Sarasota Realtor

To minimize foreclosure, you must choose a tenacious, proven real estate agent who will not back down when the bank demands you pay them $43,000 or no deal. FACT: Short sales are not short or easy. FACT: Banks do NOT care about the emotional turmoil foreclosure is causing you. FACT: Many banks make short sales [...]

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Sarasota real estate sees banks tightening mortgage lending as house hunters forced to “get real” about affordability. Remember when house buyers could wink and nod and buy $200,000, $300,000 or $1,000,000+ homes without verifying income, assets or job? Those “no income; no job; no asset verification” loans affectionately became known as “NINJA” or “Liar” loans. [...]

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Sarasota Real Estate – Savvy homeowners know the secret to paying off a 30-year mortgage in just 15 years, saving $1,000s in interest payments…and best of all they did not double up their mortgage payments or refinance. Does this sound too good to be true? Maybe it does; maybe it doesn’t. In just a moment, [...]

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Sarasota foreclosures do NOT have to destroy a neighborhood aesthetically or financially as abandoned properties “stink up” the neighborhood, causing values to plummet even more quickly than invading mold, disrepair & community outrage.   Debt owners could/should reduce the principal and modify the mortgage based on today’s values. Or else…. What’s the “…or else?” Even [...]

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Sarasota foreclosures get trashed and stripped down by the most unlikely trespassers, causing $1,000s more in lost property value.damage.” Crazy times call for crazy behavior. The other day, a real estate agent told me about one of her vacant “distressed” property listings. She admitted she didn’t check on the house regularly – she didn’t think [...]

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