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Short Sale in Fort Caroline area of Jacksonville

June 5, 2011

Ridgefield is a nice community in the Fort Corline area of Jacksonville, Florida.  Very close to the St Johns River, this short sale offers a quick trip to the dock to put the boat in the water….or better yet, just keep it at the marina!   House is on a culdesac street and offers a nice [...]

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Six Mistakes that Home Sellers Make

April 13, 2011

(The picture above is an actual home in Jacksonville, on the market several years ago. The picture was taken at the appointment showing time.  The picture serves as an example of what NOT to do.) Selling a home in Jacksonville?   Avoid these 6 mistakes: . Pricing for Yesteryear: Too many home sellers are caught up [...]

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Jacksonville Real Estate Inventories Drop

April 12, 2011

The Spring season of home buying is here and inventories of homes for sale in North East Florida reflect the sales activity.  Items to take note of: Months Inventory: Inventory is going down faster than new listings are hitting the market. Active Listings: Check out the red dots trending down. New Listings: The gold dots [...]

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Jacksonville on Forbes Best Retirement Places 2011

March 31, 2011

Jacksonville on the Forbes Best Retirement Places List YES!  We made it on the list! Forbes list are always a mystery to me.  Year to year cities can make the list and then be completely off the list for the next few years.  Do they change their criteria?  Do they have a sophisticated algorithm that [...]

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Jacksonville Home Selling Tip of the Day

March 29, 2011

Sometimes the easiest, most simple tips are the best, and this one is no exception.  Sell your Jacksonville home faster by maximizing the number of times the home is shown by never denying a showing.  Showings are inconvenient by nature, but you must remember that your home is on the market and you REALLY want [...]

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Jacksonville Home Values 2011

March 9, 2011

Home Values continue to drop nationwide but there are so many conflicting news stories about the housing market, it’s hard to know what is actually happening.  This graph from Zillow, shows the run up in values and then the fast decline of values to current day 2011.  I like this graph as it doesn’t interpret [...]

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Loan Modification Denied? Short Sale your Jacksonville House

March 1, 2011

HAMP or Home Affordable Modification Program has been a complete failure.  Here are some of the more recent articles on the failures: Home Owners Protesting that it’s a SCAM Only 1 in 4 got mortgage relief And the most honest, realistic article of them all comes from Fox Business:  HAMP UPDATE:  Foreclosure More Likely Than [...]

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Why this Jacksonville home sold in 5 days

February 15, 2011

Why did this home sell in 5 days? The Owner: Fully understanding the competition, the owners of this home made every possible cosmetic repair, curb appeal, and cleaning effort to a home that was already in great condition. The Price: We studied the comparable homes that had sold recently, and priced aggressively from the beginning. [...]

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Promissory Notes and Cash Contributions on Short Sales

January 21, 2011

Short Sale TREND ALERT: Banks are saying “Show me the money”. Promissory Notes and Cash Contributions are becoming very common in Short Sales Over the past few months, I’ve seen numerous request for a Promissory Note and/or Cash Contribution in order to allow the short sale.  Many times this is requested by the investor (Fannie [...]

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Update or Drop the Price? Jacksonville Real Estate Question of the Week

January 20, 2011

Deferred maintenance, old school appliances, worn out carpet, bathrooms from the 60′s 70′s 80′s, outdated kitchens, big brass light fixtures.  These are just a small fraction of the updates and renovations that many homes need.  When trying to sell, these are big negatives.  This brings up the question of the week: Should I update my [...]

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Top 5 Reasons to buy our Short Sale Listings

January 12, 2011

Buying a Home in Jacksonville? Have you noticed how many are short sales? Be careful! Not all Short Sales are created equally! Top 5 reasons you should buy our Short Sale Listings: . Sellers are screened: Who wouldn’t want to bail out of an upside down house right?  Well, not everyone can.  In fact, it’s [...]

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Chase Short Sale

December 21, 2010

Chase Short Sale Information Consider yourself lucky if you have a Chase mortgage and you need to complete a Short Sale in Jacksonville Florida. Chase has long been one of the slowest banks to work with in Short Sales, however they have recently started to turn the ship.  They now are attempting to get ahead [...]

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Why I Require a Jacksonville Attorney For Your Short Sale

December 13, 2010

Top 4 reasons I require you to use an Attorney for your Short Sale: Professional Legal Representation vs. Real Estate Agent Representation:  Who would you rather have negotiating with the bank, your short sale attorney or your real estate agent? LARGE amount of money negotiations:  This is not a $1000 credit dispute with your Dillard’s [...]

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When to List My Jacksonville Home For Sale

December 10, 2010

If you are trying to decide when is the appropriate time to put your home on the market, my answer is simple:  As soon as possible….just after Christmas! Traditionally, Spring was a great time to list your home for sale, however that’s in a more normal real estate market.  In this market, you need to [...]

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Asking Price is NOT Market Value

December 9, 2010

Question of the Week:   How much is my home worth? Every week I get this question, and my response is almost always less than the owners anticipated.  It’s very easy to look up all the asking prices within a neighborhood, but those are asking prices only. A property is only worth what buyers are willing [...]

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Why Short Sales take so Long

November 17, 2010

A very smart man with plenty of time on his hands, just spent a year trying to track his own mortgage.  I originally heard about this from Fox News, and then found the chart below on ZeroHedge.  Trying to figure this out is nearly impossible.  This is why Short Sales take forever and have become [...]

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Stop Shopping and Start Making Offers on your next Jacksonville Home

November 3, 2010

It’s Time to Stop Shopping and Start Making Offers Working on behalf of the Home Seller, I am present at many of the showings as buyer’s agents bring their buyers through the seller’s home.  I do this as a service for the waterfront real estate owners in Jacksonville, Ponte Vedra, St Augustine, and Orange Park.  [...]

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There are only 2 ways to price a home

September 28, 2010

Priced to Sell Priced to Keep This is one of my Canadian friend’s rule of thumb on pricing, and I fully agree.  In any real estate market cycle, this rule of thumb works.  It’s one of the keys to the success that I have had at liquidating properties for owners or banks who MUST sell. [...]

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Walking away from a home is a bad idea – Choose Short Sale

September 14, 2010

In Jacksonville Florida, many homes have been abandoned by the owners after frustration of dealing with a mortgage modification.  It’s happening in every neighborhood and in every income bracket. I blame the mortgage companies! The general public is not aware that a Short Sale is the best option versus just walking away from the mortgage.  [...]

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Is it a good time to buy real estate in Florida

August 30, 2010

Question of the month: Is it a good time to buy a home in Florida? Much of the web traffic BradOfficer.com receives is from out of state home shoppers looking for waterfront homes in Jacksonville, beachfront homes, oceanfront in Ponte Vedra, etc. Inquiries come from all corners of the U.S. often asking questions about specific [...]

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