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Legado is the newest community to be built in Windermere, Florida.  Legado actually means “Legacy” in Spanish and it is claiming a piece of well known Windermere.  Windermere is known for its quaint town, but also for their exquisite multi-million dollar luxury homes.  This location is actually west Windermere, right next to Winter Garden.  Winter […]

 Building a Quality Home Central Florida has over 30 builders. How do you pick the best one?  Or even know who builds a quality home?  We get this question a lot and know the answers! Builders have standards by code from the municipality, segmented by regions. National builders also have their own corporate standards which they […]

Exclusive Buyers Brokers are so different, that some consider us to be “outside” of the norm.  We do have all the privileges and cooperation like all other brokers, but we just operate on a different path. That is fine with me, because I do not want to be “one of them”.   That means I am not […]

Hire the right Orlando Buyers Agent   Maybe you are a first time home buyer.  Or maybe you had a bad real estate experience in the past. If you are in the market to buy a home, hiring the right Orlando Buyers Agent can make your home buying a pleasant experience.   Don’t hire the wrong Orlando […]

Orlando Exclusive Buyers Agent works for the home buyer   As an Orlando Exclusive Buyers Agent helping buyers purchase Orlando Real Estate, we know the importance of  having a real estate agent working solely on the buyers side.  Buyers Broker of Florida works ONLY for home buyers, never sellers. We never act as Transaction Brokers.   Because of this specialty […]

How Orlando Buyers Agents get paid is often misunderstood.   Some home buyers will not even call any Orlando Buyers Agents because they think they will have to pay them out of their own pocket.  Not so.   There are several ways that Orlando Buyers Agents can get paid that is not cash direct from […]

 What is FIRPTA?   F.I.R.P.T.A. is an acronym for Foreign Investment Real Property Tax Act.  It was established in 1980 for the purpose of withholding the estimated amount of taxes which may be due on the profit  of the disposition of a U.S. Real Property Interest from foreign persons.  10% of the gain on the sale […]

Florida Transaction Brokers offer…                   NO LOYALTY   No loyalty to the seller and no loyalty to you the buyer.   While 99% of agents act as Florida Transaction Brokers and claim to advocate, the law in Florida says that Florida Transaction Brokers cannot advocate or offer any fiduciary duties. […]

Orlando Buyer Broker submits buyers offer   My buyer client made an offer on one agents listing.  Frankly, the listing agent came unglued.   Listing agent could not believe by clients offer, which she thought was way too low. (Yes, the listing agent works for the seller).  She added that obviously I did not consider the […]

Orlando Buyers Broker.com got a face lift.  Badly needed. Overdue,  glad it is over…Whew!   Re-doing a Real Estate website is a big job…it always is.  The last website that we launched took 3 years to complete…this one took a 10 months.  OK, I admit I did not build it, so why did it take […]