chrisgriffith on February 8th, 2012

Selling Real Estate With Care After Probate The only thing certain in life is death and taxes … and probably how emotionally taxing death is when liquidating real estate. Selling real estate is stressful enough for some folks without compounding it with the emotional burden of liquidating the remaining assets of someone dear or even [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 25th, 2012

Mortgages, Divorce, Refinance and Quit Claim Deeds A couple of great mortgage questions have come in over the last few weeks … Question: We’re considering selling our place and purchasing another and we would like to do back to back closings. Is this something that can be done? Not everyone can pay cash for real [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 11th, 2012

Real Estate Lead Capture Maybe you’re curious about what your home is worth or you’re a serious buyer prowling the web for the latest new listings or price reductions in the area you want to buy a home in, sooner or later a pop up window will ask for more information. Whether you’re a buyer [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 3rd, 2012

Real Estate Photograph Fails It’s a no brainer that pictures sell real estate, especially in the digital age. What is surprising is that there are still so many homes skating by or even floundering in the real estate market without proper or, at the very least, a weak representation of its unique characteristics whether they’re [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 7th, 2011

And Sometimes Real Estate Buyers Back Out There you are minding your own bees wax. You’ve tended your real estate, preparing it for sale the way a dutiful seller should, shining it sparkling clean, pricing it right, listing it for sale and before you know it, an offer comes in. The bantering counter offers go [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 26th, 2011

Condo Inspections, AS-IS Contracts and Nit Pickery It’s mail day! There have been a variety of question regarding home inspections from both buyers and sellers. Here’s the latest and greatest from the mail bag that I’m able to squeeze into six-hundred-ish words or less: Question: The home we’re interested in is offered as-is with the [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 19th, 2011

Inventory Bonita Springs and Naples Real Estate Market Typically, I get an email or a phone call from potential buyers who are beginning the search for a home in Southwest Florida. They’ve been “educated” by whatever news sources they watched or read about the Florida real estate market. Most of the time it’s pretty far [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 11th, 2011

Tower Condominiums – Sorrento at The Colony Sorrento at The Colony offers fourteen floors of residential living with five floors of Penthouse luxury condominium residences. Each residence at Sorrento at The Colony offers sweeping views of mangrove estuaries, the golf courses of Raptor Bay, The Hyatt Resort and The Colony, Estero Bay and the Gulf [...]

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chrisgriffith on October 5th, 2011

  Real Estate & Tomatoes  on The Information Super Highway Most people, regardless of what they do for a living, now have an email brimming with speed of light requests to get things done. Email and the internet have revolutionized the way the world does business and has become one of the biggest time savers [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 28th, 2011

Save The Drama For Your Mama There’s no crying in real estate. At least there really shouldn’t be. Typically, all parties involved in the transaction have a common goal for real estate to change hands so what is it that makes it all go haywire? So there everyone is, minding their own business when “exhibit [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 21st, 2011

Price, Condition, Location & Value in Real Estate The snow birds are on their way. This year, like many of the other years, the first signs of their return are the transport trucks delivering their automobiles. To that end, let it be known that a winner of the Facebook “car hauler bingo 2011” contest is [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 17th, 2011

Single Family Homes at Montara in Bonita Bay Montara at Bonita Bay is located in Bonita Springs, Florida in the community of Bonita Bay Golf and Country Club.  The real estate in Montara is offered as single family detached villas perfect for full time occupancy or part time, seasonal residency.  The homes owners in Montara [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 14th, 2011

Making Sense of Condo Maintenance Fees This is going to be exciting! There is nothing more exciting than talking about numbers, budgets and statistics to get everyone hanging on the edge of their seats … or the abyss to boredom. <sarcasm/> One of the more consistent questions asked by real estate consumers is, what exactly [...]

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chrisgriffith on September 10th, 2011

How Many Short Sales and Foreclosures Are There?   For other recent real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | Historical August Sales 2002-2011 SW Florida Real Estate | What Price Range Sold August 2011

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chrisgriffith on September 10th, 2011

A Decade of Historical Real Estate Sales   For more real estate market reports, read also: SW Florida Real Estate | What Price Range Sold August 2011 SW Florida Real Estate | Condition of The Sale August 2011

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