Prior Articles

Risk Management – Be Careful What You Say

As real estate professionals, opinions coming out of our mouths may be heard as facts going into our customers’ ears. When people lose money or their expectations are not met, they may blame the people who “told” them they would succeed. 

There is a great recent case that demonstrates this issue (okay, [...]

Sinkholes

Once a year I try to review new state laws that may impact real estate transactions. Before I could get to this task, the Florida Land Title Association sent out several bulletins describing important law changes, doing my job for me! I will summarize a few of these laws, here, but you really need to see [...]

Payoff Requests

A lot of complaints from closers have been coming in about the time it is taking to obtain payoff information, especially from condominium associations. When I contacted some condominium association friends for information, I received a howler!

Apparently, it is not the estoppel information that is taking so much time, it is the buyer’s [...]

Solar Water Heaters

What is it about solar water heaters that screams scam? I just read an article that many folks are buying solar water heaters (and other solar energy saving devices) from companies who are, allegedly, indicating their government rebate checks would arrive before payment was due. Unfortunately, many of these people were also convinced [...]

Florida Legislature

While researching real property bills filed by the Florida legislature this year, one of the bills the computer found was titled Pain Management! HAH! Was this the legislature being sympathetic to real estate folks? Or was it meant for everyone who is dealing with the new HUD-1 form? Too bad it didn’t pass. You [...]