Hojin’s Southwest Orlando Real Estate Scoop

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I got an email about Chinese drywall from my boss today and at first, I deleted it thinking the Chinese are making everything these days. It seems like everything I own from the cheap tools I got at Wal Mart to my Nike shoes seems to be coming out of this place. So when I [...]

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I had to locate some underground utilities at my home this past week and a little banging around on the internet showed there’s a free service to locate them. All you have to do is dial 811.
Well, I dialed the number and it didn’t work. I had to dial 800-638-4097 instead, but they came out [...]

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A Guest Post by Betty Parker of Your Ultimate Finance Destination blog

FHA loans or Federal Housing Administration loans are the simplest forms of mortgage loans for buying real properties. Among all mortgage loans, the eligibility criteria for an FHA loan are the easiest and necessitate lower than 5% down payment.
The FHA loans are totally backed [...]

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I attended a real estate investing class this past week and here’s a few more things I picked up besides the possibility of double digit interest rates.
Lisa has been a property manager for commercial properties for about 20 years and she has a pretty grim picture of the commercial market. Tenants are renegotiating their leases. [...]

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I’m getting a lot of calls these days from bottom feeders looking to cash in on the declining market and I think it’s a great strategy provided they have a long enough time horizon. Many of them plan on renting the properties out until the market starts to improve, and usually shocked at the negative [...]

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Here’s the latest from the Orlando real estate blogosphere:

David Welch’s Orlando Real Estate: Joe the Plumber and Orlando Real Estate Statistics 10/08
Orlando Sentinel Windermere Blog: October in Windermere
Team Connect Blog: A Taste of Dr. Phillips 2008
The Orlando Real Estate Blog: Foreign Nationals: Rich? Buy Your Way into the USA!
Andy Tolbert Blog: McCain V Obama… what [...]

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With all the talk about the bailout plan being debated in Congress, I’ve heard all kinds of reasons why people think the market is failing. I’ve heard it’s because of Fannie Mae, shady mortgage lenders, stupid consumers that can’t comprehend that their payments will go up eventually on interest only loans, President [...]

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I just met with a locksmith at one of my properties and somehow we got to talking about the bump key. It’s a low tech device that picks locks like it’s nothing and can be purchased at Wal Mart and on the internet. An entire set of bump keys costs about $30 and it will [...]

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Let’s not kid ourselves. Prices for homes in Orlando have been plunging. So is it time to buy or should you wait a little longer?
A recent article on MSN Real Estate entitled 66 Cities Where Buying Makes Sense included Orlando as one of the markets where buying makes sense now. The article reminds us that [...]

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