George's Blog

The Cape Coral City Council is to be commended to move forward on the utility project.  Yes it may be unpopular with some residents, but havingthousand of individual wells and septic tanks is crazy.  Homeowners can be charged $50.00 a month on there tax bills starting in 2011 to have city sewer a...

SW Florida is now on fire!  As lenders lose 70% of there principal when they foreclose, this creates great opportunities for new sales.  I was one of those who bought in 2005 when I was transferred here and my house has gone down in value every day since I closed.  Sales in MTD/YTD are up 100% ov...

SW Florida is now on fire!  As lenders lose 70% of there principal when they foreclose, this creates great opportunities for new sales.  I was one of those who bought in 2005 when I was transferred here and my house has gone down in value every day since I closed.  Sales in MTD/YTD are up 100% ov...

I am finding it interesting when showing homes how bad of shape they are in.  If a lender has a short sale some one needs to make provisions to get them clean and keep them clean.  Putting there heads in the sand and saying well we don't own it yet, is DUMB.  The house will not sell when it looks...

Overbuilt, well that's news.  NOT, anyone in this market could have told you we have way to many homes on the right now.  In fact a 10 month supply, only Miami-Fort Lauderdale with 12.6 has more.  Now the real facts are that it will not be to long that there will actually be a shortage!  No new p...

You can tell how much people are working the system.  I contacted a potential lead source and he said he was flooded with responses! This was a short sales and he had over 50 responses.  Then is client is having second thoughts.  Interesting enough if you price a home to sell it will.  I have cli...

Week three of 2009 and I have written 2 contracts and one listing.  I need to do much better and it will come.      Prospecting is the key.  SW Florida is the land of beautiful beaches, warm weather and very inexpensive homes.  If you know of anyone who wants to live is a great place all the or p...

In our business we must be up-beat and positive.  Each day presents a new and exciting challenge.  Especially when many of our associates fail to perform the duties.  Today I was told, "I have so many short sale listing I can not keep up with the paperwork for renewals".  What does that say to th...

It pays to be on top of things.  I had a buyer who purchased a home. He had seen another home and liked it alot so he called his borhter.  He wanted to go see the home I pulled it up on the MLS and the lisitng had expired 2 weeks ago.  I tried to call the ower for an appointment but the number wa...

Today's paper says mortgage interest rates are below 5%, 4.96% is unbelievable.  Take into account we have new 1700 square foot homes for $50,000 and up is incredible.  Yes we have thousands of foreclosures and short sales but then this is a BUYERS market.  SW Florida is a heaven for anyone, owne...