Hojin’s Southwest Orlando Real Estate Scoop

Barbara Corcoran has been showing up quite a bit lately on the Today Show with some great tips for real estate. In this segment, Corcoran suggests that a beautiful backyard can add 11% to a home’s value. I wish I agreed with her on this one, but I think she’s exaggerating here. Sure a nice [...]

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The List Maven Blog has lists for just about everything you can think of. It makes David Letterman’s Top 10 look like a joke. I believe lists help us make decisions. I often suggest home buyers rank properties they’ve seen and creating a list to aid in the decision process of buying a home. Here’s [...]

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School District Zoning is one of first questions most home buyers ask when looking for a new home, yet the Mid Florida Regional MLS does not require agents to include it on home listings.
Personally, I think it should be a requirement. After all, school districts do have a significant impact on a home’s value. I’d [...]

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Barbara Corcoran recently provided some great home selling advice to Lester on the Today Show. Her message was that homes sell even in this market provided the price is attractive enough and the buyers know that your home is for sale.
Even the lowest bargain basement price will not work if no one knows about it. [...]

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Here’s what’s going on in the Orlando real estate blogosphere.
Condometropolis Blog: Metrowest Gets New Police Sub-Station
Celebration Blog: Mary Poppins Has Great Advice for Home Sellers
Orlando Condo 411: Auction for Solaire Condos
Orlando Market Pulse: Pre-Foreclosure Pitfalls
Orlando Sentinel Downtown Blog: The Metropolitan@Lake Eola
The Upfront Mortgage Broker: Will the Fed’s Rate Cut Send Mortgage Rates [...]

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Today we had a bunch of bad news and at least one good news come out about the housing market. The good news was that the FHA loan limit has been increased to $327,750 for Orange County. The doom and gloom news was the Mortgage Bankers Association reporting that foreclosures hit an all time high [...]

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Let me just come out and say that my neighbors are wonderful, but I have had some ones with some kind of problem or just outright weird. I’ve thought about doing something like this to them but really I’m a peaceful man.
There’s a new site called rottenneighbor.com where you can let the world know how [...]

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I found this sassy little video about credit scores on Colleen Kulikowski’s Celebration Blog. It reminded me that the Fair Isaac Corporation will role out new rules dubbed FICO 08 in the next few months.
The new rules are supposedly going to help lenders reduce defaults by 5% to 15%. It will go easier on consumers [...]

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Three legendary investors discuss the housing market, the state of the US economy, and where we’re headed with Consuelo Mack on Wealthtrack.
Robert Shiller who predicted the tech and housing bubble, founder of the Case-Shiller Index, and author Irrational Exuberance says we have to wait quite a few years for a recovery.
Susan Byrne who was named [...]

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The March 3 deadline to file for homestead exemption in Orange County is fast approaching. Filing for homestead exemption on your primary residence will reduce the taxable value by $50,000 and result in a savings of $1,000 a year on your property taxes. Last year, the homestead exemption only gave half that so bring it [...]

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