When you are house-hunting, very few Palm Harbor Realtors will ask if you are actually READY to buy a Palm Harbor home, fearing that they will lose a sale. We have found that if we tell you all the bits up front, we are SO much better able to help you find the best home…Read More »
What is a short sale in Palm Harbor or Dunedin and what are some common issues you might face. Let’s start with what a short sales is. A short sale, according to the CDPE website, is “when a negotiation is entered into with the homeowner’s mortgage company (or companies) to accept less than the full…Read More »
As Pinellas CDPE Realtors, people ask us all the time if “you should pay your mortgage if your house is worth less than you owe”. Except in some VERY rare conditions, we have to say that if you can AFFORD to pay your mortgage, you SHOULD pay your mortgage! Taking out a mortgage is a…Read More »
As a CDPE (Certified Distressed Property Expert) in the Tampa Bay real estate market, this is a question that we get all of the time and it seems that no one wants to answer it for homeowners who are in distress. The reason for that is that there is HUGE liability to giving out incorrect…Read More »
When you are getting ready to sell your Dunedin or Palm Harbor home, you probably do what most of our clients do, head on out to open houses and check out the competition! You meet a nice Realtor there who seems really knowledgeable about the house and you think, huh, this might be the guy…Read More »
We get A LOT of questions about what a CDPE Certified Real Estate Agent is and why it should matter to you in your situation. You’re a homeowner and are behind on your mortgage. It happens to the best of us, but what can you do? You may be upside down on your mortgage and…Read More »
Ozona FL’s history is one of our favorite topics, so imagine our delight when we stumbled upon the Palm Harbor Beacon’s recent story ‘Looking Back – Ozona Post Office is the Stamp of History on Palm Harbor‘! As the story points out, in the old days mail could only be sent by train to the…Read More »
Tampa Bay Real Estate Agents and Pinellas Realtors® like us that are producing results in this market understand how the rules of the game have changed for 2012 and why savvy home sellers and their agents are SO darned fussy about mortgage pre-approval letters lately. If you will be in the market for a home…Read More »
If you need to find a Pinellas Realtor to sell your home, there are over 5,000 to choose from. The majority of those agents aren’t working in the business full time – or at all. About half of those left are Pinellas Realtors that don’t regularly list and sell homes (they prefer the ease of…Read More »
The Pinellas Peach is actually the blog of TWO Palm Harbor Realtors, Julia AND Matt Fishel. While I spent spend some of my time toiling away online to bring you the best information about Palm Harbor Real Estate, Matt also works with sellers and buyers and does vital work behind the scenes, making sure our…Read More »