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Yes, but I can confirm it. It all depends on the location. Some areas in the far outskirts have definitely gone down from when the people bought it some years back. I do not know where you are looking at, but in Hyderabad, people still come around to houses to distribute fliers about land in far ...

Regarding rent vs buy... definitely rent - from personal experience. Hyderabad is fraud central for real estate. Even if you enjoy your house for your planned 10 years or so, there is almost no guarantee that you will have any hold on it once you leave it. After the bifurcation, rents have gone down ...

Heard recently that fees in Hyderabad Public School (HPS Begumpet) is 1 lakh per year. No clue as to the current standard or anything else. Seems like a lot of business families are sending their kids there.

[QUOTE=RRK;626661]Why put money in 529 plan? If you are going to bring kids for 10 years of college education, you have to flexibility to send them to college anywhere. Don't lock yourself with too many constraints for financial planning. The objective should be to make money using money to meet ...

[QUOTE=smartfool;608602]I am still an NRI. living and earning outside india. why would indian govt want to know the foreign bank details of non resident. to some extent i can understand the indian bank details sought.[/QUOTE] India is going the US way :wink If you are a US person (citizen, resident ...

I do not know how the POA will be affected, or if it will be affected. However, there is a procedure to correct PAN mistakes: [url]https://tin.tin.nsdl.com/pan/correction.html[/url] Personal suggestion - use the permanent Indian address. If you need to sign some papers, print them out (or have them ...

I believe this was started recently : [url]http://meebhoomi.ap.gov.in/[/url] --- for lands in Andhra Pradesh. Site is in Telugu. very good information, you can get 1B, Adangal, FMB (field measurement book) for pretty much whole of AP. Some years back, it would have been near impossible to get all ...

Yes, you can simply close the NRO account.

You can do a online wire transfer from your US bank directly to the Indian bank - they will probably ask you to call and verify the wire.

[QUOTE=dnkumar;383604]I thought banks no longer can penalise for premature withdrawal of deposits but correct me in my understanding that if I put money for 9.75 for 10 years and withdraw after 3 years bank give me interest at the prevailing rate for 3 years at the time of booking the FD.[/QUOTE ...