Howard Zelin

Are you about to buy a house or condo for the first time? Congratulations! Owning your own piece of real estate is a liberating experience and one that will provide you with the foundation to build your personal wealth and equity. Once you own your own home you'll be responsible for a variety of new costs, including property taxes which are assessed by your local government to pay for municipal services. In this blog post we'll share how property taxes work and what you can expect to pay when you buy your new home.  It All Begins with a Local Property Tax Assessment As mentioned above, local governments assess property taxes as a means for paying for police officers, fire fighting services, road maintenance and the other various costs that come with running a town or city. Whether you're buying a house, a townhouse or a condo, the property that your home sits on is inside of an area known as an "assessment area". When the local government determines what your loc...

Howard Zelin is a professional who donates to Pediatric MS for providing comprehensive evaluation and care to children and teens up to the age of 18 with MS and related central nervous system (CNS) and demyelinating disorders. Currently, he is serving as the President of the Zell Development Corp. At this corporation, he provides acquisition, development and construction of various projects along the East Coast. Not only this, the company handles several various complex and multi-family projects in Brooklyn and the Bronx; and many single family construction projects in New York, Florida and Massachusetts. For most homeowners who are likely to suffer the winter rolls, he provides efficacious tips to save money on their home energy costs with three steps. Install and Use Programmable Thermostats Switch Up Your Ceiling Fans Check Your Insulation, Furnace and Ducts Now Howard Zelin is also the President of the New Atlantic Capital Corp. This company strives to provide quick and ef...

If you're like most homeowners you likely suffer the same fate when winter rolls around: higher energy bills. It doesn't matter if you heat your home with electricity, natural gas or some other energy source; prices continue to rise and that means increased heating costs. In today's blog post we'll share three easy ways that you can save money on your home energy costs this winter. Install and Use Programmable Thermostats Now that Nest and other companies have brought Wi-Fi enabled, programmable thermostats on the market there's very few excuses to avoid using them. At bare minimum you'll want a digital thermostat that can be programmed to turn on and off at certain hours of the day. For example, you can shut your heat off after leaving for work and have it turn back on again a half-hour or so before you get home. You can do the same at night when you're fast asleep under warm blankets. If possible, try to get a thermostat for each room so that rooms can be...