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Identity theft is on the rise and, sadly, most folks only find out that their identity has been hacked when they need credit for a big ticket item like a car or a home.  Even if you can repair your credit, there is often a period of hardship.  While identity protection is great, but as the old ad...

Today's Star banner had a great article on home sales in Florida.  It seems that in addition to being a great place to live, Ocala had the greatest gain in home sales in the state in May, as well as the lowest home prices in all of Florida!  This makes Ocala a great place to buy, or if you need t...

A common theme here in Active Rain is the poor treatment of the buyer agents, these poor folks receive 85% of the liability in exchange for 50% (or less depending on the attitude of the listing agent) of the pay.  Sadly, the term cooperating broker is not in some brokers' and agents' vocabulary. ...

Just a quick question.The popular site Trulia offers free ads, but only for licensed Real Estate Professionals.  Yet there are numerous feeds they receive where they just list the name of the website that it came from, not the broker's name.  I did not know that "postlets.com" was a licensed real...

The other half don't understand it at all.   So who paid off the state legislators?  In every state I know of you can get every math, business math and real estate math question wrong on the state licensing exam and still pass and get your license.That really doesn't matter unless you believe the...

Years ago before we were in real estate we lived in a rental.  We were care takers for a commercial property in exchange for reduced rent.  Our responsibilities were generally lawn, yard and minor exterior maintenance.The interior maintenance was performed by the owner.My oldest daughter was fasc...

Dan:  Hi this is Dan!Bad Banker:  Dan, this is ___________  _________  from ________ bank here in Ocala.Dan:  Great I am really glad you called.  I was trying to find out what was happening with the loan for Mr. _________.  As you know the property was supposed to close 60 days ago and the contra...

Dan:  Hi this is Dan!Bad Banker:  Dan, this is ___________  _________  from ________ bank here in Ocala.Dan:  Great I am really glad you called.  I was trying to find out what was happening with the loan for Mr. _________.  As you know the property was supposed to close 60 days ago and the contra...

 Property values are declining, in fact, they will be in a free fall over the next few months - after we look at the numbers we will take a look at the storm on the horizon.  There are more options for the serious buyer than ever before.  Two years ago sellers faced competition from only a few ot...

. . . AND MOST AGENTS DON'T KNOW IT!  Worse yet they probably won't figure it out until their listings begin to expire with no showings.My wife went into the office today and was greeted by some dramatic news:  Pulte Homes has cut the price of their Fore Ranch community by over 30% in one day!  O...