Country Club Communities 2.0
Country club communities that are in the green or in the process of recovering from the brink of near disaster are now trying to make their way through this difficult economy. They have a huge job on their hands.
It’s been a while since I’ve had a couple of complementary full page [...]
Foreclosure Real Estate
It’s just murder out there this time of the year. Homes priced under $200,000 are tearing it up in the market. The closer the price of the home gets to entry level pricing the faster new listings hit and leave the market. Buyers snap them up fast when they’re a great deal [...]
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A Brief but Passionate Affair
This was almost the mailbox to a first time home buyer in the Bonita Springs-Estero area. Some houses just have a few issues that pop up that push them outside of budgeted repairs or even insurance guidelines or lately, mortgage guidelines. Anything can pop up during the home inspection. That’s what [...]
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Home Improvement Real Estate #Fail
There’s no better way to find the inspiration to get that home improvement project done than to crack open a brew and start fixin’ things. It’s even more fun when there’s absolutely no plan and some discontinued tile scooped at a garage sale within arms reach.
In my daily travels I have [...]
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Foreclosure notices, lock boxes and new dead bolts in Florida real estate
Kinda Makes Me Want To Pull The Fire Alarm
A buyer recently asked me if there is anything that I can do to speed up the short sale process. Why funny that they asked on the heels of the shiny, new and improved rules that that have just been formed to streamline the short sale quick [...]
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Pelican Pointe condo on Bonita Beach in Bonita Springs, Florida.
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That Warm Fuzzy Feeling
It’s that time of the year folks. It’s time to give. Give heartily and freely because it’s the right thing to do and there are so many people in need. Why I even received an email with the greatest header that read “Dignity, Peace, Prosperity” asking me to give, give, give. [...]
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What Price of Real Estate is Selling?
This year November brought not only our returning snow birds but a truck load of home buyers trying to make it under the wire for the first time home buyer tax credit deadline. Buyers and their agents were working feverishly to get their transactions closed by the end [...]
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Some Legs, Since This Post Doesn’t Have Any
This morning I woke up in a cold sweat and panic. Miley Cyrus was moving to Florida and she was buying a house for $157,842 in Fountain Lakes in beautiful, down town Estero, Florida. The breakfast nook is red, by the way. There’s no accounting for taste with [...]
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What if Being Neighborly is The Cheapest, Most Effective Security System?
We’ve become a condensed society. We stay in our homes which are sandwiched together on the tiny parcels of land so close we could lean out our windows and high five each other yet nobody really knows each other.
Just think back a decade [...]
Picking Your Real Estate Partner
An acquaintance I’d met some time ago decided to become a first time home owner. Though I would have probably voted him least likely to ever be tethered by a mortgage he found a home by happenstance and decided to place an offer to purchase it.
The email he sent to me [...]
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$180,000 Less Than 2005 Appraisal!
There have been a few ads spotted out there with the declaration of how much lower the home price is compared to an appraisal from back in the day. Advertising an old “appraised at” price is totally irrelevant to buyers. If a home was such a great deal and priced [...]
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It’s Still All About The Real Estate Appraising
Recently there’s been a lot of hubbub about the effects of the new Housing Valuation Code of Conduct – HVCC. The HVCC was intended to create a system to eliminate inflated values by either bad or novice appraisers or by predatory lenders. The resulting unintended consequences have [...]
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Get Ready For The Changes in 1031 Exchanges
By Nace Cohen, CPA
President, 1031 Exchange Connection in Naples, Florida
Here we go again, round two of the great Exchange. We all remember what was going on in the world of real estate a few years back. It was simple, buy low and sell high, with one [...]
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