Brian Icenhower
BS, JD, CRB, CRS, ABR, GRI
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Real Estate - Business - Social Media Expert
Brian Icenhower Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Real Estate, Business, Social Media & Real Estate Practice
- Career Focus
- Real Estate, Atto ey, Broker, Expert Witness, Prosecution Consultant, Author
- Affiliation
- Califo ia Association of Realtors, American Real Estate & Urban Economics Association, National Association of Realtors, State Bar of Califo ia, Council of Real Estate Brokerage Managers, Council of Residential Specialists, Real Estate Buyers Agency Council, Tulare County Association of Realtors, Kings County Board of Realtors, Orange Belt Board of Realtors
Brian Icenhower, Esq., BS, JD, CRB, CRS, GRI, ABR is the CEO of Keller Williams Realty Tulare & Kings Counties, the largest and highest producing real estate company in Central Southern Califo ia with offices in the cities of Visalia, Tulare, Porterville and Hanford. In addition to traditional real estate sales, KWR Tulare & Kings Counties also owns and operates Main Street Escrow Company, a real estate licensing school in conjunction with Kaplan University, and a KW Commercial Real Estate Division.
Brian is also an atto ey, real estate broker, real estate litigation expert witness, public speaker, business coach, real estate productivity trainer, and is a real estate law, productivity & economics writer. Brian Icenhower is a former instructor in real estate law at the College of the Sequoias, as well as a consultant & expert witness for District Atto ey real estate fraud units. Brian served as President of the Tulare County Association of REALTORS in 2011, and as both a Califo ia Association of REALTORS State Director and a National Association of REALTORS Director.
Brian is also active in the community as a former President of the Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Sequoias and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Kaweah Delta Hospital Foundation.
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Loan Modifications: More Harm tha Good?
In 2009, millions of United States homeowners learned that modifying their existing home loans served only to expedite foreclosure rather than prevent it. A U.S. Treasury report released in early December of 2009 revealed that only 4% of applicants under the federal government’s Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) have been able to successfully modify their loans on a permanent basis. Further, of those 4% that were able to modify their loans, an amazing 40% went into default within the following 6 months.
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The Economy’s Impact on Senior Housing Trends
The United States Census Bureau has reported that a third of the country’s population will be 50 years or older by the year 2010. Accordingly, a 2009 study conducted jointly by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the MetLife Mature Market Institute (MMI) revealed that the Baby Boomer generation alone will represent 25% of the United States population by 2010.
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Free Market Lends Federal Housing Stimulus a Hand
Economic experts overwhelmingly agree that before the United States financial crisis finally comes to an end, declining housing values must be halted so that real estate will once again provide adequate security for lenders to make loans comfortably. The prospect of imminent declines in housing prices has continuously inhibited banks from making loans as the increasing fear of borrower defaults, coupled with the steadily diminishing value of the properties that serve as security for loans, has caused banks to lend less freely and keep credit woefully tight.
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An Overview of New Tax Incentives & Lending Requirements for Housing
Attempts by Federal and State governments in the first quarter of 2009 to stimulate home sales have resulted in the creation of significant incentives for buyers seeking to take advantage of attractive housing prices across the United States. In order to reduce the large inventories of available ...
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How the U.S. Federal Reserve Lost Control of Mortgage Rates
Despite the United States Federal Reserve Board’s diligent attempts to stimulate the economy throughout the year of 2008 by repeatedly reducing the Federal Funds rate, the typically correlating thirty-year average mortgage rate stubbornly remained unchanged through the first quarter of 2009 as ...
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Home Loan Modifications Explained
Continuous declines in United States’ housing values after the mid-2000s caused an increasing number of borrowers to explore the loan modification process in an attempt to avoid losing their homes to foreclosure. Unfortunately, a large number of homeowners who sought to have their loans ...
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Investing in Foreclosure and REO Properties
The investment quandary as to the best method for acquiring foreclosed property at heavily discounted prices inevitably surfaces at the same stage in the real estate cycle every ten to twenty years. After housing booms and home prices correct back to affordable levels, real estate investors are ...
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A New Direction for Senior Housing
Home builders are currently facing a rapidly emerging demographic that has forced the housing industry to begin shifting away from traditional forms of real estate development into methods that cater specifically to the needs of seniors. According to the United States Census Bureau, 100 million ...
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Addressing Financial Crisis Misconceptions
Now that the entities known as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been thrust to the forefront of national media coverage due to their rapid failures which have resulted in a multitude of emergency congressional hearings, cabinet sessions, press conferences and ultimate government conervatorship, ...
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The Capital Gains Tax Scourge
The combination of an ailing economy and a struggling housing market during an election year has created the perfect storm to once again bring issues conce ing the federal capital gains tax rate to the forefront of the public’s attention. As our nation’s government continues to ...
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