While moving back to South Florida, it was getting tough to think outside the boxes: South Florida Sun-Sentinel Seven years ago, my husband, Ronnie, and I sold our Fort Lauderdale home and moved to Wisconsin. We stayed two years, then moved to Nashville. A few months ago, we decided to return to South Florida. Blame …
Monthly Archives: December 2005
Wait-and-see attitude may be best on refinancing
Wait-and-see attitude may be best on refinancing Question: My wife and I bought a second home two years ago. Because of its condition, it didn’t qualify for a conventional mortgage. We have a two-year balloon loan at 5.6 percent interest that comes due in April 2006. We will owe the entire principal in April unless …
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Tiny Briny Breezes draws brawny $500 million offer
Tiny Briny Breezes draws brawny $500 million offer – OrlandoSentinel.com: State News A secret suitor was offering to buy the entire municipality for $500 million — more than $1 million per mobile home. Over shuffleboard courts, pinochle tables and whittling benches, word of the fabulous price soon spread. ” ‘A million is a million’ and …
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Finding the Next Phoenix
Finding the Next Phoenix Want to turn some heads at your next cocktail party? Tell people that buying real estate in Texas is a better bet in the short term than investing in California. It might sound bizarre, but it’s what some real estate gurus are telling their investors. To get a feel for which …
Waning Days of Grace for New Orleans Homeowners
Waning Days of Grace for New Orleans Homeowners Strains begin to show as mortgage reprieves are extended. Borrowers say some lenders demand lump sums at the end of forbearance periods. As unpaid home-loan bills pile up, mortgage companies and owners of hurricane-ravaged property are still unsure what federal assistance they may get, and uncertain if …
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Green Cay Village lowers the price of success
Green Cay Village lowers the price of success When Michele Robinson, a single mother, steps inside her new Boynton Beach area townhouse next fall, she can thank an unlikely alliance: two vegetable farmers who sold their prime land below market value with the stipulation that affordable housing be built on it; a pair of developers …
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