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Quicken Rental Property Manager Other products by Intuit This item is currently not available. Customers also shopped for these similar items . Platform: Windows XP / Me / 2000 Media: CD-ROM See more pictures | System requirements Features: Schedule E category list shows what's deductible. Designed for rental property owners; ideal for fewer than 10 rental properties Easily organize rental income and expenses in one place Two-step set up; simply install and enter basic property information Details property performance; instant answers to questions about profitability Manufacturers, merchants, and enthusiasts: Submit a product manual for this item. Amazon.com Sales Rank: Today: #1,494 in Software Yesterday: #1,418 in Software ASIN: B00078UK2I Item model number: 294120 Date first available at Amazon: December 27, 2004 Average Customer Review: Based on 5 reviews. Write a review . Popular in: Harrisburg, PA(#18) , Cape Coral, FL(#11) Customers who bought this itemalso bought these items: Quicken 2005 Premier Home & Business [Old Version] by Intuit Quicken 2005 Premier [Old Version] by Intuit Quicken Premier Home & Business 2006 by Intuit, Inc. Quicken Medical Expense Manager by Intuit, Inc. Explore Similar Items : 15 in Software , and 18 in Books What similar items do customers ultimately buy after viewing this item? 1% buy Real Estate Pro 4.1 by Multicast Media Pty Limited 1% buy MYOB Business Essentials Pro 2005 by MYOB US Explore Similar Items : 7 in Software , and 4 in Books Customers who viewed this itemalso viewed: Quicken Rental Property Manager 2.0 by Intuit Dolf De Roos' Real Estate Investor's College: Real Estate Investing for Everyone (Audio and DVD Success) by Topics Product Description From the Manufacturer Quicken Rental Property Manager, designed for rental property owners like you, lets you easily keep an ongoing record of your critical income and expenses. Quickly get the information you need at tax time, and take the deductions you deserve. With just a click, see how your properties are performing! Benefits: Organize all your information in one place. Replace shoeboxes, spreadsheets, folders, and hand-written information with one simple solution. Ideal for fewer than 10 rental properties. Track all your income, expenses, and tax information. While less than 10 properties is recommended, some users track over 40 rental properties with multiple units. Get the tax deductions you deserve. The Schedule E category list shows you what's deductible. See how your properties are performing. Get instant answers to your questions about profitability. Two steps and you're set up. Just install the software and enter basic information about your properties. Designed for and tested by rental property owners like you. That's why it's so easy to use! Plus, you get a 60-day money-back guarantee. One year* free technical support. Ask questions and give feedback at http://www.quickenrental.com/support. Features: Save time at tax time Save time retrieving financial information when you're doing taxes. No frantic searching for the right receipts and paid invoices at tax time! Easily categorize your financial information throughout the year using the income and expense log. And don't worry about having to do the math. Quicken Rental Property Manager automatically generates tax reports that you or your accountant can use to prepare your Schedule E tax forms. Maximize deductions Take every deduction you deserve. It's easy to capture allowable deductions all year as you record your expenses. You'll find your deductible expenses in the Schedule E category list. Flag deductions you're not sure about. Can't find the right category for a particular expense? Just choose "not sure", and at tax time you can print out a report for your accountant, who can help you make the right choices. Track your vehicle mileage with every entry. This is a deduction many property owners miss! Don't worry; we'll do all the calculations for you. See how your properties are doing Find out how your rental properties are performing. Which of your properties are profitable, or more profitable than the others? Find out if you're earning more than you're spending, or vice versa, by running reports that track your cash flow by each property over time. You'll have your answers in seconds. Compare performance month-by-month. You can check up on profitability for each property you own from one month to the next. Drill down for details. If you're not sure where a number in a report is coming from, just click on it. You'll be taken directly to the transaction that the number is based on. Get up and running in no time Two steps and you're set up. It's easy to get started. Just enter the basics--property names, the number of units per property--and start tracking your income and expenses right away. Our easy-to-use setup will guide you through the process. Memorized transactions cut down data entry. You won't have to enter similar data twice. Quicken Rental Property Manager remembers transactions and fills them in for you wherever applicable. One simple entry for mortgage payments. As you enter your monthly payments, don't worry about separating the interest from the principal. When you get your 1098, you can itemize the interest on the Tax Summary Report in one click. Designed for and tested by rental property owners like you. That's why it's so easy to use! Free technical support for one year*. Refer to the in-product help menu or visit http://www.quickenrental.com/support (or call 1-877-683-3274) to ask us questions or give us feedback at any time. *Offer available for one year from the date of purchase. Registration required. Additional terms, conditions, and limitations apply and are subject to change without notice. Quicken Rental Property Manager is a standalone product designed specifically to support the unique needs of rental property owners and at this point does not integrate with Quicken personal finance or TurboTax software. Product Description Organize your rental income and expenses in one place. New! Quicken Rental Property Manager, offers the easiest way to organize critical income and expense records in one place. We’ll help you eliminate the paperwork hassles, making tax preparation a much easier process. •Integration with Quicken® Personal Finance or Turbo Tax® software is not available. See all product description... Spotlight Reviews (What's this?) Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. 58 of 63 people found the following review helpful: User Unfriendly , March 29, 2005 Reviewer: Ryan P. Mcgovern (St. Paul, MN)- See all my reviews Poor program. It is not compatable with any other quicken software, and does not allow for any bank/ccard downloads. You need to enter each item individually, making it very time consuming. This is no better than a simple excel spreadsheet. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) 53 of 55 people found the following review helpful: More of what you don't need, none of what you do. Can I give it a negative star? , June 23, 2005 Reviewer: PBNTOAU "pbntoau" (Illinois)- See all my reviews I've been managing rental property for about 15 years, starting with 2 buildings and 10 units at the beginning and now with 25 units in 5 buildings, containing a mix from studios and 1-bedrooms up to 4-bedroom apartments. I recently decided to update from a very old version of Quicken, and since they had this program specifically for rental properties, I thought I'd found a perfect match. I couldn't have been more wrong. You would think that a company that has made accounting software for this long would understand the most basic needs, like a running total alongside each transaction (which even my 7-year old edition of Quicken had). Nope. There is only a single running total. Make a mistake, and it is virtually impossible to backtrack and find. How about a field for your check number, the singular way to identify your checks/transactions? It doesn't have one. One of the 8 or so automatic fields they do give you is unit number. Problem is, it's a simple numeric assignment based on the number of units you input when you create each building's account, and it can't be altered. Apartments lettered instead of numbered, numbered in partial sequence, alpha-numeric, by floors, cardinal direction, etc? Tough luck. These are just a few of the problems or basic design flaws I've come across. It took several painstaking hours to transfer the entries from my old software and books into this new software, and now I'm stuck until I either find the time to transfer the data to something I trust, or I continue to use this program until the end of the year. It's half baked, and that's putting it lightly. I wouldn't recommend it for even the most entry-level rental property owners or managers. I can't imagine a big firm using it. Regular quicken costs half as much (though even that's getting horrible reviews on Amazon). The previous reviewer said it's no better than a simple excel spread sheet. I'd go further and say it's worse. Save your time and money, and just create a simple excel file. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) All Customer Reviews Average Customer Review: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: Program stinks! , November 16, 2005 Reviewer: Robert J. Uyttebroek "Disgusted with Intuit" - See all my reviews I bought the software about a month ago. Everything was working fine until a prompt for an update came across. The update process removed the aplication from my computer. Attempts to re-install the product were fruitless. The program is now worthless. Attempts to get a response from Intuit were also fruitless. Last time I buy an Intuit product and my advise is for everyone not to buy this worthless product and any other Intuit product. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) 2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Better than Paper, But Not Full Featured like Quicken , November 9, 2005 Reviewer: William Perez "About.com Guide to Tax Planning" (San Francisco, CA United States)- See all my reviews QRPM is a stand-alone software program for tracking rental income and expenses. It does not integrate with Quicken, Quickbooks, or Excel. It does allow you to export to TurboTax, but that's the extent of integration. QRPM is designed to replace paper-based systems, such as ledgers, envelopes, scratch paper, and checklists. This is not a full-fledged accounting software, so if you are looking for robust bookkeeping features (online banking downloads, bill payments, cost basis accounting), you are better off spending a few hours to customize Quicken or Quickbooks. Otherwise, for what QRPM does, it does well. In Version 2 you can add up to 100 properties and up to 100 units per property. You can name your units anything you want (such as "24A," or "Garage"). QRPM is designed to track rents and basic expenses. You can quickly see which tenants have paid, who hasn't paid, who has paid late, and which leases are expiring. QRPM is great at tracking this basic information. For anything more advanced, you'll want to develop customized categories (in Quicken) or accounts (in Quickbooks) along with customized reports to get a quick overview of your rental properties. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful: Like a spreadsheet, but less useful , September 11, 2005 Reviewer: W. Lundin - See all my reviews This Rental Property Manager is like having one register for each property to track credits and debits. Some reports. Thats it. Using the regular Quicken Basic, with a Banking account and a Property/Asset account, works better and gives you a way to compare operating expenses, income, mortgage/loan information, and property value. Since its scope is limited, having shorter lists of categories and tax schedules and lines to worry about than in the regular Quicken software, but the limited scope and higher cost for a focused subset of Quicken Basic? Not so useful. Was this review helpful to you? ( Report this ) See all 5 customer reviews... So You'd Like To... Work Less and Earn More :by carlamarie , Business Guru BE A REAL ESTATE INVESTOR :by G. 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New York State home equity line of credit Average Highest Lowest 6.72 8.25 1.74 Albany Institution Telephone Date Rate Fees and Conditions Adirondack Trust Co 518-584-5844 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); no yrly fee; $10,000 min Central National Bank 800-449-6842 12/23/05 8.25 P+1.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $7,500 min Citibank 800-627-3999 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $25,000 min Citizens Bank, N.A. 800-922-9999 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $10,000 min First Niagara Bank 518-270-3200 12/23/05 7.75 P+0.75% (no floor); no yrly fee; $10,000 min HSBC Bank USA 800-975-HSBC 12/23/05 5.99 P+1.25% (1.25% floor); 4-mo intro; no yrly fee; $10,000 min KeyBank 888-KEY-1234 12/23/05 7.69 Range: P+0.69% to P+1.44% (no floor); $99 fee; $5,000 min M&T Bank 800-724-2440 12/23/05 5.49 P+0.95% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $15,000 min Pioneer Savings Bank 518-274-4800 12/23/05 6.75 P-0.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $2,000 min TrustCo Bank 518-436-9043 12/23/05 7.50 P+0.50% (no floor); no yrly fee; $7,500 min Buffalo Institution Telephone Date Rate Fees and Conditions Bank of Akron 716-542-5401 12/23/05 2.49 P-0.25% (no floor); 4-mo intro; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Bank of America 800-299-2265 12/23/05 7.49 P+0.24% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Chase Bank 800-CHA-SE24 12/23/05 7.50 Range: P+.50% to P+5.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $5,000 min Citibank 800-627-3999 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $25,000 min Citizens Bank, N.A. 800-922-9999 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $10,000 min Evans National Bank 716-549-6000 12/23/05 1.74 P+0.00% (no floor); 3-mo intro; $99 yrly fee; $7,500 min First Niagara Bank 877-722-9842 12/23/05 8.00 P+0.75% (no floor); no yrly fee; $10,000 min HSBC Bank USA 800-975-HSBC 12/23/05 5.99 P+1.25% (1.25% floor); 4-mo intro; no yrly fee; $10,000 min KeyBank 888-KEY-1234 12/23/05 7.69 Range: P+0.69% to P+1.44% (no floor); $99 fee; $5,000 min M&T Bank 800-724-2440 12/23/05 6.20 P+0.95% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $15,000 min Long Island Institution Telephone Date Rate Fees and Conditions Astoria Federal S&LA 800-278-6742 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; $25 yrly fee; $10,000 min Bank of America 800-299-2265 12/23/05 7.49 P+0.24% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Bank of New York 212-495-1784 12/23/05 4.25 P+0.99% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $5,000 min Chase Bank 800-CHA-SE24 12/23/05 7.50 Range: P+.50% to P+5.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $5,000 min Citibank 800-321-2484 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $25,000 min HSBC Bank USA 800-975-HSBC 12/23/05 5.99 P+1.25% (1.25% floor); 4-mo intro; no yrly fee; $10,000 min North Fork Bank 877-694-9111 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); no yrly fee; $25,000 min Queens County Svgs Bk 718-433-4368 12/23/05 7.00 Range: P+0.00% to P+4.25% (no floor); $500-$600 fee; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Ridgewood Svgs Bk 718-240-4800 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $10,000 min Washington Mutual Bank 800-788-7000 12/23/05 8.00 Range: P+0.75% to 3.75% (no floor); $45 yrly fee; $10,000 min New York Metro Institution Telephone Date Rate Fees and Conditions Astoria Federal S&LA 800-278-6742 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; $25 yrly fee; $10,000 min Bank of New York 212-495-1784 12/23/05 4.25 P+0.99% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $5,000 min Chase Bank 800-CHA-SE24 12/23/05 7.50 Range: P+.50% to P+5.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $5,000 min Citibank 800-321-2484 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $25,000 min HSBC Bank USA 800-975-HSBC 12/23/05 5.99 P+1.25% (1.25% floor); 4-mo intro; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Independence Community Bank 800-732-3434 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Manufacturers and Traders Trust Co 800-724-2440 12/23/05 5.49 P+0.95% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $15,000 min North Fork Bank 877-694-9111 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); no yrly fee; $25,000 min Queens County Svgs Bk 718-268-6801 12/23/05 7.00 Range: P+0.00% to P+4.25% (no floor); $500-$600 fee; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Washington Mutual Bank 800-788-7000 12/23/05 8.00 Range: P+0.75% to 3.75% (no floor); $45 yrly fee; $10,000 min Rochester Institution Telephone Date Rate Fees and Conditions Bank of America, NA 800-299-2265 12/23/05 7.49 P+0.24% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Canandaigua National Bank 585-394-4260 12/23/05 7.75 P+0.75% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Chase Bank 800-CHA-SE24 12/23/05 7.50 Range: P+.50% to P+5.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $5,000 min Citibank 800-627-3999 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $25,000 min Citizens Bank, N.A. 800-922-9999 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $10,000 min First Niagara Bank 716-434-6621 12/23/05 7.75 P+0.75% (no floor); no yrly fee; $10,000 min Five Star Bank 888-624-2300 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); 0% 3 month intro; no yrly fee; $7,500 min HSBC Bank USA 800-975-HSBC 12/23/05 5.99 P+1.25% (1.25% floor); 4-mo intro; no yrly fee; $10,000 min KeyBank 888-KEY-1234 12/23/05 7.69 Range: P+0.69% to P+1.44% (no floor); $99 fee; $5,000 min M&T Bank 800-724-2440 12/23/05 6.20 P+0.95% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $15,000 min Syracuse Institution Telephone Date Rate Fees and Conditions Alliance Bank 800-310-6275 12/23/05 1.99 P-0.26% (no floor); 4-mo intro; no yrly fee; $5,000 min Bank of America, NA 800-299-2265 12/23/05 7.49 P+0.24% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Chase Bank 800-CHA-SE24 12/23/05 7.50 Range: P+.50% to P+5.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $5,000 min First Niagara Bank 877-722-9842 12/23/05 8.00 P+0.75% (no floor); no yrly fee; $10,000 min Fulton Savings Bank 315-592-4201 12/23/05 6.00 P+0.00% (no floor); 12-mo intro; no yrly fee; $5,000 min HSBC Bank USA 800-975-HSBC 12/23/05 5.99 P+1.25% (1.25% floor); 4-mo intro; no yrly fee; $10,000 min KeyBank 888-KEY-1234 12/23/05 7.69 Range: P+0.69% to P+1.44% (no floor); $99 fee; $5,000 min M&T Bank 800-724-2440 12/23/05 6.20 P+0.95% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $15,000 min Solvay Bank 315-468-1661 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (4.00% floor); no yrly fee; $2,500 min The Oneida Savings Bank 315-363-2000 12/23/05 5.25 P+0.00% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $7,500 min Westchester, Co Institution Telephone Date Rate Fees and Conditions Astoria Federal S&LA 800-278-6742 12/23/05 7.00 P+0.00% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; $25 yrly fee; $10,000 min Bank of America, NA 800-299-2265 12/23/05 7.49 P+0.24% (no floor); .25% disc w/auto debit; no yrly fee; $10,000 min Bank of New York 212-495-1784 12/23/05 4.25 P+0.99% (no floor); 6-mo intro; no yrly fee; $5,000 min Chase Bank 800-CHA-SE24 12/23/05 7.50 Range: P+.50% to P+5.00% (no floor); $50 yrly fee; $5,000 min Citibank 800-321-2484 12/23/05 7.25 P+0.25% (no floor); no yrly fee; $25,000 min First Niagara Bank 877-722-9842 12/23/05 8.00 P+0.75% (no floor); no yrly fee; $10,000 min HSBC Bank USA 800-975-HSBC 12/23/05 5.99 P+1.25% (1.25% floor); 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Real estate horror stories - Dec. 2, 2002 Enter Ticker Symbol Search CNN/Money Autos Real Estate Money's Best Home Markets & Stocks News Jobs & Economy World Biz Technology Commentary Personal Finance College Credit and Debt Insurance Interest Rates Retirement Tax Center Ask the Expert Five Tips The Good Life Millionaire in the Making Money 101 Moneyville Retirement Planner Savings Calculator Asset Allocator Mutual Funds Money Magazine Video CNN TV Fortune 500 Best Employers Money 101 Portfolio Calculators Real-time Quotes Last 5 Quotes SPONSORED BY include virtual="/fn_adspaces/markets-stocks/last_five_quotes/sponsor.88x31.ad" -- CNN/Money Email newsletters RSS Mobile news Money archives Buy story reprints Find a Mortgage SPECIAL OFFER Personal Finance Your Home Real estate horror stories There's never been a national bust but keep an eye on your backyard. December 2, 2002: 11:57 AM EST By Leslie Haggin Geary, CNN/Money Staff Writer New York (CNN/Money) - During the past three years, real estate has been a shelter in the storm. Since 2001, home prices have gained about 6.3 percent annually, according to the National Association of Realtors . And in dozens of hot markets , from San Francisco to Providence, RI to Topeka, KS, homeowners have seen double-digit price increases over the past year. Next to the seeming flimsiness of stocks, real estate looks rock solid. For the past 40 years, home sales prices have outpaced inflation by one or two percentage points per year, and there has never been a national decline in real estate values. But that's just part of the picture. When you drill down to local markets, instead of steady rises, you may find vertiginous spikes followed by stomach-churching drops. What's more, when busts hit, it can take years -- maybe even a decade -- for individuals who bought at the top of the market to recoup their investment. To see how grim it can get, we looked at annual sales figures for 138 metro areas across the country during the past three decades to spot where local bubbles burst, what drove prices into the cellar and how long it took for property owners to recoup their money. Here are some of the factors that can kill a real estate boom. Population shifts It's obvious. Jobs equal workers. Without work, residents leave, and home sales dry up. Consider the case of southern California. Once home to a thriving defense industry, military cutbacks hit the region especially hard in the early 1990s. Some 1 million individuals left the area, according to Ingo Winzer, president of The Local Market Monitor , a real estate consulting firm that tracks housing prices nationwide. In Los Angeles, home prices shed 21 percent of their value between 1989 and 1996, with the typical house selling for $172,900. (The peak was $214,800 in 1989 following a five year, 77-percent jump.) An exodus can hit smaller communities, too. Syracuse, NY once boasted 250,000 residents back in the 1950s, when it was a thriving industrial city. No longer. Many of those jobs are gone and Syracuse lost a full 10 percent of those inhabitants from 1990 to 2000, when its population dropped to 147,000 residents. Home prices, not surprisingly, fell too. Half of all property owners in the county who sold homes in 1997, for example, sold at a loss. Vacant buildings were not uncommon. (At one point, there were more than 1,000 empty dwellings.) Local recessions Ask housing experts about local busts and one of the first places they'll mention is Houston, TX. When the oil market was kicked in the teeth back in the mid-1980s, home prices in this city tumbled fast. In just three years, from 1985 to 1988, the typical home price dropped by 21 percent -- or from $78,600 to $61,800. Related Stories • Did you pay too much for your house? • Real estate or stocks? • Milking the bubble • Rev up your resale value "Prices fell so much that people owed more on than their mortgages than their homes were worth," said David Weil, an economics professor at Brown University. " They'd drive to the bank and drop off their keys to their homes and just leave." Houston isn't the only city where home prices have fallen when the local economy languishes badly. Take the stock market crash of 1987, which hit New York City's financial industry hard. Prices peaked at $183,000 in 1988, and anyone who bought then had to wait until after 1997 to get to even money. Another victim? Hartford, CT. From 1984 to 1988, the typical home price soared 92 percent to $167,600 from $87,400. Then the insurance industry started laying off or moving out. Hartford's population growth slowed to zero. And home prices starting falling. In fact it wasn't until last year that someone who bought at the 1988 price would have made their money back. Fast run-ups in housing values Are markets that have soared quickly especially prone to a bust? That's a question no doubt troubling many homeowners. But the answer isn't simple. Certainly, there have been plenty of hot markets that suddenly turned sour. Consider Honolulu, Hawaii, for example. Back in 1995, the average tab for a house in this community hit a record $360,000 -- a whopping 122 percent increase from the decade before. Then suddenly, prices began to drop. By 1999, a $360,000 island retreat was being unloaded for $290,000, a 19 percent discount, according to NAR. Prices started to finally rise in 2000, but anyone who bought at the island's real estate peak didn't recoup their money until this year. Hawaii's housing woes were tipped off by several factors, not the least of which was the decline in the Japanese economy, which squelched real-estate investment in Hawaii. Honolulu was also in trouble in part because few fundamentals, other than investment dollars -- were pushing the market. In fact, during the boom years, the island's population was climbing at a 1 percent rate, too low to justify the massive run-up in housing values. Bottom line: it's important to look at what drives housing spikes before you assume there will be a catastrophe, said Winzer. Rising interest rates "People tell you that housing never goes down, but that's just not true -- you try to sell a house when interest rates have gone up," said Stephen Cauley, associate director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate, Anderson School at UCLA . To illustrate his point, Cauley points to the early 1980's, when double-digit interest rates were being used to fight inflation. That made the cost of borrowing money for a home almost prohibitively expensive. "It was horrendous for the housing market," said Cauley. "There were no transactions." By 1982, the number of existing home sales had slid to 1.92 million, the lowest number on record, according to NAR. Many markets -- notably Detroit, Providence, Chicago and Philadelphia -- saw home prices stay flat or fall between 1979 and 1982. These days, of course, high interest rates seem a distant threat, though they are beginning to creep up. Current mortgage rates are hovering just above 6 percent for a fixed, 30-year loan. But even if rates go up a full percentage point, rates are still low, said Cauley. How will all this play out? If history is any guide, there won't be one big pop, the kind that usually come with stock-market crashes. But that doesn't make it any less painful. --* Disclaimer Selling? Buying? 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