In December 2010, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development a/k/a HUD made major changes to how they sell their HUD homes. Instead of having a bunch of regional or statewide asset manager portals for bidding on their foreclosure houses, HUD centralized everything onto one site www.hud
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01/31/2011
These are some great practical tips for selling your home in any market. More and more buyers prefer seeing video versus a few photos. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video is worth ten thousand words.Everyone knows the troubles the real estate market has suffered over the past s
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01/29/2011
In 2008 I acquired my first "smart phone," a Blackberry. While the phone was great for quick access to email and internet, it was not set up well for using applications (commonly called "apps"). Last summer I upgraded to a Droid Incredible and have since been literally blown away at how much th
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01/22/2011
New Year's resolutions. Yuck! You set them. Then for most people before January even ends, you have already broken them. I have never been one for making these resolutions. If you are in the real estate business, then you need to be doing what normal business people do. Treat your business L
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01/17/2011
The December 2010 monthly Orlando real estate market statistics have been reported by the Orlando Regional Realtor Association. Here is a direct link to the full report details. Below is a breakdown of the numbers. This covers Orange County and Seminole County Florida, including the cities of Wi
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01/16/2011
A home warranty is a great investment especially in today's climate of unknown as-is deals due to the sellers being bank REOs and short sales. Typically the seller will pay for these anyway so why not put one into the deal when you buy? Better a small expense now than a larger expense in a few
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01/14/2011
This is an update from an article I wrote several years ago. We just helped a buyer close a lease option transaction last week, so I know these deals are happening. With all the people that have gone through short sales and foreclosures in recent years, I thought it would be appropriate to addre
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01/08/2011
Another month is behind us and a bunch of great deals have sold. Below are just a sampling of the latest featured properties that we sold during December 2010 in metro Orlando Florida. Sundance Dr Preston St Chaplin Ln 1. Aram
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01/03/2011