Chino Hills California Real Estate, Gail Griffin

If you receive an unsolicited email that appears to be from the IRS requesting that you file a "tax refund request," do not fall victim to this identity theft scheme. Numerous people are receiving unsolicited email informing them that a $9,390.55 IRS tax refund is due to them if they complete a tax refund request form. The ...

  Orange County Register  Beginning with the 2012 tax bill (the one due in April 2013), the state Franchise Tax Board will require property owners to break down their property taxes into deductible and non-deductible portions. Read the full story

Instances of financial abuse and fraud against the elderly increased from November 2010 to January 2011, according to a recent report from MetLife, which found overall investment fraud targeted towards older Americans is on the rise. Americans over the age of 65 lost nearly $3 billion to financial abuse from April to June 2010, up ...

Fannie Mae announced Servicer Total Achievement and Rewards (STAR) Program results through the third quarter of 2011.  The STAR program, announced in February 2011, measures the performance of servicers with an emphasis on foreclosure prevention.  Servicers are categorized into three peer groups based on the number of Fannie ...

An email with the subject line “Complaint from your customers” is circulating and may be a scam, according to an urgent scam alert by the Council of Better Business Bureaus. The email appears to come from a Better Business Bureau employee about a recently filed complaint with the organization and tells recipients to review ...

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin CHINO HILLS - The California Public Utilities Commission has ordered Southern California Edison to stop construction on its expanded power line project and ordered it to present "feasibility, cost and timing" for five alternative routes in two months. Edison is expected to "serve ...

CITY OF CHINO HILLS PRESS RELEASE PR11 – 095 Contact: Denise Cattern Valerie McClung (909) 364-2615 (909) 364-2618 Date: September 28, 2011 City Attorney Mark Hensley announced that the Chino Hills City Council voted in closed session to file a request with the California Supreme Court to accept review of the Court of Appeal’s ...

California home sales and median price are predicted to improve only slightly in 2012, as the continuation of the tepid economic recovery, uncertainty about the future, and funding challenges for residential mortgages are expected to keep the market moving sideways, with little foreseeable momentum in either direction, according to ...

Talking Points Existing law requires homeowners’ associations (HOAs) to provide specific documents to prospective purchasers of homes in a CID -- a form of real estate ownership in which each homeowner has an exclusive interest in a unit and a shared interest in the common area property. In addition to the ...

Threatening emails purportedly from the FBI and its leadership have been making the rounds recently.  The FBI does not send threatening emails to the public.  It uses the legal process should it want to contact a member of the public.  The FBI cautions, if you receive an unsolicited email, do not open it, click on it, nor ...