May 2007 - Posts
Title insurance is protection against loss arising from problems connected to the title to your property. Before you purchased your home, it may have gone through several ownership changes, and the land on which it stands went through many more. There
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Consumers are often baffled by the home appraisal process. They may feel their home is worth a certain dollar amount, and therefore, the appraised value doesn't make sense to them. It is important to know that appraisal guidelines are dictated by
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1. Look up at your roof eaves/gutters and repair. If it is raining during a showing and Buyers see rain creating huge pockets in your landscaping because you don’t have gutters or they need repair, they will note this. Roof eaves need power washing
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(1) More Single Women Will Buy Homes Single women already make up a larger percentage of home buyers year after year. They are trading Prince Charming for walk-in closets, underground parking or a garage, and tax deductions. (2) Home Prices Will Remain
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#1 MARKETING Mistake : Bad Photos of your home online Pictures speak volumes and are noticed before the written word. Since it's the first thing a potential buyer will see, why leave a bad first impression? The job of a photo is to entice the buyer
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1. Comparison of your home to others Active and Sold on the Market 2. Location of the home—Conservation, Water, Highway, Electrical Utility, another home 3. How well your home has been maintained and how it “shows” 4. How much competition
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4 Point Inspections The Four Point Insurance Inspection was created after Hurricane Andrew struck Florida in 1992. It is performed on behalf of the insurance companies and, typically, as a requirement for the insurer offering insurance to the new homeowner.
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Six Creative Ways to Afford a Home If your income and savings are making home buying a challenge, consider these options. 1. Investigate local, state, and national down payment assistance programs. These programs give loans or grants to cover all or part
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· 1 – Waiting until next year to buy it. It won’t be available next year, and if it is available, it will usually cost more. Look at the projected price and availability a year from now and see if it makes economic sense to wait. #2
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The vision of a new home with the ability to upgrade finishes, alter floor plans and be the first to occupy a property lures buyers into builders and developers model homes every day. According to industry sources over 70% of home buyers want a new home.
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Survival guide to a real estate closing The closing is the end of the long and arduous process of buying a house. It refers to the day you close the deal on a piece of property and on the mortgage to buy that home. If you are renting, you'll want
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Start the list off with exactly what you want in writing—get a clear picture of the type of house you want. When writing your list, think of ALL the qualities you want in a house and neighborhood. Here are some of the items to include: Area of Tampa
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1. The builder of new construction is not going to sell you a home for any less because you are NOT using a REALTOR®, so why not have representation throughout the process? 2. It is a little known fact that builder representatives are legally and
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When you buy a house, you also invest in the neighborhood that surrounds it. The identity of a neighborhood may be as important to property values as the individual properties themselves. In a planned strictly controlled architecture governs a carefully
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The Buyer/Borrower: 1. Does not tell the truth on loan application. 2. Has recent late payments on credit report. 3. Finds out about additional debt after loan application. 4. Borrower loses job. 5. Co-borrower loses job. 6. Income verification lower
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1 . Receive Automatic Listings by E-Mail Almost 80% of home buyers today start a home search online. Unless you are receiving home listings through the Multiple Listing Service, the data you are receiving may be outdated. Through the MLS directly, you
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What’s So Funny About Love? Ask kids what love means to them and this is some of what you might get: · I’m in favor of love as long as it doesn’t happen when The Simpson's are on TV. (Anita, age 6) · If falling in love
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Q What U.S. state is home to the world's richest woman? A Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart’s founder and heiress to $16.5 billion, lives on a ranch in the state of Texas. Q What was the longest distance a building has ever been moved? A Detroit's
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The SSOHP is the Secret Society of Happy People , founded in 1998 to encourage people to talk about happy moments. The Society has over 6,000 members who happily collect and share information like: 1. “The Year’s Top 10 Happiest Events and
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Bill and I recently attended a three day workshop in Daytona Beach and like so many seminars that take you away from your routines—namely work for us—we came away from there knowing more about ourselves than when we arrived. We had the opportunity
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What Was Life Like 100 Years Ago? Think life was so much simpler 100 years ago? Take a look at the following and you may just change your mind. · The average life expectancy in the US was 47 years. · Only 14% of homes in the US had a bathtub.
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IS YOUR IDENTITY SAFE? According to www.identitytheft.org , a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping us prevent identity theft, this crime finds about 900,000 new victims each year! Here are some additional tips I have heard recently: · Here's
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I came across an article by Jay MacDonald from Bankrate.com asking Does Money buy Happiness . Inquiring minds like me and perhaps you, really want to know: Why not? I love this…Jay says, “The rich and famous seem to be fabulously happy as
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I love certain quotes that I come upon…when they hit home for me they are so powerful I just want to pass them on. When I try to share them with someone else, they don’t seem to have the same impact on the other as they did for me. I have
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Housing Prices Slip with Tighter Lending Standards Tighter lending criteria and fallout from the sub prime loan debacle will lead to a healthier housing market with greater assurance that owners can handle mortgage adjustments, but higher loan standards
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Fewer For Sale By Owners - Amid Housing Slump Selling a home during a slumping market can be a grueling process for owners. · FSBO deals increased steadily for two decades into the late 1990s. They accounted for 18% of sales in 1997, but that has
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Fannie Mae to unveil 40 year mortgage plan Fannie Mae, one of the nation’s biggest investors in home mortgages, plans to unveil a campaign today that would allow lenders to refinance certain borrowers’ homes. Fannie Mae is targeting adjustable-rate
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Baby boomer Study Uncertain of retirement Baby boomers have a wide variety of housing needs in the future, depending on their retirement plans -- or lack thereof -- according to a study by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR). The comprehensive
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America's best jobs in the hottest markets The great American hiring boom is slowing down--but as labor cools with the rest of the economy, a few choice regions will stay red-hot. Tampa came in #7 out of Top 10 Cities 1. ORLANDO , FL 2-year job-growth
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The Enclave, Westchase - The 2 story at 12033 Abbywood Lane has been sold. Property information
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