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How To Invest In Real Estate Safely

March 4, 2010

I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday about how I believe we are coming into the most significant financial period of change that will occur during my lifetime. The opportunities that are here now and will continue as we work to rid the market of the glut of homes will be seen one [...]

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Tallahassee Foreclosures – New Deal For Home Buyers

March 2, 2010

We have received so many inquiries via our new Tallahassee Foreclosures Web Site about purchasing Tallahassee foreclosures that I am feeling like a recorded message. Many buyers want the perceived deals that “foreclosures” imply, so I figured I would lay out some advice that really fits our current times.
With so many of our homes upside-down [...]

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How To Lower Your Property Taxes

March 1, 2010

If you have no desire to sell your home, you might be interested in finding out how to lower your property taxes. Anybody who has been following the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog for any period of time can tell you that property values in Tallahassee have fallen as much as 25% in some areas, but [...]

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Wait Until Next Year If You Are A Homeseller?

February 24, 2010

“We are going to have to wait until next year to sell our house,” is perhaps the concern that I am hearing most from upside-down homeowners, or those who have lost much of the equity in their homes. Perhaps they hope to rent the house out to a tenant for the next year or so, and then put the home on the market when it will sell for the values found back in 2006.

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How To Make An Offer On An Overpriced Home

February 15, 2010

It seems as if overpriced homes are everywhere these days. They are beginning to dominate the Q&A sections of many real estate web sites.
One of the great things about having a real estate blog is that we get to see much of what our customers are thinking and doing in their efforts to buy a [...]

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Does The Florida Bankers Association Think You’re Stupid?

February 5, 2010

A very hot potato is coming to town over the next several weeks, and you really need to pay attention. Who am I talking to? I’m talking to anybody who cares about property values in the State of Florida, but most importantly I’m talking to people who own their homes free and clear as well [...]

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Understanding Title Insurance Costs

January 29, 2010

I was having a discussion yesterday with a great real estate agent (Bill Peck) who was lamenting to me that his home buyers had received three Good Faith Estimates (GFE) from different mortgage companies and they were much more scattered in their estimates than we have traditionally seen.
For those of you who did not read [...]

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Why Now Is Not The Time To Buy A Home

January 12, 2010

It does not take more than a minute (if you do a search on Google™) to find a blog or article written by a REALTOR® which extols the virtues of buying a home. And there is a better than even chance that “Now is the Time To Buy” will be included in the first paragraph [...]

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Real Estate, RESPA, And Reform

October 16, 2009

Congress enacted the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) back in 1974 in order to address problems in the real estate settlement process. It seems that Congress felt that they could legislate fair business practices and reduce fees and costs to home buyers through enlightenment about the settlement process and the associated costs that go [...]

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