21Sep 2010 by Susan Milner No Comments

HAFA Short Sale in Cape Coral

Cape Coral Real Estate, Cape Coral short sales, Sellers
Cape Coral residents are you facing a financial hardship? Are you unable to keep up with your current mortgage payments? Are you looking for options to keep your Cape Coral house or to short sale your house to avoid foreclosure? There are programs available to assist owners in these situations. Have you heard about HAMP and HAFA? These acronyms are being thrown around a lot these days. So what do HAFA and HAMP really mean to you? If you are having problems making your Cape Coral or Fort Myers mortgage payments this article should help guide you some. ~ remember that I am NOT an attorney or tax accountant; rather I am a real estate agent who works with homeowners to short sale their home or property~ The first few…
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21Sep 2010 by Susan Milner No Comments

Cape Coral Loan Modification (HAMP)

Cape Coral Foreclosures, Cape Coral Real Estate, Cape Coral short sales
Cape Coral residents are you facing a financial hardship? Are you unable to keep up with your current mortgage payments? Are you looking for options to keep your Cape Coral house or to short sale your house to avoid foreclosure? There are programs available to assist Cape Coral homeowners in these situations. Have you heard about HAMP and HAFA? These acronyms are being thrown around a lot these days. So what do HAFA and HAMP really mean to you? If you are having problems making your Cape Coral or Fort Myers mortgage payments this article should help guide you some. ~ remember that I am NOT an attorney or tax accountant; rather I am a real estate agent who works with homeowners to short sale their home or property~ The…
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11Sep 2010 by Susan Milner No Comments

Cape Coral Strategic Defaults

Cape Coral Real Estate, Cape Coral short sales, Sellers
Strategic Defaults in Cape Coral Florida In Cape Coral, Florida more and more home owners are looking at strategic defaults as an option in this current market place. Whether the owner ends up negotiating a short sale, loan modification or a deed in lieu or just lets the property go back as a foreclosure many are facing this challenge. Being upside down on a house in this depressed economy is definitely stressful to homeowners. Many have lost income, whether completely, or just reduced. Many more are forced to move to other cities or states for work. While some could continue to make their mortgage payments, even if challenging, they are opting to quit making the payments in order to get their lender to work with them on some sort of…
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23Sep 2009 by Susan Milner

Chinese Drywall found in Cape Coral & Fort Myers houses

Buyers, Cape Coral Real Estate, Cape Coral short sales, Fort Myers Real Estate, Fort Myers short sales, SW Florida News, SW Florida Real Estate
[caption id="attachment_174" align="alignright" width="300" caption="cape coral real estate"][/caption]Chinese Drywall in and around Cape Coral, Ft. Myers and Lehigh Acres is something to be aware of Over the past couple of years we’ve been hearing more and more about Chinese Drywall in SW Florida. Our office focuses mostly in Cape Coral & Fort Myers real estate. There are many homes & communities that have been affected by Chinese Drywall. Most of these homes were built between the years of 2003-2008 but there have been some instances found dating back as early as 1998. During those periods, our housing/building boom, drywall was imported into the United States that was manufactured in China & much of it contained potentially toxic materials. If you are considering purchasing a home in our area that was…
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05Jan 2009 by Susan Milner

Cape Coral Real Estate Listing – EXPIRED?!?

Cape Coral Real Estate, Cape Coral short sales, Fort Myers Real Estate, Fort Myers short sales, Sellers, SW Florida Real Estate
Did your listing agreement for your Cape Coral or Ft. Myers property expire last week? Do you still need help to sell your property?   I ask because today I received several phone calls & emails from Fort Myers & Cape Coral homeowners asking for help. For whatever reasons their house, condo or investment property didn’t sell. I checked in our MLS and in the last week 1,198 residential homes in our local MLS (multiple listing service) EXPIRED!   I spoke to one gentleman today who is going to need a short sale on his Ft. Myers house. After we ended our phone conversation I looked up his property. It just expired on Dec 31, 2008. It had been listed with another agent & real estate brokerage office.   This is…
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