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Discussion about all things Real Estate in the Tampa Bay Community. Bank Foreclosures, Short Sales, Vacant Homes, Mortgages and Financing, VA and FHA purchases, market trends, the media and their role in real estate.
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The Tampa housing market is loaded with short sales and pre-foreclosures. Yes, many of these homes are closing but I am frustrated with the amount of time it takes to get to closing.  Only 1 of every 5 short sales I have done has the original buyer stuck through to the end of the deal.  I can not...
07/22/2009
So your home listing expired and now your upset and frustrated with your agent.  What a terrible person, I can not believe they didn't sell my home.  I should be out of this house and moving on with my life.   While yes your agent may have dropped the ball and may have over promised and under del...
05/20/2009
Today I want to write about what you need to do to sell your home?  Most of this is pretty basic but I have seen a decrease in seller awareness lately and then I wonder what their Realtor ® was thinking when they listed the home. Sometimes just doing some basic things will help sell your home fas...
05/18/2009
Today I want to write about what you need to do to sell your home?  Most of this is pretty basic but I have seen a decrease in seller awareness lately and then I wonder what their Realtor ® was thinking when they listed the home. Sometimes just doing some basic things will help sell your home fas...
05/18/2009
This came out through NAR and is perfect for the first time home buyer.  Shaun Donovan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment, on Tuesday said that the Federal Housing Administration isgoing to permit its lenders to allow home buyers to use the $8,000 taxcredit as a dow...
05/14/2009
Are you twittering your listings?  Are you even twittering?  I started twittering listings and information about local Real Estate and general business information a few weeks ago and received my first lead last night. Since you are limited to the amount of characters you can type I would recomme...
05/06/2009
This weekend in both the Tampa Tribune and St. Petersburg Times there was an article about a local agent and his business partner who are making money flipping short sales.   Basically they negotiate a low price with the seller's bank and then flip it to a buyer as a same day closing for a higher...
05/04/2009
This is a common question I get all the time.    Basically, a short sale is when the owner of the home attempts to sell their home for less than the amount owed on the mortgage or mortgages.  Essentially selling it "short" of the mortgage owed.     The benefits to a short sale are you will avoid ...
04/29/2009
I just read an article on www.TBO.com by Shannon Behnken about how Foreclosures in the Tampa area dropped 11% according to Realty Trac.   Funny though, this is another solid piece of evidence that the real estate market has bottomed out yet, the article follows up this one sentence of good news w...
04/22/2009
Great news today!  Two short sales that my team and I have been working on finally got approved from Wells Fargo and Saxon respectfully and we are on our way to closing.  The really great news for anyone who is working short sales or considering doing a short sale it seems as though the lenders a...
04/09/2009
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Talking Real Estate in Plant City and throughout the Tampa Bay community. We are experiencing a high rate of foreclosure and high unemployment. As a real estate professional, it is now our responsibility to help guide home owners and home buyers through these trouble times and to shed light on indicators of a stabalizatoin of home values.