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Hot housing markets bring excitable buyers - and agents. Unfortunately, excitability creates an environment for mistakes and client misinterpretations in the rush to get the deal done. Here are a few tips for keeping your head, keeping contracts clean and keeping...
The price that you offer for the purchase of a home is not the full amount you will need to pay. There will be other costs that you will need to cover, either by retaining liquid capital or by preserving extra wiggle room in your financing. As someone hoping to buy...
Procuring cause refers to the individual who is chiefly responsible for connecting the buyer with the seller. This individual then receives a commission after the sale of a home. However, it’s not unusual for two brokers or agents to be involved in a home purchase....
It can seem like a long road between when a seller accepts an offer and when you can close on the sale of the home. While acceptance is an important milestone, many situations can still cause the sale of a home to fall through. Whether you represent the buyer or the...
The real estate industry is always in a state of change, particularly here in Florida. But the usual trends involving buying habits, prices and increasing use of technology may be swept aside by ongoing commission lawsuits currently in the courts, including Moehrl,...
Buying commercial real estate is a major step for your business. You might be buying commercial real estate to rent out the property to tenants of your choice, or you could be purchasing commercial real estate for your own business’s location. Whatever the reason is,...
Nothing serves as an obstacle to a property closing quite like a hitch in the title process. If a title search shows that there are some encumbrances, one option is a quiet title action. A quiet title action is a legal proceeding that is used to help establish...
Few landlords want to evict anyone. You make money by renting rooms, not by kicking people out of them. Fortunately, most tenants are reasonable and your relationships with them are manageable. You can find solutions to your problems short of eviction. However, there...
As a real estate agent, you may already realize that some buyers overextend themselves when house hunting. They make an offer that is at or over their maximum financing amount and then find themselves struggling to cover closing costs and to get the property into...
Breach of contract is one of the most common legal disputes involving real estate. Reasons for this are that real estate contracts are typically long, complicated, and outline various rules and conditions. Issues often arise because actions cause a financial loss or...