Understanding Florida’s Homestead Portability: Keep Your Tax Savings When You Move Moving to a new home in Florida doesn’t mean you have to lose the tax savings you’ve built up over the years. Here’s how homestead portability works in plain English. What Is Homestead Portability? When you have a homestead exemption on your Florida home, […]
there are barrier’s to selling your home as a For Sale By Owner (FSBO). The Federal Trade Commission (FCC) rules say that Realtors can not call FSBO’s or homeowners with Expired Listings
The National Flood insurance Program, (NFIP), legislation is the most devastating and biggest threat ever to Florida Real Estate. Should this pass, we could be looking at a shutdown of Florida real estate, it’s just that serious.
What I loved most about the Imagine Tallahassee forum this afternoon at City Hall was the wonderful composite of attendees, the introductions of my group of facilitators, their backgrounds, their reasons for involvement in the Imagine Tallahassee movement.
If you know of homeowners who lost their homes to foreclosure between Jan. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2011, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi asks that you provide them with this website address – nationalmortgagesettlement.com – and tell them to act now.
Since the 2012 Presidential election, I have received four calls on the 3.8% Real Estate Transfer Tax issue associated with health care reform. People are fearful that it is a sales tax on real estate and are afraid to sell as a result. Thankfully, this should not prevent someone from selling, as this is not the case of an across the board real estate sales tax.
Do home buyer’s feel pressure to purchase from their Realtor, do they feel their agent is not working hard enough for them? Are working relationships black and white for home buyers or is there a happy medium where they feel they are actively involved and ultimately in control?
Nothing is more disturbing to me as a Tallahassee, FL Realtor, now 10 years in the business, than for customers who bring information to the negotiating table hot off the press from Zillow. The public in general just does not trust their Realtors, that is obvious,…
While Realtors are not qualified to give tax advice or lead a long term investment conversation, we can provide data including potential rental income and cost analysis on maintaining a home as a rental property. We work closely with tax accountants who provide important tax consequences to customers and with maintenance persons when considering long term repairs and replacement costs, a factor of consideration for any rental property. Never at any time will a Relator as for a rental payment to come directly to them, or not have you fill out a formal, standardized rental or credit application.
This is not new information! Tallahassee, FL home buyers and home-owners should know that we have found elevated levels of radon in the Tallahassee FL area. Thanks to sophisticated, accurate testing methods used today and recommended by the EPA, radon gas has been identified, and in most cases remediated.
