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  Thousands of Florida Mortgage Brokers may lose their license on January 1st! Applications for license renewals have been extraordinarily slow. If the application is received before December 31st a mortgage broker may carry on working during the processing period.   If a broker has not applied b...

A a new species of homeowner is getting pushed into foreclosure hell:  homeowners who paid their mortgages – or loan modifications – on time. Some even paid off their loans. People on the receiving end of a bad foreclosure claim say that they are being passed from bank official to bank official w...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that federal officials have launched an inquiry into whether some mortgage lenders discriminated against qualified African Amenrican and Latino borrowers denying them government insured loans.  The inquiry is in response to complaints...

California Court Establishes new Listing Agents Duties To BUYERS in a Short Sale The Court determined that real estate agents have an affirmative duty to disclose matters that pertain not only to physical defects but any matters that otherwise affect the desirability of a buyer to purchase proper...

  Good advice from Bob and Jeannie.  Every year too many people lose their live and are seriously burnt due to fires caused by candles and faulty electric lights.  Please be careful!   Suggestions from the International Association of Fire Chiefs and the National Fire Protection AssociationHolida...

A recent post about listing agents reminded me of a conversation with a friend, the best Buyers Agent in our region. I love working with sellers - and I don't mind telling them the truth.  I met my friend after a :rough: time with a seller and told him of the tricky deal I was going through, and ...

There has been discussion about responding with a comment on any post written by people who comment on your posts.  I don't subscirbe to that philosophy, for me it's the post that makes me comment, not the writer - or can we call the writer of a post a "poster"???? A headline catches my interest,...

DENTAL PLAN FOR NAR MEMBERS   NAR has just introduced a new Family Dental Insurance for members.  There  are four difference plans to choose from, starting at $17.34 per month. Click here for further information   And click here for a comparison charts for the various Dental Insurance Plans.        

Between April 2009 and March 31, 2010, $66 billion of residential property, amounting to 7% percent of the total U.S. residential market, was sold to foreign nationals from 53 different countries, led by Canada, Mexico, UK, China, Germany and France.  They bought at a higher median price ($219,40...

  This is good advice for property owners.  In Europe, where power is prohibitively expensive "hot water on demand" is used extensively.   I am thinking of having this system installed when my water heater needs replacing.   Tankless Water Heater Life Expectancy Tankless water heaters are becomin...