Buying A House? Don’t Make These Mistakes! – Tip #1

How to Avoid Simple Home Buying Mistakes.
 
There are many steps involved in buying your first home-legal, financial and emotional considerations.  Now more than ever it is vitally important to learn from the mistakes of others rather than end up disappointed and confused.  You want to capture the dream and be in the right house, not [...]

Don’t Buy Now, Keep Renting

And you make someone else wealthy.  There are good valid reasons to rent, but in this market when you might possibly be able to purchase a home and have a payment in the ball park figure of what you pay a landlord then maybe it is time to consider a home.
Let’s take a look at [...]

Don’t Bubble Proof Your Real Estate Investment

If you think making money on a real estate investment in Florida isn’t n the sky-think again.  It is as easy as pie-money pie on your plate.  A huge pie of money you can count on to increase in value because as my last article said clearly homes are undervalued in the sunshine state.
Before you [...]

Don’t Buy Undervalued Florida Real Estate Because

I just received the August issue of Professional Builder magazine. I always read it cover to cover because I like to know the latest building trends.  I have always sold mostly new construction and this magazine is always filled with new and exciting construction ideas that I can pass on to my customers. 
The very last [...]

Then versus Now Do the Math

Eight years ago Florida was an active real estate market.  Homes were popping up like wild flowers.  Builders were happy, lenders were happy, home buyers were happy – everyone was happy.  Good deals were everywhere or were they good deals?  Let’s take a look at the average interest rate in 2000 – it was 8.27%.  [...]

Nitwits and Vampires

I recently read several articles about “Negative Nitwits” which I immediately changed to “Network Nitwits” and about toxic people in general when talking about the current real estate market.
Let’s open the door to the phrase “Network Nitwits”.  This is a phrase I coined to describe the national media who seems to just thrive on all [...]