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How to Handle Common Home Buying Pitfalls

When you’re ready to buy a home, be it a primary residence, a seasonal home that serves as a vacation property, or even an investment property, you’ll encounter many different situations. We all know that it’s an exciting and anxious time, but ultimately a worthwhile endeavor, because you lock-in your cost of housing, are able to...
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Don’t Forget these Home Buying Costs

Buying a home, be it your new primary residence, a second home, or, a vacation rental, is an exciting time. You think to the future and what lies ahead, filled with anticipation, and, the memories waiting to be made. Now, it’s time to start planning to get there and create a checklist of all the things you...
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Best Ways to Advertise a Vacation Rental Home

You have a wonderful retreat that serves as your special vacation residence a few times out of the year. It’s in beautiful, sunny Sarasota, and is in a great location. That means it could easily be generating a steady income stream, and, serve as your dedicated place to stay when you are taking some time off. What’s more,...
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Ways to Get an Earnest Money Deposit Back

Buying a home comes with a litany of tasks, takes quite a bit of time, and of course, there’s a lot of money involved. It’s not just being pre-approved for a home loan, but also, the mortgage note down payment, inspections such as home, pest, and wind mitigation, moving expenses, closing costs, as well as an...
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What to Know about Home Appraisals

Whether you are selling or buying a home, there are two figures that are quite important, but only one dictates a specific direction. Those are the asking or listing price, and, the appraisal amount. Those two ought to be at parity, or, the appraisal should be more than the listing or asking price. If the appraisal...
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