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As a Realtor, I am often asked to "advise" a potential client on Short Sale or Foreclosure situations.  since I am not an Attorney, I demure from giving advice, but I will refer people to attornies who are specialists in their field.  I repeat, SPECIALISTS, because I find that even attornies do n...
04/20/2008
For some time, we have kept some restaurant information on our main website:   http://www.jimgibson.biz/    go to "About Cape Coral"Here is some supplementary info for someone looking for a quick meal out:Ariani Restaurant,1529 S.E. 15th Terr.,Del Prado Mall,Cape Coral, FL  33990, 239-772-8000   ...
04/19/2008
Reading the local papaer this morning, I saw two conflicting messages:First of all, a liquidation sale in a gated community resulted in a total sellout of 116 homes in just two weeks.  Seventy percent were sold to homesteaders.  So much for the idea that there are no buyers out there.  This, afte...
04/19/2008
To the lady in Poughkipsee who reinvented herself from the airline industry into real estate.  Hoorah for you!  That's a great story.  As a "reinvented" veteran of the travel industry, I can relate to your story.  Over twenty previous years in the hi-tech industry (with five different companies),...
04/17/2008
I was setting up an itinerary for homes this evening.  Buyers are a nice young couple from the East Coast, anxious to make a go of it in Cape coral.  They have a definite price point in mind, so we are searching for the best value we can find at that price.  Not unusual for persons moving into th...
04/16/2008
What a happy day!  My Broker made our first deal with REOs and we came up with an even dozen listings in the first shot.  We can advertise these listings as individuals and of course we can sell them.This is an important step....I can see now that very few individuals are going to win a lot of RE...
04/15/2008
Despite conflicting information from two data sources, it is clear that home sales in Lee County Florida have increased during First Quarter 2008.  Home SALES show a small decrease Year-to-Year, reflecting somewhat diminished purchasing activity in Q4 of 2007.  PENDING sales show a 17% increase Y...
04/13/2008
Sunday's News-Press has a front-page headline: "Lee Home Market Clogged".  Must be a slow news day.  There were some interesting points made in the article, however.  One thing that caught my eye was the statistic that there are 5189 single-family homes for sale in Lee County for less than $200,0...
04/13/2008
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Recent headlines and talking head pontifications lead the public to believe that most of today's problem loans center around vacant homes  from the "investor" frenzy of 2004-2006.  Furthermore the government "fix" seems focused upon buying up foreclosed homes.  I have some thoughts on this situat...
04/12/2008
Owners of Residential property in Florida have been slow to take advantage of a new (since 2007) STATE-FUNDED PROGRAM to save them money on their homeowners insurance policies.  Now, how many programs state or otherwise ever SAVE you money?  There is a link to the whole long-winded bill:    http:...
04/10/2008
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