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Humanizing The Buyer and The Offer
A fax to email showed up the other day and I opened it to find a cancelation of an offer for one of my listed properties. Having buyers get cold feet isn’t that unusual these days. Heck, if the Dow goes down 200 points on a random Tuesday buyers [...]

Chinese Drywall Checklist
I received the contents of this post in an email and thought the signs of Chinese Drywall was so well documented that it was worth sharing on the blog.  The photo examples are superb.  If you suspect your home has Chinese drywall you may find a few ways to self test the home [...]

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The Vacation Condo Student Dorm Amalgam
Since Florida Gulf Coast University opened its doors parents have been investing in real estate in the Estero and Bonita Springs area to house their students.
It’s been a few years since having a kid go to school in Southwest Florida was a spring board for a retirement home [...]

The Road to First Time Home Ownership
As anticipated the month of March belonged to the first time home buyers. About fifty three percent of all closed sales in the Sunshine MLS were under $200,000. Short sales and foreclosures accounted for about thirty seven percent of the under $200,000 sales.

If you’re considering buying a home [...]

Opportunistic Business vs. Consumer
Predatory businesses are successful enterprises because they’re able to take advantage of confusing situations, lack of educational resources and the desperation of consumers. Like any other new wave of change the housing and foreclosure crisis has spurred many new enterprises. Granted there are many successful housing industry businesses that run on the [...]

Homestead Exemption Deadline | Bonita Springs Real Estate | March 1
If you purchased new real estate as a primary residence in 2008 the deadline for filing homestead exemption is just a few weeks away.   There are a few other exemptions that you may qualify for, also.
Here’s the link to the Lee County Property Appraisers site [...]

The Financial Crisis: an Historical Perspective
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Getting Real Estate Advice From the Information Super Highway
How most consumers got their information ten or twenty years is so different that what is done today.  We shop for everything on the internet now; houses, clothing, cars, recipes, you name it.  If you don’t know where to get something or how to fix something it [...]

Who Said The Flu Couldn’t Be Funny?

The Love Story…
I will Seek and find you… I shall take you to bed and have my way with you.
I will make you ache, shake & sweat until you moan & groan.
I will make you beg for mercy, beg for me to stop.
I will exhaust you to the [...]

Bugs, Mold and Missing  Refrigerators
You know how those foreclosure homes and short sales homes often don’t have a refrigerator? Where do those refrigerators go? Sucked up by aliens? Stolen and sold on Craigslist?

I see it all the time. The fridge is gone and cha-ching the buyers think, “There’s $1,500 we’re going to need”. [...]

Home Buyer Incentive
If you’ve heard about the first-time homebuyer tax credit and wonder if you qualify, here’s some info for you.  When a first-time homebuyer purchases a home before the end of 2008, he or she gets a $7,500 tax credit in 2009 when they file their federal income taxes.  It’s not a gift of [...]

Verifying Fees and Call Before You Dig
One of the larger concerns buyers have when purchasing a Bonita Springs home or condo is what the true, bottom line cost of ownership is going to be to them.  Since Southwest Florida real estate buyers come from all over the country and world for that matter, a lot [...]

Fixer Upper or Money Pit?
You can’t judge a book by its cover and you can’t judge the condition of a home just by how it looks either. 
 
Ask any real estate agent that has been in business for a while the most unusual tale they can share about a home inspection.  The stories will run the [...]

Real Estate Not Worth Fighting Over
In the last few years the Bonita Springs real estate market has had some major changes and adjustments. The short sale, pre-foreclosure and foreclosure properties alone have hit the market in massive volume upsetting the system.

Everyone has heard the belly aching and complaining that real estate agents, me included, have [...]