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Sharing What I Know About Florida Real Estate Law
AboutFlorida Families After a Foreclosure: What Happens to Florida Households Post-Foreclosure? Good News as Foreclosures Don’t Block New Home Mortgages
The impact of a foreclosure upon a family and its financial future has been the subject of many studies over the last several years, particularly after the recent Housing Crisis hit the United States. The logical thing to think, is that it will be difficult,...
Flopping In Florida: Real Estate Agents And Insider Realtor Deals – Are You A Victim Of This Kind Of Florida Real Estate Fraud?
Last Update: 04/18/16 In recent years, most of us in South Florida have become all too aware of real estate “flipping” — where a distressed home is purchased by an investor who goes into the deal with the idea of doing some improvements to the place and then reselling...
Real Estate Agents Gone Wrong – Short Sale Scams
News About Real Estate Agents Acting Bad It's sad that some real estate agents have to make all real estate agents look bad. A real estate agent conspired to commit short sale fraud by having the owner of a single family home submit false documents to Tri Counties...
Realtors on the Job: Its All About Protection From Bad Acts and Bad People
Last Update: 02/24/16 As we all know, most real estate agents selling both commercial and residential real estate make their living by traveling by car along Florida's oceanfront freeways, suburban streets, and rural wetland roads. Florida is a place where everyone...
Are Better Qualified Borrowers, Cash Buyers and Blackstone The Reason Why Florida Real Estate Will Continue To Improve?
Recent News About The South Florida Real Estate Recovery Apparently, the housing recovery in South Florida, something that I still don't understand, is going to push prices up again this year. The increase in prices, they say, will only be in the single digits and...
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2014 Surprise for Florida Underwater Mortgages: Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act Tax Break Has Not Been Extended – Deficiency Will Be Taxed in 2014
This time last year, we discussed how Congress was “kicking the can down the road” by passing federal legislation that extended the 2007 Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act’s tax break for one year as part of last year’s Fiscal Cliff legislation. (Read the details...
Comparing RealtyTrac and CoreLogic Foreclosure Reports for Florida: How Bad Is It in South Florida and Miami Today?
The RealtyTrac® U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ for October 2013 and the CoreLogic October National Foreclosure Report have been released to the public with some interesting insights about the real estate market today. What can they tell homeowners and real estate...
Florida #2 in Negative Equity Mortgages
Recent Florida Foreclosure News The housing market is showing signs of recovery throughout the U.S, but if you live in the State of Florida, there is a good chance that you have a negative equity mortgage along with over twenty eight percent of other FL homeowners....
In Florida, Shared (Joint) Ownership Can Be a Big Problem: Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship
Last Update: 3/22/22 Issues With Co-Ownership And Ways To Terminate A Joint Tenancy In Florida, two people can own a piece of real estate (like a single-family residence or a vacation condo) together even if they aren’t married, or related in any way. The most common...
