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2013 

What Does Buying a House “As-Is” With Right to Inspect Mean? In this new age of foreclosures and short sales, more and more homes are offered “as-is.” For the prospective homebuyer, it’s now essential to understand what this means. Buying a home as-is sounds like it would be a disadvantage, but ...
08/25/2013
How To Bid On A Repossessed Home | Should I Buy A Repossessed House? With the downturn in the economy, many homes have been repossessed or are known as distressed properties. Bidding on a repossessed home can be a great value and save a prospective buyer anywhere from 10 to 70 percent because ban...
08/19/2013
Is it Worth Paying Points On a Mortgage | What Are Mortgage Points? When financing a home purchase or refinancing a current home, you have to make a number of decisions. You will have to choose from among a half dozen different mortgage types available to you. Regardless of which type of mortgage...
08/25/2013
  Can I Make Money Renting a Room in My House | Should I Get A Roommate? If you have more space than you have cash, renting a room in your house can be a good way to make ends meet. Should you get a Roommate to Help Make Extra Money? If you’re a homeowner with extra space in your place and you do...
08/25/2013
I Am Not Going To Sell Your House.........YOU ARE!! I went on a listing appointment yesterday and the seller must have just come back from Sellers Training school.  As a Realtor you know when you sit down at the kitchen table and the attitude of the seller tells you, this isn't going to work out ...
08/26/2013
Earlier in my career, I had a friend who became a client.  Well, a quasi client would be a better descriptive.  My friend LOVED looking at houses.  She spent time in each listing admiring the decor and gathering decorating tips.  She even drove around town searching for more homes for us to previ...
08/25/2013
Remind the buyer's agent that his/her buyer's lender needs to have a closing package to the closing agent several days in advance of the closing.  In a short sale the closing agent must prepare a final HUD (Settlement Statement). The HUD is sent to the short sale lender for final approval to clos...
08/25/2013
This is where Flapjack comes in.  The sellers of the property had an old goat named Flapjack.  Flapjack was great for mowing the grass in the ravine.  He was fenced in the area and loved to eat the grass up and down that steep hill.  He was actually a pretty nice fella, as goats go.A few years ag...
08/25/2013
wice this week and regularly throughout the years, I've received telephone calls from consumers who want to see properties they see for sale in my IDX connection.  Or, of course, they may be calling about a listing they saw anywhere on the Internet. Consumers think they have the information they ...
08/25/2013
Surprise!  Same house style, same updates and maintenance, and on the same street, but one house sold for $25,000 less than the other.  How does that happen?  It might surprise you to discover that one poorly kept home on a street can adversely affect the price of all the homes on the street.  Or...
08/25/2013
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Residential Real Estate information to help you buy, sell, lease or short sale. Serving Tradition, PGA, St Lucie West, Port Saint Lucie, Palm City, Stuart, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, Abacoa