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What kinds of home buyers buy that home?   In the more than 20 years that I have been representing only home buyers, I have had all kinds of home buyers.  Some rich, some poor, some paying cash and some scraping together the down payment. Not all home buyers that buy can really afford to buy that home. […]

Buying an Orlando foreclosure is different from buying a regular home.   In fact buying a Foreclosure in Orlando may be different from the foreclosure market in another state.  By saying Orlando Foreclosure, I am speaking about Central Florida and not only the city of Orlando.   First of all what is a foreclosure?   A […]

Buying an older home in Orlando needs evaluation.   It is a bit different when buying an older home in Orlando.   An older home in Orlando is considered “older” if it is at least 30+ years old.  In some of the northern states in the US, when you say older home, it means about 100 […]

What the home seller will take for the property is a loaded question   Home seller bottom line on the property is always a mystery. As a buyer agecy office, we often get asked what the home seller will take for the property.  I can give an educated guess but have been surprised too many times to think […]

Some home buyers think they don’t need a Real Estate Agent…   Every so often I see a consumer ask questions on a real estate forum asking how to go about buying a home alone, without a Real Estate Agent.   Funny thing, is that they don’t want to use a real estate agent and yet […]

Orlando Home Report 2014   The Orlando Home Report for this past month (Oct. 2014)  is showing a price gain of 18% over the Oct. 2013.   The number of Orlando single family homes sales increased 18.28%.  Condo sales went up 11.3% over the same time last year.   After reading the Orlando Home Report […]

Buying lakefront property in Orlando can be confusing   There is lakefront property in Orlando and then there are more lakes…thousands of them in Central Florida.   Lake county is named such because it is home to more than 1,200 lakes. Polk county has more than 500 natural freshwater lakes. The city of Orlando has more […]

Renting to a Service Dog   I have been handling rentals for many years, but  just recently had someone want to rent with what they claimed was a “Service Dog”. Since this was my first experience with a service dog, I decided I needed to learn more about it.   The first thing I learned […]

Are you buying an Orlando home or just a “looker” on vacation?      Buyer Agents that work in the sunshine states all have this dilemma of sorting out who is serious about buying an Orlando home and who is just here on vacation, wanting to look at  homes.   Most of the time it is not hard to figure out who […]

Is the bigger home always the best to buy?      Most home buyers think that they need more space.   One of the biggest complaints we hear is that the bedrooms are not big enough.   How big do the bedrooms need to be? Most Florida homes do not have massive bedrooms because they […]