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Florida Real Estate Law
Sharing What I Know About Florida Real Estate Law
AboutRights of a Florida Condo Tenant
Condo owners in Florida rent their condos to tenants all of the time. The lease period may be weeks, or months, or even years. As homeowners, the condo unit owner has every right to lease his or her property to another should he or she choose to do so (as long as the...
Disclosures to Home Buyers: Florida Statute 475.278 and the Real Estate Agent Relationship
Last Update: 02/10/16 For Florida real estate lawyers, it’s shocking to contemplate all of the many ways that Florida real estate agents and Florida real estate brokers have found to be underhanded in their dealings with buyers and sellers, all in the name of making a...
What Disclosures Are Required in Florida Residential Real Estate Transactions?
Last Update: 02/10/16 It is not “buyer beware” in Florida for anyone looking to buy residential real estate. Florida home buyers are protected by specific laws passed by the Florida Legislature that force developers, realtors, real estate agents, and real estate...
Can Your Landlord Keep Your Security Deposit?
Last Update: 10/3/17 All of us have rented an apartment, condo or townhouse at one time or another during our lifetime. In some cases, after we have moved out we have had to deal with issues with our landlord related to our security deposit. In fact, a lot of calls I...
What Is A Condominium Termination In Florida?
Last Update: 4/14/21 In Florida, condominiums are considered legal entities, just like corporations, with Boards of Directors and owners and creditors. When you decide to buy a home in a Florida condominium, you are becoming part of this legal entity as one of its...
Holiday Foreclosure Surprise: No Federal Income Tax on 2014 Short Sales
Last week, before President Obama left the White House for his family holiday in Hawaii, he signed into law the Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014. This is now the law of the land, just in time for the end of 2014, and shockingly, it passed both the House and Senate...
New Conflict in Florida Foreclosure Law Related to Banks Ability to File a New Lawsuit After It’s First Case is Dismissed: Good News for Borrowers?
From a legal perspective, Florida is divided into regions or “districts” that have mid-level review courts (appeals courts) set up to oversee and review the decisions and determinations of lower trial courts. The Florida Supreme Court sits as the highest court in the...
Florida Foreclosures – What’s Happening Now?
December 2014 update on what we are seeing now with Florida foreclosures and related issues – 1. Foreclosure filings have remained steady in the last few weeks – this observation is based upon the number of calls we are receiving and on the number of lis pendens being...
Cameras In Florida Condominiums
Last Update: 10/17/19 Protecting Privacy Concerns For many Florida condo owners, one of the main reasons why they chose to live in a condominium community instead of a single-family home is because of the sense of greater security. There is safety in numbers, of...
When Can a Florida Condo Board Authorize and Direct Entry Into Your Condo Unit?
Florida condominium life is truly its own lifestyle. People move here from all over the nation and all over the world to enjoy our sunsets, our beaches, and our unique Florida activities. Many choose to live in one of the many Florida condominium communities,...
