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Construction Risk | |
7 December 1999, revised
24 September 2004. Environmental law and construction attorney J.
Kent Holland, Jr. maintains this site devoted to construction risk
management issues. Find a monthly newsletter (Construction Risk Report),
an annotated collection of links and a directory of professionals in
related areas (architects, construction lawyers, etc.). (et) | |
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1031properties | |
3 October 2001. A 1031 Exchange lets an
investor dispose of investment property, defer capital gain taxes, and
leverage all of their equity to acquire replacement investment property
(from
LoopNet). This site offers a database of net leased properties,
articles, industry news, market profiles, and more. | |
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Job Accommodation Network | |
15 December 1999, revised 12 September 2003.
Part of the Job Accommodation Network, which is a service of the Office of
Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) of the U.S. Department of Labor, this
resource provides a comprehensive listing of links to disability-related
materials. Find ADA (Americans with Disabilities)-related laws and
regulations, building, housing and recreation accessibility guidelines,
and more. (et) | |
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Advanced Buildings Technologies & Practice | |
18 October 2000. Various engineers,
architects, and other building professionals contribute to this expert
reference source. Find essays, illustrations, and case studies pertaining
to the "resource efficiency of commercial and multi-unit residential
buildings." Topics cover building structures, finishes and furnishings,
heating and cooling, plumbing and water heating, lighting, load
management, electricity production, ventilation and air quality, ecology,
and motors and equipment. | |
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All About Forms | |
24 January 2002. This site boasts a
collection of over 5,000 legal forms -- about 2,000 of which are available
for free to registered users. Coverage includes affidavits, applications,
bankruptcy, business, corporation, divorce, leases, partnership, rent,
statements, trademark, and trusts. Also find practical plain English
articles from Nolo.com and a forms search feature. | |
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American Legal Publishing Online Library | |
25 May 2000, revised 6 February 2004.
American Legal Publishing provides access to its city and town codes of
ordinances. Covering more than 25 states, the publisher informs visitors
of the date of the last ordinance included for each municipal code.
Visitors can choose between framed and unframed versions. They can also
browse or search the individual codes. (et) | |
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Building Code Library | |
24 February 2004.
Reed Construction Data makes available this resource for finding
information about building codes. Covering all states, major cities and
some counties, the Building Code Library provides information about codes
and amendments as well as contacts for the authorities in each
jurisdiction. It does not provide the full-text of building codes. Rather,
it lists the code type, special application notes, code model and
amendment contact information. Site access requires free registration.
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Community Reinvestment Act | |
11 December 2001, revised 8 August 2003. The
Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) offers
information about Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) lending activity. The
CRA "is intended to encourage depository institutions to help meet the
credit needs of the communities in which they operate." Obtain statistics
about small business or small farm loans or community development lending
by county, metropolitan statistical area (MSA) or financial institution.
Also find CRA ratings and reports. The site provides a search engine. (gk) | |
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Construction WebLinks | |
13 November 2000, revised
24 September 2004. The law firm, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP, offers
this comprehensive annotated directory of Web-based resources for
researchers interested in construction law issues. Find resources for
building codes, licensing issues, public records and other legal topics.
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Consumer Price Indexes | |
15 December 1999. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics offers CPIs from 1913 to present. | |
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Cyburbia | |
Revised 12 September 2003. Formerly called
The Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center, Cyburbia is a
resource for urban planners, civil engineers, real estate professionals
and others interested in urban planning. It offers an extensive directory
of links to Web sites covering community and economic development,
planning, demographics,
land use and zoning, information technology and more. You will also
find several forums, where registered users may ask and answer questions
pertaining to planning and the build environment. (gk) | |
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dis Ability | |
29 August 2000. In
celebration of the 10th anniversary (July 26, 2000) of the signing of the
Americans with Disabilities Act, the Presidential Task Force on Employment
of Adults with Disabilities offers this portal of federal government
information related to the Act. The portal covers 15 topics: children and
youth, choice and self-determination, civil rights, adult education,
disability statistics, emergency preparedness, employment, health,
housing, income support, recreation and travel, self-employment, tax
credits, technology, and transportation.
The site facilitates finding
government information (laws, regulations, guidance documents, etc.)
related to the Act. For example, from the home page, select Housing, and
then the sub-topic, Accessibility, to find Fair Housing Accessibility
Guidelines, ADA Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities, Accessible
Housing Designs, and more. | |
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Disability Law Resource Project | |
2 March 2004. One
of ten Disability and Business Technical Assistance Centers (DBTACs)
funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
(NIDRR), the Disability Law Resource Project (DLRP) provides information
about the Americans with Disabilities Act, related laws and making
Information Technology accessible to people with disabilities. Its Web
site offers a Guide to Disability Law, which summarizes relevant sections
of several disability laws, FAQs (an index to related summaries elsewhere)
and a topical index of federal laws and U.S. Supreme Court opinions on
disability issues. (et) | |
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Domainia | |
11 July 2000. This site offers information
and tools for real estate professionals and researchers. For example, use
Home Price Check to find the sale price of a house by its address.
Coverage includes most states, but may be selective within a state. Use
the help documentation to determine the coverage of your geographic
region. | |
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E-Codes | |
10 May 2000. General Code Publishers offers
numerous municipal codes in folio infobases. Most are from cities and
counties in the northeastern United States. | |
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Electronic Library of Construction Safety and Health (eLCOSH) | |
The Center to Protect Worker's Rights
provides this Web site about construction safety and health. Find
information by type of hazard, trade or type of job site, or conduct a
search of the NIOSH (National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health) Web site, which covers content from eLCOSH. Documents covered
include brochures, how-to manuals, newsletters, research reports, training
manuals and more. In addition to materials provided by eLCOSH, the site
refers visitors to quality external resources. (et) | |
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Fair Housing | |
29 January 2004. The Bazelon Center for
Mental Health Law compiles information about fair housing for people with
mental disabilities. Find fact sheets covering issues like terminating a
lease before it expires, reasonable accommodations, disability
discrimination and more. The Center also provides news, case annotations,
publications, articles and links to additional resources. (et) | |
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Fair Housing Law | |
29 January 2004. The Leadership Conference
on Civil Rights Education Fund maintains this site devoted to fair housing
issues. It provides summaries of incidents of illegal practices, summaries
of major federal and state fair housing laws, the text of the Fair Housing
Act and more. (et) | |
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FDIC Real Estate Retrieval System | |
26 February 2002. Find FDIC properties for
sale nationwide. Generate a list using the following criteria: property
type, location, market price. | |
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Fire Research Information Services |
16 April 2002. The Building and Fire
Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST) offers a collection of fire resources -- including a
bibliographic database dubbed FIREDOC -- for fire protection engineers,
scientists, and fire service personnel. FIREDOC contains bibliographic
information about the resources available from the Fire Research
Information Services. These include published reports, journal articles,
conference proceedings, books, and audiovisual materials. After
registering (by phone) to use the database, searchers may also order
documents it references. Registration is not required to search the
database.
Other resources at this Web site include a collection of online documents
(free) published roughly from 1993 forward, a collection of links to
related external resources, and links to other BFRL information sources. | |
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First American Underwriting Library | |
Revised 6 February 2004. Business
information provider First American Corporation provides free online
access to its Underwriting Library. The Underwriting Library consists of
five volumes: an endorsement manual (vol. 1), title insurance forms (vol.
2), a state guide on real estate practices (vol. 3), publications and
articles (vol. 4) and the First American Financial Corporation
Professional Services Guide (vol. 5). Additionally, it contains a glossary
of insurance-related terms and a directory of First American offices. You
can browse or search the library by keyword. (et) | |
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Foreclosures Free Search | |
14 September 2000. Find a database of bank
and government-owned property foreclosures. Search by location (don't miss
the fast zip code search option), then narrow by additional criteria, if
desired. Criteria includes residential vs. commercial property, price
range, number of bedrooms, and number of baths. The database then lists
all results. Click on the "details" link to obtain property information. | |
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FRB Selected Interest Rates | |
15 December 1999. The Federal Reserve Board
offers Release H.15 on selected interest rates. It provides daily interest
rates for U.S. Treasury and private money market and capital market
instruments. | |
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Free Lunch | |
1 September 2000.
Economy.com, "provider of economic, financial, and industry research" for
investors, offers this database of economic and financial statistics.
Users must register to retrieve data, but more than 1 million data series
are available for downloading, or display, free of charge.
Some of data includes the
House Price Index, new non-residential construction, bankruptcies,
imports, exports, consumer loans, bank balance sheets, interest rates,
unemployment, and more. | |
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Global Real Estate Project | |
3 October 2001. The Burns School of Real
Estate and Construction Management at the University of Denver offers a
database of country profiles with a focus on real estate issues. Compare
the real estate property issues or trends of up to five countries.
Profiles include information about the country's geography, history,
people, government, economy, transportation, and communication, as well as
a summary of real estate issues and trends, and cultural issues. Each
profile also provides additional references. | |
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Glossary Agent | |
13 September 2001. MultiTech Communications,
Inc. offers a gateway to glossaries of interest to professionals in
insurance, reinsurance, risk management, employee benefits, healthcare,
and related fields such as law and financial services. Access entries at
the bottom of the opening page. As the term gateway implies, entries come
from a variety of sources including several in foreign languages. | |
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The Greater Upstate Law Project | |
27 May 2003. The Greater Upstate Law Project
(GULP), which describes itself as "a non-profit legal resource center
providing technical assistance to local legal services programs and other
community groups in New York State," offers commentary on a variety of
issues, including domestic violence, child care, housing, immigration and
health. Find the full-text of several GULP publications like Disability
Law News and Legal Services Journal. The site's Online Resource Center
provides free (but registered) access to a Fair Hearings database, which
contains administrative decisions from various New York state agencies. (gk) | |
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Home Mortgage Disclosure Act | |
11 December 2001. The Federal Financial
Institutions Examination Council offers several reports on home mortgage
lending and insurance (PMI) activities. Obtain statistics about
conventional loans, refinancings, home improvement loans, and more by
metropolitan statistical area (MSA) or financial institution. Also find a
copy of Regulation C, which requires certain mortgage lenders to disclose
data regarding HMDA reportable loans, as well as staff commentary. | |
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Homepath by Fannie Mae | |
10 May 2000. Targeted to consumers,
Homepath.com offers a database of Fannie Mae properties for sale, various
mortgage calculators, as well as lender, mortgage and credit counselor
finding tools. The Properties for Sale database retrieves data about multi
or single family properties based on a user's criteria. Search by price
range and location. Retrieve property name, location, number of units,
contact information, and more. Results also link to area maps. | |
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HUDCLIPS | |
HUDCLIPS offers full text databases
containing HUD handbooks, notices, Titles 12 and 42 of the United States
Code, Title 24 of the Code of Federal Regulations, housing waivers,
mortgagee letters, OGC Preservation documents, HUD forms, and more. | |
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HUD Environmental Maps | |
3 October 2000. This site offers the
"location, type and performance of HUD-funded activities in every
neighborhood across the country, and select EPA information on brownfields,
hazardous wastes, air pollution and waste water discharges." Follow the
"maps" link to find an interactive tool for creating maps in the zip code
or area of interest. You can map out Superfund sites, brownfields, AIRS
facilities, RCRIS facilities, and more. After mapping out HUD/EPA
activity, click on relevant portions of the map to obtain more
information. | |
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HUD USER Bibliographic Database | |
18 March 2004. The
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Office of Policy
Development and Research offers a database containing abstracts and
bibliographic citations to research reports, articles, books and data in
housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning
and related subjects. Search by keyword, title, descriptor or date. The
information provided includes where you can obtain the full text of the
publication. (et) | |
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KnowX | |
Revised 20 February 2002. KnowX offers real
property records as well as other public data like bankruptcies,
incorporations and limited partnerships, state and county level recording
office filings (DBAs, fictitious names, trademarks), professional
licenses, sales tax permits, stock ownership, judgments, liens, death
records, and more. | |
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Municipal Codes Web Library | |
25 May 2000, revised 26 September 2003.
Formerly a collection of online municipals codes published by Book
Publishing Company, this site now links to municipal codes published and
maintained online by LexisNexis. The codes are available free of charge.
The preface, or opening page, of each code indicates how up to date it is.
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The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site | |
13 October 2000, revised 13 February 2004.
The Bureau of Land Management provides information about public land
transfers. The database covers federal land title records for eastern
Public Land States issued between 1820 and 1908 as well as land titles
issued between 1908 and the mid-1960's. It does not cover the thirteen
colonies, territories and a few other states. Search by state and name, or
by a number of other criteria. The database returns the land accession or
serial patent number, state, patentee name, tribe (if Indian land), issue
date, U.S. or mineral reservations, authority (law under which the
government issued the land), number of acres, land office and other
information. It also provides a legal land description, images of the land
patent in various formats and certified copies. (et) | |
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Personal Property | |
Revised, 31 August 2001. Looking for Web
access to property records? Check this site first! It offers a
comprehensive collection of links to county property records. Most links
lead to county sites that permit searching by owner name or property
address. | |
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Public Construction Law | |
6 May 2002. California attorney Cheri Love
offers this Web site devoted to construction law issues. Find separate
indexes outlining California public works statutes pertaining to school
districts, community colleges and cities, summaries of relevant California
legislation, summaries of California construction-related court decisions,
a checklist for evaluating a contractor, and more. | |
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Public Records Online | |
8 May 2001. Real estate research company
NETR Real Estate Research and Information offers directory "access to
deeds, vital records, tax data, and GIS maps from state & local
governments." First select a state and then a county to discover
information immediately available via the Web for free or for a fee. Other
information available at the NETR site includes sources for researching
environmental public records and home values. | |
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Real Estate Law (Lexis Nexis) | |
18 March 2004.
LexisNexis offers this resource containing news summaries and
select publication updates pertaining to real estate law. News topics
include landlord and tenant issues, zoning and land use, construction and
development, condemnation, buying and selling and financing. Use of the
site is free and all information appears in full-text. (et) | |
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Search Systems | |
21 April 2000, revised 25
June 2004. Pacific Information Resources, Inc. offers a directory
of sources of public records and public information. You can search the
directory by keyword or browse it by jurisdiction. It covers free and
fee-based sources in the United States, Canada and other countries around
the world. Find sources for unclaimed property, civil or criminal
lawsuits, vital records, property records, corporate records, professional
licenses, sex offenders, and more. (et) | |
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Zoning Ordinances
(NYC Department of Planning) | |
Cyburbia, formerly the
Planning and Architecture Internet Resource Center, offers an extensive
list of zoning codes on the Web. | |
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