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Home inspections are a good idea and no one should buy a house without one. But who regulates or inspects the inspectors? The short answer before this year’s legislative session was: Nobody. And it’s still nobody until July, 2010.

A measure that the Florida Association of REALTORS® has advocated for years was finally signed into law …

The home buyers might love the house, but they hate last-moment surprises that tell them something new about the transaction.

Those unwelcome surprises may include discoveries they didn’t know when they made the offer. They often find out new information about the property and its condition, the neighborhood and even some things they should have known, …

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances…”
- William Shakespeare’s As You Like It (II, vii, 139-143)

Every house should be staged for its starring role in the endless drama of Real Estate sales. Many cast members, …

Seasoned real estate agents know there are many bumps and obstacles on the path to the closing of a sale. Disclosure laws, which vary from state to state, often cause some of these unexpected obstacles. If addressed early enough, however, the path can be smoothed into a satisfactory final transaction.

These particular laws outline what a …

We’re hearing a lot about short sales these days and in an earlier blog we addressed the issue of selling homes under that plan. Buying such property also offers fresh challenges and the true professional agent owes it to the client as well as to themselves to work carefully through the process.

Banks sometimes pay …