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Consider this to be your 30 day notice...that hurricane season, here in Florida, will begin! Hurricane season starts on June 1st and ends on November 30th.  The main concern during this time is property damage and most importantly; flood insurance!   There are some homeowners that believe [Read More]

Home sales have declined 74% since 2005, naturally as the prices decline; the sales are beginning to rise. In Tampa Bay, Hillsborough County, Florida the home prices are replicating those from 2003! With the home prices looking the same as they did 6 years ago, what would stop you from taking advan [Read More]

I had a call Friday from a guy who wanted a foreclosure home that originally sold for $220 thousand and wanted to pay no more than $70 thousand. Maybe he has been watching to much foreclosure news on TV and felt his request was a reasonable one.. I decided to put some real numbers together for the [Read More]

Since taking Easter weekend off my life as a Realtor has been a blur of real estate buyers, offers, contracts and closings...Brooksville and Floral City Florida are areas of my specialty and even some high end homes have had multiple offers with successful sales results these past few weeks. If you [Read More]

Home prices are falling, foreclosures are rising and the supply far outweighs the demand in the real estate market today! However, some of the hardest hit states in the Nation are beginning to face the relentless bidding wars on certain homes, which means Florida will soon be next.  With the e [Read More]

No question about it, Hernando County was the first to fall on home values and we fell hard and fast. But smart cash buyers are cashing in on homes of all descriptions on the economic scale. $400,000 dollar homes here two years ago were considered top flight executive digs at a very fair price wit [Read More]

When you hear the term "foreclosure activity", this can mean anything from the first letter that you get in the mail that states that you are falling into default, to the actual repossession of your home. According to the RealtyTrac's quarterly totals, foreclosure activity numbers we [Read More]

The real estate sales are inclining at all time record rates in Southwest Florida, specifically in Lee County. According to the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Myers and the Beach, Inc., 1,326 homes sold in March alone; which is the highest number of sales in the past five years. Foreclosures a [Read More]

With the distressed housing market as a whole, buying a home at this time is making many potential home buyers skeptical. Do a little research, you may find that this is the perfect time to purchase a home!  With the home prices at a historic low, in many cases, your monthly mortgage payments [Read More]

In 2008, Cape Coral, Lee County, Florida was suffering from the highest foreclosure rate in the country. Today, the buyers are coming! And why not? The prices are right, houses that were selling for $350,000 last year, are selling for $140,000 in today's market! This is the time for first time [Read More]