Archive for November, 2008
Crystal Beach Florida, A Picture Slideshow
November 27th, 2008 categories: Crystal Beach Palm Harbor Homes
As Palm Harbor FL Realtors, we’re often asked to describe Crystal Beach Florida, which hugs the gulf in North Palm Harbor. A picture is worth 1,000 words, so we whipped out the magic wand again (with fairy dust), and voila! Two of the homes in the slideshow below were just listed, 885 Point Seaside Drive, Crystal Beach Florida, and 128 Georgia Avenue, Crystal Beach FL.
Crystal Beach offers something for everyone – funky cottages, Key-West beauties, custom estates of all kinds – you name it – it’s here. When searching for Crystal Beach homes, be sure to search in zip code 34681. See you at the Pier!
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885 Point Seaside Crystal Beach Florida – Stunning Gulf-View Estate
November 20th, 2008 categories: Crystal Beach Palm Harbor Homes, Featured Listings
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128 Georgia Ave Crystal Beach FL – Completely Remodeled Key West Beauty!
November 19th, 2008 categories: Crystal Beach Palm Harbor Homes, Featured Listings
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Surf the Tampa Bay MLS Like a Realtor
November 15th, 2008 categories: Buyer News and Tips, Greater Tampa Bay Homes
There’s this cool new technology that will let you search for that nice piece of Dunedin real estate by surfing the Tampa Bay MLS just like a Realtor does. It’s free, it’s easy, and you can sign up here.
It’s called Listingbook. You’ll see new listings as they hit the market, price changes, contracts that go pending, how many days a home has been on the market and so on, just like we do. You get to drive the bus and customize your searches any way you like, and as often as you like.
We’ve been offering Listingbook for a while now, but we heard it can offer a lot more, not just for those of you wanting to purchase a Clearwater Beach condo, but for our Crystal Beach FLhome sellers, too. So, yesterday, we jumped at the chance to attended a free advanced training session presented by Tara Jacobsen of Marketing Artfully and sponsored by Joyce Smith of Somers Titleand Ingegrity First Funding Group in Dunedin. Tara blew our hair off. We’re going to be working hard in the next few weeks to bring you all of the bells and whistles we learned about to help make you the most informed Pinellas home buyers and sellers out there!
Sign up and tell us what you think. Surfs up! (yes, that’s Matt being an off-duty Realtor and our son catching a few waves at Lido Key in Sarasota).
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Is There Leeway in Making a Lower offer on a Dunedin Short Sale?
November 11th, 2008 categories: Buyer News and Tips, Dunedin Homes
A Dunedin Short Sale Question:
Q: I’m thinking about putting an offer your listing in Baywood Shores MLS 7346686. I see that it’s a bank preapproved short sale at $283k (subject to 3rd party lender 
approval). My question is, how much leeway do you think there is on making a lower offer?
Also, I know that sometimes banks can take several months to accept/deny an offer. Is it because they are waiting to see if they can get a better offer? If so, is there a way to write into a contract that if they receive a better offer during this “waiting period” that we may consider renegotiating ours at a higher bid?
A: Hi Tina – Please give us a call and we’ll fill you in completely on the particulars of where we are with both lenders, other offers, suggested offer amounts, etc.
We are Pinellas short short sale experts and would be happy to fully familiarize you with how short sales work. Generally speaking, the banks are taking so long because they are so overwhelmed with case files that they can’t keep up with the workload. Pinellas short sales are unusual in that the homeowner doesn’t have a vested interest in the amount the home sells for (they just want to know that they are out from under the house payments), so it’s just the lender(s) we are negotiating with. The bright side of this is that the banks Read the rest of this entry »
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Why Some Palm Harbor Realtors Are Bored
November 9th, 2008 categories: Pinellas Market Statistics
Lately, when not in the Keller Williams Realty Palm Harbor office, we’ve run into far too many bored Palm Harbor real estate agents. Some are from 
real estate offices that are on the verge of closing. I plead to them “There IS hope. There IS a success plan!”. Most often it lands on deaf ears. I must not be conveying my message with enough conviction, or maybe I come off as annoying, or maybe I’m just too busy to do so properly.
On Monday, I was told about a Palm Harbor real estate agent, a fairly well known one just a short year or two ago, was looking for a part time job. We’ll call her Sally.
On Tuesday, I ran into another Palm Harbor Realtor that used to do a LOT of business in Pinellas County, and let it suffice to say that the opposite has been true for her lately. We’ll call her Sue. Sue was working the election polls for the day doing her civic duty (hats off to her for that). Sue confided that she was there because she was bored and had Read the rest of this entry »
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