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On my way to overnight camping trip with friends by the Withlacoochee River last night on the Hernando County, Pasco County Florida line, I received a nervous call from a buyers agent. "JAZ is that four acre lot on Sunshine Grove road in Brooksville still available?" JAZ: "Yes it is, how much is t [Read More]

Another good indication that home buys are terrific in Hernando County Florida and the Spring Hill area is that Internet shoppers are buying houses sight unseen. That's right. This past week two buyers contacted me initially via my website, made two offers and executed two contracts. Quite fra [Read More]

The New Mortgage Reconciliation: A short sale For all the homeowners with mortgages owing far more on their homes than the market allows (upside down) and cannot make their payments because of being fired from work, forced from employment, business failure, marriage failure, or an option mortgage t [Read More]

I just had a  single woman employed by a local supermarket chain buy her first home. She was nervous, but her family told her you can get a mortgage for what you are paying in rent and she did! She bought a house for $80,000; got a USDA loan so she didn't have to put any money down (she d [Read More]

According to Zillow.com, one out of every five homeowners in the nation owe more on their mortgage than what their homes are worth, which is to say that they are 'underwater'. Home value declines are starting to slow down; however, sellers are still apprehensive about putting their homes o [Read More]

I'm feeling it in the pulse of my real estate business in Hernando County Florida USA. Optimism in our county, country and the good old American dream of acquiring land lots of land, and that second home is coming back. I'm getting showing appointments from couples in their mid fifties look [Read More]

What are real estate closing costs? Most buyers and sellers are really unaware of what are true closing costs in real estate transactions. Although I had bought and sold several homes before practicing real estate in Spring Hill Florida, I truly did not understand the break down of these costs for [Read More]

100% Financing Let's talk about 100% Financing again for those of you that are not familiar with the program. USDA Rural Development has an EXCELLENT program! They will allow you to finance 102% of your mortgage. The best part it's not 102% of the purchase price but 102% of the appraised v [Read More]

Florida is not the only state suffering with the Chinese Drywall epidemic, over a dozen different states from California to Alabama are receiving consumer complaints involving corrosion of metal components and respiratory problems. Between the housing boom and the many destructive hurricanes that [Read More]

The truth about sinkholes on the nature coast is that they have been a geological fact in the natural eco system of Central Florida for longer than us mere humans have been in existence. Since the base material that makes up this area of Florida is limestone, it is very susceptible to damage from [Read More]