created for repeat buyers who are purchasing a principal residence during the same period.
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Repeat buyers can claim the $6,500 tax credit if they have been residing in their principal residence for five consecutive years out of the last eight.
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Both categories of home buyers have until June 30, 2010, to close on the home after signing a contract prior to May 1, 2010.
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In more good news, the income eligibility limits to claim the full credit amount for both groups of home buyers have been raised to $125,000 for individuals and $225,000 for couples.
- Single taxpayers earning between $125,000 and $145,000 can claim a partial credit of less than $8,000 for a first-time home buyer and $6,500 for an existing buyer, while the phase-out for married couples ends for those earning above $245,000.
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Buyers can claim the tax credit on their 2009 or 2010 income tax return.
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The tax credit does not have to be repaid. However, home buyers must use the residence for at least three years or face recapture of the credit amount.
Homes over a purchase price of $800,000 do not qualify.
Click here to learn more and have all your questions answered!
David Crowe, NAHB's Chief Economist, answers frequently-asked questions about the new 2009-2010 home buyer tax credits. Click on the following links to view:
YouTube Video
http://www.youtube.com/nahbtv#p/a/u/0/4xA1wlJjJKA
Tax Credit on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/federalhomebuyertaxcredit
Do you qualify for the Home Energy Efficiency Home Improvement Tax Credits? Click here for more information.
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It's the Law!
Renovate Right: Important Lead Hazard Information for Families, Child Care Providers and Schools
Federal law requires that individuals receive certain information before renovating six square feet or more of painted surfaces in a room for interior projects or more than twenty square feet of painted surfaces for exterior projects in housing, child care facilities and schools built before 1978.
To print a brochure with full details - click on the following link!
http://www.epa.gov/lead/pubs/renovaterightbrochure.pdf
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It's the Law!
Carbon monoxide alarms must be installed in most new commercial - residential construction in Wisconsin as of October 1, 2008, and in most existing commercial – residential buildings by 2010.
The Department of Commerce in September 2009 issued an Emergency Rule concerning the installation of carbon monoxide alarms "in buildings accommodating certain types of residential occupancies and within which fuel burning appliances are located. Residential occupancies include tourist rooming houses, bed and breakfast establishments, and any pubic building that is used for sleeping or lodging, such as, hotels, motels, condominiums, apartment buildings, dormitories, fraternities, sororities, convents, seminaries, community based residential facilities, home shelters, but not hospitals and nursing homes."
This rule called for the installation of carbon monoxide alarms (hard wired and interconnected) in new buildings as of October 1, 2008. The owners of existing buildings will have until April 1, 2010 to install the carbon monoxide alarms (plug in alarms in exiting buildings are permitted under the emergency rule). This rule provides for the omission of carbon monoxide alarms in certain instances which are further clarified by the administrative rule.
From the rules' summary are more details:
-For new tourist rooming houses and apartments (October 1, 2008) the rule requires:
-The installation of carbon monoxide alarms where any type of fuel burning appliances are installed.
-The carbon monoxide alarms to be continuously powered by the building's electrical service with battery backups.
Two important documents for your review:
1. This is the summary that has been issued as an alert by the Department of Commerce on the emergency rule package
http://commerce.wi.gov/SB/docs/SB-PubCarbMonoBroch209.pdf
2. This is the text of the actual emergency rule package:
http://www.commerce.state.wi.us/SB/docs/SB-CodeDev2162Emerg0908.pdf
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