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Tips on Taking the Risk out of Your Real Estate Investing
While holding rental property over the long term can be very profitibable surviving the shortterm can prove to be stressful costly and have you rethinking the idea of rental property. Many times when we buy rental property we think OK it looks like rent will cover the payments. That is until the water heater breaks you need new carpet a new heating and air system and countless other things that can go wrong. Or your tenant leaves you highanddry a
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Everything A Real Estate Agent Doesnt Want You To Know Part 2
So you are thinking about buying a home? Typically people who are planning to buy a home and especially first time home buyers start by looking through newspapers ads and real estate magazines before calling a real estate company and talking to a real estate agent. And thats where the problems tend to begin. As a homebuyer you must understand that real estate agents represent sellers they have a legal duty to represent sellers and not buyers . The only
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Pinellas County Real Estate A Cornucopia of Home Selections
So you are thinking about buying a home? Typically people who are planning to buy a home and especially first time home buyers start by looking through newspapers ads and real estate magazines before calling a real estate company and talking to a real estate agent. And thats where the problems tend to begin. As a homebuyer you must understand that real estate agents represent sellers they have a legal duty to represent sellers and not buyers . The only
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Real Estate Forms Property Disclosure Form
Most US state and real estate laws require that home owners who wish to sell their properties fill up a Property Disclosure Form which informs potential buyers of material facts about the property that is on sale. What information should be disclosed to the potential buyer? Personal information about the seller such as his age sexual preference or health status and his reasons for moving are not of prime importance. What must be divulged are informati
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What to Expect at a Real Estate Closing
A real estate Closing is the procedure by which the title to the property is transferred from the seller to the purchaser. If the purchaser has obtained a loan the lenders required documents are signed and executed at this time. The closing attorneys role at closing is to represent the lenders interest and the closing attorney is not authorized to provide legal advice to the buyer or the seller. You are more than welcome to have your attorney with y
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Factorybuilt homes Florida Manufactured Home Association Brief Article
All you ever wanted to know about manufactured home communities in the Sunshine State is available on the web site of the Florida Manufactured Home Association an industry group with a membership of more than 1250 individual businesses. Log on to www.fmha.org or call 800 8793032. One of every five new homes in Florida is factoryconstructed. Built to withstand hurricaneforce winds these homes match and even exceed the strength of a sitebuilt home and must meet rigid federal guideline
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At home in Florida Jacobsen Homes offers retirees a choice Brief Article
Jacobsen Homes Floridas oldest manufactured home builder offers retirees a choice of more than 50 communities from Amelia Island in the far northeast to Florida City at the tip of the state. Though homes are factorybuilt owners can add their own personal touches to the wide variety of floor plans available. For a 32page brochure call Jacobsen at 800 8431559 or visit www.jachomes.com. The companys model center in Safety Harbor is open daily.
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Florida homes Retirement Focus Advertisement
Riverside Club Golf Boating Resort is offering a guest house program to preview their 55plus community in Ruskin Florida. For 99 couples can stay in a guest house for two nights tour the property and get a closeup look at new manufactured model homes. New homes are priced from 60000 to 100000 for 1100 to 1850 square feet. Riverside Club is an American Land Lease community. 800 8899804 or www.riversideclubcommunity.com.
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Florida high now landlocked within the peninsula an ancient dune preserves the stamp of its past
Last August when Hurricane Charley swept across Florida one place it struck was the Lake Wales Ridge an elevated region that runs like a spine down the center of the peninsula. About a hundred miles long and ranging between four and ten miles wide the ridge reaches its highest pointabout 310 feet above sea levelnear its northern end. According to Hilary Swain executive director of the Archbold Biological Station near the south end of the ridge many seventy or eightyyearold sand
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Floridas Treasure Coast discover natures bounty in Vero Beach and other communities fringing the Atlantic
Early on a Sunday morning my husband and I packed a cooler with freshsqueezed orange juice from a nearby fragrant grove and spread our towels on the sands of Vero Beach. Our companions were a dozen sandpipers scurrying by the shore. After a while a man with a metal detector came by. He stopped to chat and showed us a shiny doubloon from the goldandsilverladen Spanish fleet of 11 galleons that wrecked off Vero Beach in 1715 and gave its nickname to Floridas Treasure Coast. As we watched
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