Approved Short Sale! $280,000.00 5/3 Pool Home! 8578 NW 47 Street, Coral Springs, Fl 33067 Enjoy Thanksgiving in Your New Home!
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hiApproved Short Sale! 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms with one bedroom downstairs and full bathroom down stairs, sparking blue waterfall island pool, pavered driveway, fabulous volume ceilings, granite kitchen countertop, formal living room and dining room, laminate wood flooring upstairs, upstairs master bedroom with whirlpool bath tub and separate shower, one bedroom upstairs has outside balcony, [...]
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Senate passes bill extending and EXPANDING tax credit for home buyers
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hiFirst-time home buyers have been getting tax credits of up to $8,000 since January as part of the economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year. With the program scheduled to expire at the end of November, the Senate voted Wednesday to extend and expand the tax credit to include many buyers who already own homes.
Buyers [...]
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Understanding Procuring Cause!!
Categories: Buying Real Estate, Real Estate News, Selling Real Estate
hiWorking with a buyer can be very stressful and many times the buyer feels the agent is not showing them everything. Possibly the agent is showing only what the buyer has asked to see and has eliminated properties that are listed as “short sales” or have a pool, when the buyer was adamant they did [...]
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Slim Pickings
Categories: Buying Real Estate, Real Estate News
hiI have an out of town buyer who is looking at properties between $1,000,000 and $2,000,000. She requested to see 15 houses, of those 15 only 5 are still available. Some were short sales with multiple offers, some had pending contracts, a few were rented and one was sold.
Moral of the story: There is not [...]
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NAR wants $8K credit extended;IRS reports widespread fraud
Categories: Buying Real Estate, Real Estate News
hiThe National Association of Realtors (NAR) wants the Obama Administration to extend the $8K tax credit for first-time home buyers but the Obama Administration is concerned about the cost of the program and the IRS claims widespread fraud. However, lawmakers understand that the program is popular and has helped spur the housing recovery.
The existing credit which expires [...]
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I TOLD YOU SO !
Categories: Buying Real Estate, Real Estate News
hiTWO DAYS LATER …
A couple of days ago, I blogged about a real estate “deal” listed for sale in Coral Gables for $299,000.
It is NOW (already!) … under contract.
260 Majorca Avenue, Coral Gables, Florida
I don’t often toot my own horn, but for the (several) buyers who waited a day too long to get in their offer … [...]
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Aventura Real Estate welcomes Debbie Najjar
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hiIntroduction of Debbie Najjar, real estate attorney and realtor. Advice to real estate buyers and sellers interested in purchasing and/or selling their condos/homes in Aventura, Golden Beach and Sunny Isles.
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There REALLY IS a SECRET SCIENCE to Pricing Your House for Sale!
Categories: Buying Real Estate, Real Estate News, Selling Real Estate
hiPricing your house to “ SELL” is a science !
There is a SECRET SCIENCE to Pricing and Selling your House! Price it high to allow room for negotiation? Do you think so? If so, you are definitely not in the minority . Many sellers (and worse still, realtors) think that way… although the vast majority of homes that actually DO sell here [...]
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Extending Tax Credits For Home Buyers
Categories: Buying Real Estate, In The News, Real Estate News
hiIn an effort to stimulate the housing market, the government is providing first-time home buyers an $8000 tax credit if they close on a new house before the end of November. As that deadline looms, a new effort is afoot to not only extend the tax credit, but improve upon it.
There are two proposals gaining [...]
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SECRETS to BUYING A HOUSE !
Categories: Buying Real Estate, Real Estate News
hiThere REALLY is a secret to buying a house… and a secret science to negotiating a sale!
We received eight offers on one property within just a couple weeks of listing it, and after just two open houses and an onslaught of individual viewings, we had a solid offer. The homeowner accepted an offer (and had a back-up perched and waiting on the sidelines… that second buyer hoping againgst [...]
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