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Selling Property - Valuing Your Property


Selling property privately has many advantages over using an estate agent. However estate agents can provide useful local information not available from the internet.

Real Estate Professional in the Palm of Your Hand


GETTING THE MOST FOR THE LEASE-TRACKING YOUR REAL ESTATEIf you own rentals and/or investment properties, you know that you have to keep track of your portfolio, maintenance profiles, property managers, and related financial matters. There are a multitude of programs for the Palm-Pilot system to keep up with lease dates, lease expirations, and rent due dates.

Farm Expired Listings For Big Commissions


Many real estate agents begin and sometimes sadly end their careers without a plan. And as the saying goes, failing to plan is as good as planning to fail.

Ten Creative Financing Techniques


Do all the creative financing techniques you hear about really work? Yes, actually. They probably have all worked somewhere for someone at least once.

Understanding the Escrow (Closing) Process


1. What is an escrow?Escrow is defined as a process where parties deposit instructions and funds with a "disinterested" third party until conditions of the instructions are met.

Get To Know About Building Codes & Town Planning Applications, If You Want To Build A House


These are real building questions that I received from readers of my e-book, "Residential Development Made Easy" with answers from me, Colm Dillon, and a major USA Construction Master operating in 48 States.Question 1.

Negative Gearing - It's Not to Your Benefit!


The concept of negative gearing has been originally developed to encourage real estate investment in Australia by allowing any income losses from property investment to be deductible from other income as a tax benefit. This means that the taxable income of the owner will be reduced after the deduction and therefore the total tax payable is also reduced.

Eleven Questions to Ask in an Agent Interview


Questions Sellers Should Ask in Agent Interviews:1. Is your license in good standing?You can check an agent's certification yourself with your state's department of real estate.

How To Get Top Dollar For Your Home - Fast


1. Time is money when selling your homeAfter you've made the decision to sell your home, the longer it remains unsold on the market, the more it costs you.

What Is a CMA


"CMA" is an abbreviation real estate agents use for a Comparative Market Analysis. A CMA gives an estimated sale price for a property given current market conditions.

How Do I Fix Up a Home to Sell?


The first thing you need to do is stop thinking of your home as "home" and start thinking about it as a commodity that you want to sell. To be a successful seller you must detach yourself emotionally from your home and be brutally honest about how it should look in order to sell.

Should Sellers Order a Pre-sale Home Inspection?


One of the main reasons home sale transactions fall apart is inspections. This happens when something unanticipated is discovered during the buyers' inspections of the property, and the buyers and sellers can't agree on a remedy.

Pricing Your Property


A house properly priced is half sold. But there are plenty of ways to price it improperly.

Taxes When You Sell Your Home


What's the difference between death and taxes?Death doesn't change every time Congress meets. But taxes certainly did in 1997, and the Taxpayer Relief Act of that year made a dramatic difference in the tax liability of those who sell their own homes.

How To Start Investing For Financial Independence, Part 2


Last week, we started a multi-part series about how to go from being a beginning investor to being "financially independent" in a steady and predictable way. Many, many people want to overly complicate this process so let's briefly, let's recap that discussion.

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Breaking Ground: Jumby Bay Estate Homes and Icon Brickell
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