Nona Swann's Blog

    Why is it that most first time Home buyers think that foreclosures are the best deals in the market?  Is it innocence ? Is it hearing from others they are the best deals? Is it just the price? Is it the legend myth that foreclosures are cheap? Do they think since investors are buying them the...

Wow. I had a really good week. It started out moving into an office building that has a great address in town! Move to new office! Lunch with Title Company agreeing to process all my short sales! Received a call from an agent that I really liked who left me. He is coming back. Yeah!! Started a ne...

  One weekend a year the small town of Grant, Florida becomes the place to be for seafood. Lots of seafood, all kinds of seafood. Well known in Florida this festival started over 45 years ago in the small town. Now the festival is well known and has 400 local volunteers that serve their most popu...

Live the tranquility of unspoiled Florida at Cypress Creek, where upscale homes blend seamlessly with natural pines, nature preserves, wading birds and abundant recreational amenities.   The deed-restricted home sites of Cypress Creek are nestled amid 224 acres of natural vegetation and 25 acres...

Holmes Inspection is doing for Home inspectors what Holmes on Holmes did for contractors...educating their customers. I know there are really, really good home inspectors. I have many in my real estate area. I never recommend to my clients a home inspector. Oh don't get me wrong I make sure the B...

Just a short drive from Melbourne, Brevard County Florida is a fun filled relaxing seafood restaurant known as Captain Hiram's.You can also take a boat ride down the inter-coastal waterway and dock your boat for a lunch or dinner. My husband and I went to Captain's Hiram Saturday since we were e...

Once upon a time in a good market, I had 3 executive suites in a building with a very good address. As the good market turned south, and no I don't mean northerners coming to Florida AKA snowbirds! I had to make a decision to give up the prestigious address and close one office down as the lease ...

I love APPS. You can see me almost every night streaming in the APP store looking at new APPS. However, they can get out of control! So I am going to give you an easy way to control those APPS. I have had so many APPS that it took up 4 pages. I would be on a Listing appointment and reached a seni...

During the National Realtors convention last week, David Stevens the Federal Housing Administration chairman spoke at the 59 1/2 minutes update held the first day of the convention.  As Mr Stevens spoke to a full room of  Realtors®  he stated that he had just spoken at the Mortgage Banker's Assoc...

    Today I was reading a financial paper from my local mortgage lender and he attached a story about that 31% of the defaults are strategic. It is not that these homeowners can not make their mortgage payments but choose not to because of lost value. The research showed that the strategic defaul...