Opinion

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]

Short Sales are tough. But most difficult for buyers who are unaware. In a very real sense, it's almost like chasing rainbows, or dreaming about a National Geographic safari, places where few rarely go. Here in Hernando County Florida, the real estate market is riddled with short sales. Short s [Read More]

Adversity equals benefit or so I learned years ago in all of my positive think training. It came from Napolean Hill's Think and Grow Rich, the grandfather of all modern day motivational teachings that was prophetic and almost biblical in content. Look around here in Hernando County Florida and [Read More]

Ever wonder why they call these transactions short sales when they take sooooo long. Maybe a better word for a short sale should be a "Long Sale" You would think that the banks would be eager to move these homes a bit faster, but after a while I am beginning to wonder what in the world [Read More]

I was out showing property today to a potential home buyer, and we were talking about the economy and what has taken place in the past few years. He then told me that rumor was that the banks have so many homes on the books that they are in fear of just releasing them all at once due to what it wil [Read More]

The answer is most definately YES! Buyer's, you can drive around all day long, read as many home magazines that you can get your hands on, invest hours on line searching homes, BUT you will not get the up to date status on the homes without a Realtor. There are several web sites that do post [Read More]

At the center of the President Obama's radical program to save the existing housing sector is the belief that modifying endangered home loans will save stressed mortgagees in their residences and provide a safety net beneath falling real estate prices. With $75 billion set aside to modify bad [Read More]

Buyers and agents are somewhat transfixed lately in Hernando County with chasing Short Sales or Bank Owned Foreclosures. It's been said when any type of business opportunity becomes popular, watch out, for you may be too late to take advantage of that market. I believe that to be true. In the [Read More]

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 that has gone out of sight monthly, until this [Read More]

It has been a nightmare getting deals to "closing day" to then find out they still won't close on "closing day". We had plenty of time to get our ducks in order, which we did, and we were suppose to close on a Monday. Friday comes and I call to confirm and since it is a USDA [Read More]