How West Linn's Hillside Lots Change the Home Inspection Checklist If you are buying a West Linn home on a slope, a standard home inspection is the starting point, not the finish line. Hillside lots add questions a general inspector is not trained or licensed to answer: how stable is the ground, whe

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Oregon Measure 50 Explained: How Property Tax Limits Work When You Buy a Home in Clackamas County Measure 50 caps how fast the taxable value of a home can grow, but it does not cap what you pay for the home, and it does not reset when you buy. In Oregon, your property tax bill is built on a figure c

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How to Negotiate Repairs After Inspection Without Killing the Deal in Oregon If your inspection report just landed and it feels like a wall of red flags, take a breath. Almost every Oregon home inspection turns up a long list, and most deals survive it. The way to keep yours alive is to sort the lis

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What Molalla's New Growth Means for Buyers Looking Outside the City Core Molalla is planning for real growth, but today's numbers show a small city that has not yet grown much. The city's adopted Housing Production Strategy projects about 5,400 more residents by 2042, while Census Bureau estimates p

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How to Prepare Financially for a Home Purchase 12 Months Out in Oregon If you want to buy a home a year from now, the work that matters most is not saving a bigger number. It is getting four things in order: your credit report, your debt-to-income ratio, your cash for down payment and closing costs,

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Oregon City Hilltop vs. the McLoughlin Historic District: How to Choose The short answer: the McLoughlin Conservation District is the better fit if you want 1870s-to-1920s architecture on a walkable grid near downtown and you accept that the city has a say in some exterior changes. The Hilltop, the

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