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Younger U.S. families investing in second homes ORLANDO, Fla. – May 30, 2007 – Retirement-home sales are growing – among buyers still decades away from retiring. From New York’s Catskill Mountains to Oregon’s rocky coast, ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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 the ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
(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 ...[Read More]
#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 ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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. ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
· 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 ...[Read More]
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. ...[Read More]
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 to ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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 ethically ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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 than ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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. ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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 ...[Read More]
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