Building a home from the ground up is one of the most exciting things you’ll ever do. This allows you to get everything you want from your home, thus giving you a better chance of enjoying it for a long period of time. However, that doesn’t mean that everything will...
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Fighting back when a seller tries to keep a buyer’s earnest money
As a real estate professional, reputation and word-of-mouth referrals are everything for your business. In a situation where a buyer ends up making a bad purchasing decision or losing a substantial amount of money, they could potentially blame you. Not only could a...
Beware of real estate wire fraud schemes
Every day, the real estate industry in the United States sends and receives hundreds of thousands of dollars in wire transfers for the purchases of property. In most cases, these transfers occur routinely without any problems. But the rise in cyber crimes has drawn...
What realtors should know about securing a clear title
When you are a realtor, you want your clients to have a smooth homebuying process. You don’t want to be 48 hours from closing and find out your clients’ property doesn’t have a clean title and they can’t secure a mortgage or insurance for the property. Conducting a...
Residential lease terminations in Florida
Landlords and tenants usually have a written lease that contains vital information about all aspects of their agreement. Some of these terms have to do with lease termination, so it’s imperative for anyone involved in one of these leases to understand some specific...
Avoid discriminating behaviors when leasing residential real estate
When you own a piece of residential real estate for lease in Florida, you can do what you like with it, right? In principle, this is true. However, you cannot violate a person’s rights when renting or leasing out your property. Although the property belongs to you,...
Are you closing on a home? Every document requires your attention
There’s little more exciting than buying a home. At the same time, the process is full of many twists and turns. Not to mention the fact that you could run into one challenge and complication after the next. It won’t take long for you to realize that there are many...
The role of expert witnesses in construction disputes
A well-known author once defined an expert as “An ordinary man away from home giving advice.” However, if you are involved in a construction dispute, a lot will ride on the expert you hire. When a problem such as a construction defect occurs, there is often...
Why you need an attorney if you’re selling your home to a friend
You’re getting ready to put your house on the market when a friend expresses some interest in buying it. At first, they may just be engaging in wishful thinking. Then they decide they really do want to buy it –- at the price you want to sell it for. It sounds like a...
What is a 1031 exchange? How does it work?
Put broadly, a 1031 exchange is a swap of one property for another. This is done between people with investment properties because of a wish to move, for example, without having to go through a traditional buying/selling process. Most property swaps will be taxed as...