January 10, 2012, 3:56 am
I have said it numerous times before but I will say it again some of our best blog posts at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog come from reader questions. Today we are answering a question from a fellow REALTOR® in South Carolina.
DA wants to know how we are advertising our listings of homes for sale in Tallahassee, and I think this is a great question because my answer today is so much different than it would have been just five years ago. And why is that so important to know?
Because most people who want to sell a home today purchased their home 5 to 10 years ago. That means the experience they had the last time they sold will be quite different from what they will discover in 2012.
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January 9, 2012, 1:54 pm
The Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.) recently offered up tips to consumers to help them start 2012 off the right way by avoiding costly insurance mistakes.
The start of a new year is indeed a time when consumers are often looking for ways to save money on monthly expenses.
But those same consumers need to be careful, the I.I.I. said, to avoid cutting costs on insurance expenses that then, in turn, can leave them vulnerable to costly situations that can arise due to be underinsured.
According to the I.I.I., making bad decisions on auto insurance and home insurance policies can leave drivers and homeowners underinsured and in a dangerous financial position.
“There are simple steps you can take to cut the cost of your home and auto insurance while continuing to be financially protected against a catastrophe,” Jeanne M. Sal
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January 8, 2012, 4:59 am
Imagine a pipeline carrying oil from northern Canada all the way through the United States down to the Gulf Coast Refinery Hub in Texas. Sounds like a particularly boring science-fiction? Well, it‘s not. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has recently announced the government’s decision to build a huge transnational pipeline exporting raw bitumen to a petrochemical plant in the south of the U.S. Here, the unprocessed material will be turned into finished fuel, chemicals, or plastics.
The whole plan is presented as an ethical alternative of solving the growing American dependency on oil from unstable and often undemocratic regions. Furthermore, domestic resources within the U.S. are running out, and neither declining imports from Venezuela nor Mexico help to alleviate the U.S. eco
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January 4, 2012, 4:28 pm
Data from a recent report shows sales in the Houston real estate market have risen for the fourth consecutive month, finds the Houston Association of Realtors.
The sales of single-family homes has risen 16.9 percent from September 2010. The price of Houston homes has also increased to an all time high, while the month’s inventory fell to its lowest level since May 2010. Pending sales rates rose and the number of active listings in the market place declined.
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January 3, 2012, 11:32 pm
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Costa Rica is a popular tourist destination. More than two million tourists visit this small country each year. They love this country’s natural beauty…. pretty beaches… and wildlife-packed forests. Many of these tourists put down roots here, as expats, retirees and second-home buyers. And if you’re looking for a second home destination, Costa Rica’s hard to beat. Here are ten reasons why Costa Rica is on the shortlist of savvy property buyers:
Costa Rica has it all: great beaches, a superb quality of life, and affordable property
1. It’s a
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