Buy a Foreclosure and Earn a Foursquare Badge! More often than not there is a buyer at the other end of the phone or an email requesting help to purchasing a foreclosure. Today, I actually received an email asking what’s the best value is, foreclosure or short sale? It’s been years since a day has [...]
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Choosing a Real Estate Attorney or Law Office You may have already asked or someone may have told you but using a real estate attorney to close your real estate transaction isn’t required in Florida. It is, in professional opinion of most real estate agents, a very wise choice for most transactions. The real estate [...]
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What We Can’t Tell You About Your Neighbors Prior to ushering buyers around in my car I’ve occasionally recommended buyers drive around a little to familiarize themselves with the area. If, for example, there is a cute little cottage that buyers think they just have to see but I know it’s built between a Quikkie [...]
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Take the L Out of Lover & It’s Over … Unless There’s a Note So a while back I’m at this party … when the room thinned out and got a little quieter “Rick” mentioned that he was on his way across town to sign some papers. As a matter of fact, it had just [...]
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Hire a Team of Real Estate Help First If you had to speculate what a first time home buyer looked like how would you describe one? I asked a few contemporaries and got answers like: In my area, under the age of thirty, newly weds, recent college graduates, young people building “the dream”. The other [...]
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Real Estate on The Waterfront Every consumer has a different idea of what waterfront real estate really is. Consumers come from all over the United States, all over the world, to buy Bonita Springs real estate. Since Florida has so much waterfront real estate buyers often start looking for waterfront homes and condos. Waterfront real [...]
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Foreclosure Fixer Uppers and TLC Needed Defined Just exactly how much “tender loving care” does a property that needs TLC really require? Well, isn’t that a question just chock full of possibilities? The definition of fixer-upper and “needs TLC” really is in the eye of the beholder. Any one person’s opinion of what is a [...]
Fees, Closing Costs and Good Faith Estimates How do I find out, in advance, all of the closing costs and fees related buying real estate here? Whether you’re buying or selling real estate you should be able to calculate the majority of closing costs prior to closing day or even signing a contract. This answer [...]
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Tempting Fate with Poor Real Estate Advice The World Wide Web has opened the doors of information for real estate consumers. The possibilities are almost limitless. Online home searches are a breeze, public and tax information is a click away and even community information, walk-ability statistics and crime rates are at the other end of [...]
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Ya Snooze Ya Lose Real Estate Naturally, this is the time of the year southwest Florida is visited by tourists. This year those visitors recognized some of the tremendous real estate values and were inspired to start buying real estate. We’ve had a robust winter sales season and the mountain of great deals which was [...]
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Tips for Florida real estate buyers dealin with multiple offer scenarios.
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Condominium & HOA Rules and Regulations Most condominium owners have a set of docs that perform little practical function other than taking up space on a shelf or in a cabinet. That is, if they bothered to keep them at all. Those documents are the rules for the association. The rules; you will obey them [...]
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