What's Your Home Worth?

There is a great new site which compiles home values online.

It's currently in BETA but it's pretty neat. Go give it a try at: http://www.zillow.com

Property Taxes Taxing?

By: David S. Glasier
DGlasier@News-Herald.com
02/14/2006

See how your rates compare with neighboring communities

Here is a pop quiz for all of you home-owning citizens in Lake, Geauga, Cuyahoga and Ashtabula counties.

Three questions only.

And, please, no running off to rifle through that desk drawer or computer file where you have the records of your house payments or, if the mortgage is paid off, the latest tax bill
from the county.

The challenge here is to come up with correct answers, or educated guesses, off the top of your head.

• Do you know how much you will pay in property taxes this year?
• How are those property-tax dollars divided up?
• Are your property taxes higher or lower than those of homeowners in neighboring communities?
  

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Get a Head Start on Designing Your Kitchen

Aristokraft has a terrific program on their website which lets you mix and match your kitchen materials to get an idea of what it's going to look like. You can customize the look of the cabinets as well as choose from a variety of flooring, countertops, wall colors and appliance styles.

Give it a try at www.aristokraft.com. Click on "Planning Tools" and then click on "Visualize Your Space".