Homeowners Association Of Philadelphia: Fill & Download for Free

As James Weiner noted in his answer, once the eviction has been completed the evicted tenant is no longer your tenant, and that makes them a trespasser.But it is possible that the eviction did not remove the former tenant's personal property, and now that personal property falls under abandoned personal property of that tenant. In recent years, Pennsylvania state law has had some changes in how to deal with abandoned personal property of a tenant, with some time limits and storage requirements to be followed, and that includes personal property abandoned post eviction. So I suggest you become better educated regarding how to handle any abandoned personal property; at this point you might want to get your attorney's advice for this.And something I suggest to all landlords in Philadelphia is to join HAPCO (Homeowners Association of Philadelphia) Homeowners Association of Philadelphia; HAPCO is an organization that has a motto of "advocating for landlords". HAPCO does all of the following: publishes a monthly newsletter distributed to all its members; has a private online forum for members to ask and answer questions; provides members a printed manual on dealing with various things specific to being a landlord in Philadelphia; and has many other discounts and benefits for landlords in Philadelphia.And I also suggest that Philadelphia area landlords join DIG (Diversified Investors Group) Home - Diversified Real Estate Investor Group ; DIG offers more in person networking than HAPCO and that has some value for many.Disclosure: I am a paying member of both HAPCO and DIG, so I follow my own advice regarding these organizations.And let's not omit BiggerPockets where you can join for free: The Real Estate Investing Social Network

Many news articles have been written about why real estate agents still exist when every other form of middleman (i.e. insurance brokers, travel agents) seem to have been made obsolete by the internet.However, none of these articles seem to shed any light or insight to the problem of how to sell your home yourself in NYC. Moreover, most of these articles are shameless acts of promotion for traditional flat-fee MLS discount listing brokers which has been proven not to work. We believe we’ve figured out the solution, and we’d love an opportunity to tell you our story.So why are real estate agents still around?In a nutshell, it’s because buyers’ agents still control most of the home buyer traffic. Even though well over 90% of today’s home buyers may start their search online, they eventually end up purchasing their home through a buyers’ agent over 80% of the time. In order to access buyers represented by agents, home sellers need a listing (or seller) agent with access to their local interbroker database to offer a commission to buyers’ agents on the database. Home sellers can’t be stingy on the commission offered either to stay competitive with most listings offering 2-3% to a buyers’ agent. Both seller & buyer broker fees (typically 5-6%) are charged by the listing broker and paid by the seller.And because most brokerage databases require the commission split to be equal between buyer and seller agent, you get total commissions still stuck to this day at a hefty 6% of the home sale price (Why are New York City real estate commissions so high?).What’s the typical real estate commission in NYC?Hauseit video tutorialBecause of this inability to effectively engage buyers represented by agents when you sell your home yourself in NYC, most FSBO home sellers eventually end up caving and hiring a traditional real estate broker.Fortunately, we are solving the problem on the sell side and buy side at Hauseit®. We have helped homeowners like you sell your home yourself in NYC and save millions of dollars in commission this year alone. Here are a few top tips on how to sell your home yourself in NYC.Advertise your NYC property on relevant local websitesHaving made the decision to sell your home yourself in NYC, it can be tempting to rush off and buy the first “flat fee MLS” listing package you find on the internet. However, keep in mind many of these sites are not tailored to NYC and attempt to be a catch-all listing service for all 50 states. If you want to properly sell your home yourself in NYC, you’ll need to make sure you’re listed on relevant, popular local real estate search websites such as StreetEasy. If you take a closer look at the listing packages of some “big,” national for sale by owner websites, you’ll notice that they only list you on a number of free, national search websites such as Zillow and Trulia. While those are certainly great and important to be on, you know that you’ll be missing out on many homebuyers who exclusively use StreetEasy in their NYC home search.Now before you rush off and purchase a FSBO StreetEasy listing package separately ($399 for 28 days as of this writing), realize that you could save a lot of money by listing with Hauseit for the same price. In addition to offering StreetEasy, Hauseit’s zero-commission, flat-fee NYC listing service will also list your NYC property on many additional real estate website and, most importantly, submit your listing to the NYC broker databases which include REBNY’s RLS Database, OLR (On-Line Residential – NYC Broker Database), Nestio (NYC Broker Database) and RealtyMX (NYC Broker Database) – all at once!Co-broke on the local NYC broker databases to access represented buyersYou’ve probably heard a few times by now why it’s important to engage buyers represented by agents when you try to sell your home yourself in NYC. Again, before you rush off and buy the first “flat fee MLS” listing package you find, make sure you investigate what “MLS” they are offering to list you in to begin with! You’ll find that most of the big, national for sale by owner websites will just claim to list you in your local “MLS (multiple listing service – another term for a brokerage database affiliated with the National Association of Realtors)” whether you’re trying to sell your home yourself in NYC or Long Island. This is a harmful marketing tactic that preys on the inexperience and lack of knowledge among NYC home owners.There is no point being on a brokerage database no brokers in your locale actually use. In the case of New York City, there is not one, dominant MLS that all brokers use. In fact, the main interbroker databases in NYC are not even affiliated with the National Association of Realtors (NAR). NYC actually has a few critically important broker databases including REBNY’s RLS, OLR (On-Line Residential), NESTIO, and RealtyMX. By being listed across all of these databases, your listing has the highest chance of being picked up by NYC agents who are members of both broker trade associations which operate in the city: REBNY (Real Estate Board of New York) as well as MANAR (Manhattan Association of Realtors).Not only do the various broker associations in NYC use these databases to find properties for buyers, but they also feed their individual listings to them as well. Furthermore, by being listed in these databases it’s also highly likely that your listing will automatically feed directly onto the private brokerage websites of hundreds of member firms in the city. This results in truly comprehensive exposure for your listing, giving you the highest chance of success in finding a buyer.You won’t have to worry about buyer agent members of any specific trade group boycotting your listing. Not only would that be illegal and unethical behavior towards their buyer clients, but it would also be extremely impractical in an age of highly scarce inventory.As you can guess, a Hauseit affiliated broker will make sure to co-broke on your behalf in only your relevant local interbroker database (REBNY, OLR, etc. in NYC, TREND MLS for Philadelphia, etc).How do I use a discount broker in NYC?Hauseit video tutorialBeware of NYC brokers offering a free open listingWhen you sell your home yourself in NYC, you’re bound to get a multitude of brokers asking your permission to list your home for free on a few websites like StreetEasy or Zillow. This is called an open listing, where a broker doesn’t have an exclusive listing agreement with you, but has your permission to advertise it on the web and charge you a commission if they find a buyer. Though it may be tempting to agree because they’re offering exposure for free without any sort of contract, you must avoid this at all costs if you are trying to sell your home yourself in NYC.What they are doing in fact is pirating your buyer leads from your home’s listing on popular websites which you could easily have gotten yourself. It may very well be free to let them post your home on StreetEasy, but it’s going to cost you 3% once they find a buyer there.With Hauseit, we have zero tolerance for buyer lead intermediation. All inquiries are automatically sent to you upon receipt via server level email filtering rules. All that our affiliate listing broker (and ourselves for that matter) is eligible for is the one time flat fee you’ve paid to list through us. Cancel anytime by writing us an email and your listing will be taken down the same day.

The roles of county and city governments vary substantially by state, as Kelly Kinkade explains. All states except Alaska have counties (in Louisiana they’re called “parishes”, a relic of the French system). Counties are as a rule significant with regard to the organization of courts, but the other local functions of a county vary. Virginia has a number of “independent cities” that function more-or-less the same way as counties. In Maryland, Baltimore City is not considered part of Baltimore County. Several states have “city-county” governments for some of their more urban counties, such as Miami-Dade County in Florida, Lexington-Fayette County in Kentucky, and Philadelphia-Philadelphia County in Pennsylvania. I believe there are some number of others like this. New York City is unique in that the city encompasses five counties—New York county (Manhattan), Kings county (Brooklyn), Queens, the Bronx, and Richmond county (Staten Island). The counties are still there for the court system; other local services are administered by the City.How is tax collected by both? Who controls what? Who's in charge? I feel like there are too many blurred lines between their roles even when the two are not the same.Taxes may be collected by any entity to which a statute grants “taxing authority”. There actually aren’t any blurred lines about general roles, though. All local governments exist at the sufferance of the state, which will have statutes (or occasionally constitutional provisions) defining and restricting local government power. Whether the county or the municipality is authorized or required to provide a service, lay a tax, or enact an ordinance will depend entirely on those statutes.In Pennsylvania, county governments exist for the sole purpose of providing certain county-wide services, primarily the courts and court-related offices like the clerk’s and prothonotaries’ offices, the minor courts, the District Attorney, the Domestic Relations (support) office, the Probation Department, the Sheriff’s Office, the jail/prison/correctional facility, etc. (The personnel of these offices are a mixture of state and county employees and elected officials.) The county is also the unit for administration of the land registry and Geographic Information Systems office, the Elections Board, the Assistance Office, the Children and Youth Services office, and a local Emergency Management Agency. Counties may (but do not have to) provide aid to other services like libraries, parks, planning, and so forth, but they have little or no legislative authority to enact ordinances. Counties are funded by property taxes, though some of the above-listed offices also receive state and/or federal funding. Allegheny and Philadelphia counties are allowed by legislative dispensation to collect a one-percent sales tax.All locations in Pennsylvania are within a county and also part of some sort of municipality, be it a township, borough (usually a smaller town), or city (defined in the Pennsylvania Municipal Code as a local entity with a “home rule charter”). “Municipal government” and “local government” are interchangeable terms here. I am only aware of two municipalities that straddle county lines—the city of Bethlehem straddles Northampton and Lehigh counties, and the borough of Shippensburg Franklin and Cumberland. The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia county. These local governments have limited legislative power to create local ordinances, specifically have the power to regulate land use. Local governments are responsible for the maintenance of non-state highways (with some state aid), and the more-populous ones provide police and fire protection and other services like parks, a few might provide garbage collection or the like although usually there are just ordinances saying that residents must either keep their garbage clear themselves or hire private collectors. Local governments may impose property, payroll, or income taxes or sometimes a combination of these, though typically the county tax collector will collect municipal property taxes along with the county tax.Water and sewer services and refuse dumps are provided by municipal authorities, a type of entity that may be associated with or created by one or more local governments but once established is not actually part of any local government. Authorities have statutory power to assess, but not tax, homeowners, condemn land as is needed for their operations, and to charge rates for the provision of services. They are usually run by boards appointed by any constituent local governments. For instance, the City of Lebanon Authority provides water and sewer services in the city of Lebanon, West Lebanon township, and such parts of North Lebanon, South Lebanon, and North Cornwall townships as are subject (by township ordinance) to mandatory water and sewer hookups. Areas not served by the Authority will need to rely on wells and septic tanks.School districts are outside the lines of municipal government altogether. School districts are run by boards of school directors who are elected independently. School boards have taxing power and some discretion as to school policies, but no power to enact ordinances of general applicability. As far as I know all school districts use municipal (township, borough, or city) borders, but a few do spread across county lines, like the West Shore School District in Cumberland and York counties. School districts are uniformly funded by property taxes, though the state does provide additional funding to them.In Pennsylvania, you can pay state income tax, state sales tax, county sales tax if it’s authorized (only in two counties at present), county property tax, local property tax, local income tax, a “local services” tax or a local per capita tax (you’re exempt from this if not employed), a wage tax (but if you live in the municipality imposing the wage tax, you don’t have to pay that and income tax), and school taxes, depending on where you live.Things are a little simpler in North Carolina, where I lived until fifteen years ago. There there are counties and cities. Any incorporated municipality is a “city”, whether it have a hundred residents or a million. “Cities” are responsible for streets, police, water and sewer, and other local amenities and have limited legislative authority. Some cities there cross county lines as well.Counties are responsible for courts, jails (sometimes several counties will co-operate and operate a district jail), county social services offices, and so forth as they are here. Areas outside city limits are subject to county legislation regarding land use, though such regulation may not exist in very rural areas. Counties don’t provide police, but sheriffs’ offices may provide law enforcement services. Counties are not responsible for highways; the state maintains nearly all non-municipal roads. School districts are not as independent as they are up here, School board members are still elected officials who are not part of the county hierarchy, but they cannot levy taxes on their own, instead being funded by the constituent counties with some state aid. Districts are usually coterminous with counties (except where cities straddle county lines, in which case the entire city will be in a district with one of the two counties).In N.C. you may pay state income tax, state sales tax, county property tax, and municipal property tax. Property tax may be assessed on vehicles as well as real estate there.So the long and the short of it is the question is far too broad if you ask for “the United States”. It’s different in every state.