Destin/Fort Walton Beach Florida Real Estate

Homeowners if you are considering selling your home this year, my advice would be get your home on the market as soon as possible.     Why? Buyers are looking to buy!  Why? The extension of the Homebuyers Tax Credit says new buyers need to be under contract by April 30th that's why! So when do yo...

If you are a military officer and have considered entering the legal field of the military there is a program available to assist you with that.  It's called the Legal Studies Program. Applications for the Funded Legal Education Program and Excess Leave Program are being accepted from 1 January t...

Rep. Jeff Miller will be in Northwest Florida and will be hosting town hall meetings this week and next week to discuss (disgust) health care.   He will be at the Warrior Center at 201 Stillwell Boulevard in Crestview from 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 7, and he'll arrive at the Northwest Florida Fa...

What you need to know for 2010.  Apparently everyone didn't read this when I posted it as a heads up, and some of my friends have been in the uneviable position of not being prepared.  So I am reposting. I was sitting in the drivers license office recently to renew my license, well, because mine ...

I recently came across an article that reminded me of the need to have balance in my life. The last two weeks of December is when I look back at what I've accomplished and failed to accomplish and make plans for the coming year.  This isn't a New Year's resolution but a reassessment of the year. ...

Eglin officials have confirmed that the base will host an air show in 2010. This years theme will be "75 Years of Eglin Pride", scheduled for April 10th and 11th 2010. A wide variety of aerial performers, including the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, will headline the show, along with a variety of o...

Blackstone Golf Course located less than 30 minutes North of Eglin AFB near the triangle of Niceville, Crestview and DeFuniak Springs, sits near the intersection of State Road 285 and U.S. Highway 90 is ready for business.  The course, features an 18-hole course with a clubhouse, pro shop and bar...

Wayne Rogers who makes his home in our area of Northwest Florida, better known as Trapper John from the tv series MASH recognizes that it's a great time for real estate. In Florida he is developing a 500-home subdivision, just north of Eglin Air Force Base, which is located in Fort Walton Beach, ...

Hmmm, no Christmas bonus this year, so I hope you weren't planning on it.  Each year military retirement pay as well as some civilian government pay is adjusted to meet the increased cost of living. This  Cost-of-Living-Adjustment (COLA) is assessed by comparing the 3rd qtr of one year to the pre...

The media is full of negativity in real estate, and as soon as there is a glimmer of something positive happening in the industry it is played down in the news at best, and never repeated.  But let it be the reverse, you have to hear it every 15 minutes. The truth is a lot of positive things have...