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August 23, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
Mortgage rates on a 30 year fixed rate mortgage broke another record last week, falling to 4.42%, according to mortgage giant Freddie Mac. These rates reflect the lowest rate seen since Freddie Mac began tracking rates in 1971.Freddie Mac collects mortgage rates from lenders across the country weekl [Read More]
August 23, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
I was surprised to find out that we had a wildlife survival sanctuary in SPring Hill on 18212 Booming Road, Spring Hill, Florida (Hernando County). I had read about their 10th anniversary in the Hernando Today and then went on their web-site and this is part of their mission statement. Their web-si [Read More]
August 23, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
It's that time again where we can leg our best friend (four legged one) splash in the Gulf of Mexico at Pine Island Beach, Weeki Wachee, Florida. The Hernando County Parks & Recreation Department has given us the dates for the 2010-11 season of Bark Island. Dogs and theor owners can come on [Read More]
August 23, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
The fact is that life in America is tough right now for most Americans. You have to remember though we have the freedom to try to change that from a present day fact, into making it past history. As Americans, we get to cast a VOTE to decide on ours and our children's future. Yep, sometimes th [Read More]
August 22, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
In today's very upsetting economy and turnoil all around, it is a welcoming site to volunteer for a group called People Helping People (PHP), an interfaith community of Christians, Jews, and Muslims who are concerned with the increasing numbers of hungry and homeless people in West Hernando Cou [Read More]
August 19, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
The controversy continues over Amendment 3, a proposed amendment to the Florida Constitution that would allow homebuyers that have not owned a home in 8 years a claim to a property tax break. In addition to the tax break, the amendment would lower the annual tax appraisal cap for rental property and [Read More]
August 19, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
Its great that an individual looking for a home can search on there own....but does that help us as Realtors or hurt us? In the end an agent is used to submit an offer....But the customer usually strings along multiple agents in the process....and is not loyal to any single agent until the property [Read More]
August 18, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
Thanks to funds received from the Government formed Neighborhood Stabilization Program, 22 homes have been purchased in Broward and Palm Beach Counties in Florida by the Habitat for Humanity as well as other non-profit contractors in an effort to rehabilitate and re-sell these foreclosures.Habitat f [Read More]
August 18, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
I have to voice my dislike when i do a property search and find listings where just one picture of the house has been uploaded into the multiple listing system. I think my frustration is the same as the buyers who may be searching for property. It is so nice to be able to get an idea of what the ho [Read More]
August 16, 2010
Author: Support Services, e-PRO
According to a survey conducted by Bankrate, Inc., a online financial rate website, the closing costs across the nation are on the rise. National average shows that closing costs are nearly $1,000 more this year that they were in 2009.While here in Florida the closing costs have raised $381 in an an [Read More]