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I want to say Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen from Maureeeeeeeeeen  but my Title’s on this site are already scary enough depending on what browser you use. 

Happy Halloween!

A Powell property is participating in a National Open House Sunday.  That Golf Village home is the first Central Ohio property on the national list… so far it is the only property in Central Ohio that is participating in the “first”  National Open House Sunday - November 4, 2007…

Which house?  Edit Link Removed I am no longer marketing the property  in “The Retreat” at Golf Village neighborhood is  the only Central Ohio house on the “first”  National  Open House Sunday…. As of Tuesday there are 22 states represented but I don’t think there are one hundred homes on the list yet.

The Best open house list in Central Ohio is available on my website… the Real Living HER Open House List.  The current Real Living HER Open House List  has 177 open house opportunities (as of Tuesday morning… it will probably grow as the week goes on) for buyers, but the Real Living HER Open House list includes new construction and other homes held open other than the traditional Sunday open house. 

YMMV = Your mileage may vary

YMMV = Your market may vary

Sellsius Real Estate Blog shares a site the National Conferance of State Legislators that gives  the  Transfer Tax for every state! 

Ohio Transfer tax: $0.10 per $100 plus local option $0.30 per $100  0.4% (0.1% plus 0.3% local)  Posted May 2005.

Transfer tax (also known as conveyence fees) vary by county in Ohio.  That may be exactly what it says but it does not say what they are by county, so it really doesn’t say anything.  Delaware County has long been higher than Franklin County.  Until January 2006 the 2005 info.. was correct for Franklin County.  I am used to thinking  of it as dollars per thousand rather than dimes per hundred dollars though. 

According to the Franklin County Auditors website
“Franklin County conveyance fees are $2 (two dollars) for every $1,000 (one-thousand) of the sale price. Effective January 12, 2006, The Franklin County Commissioners have imposed a $1 per thousand permissive conveyance tax in addition to the mandatory $1 per thousand conveyance fee. This action was approved on December 13, 2005 by passage of Resolution number 998-05. “

Delaware County is still $3 per thousand dollars.  I assume the  $.30 per $100 local option is what the extra dollar is in Franklin County and what the $2 difference which is  now only a dollar differnt in Delaware County is… I know in 2005 when the tax doubled in Franklin County I was blogging on the original Columbus Best Blog and wrote about it…

Let’s see if I can find it..  December 13, 2005 (so this could have changed in counties I don’t usually work in…  I’d have to research it… )    I wrote in On, Off, On - Conveyance Fee Doubling on the original Columbus Best Blog which is now known as Discover Columbus:

“Delaware County - $3
Licking County - $2 
Fairfield County - $4
Fayette County - $3

Three of fastest growing counties in Ohio have higher transfer fees: Delaware County - $3; Warren County - $3; Clermont County - $3″

I use software from Chicago Title that figures a sellers closing costs (transfer tax is a sellers cost in Central Ohio) by county.  

Reissue on title insurance premium… there’s something fun to figure…

I understand this “sign” says “Welcome.”

Croeso means  welcome in Welsh?  The language they speak in Wales…  I am not sure what the lines below welcome mean ..

It says  CROESO I CWMGWRACH.

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If the California Cows (”Happy cows”… in a series of commercials for California cheese) relocated to Central Ohio… they could probably afford more land.  The outlying counties would probably be more appropriate for relocation as land prices are higher in Franklin and Delaware County. 

There are cows inside 270 though, the OSU herds in Northwest Columbus. There’s a dairy herd and a beef herd living in the city.  Sorta.   

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