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Upon reading a recent blog, I realized there is some misinformation and misunderstanding about the difference between the Lease/Option and Lease/Purchase agreements. In today's market Sellers are using creative terms to increase their pool of buyers, in an attempt to secure a higher purchase pric...

Many potential buyers find that their poor credit rating is keeping them from home ownership with banks unwilling to take on new risky loans.   Some buyers have money for a significant down payment, have the wherewith all to pay their monthly housing payments, but cannot get a bank financed mortg...

  I Ran across this simple worksheet in a blog by Dan Green, Loan Officer with Waterstone Mortgage and author of the blog, The Mortgage Reports recently and found it to be useful in helping clients understand how much home they can afford.  If you can count on anything, you can count on housing p...

Our Delayed Closing Program helps buyers who need more time, due to minor credit issues.  Buyers in the Lee County Florida areas of Cape Coral, Fort Myers and Lehigh Acres can and do get to live the dream of home ownership even if they have suffered a recent short sale, foreclosure or bankruptcy....

Per Christopher Quinn of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Foreclosure slow downs are not an indicator of a healing home market. Foreclosure filings across the nation in the first half of 2011 are down 29% from the same period last year, but not because the housing market is healing, says a nation...

Buyers need a quick reminder on how and when realtors get paid.  I recently closed on an investment property here in Lehigh Acres, Florida, which has many terrific real estate deals as does the rest of SW Florida, for cash buyers looking to invest.  My husband was at the property doing a bit of p...

This investor's opportunity in the sunny SW Florida town of Lehigh Acres has just been reduced to $59,000.  Currently rented at $750/mo with a lease through 2/12, this property will provide signiicant return for the cash investor.  Per the seller, the property has potential to go commercial in th...

A terrific opportunity for investors is to use their IRA to fund the purchase of real estate investment properties or to leverage the funding for said purchase. While traditional IRA investments can yield high returns they are left to the ups and downs of the stock market, which we know in recent...

Young families and first time home buyers are taking advantage of the housing crisis and foreclosures to jump ahead in the housing market ladder, or trade up on existing homes. The largest number of buyers of foreclosed homes are still investors.  Even with a surplus of inventory, if the prices a...

The downturn in the economy and real estate market is turning many former homeowners into renters.  Adult children are finding themselves moving in with parents, the elderly moving in with their kids, and multiple families moving together to offset housing costs.  This is happening in many places...