Specter Speaks on Mortgage Crisis
October 6, 2007 Posted by Pennsylvania RealEstateRama
Washington, D.C., October 5, 2007 - U.S. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa) spoke on the Senate Floor today regarding the mortgage crisis. Yesterday, Specter introduced the Home Owners’ Mortgage and Equity Savings (HOMES) Act which takes aim at the housing crisis by providing relief to homeowners who are in bankruptcy because they can no longer afford […]
Governor Rendell Says $201 million in Property Tax Rebates Sent to Seniors
October 2, 2007 Posted by Pennsylvania RealEstateRama
HARRISBURG, Oct. 2, 2007 – Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced that more than 450,000 senior citizens have received Property Tax/Rent Rebates so far this year. Thanks to the state’s new property tax relief law, more than 140,000 additional senior citizens received rebates. And, overall, the program paid $80 million more than last year.
Local Homeowner Benefits from Cost, Energy-Saving Renovations
September 29, 2007 Posted by Pennsylvania RealEstateRama
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia and the Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania help make low-income home more energy efficient
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Rebuilding Together Philadelphia, the local affiliate of the nation’s largest volunteer home rehabilitation organization, and the Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania along with ConocoPhillips’ Trainer Refinery, today helped a low-income homeowner reduce her energy […]
Property tax rebate deadline extended in Pa.
July 30, 2007 Posted by Pennsylvania RealEstateRama
Like many other senior citizen homeowners, Phyllis Henry of Fayetteville, Pa., was applying for a property tax rebate for the first time this year.
Prior to 2006, the income eligibility limit for both renters and homeowners was $15,000. For 2006, however, the gross income limit for homeowners was raised to $35,000.
