As a Realtor – I do not mind filling out forms – throw more at me and I will continue to fill them out. Forms protect me and more importantly they protect buyers and sellers. Here in Florida our state association has recently developed new forms to assist us with potential Chinese drywall properties.
In my [...]
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Last week a friend of mine who reads my real estate blogs regularly and lives in Nevada sent me this link on the CNN story about a family living in a house with Chinese dry wall.
I have been reporting on this here and there and find it important enough to continue to talk about it.
It [...]
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Obviously this problem is not going to just disappear and it needs to be discussed further because this is a problem for homeowners especially in Southern Florida.
I dug into this debacle further because I know consumers want answers.
The first thing I learned was that it is very easy to check your home to see if [...]
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I have had so much interest (for obvious reasons) on this story that I decided to post an important follow up. I found this on MSNBC:
MSNBC.com
Chinese drywall? Call your insurance company
WBBH-TV
updated 11:12 a.m. ET, Thurs., Feb. 26, 2009
FORT MYERS: There is an urgent message for people who may have Chinese Drywall in their homes: Contact [...]
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RESPA – has a nice sound to it, but do you know what RESPA is? RESPA is the abbreviation for Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act. Now you know what it is, right?
No? Well here is an abbreviated legal definition of it:
The Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) is a consumer protection statute, first passed in [...]
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South Florida Business Journal – February 2, 2009
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/othercities/southflorida/stories/2009/02/02/story1.html?b=1233550800^1769884
This past weekend we here at Castle Dream Real Estate began to hear the buzz about the complaints coming in regarding the use of dry wall imported from China starting in 2006. I started to do my research on this immediately because I sell a lot of new [...]
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Carole Sanek