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Personal bankruptcy filings jumped 40% last year in South Florida in an annual comparison, according to the US Bankruptcy Court in Miami, totaling 34,579 just in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties alone!Although South Florida has ranked high in the amount of bankruptcy filings for 2010, the [Read More]

The 71-year-old retired insurance saleswoman has been living in her house, a two-story on a half-acre in a tidy middle-class neighborhood here in central Florida, since 1978. The last time she made a mortgage payment was October 1985. The story of how Campbell has managed to avoid both paying her m [Read More]

Take your pick; it’s a buyer’s market, period! That is to say if you can qualify for a loan now is the time to buy a house and, likewise, if you can’t qualify yet—then you should take advantage of the fact that many sellers are getting frustrated trying to sell their homes, [Read More]

There was an article in today's St. Pete Times about the success of this program. However, they did not say whether there were still funds, but they did say they were hoping to get more funds. This is a great program. The idea behind it was to sell foreclosure homes to families that might not o [Read More]

According to mortgage giant, Freddie Mac, mortgage rates declined for the first time in two months! The average rate on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage fell to 4.77% from 4.86% in a weekly comparison.Rates have continuously climbed upward since November of last year, when investors began shifting thei [Read More]

Can anyone recommend someone who is an expert doing taxes for the self employed! I think Im done with Turbo Tax! lol Thanks!

I was suppose to travel to Long Island for a "girls weekend", but had to postpone it because of your pending snowstorm. As I tell my brother in Massachusetts, the only "s" word we have here is "sun". So why are you northerners still plowing? Come on down and get that g [Read More]

Any piece of debt, anywhere in the world, can be insured with a credit default swap. The contracts are originated and traded by houses like Goldman, insurance companies like AIG and hedge funds like J.P. Morgan. CDSs are used to hedge debt, while capitalizing on the volatility of the market-place a [Read More]

I hope everyone has a wonderful and prosperous New Year!! Im hoping all the northern folks all want to buy second homes to get away from the cold and snow!! Helping us southern Realtors Crank Up The Sales to get 2011 off to a great start!!

Pending home sales rose in November for the fourth time since the summer of 2010! According to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the 3.5% increase in the number of Americans that signed contracts to buy homes rose in the west and Northeast but dropped in the South and Midwest.In a yearly c [Read More]