• Florida Real Estate, Defined: The Four Contingencies,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    Florida Real Estate, Defined: The Four Contingencies

    Every Florida purchase contract comes with a few built-in escape hatches. They are not loopholes and they are not favors — they are dated, written rights that expire on a specific day. The most common way a Central Florida buyer loses leverage is not losing a bidding war. It is letting one of these

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  • Florida Escrow Deposits and Going Hard: Transaction Step 6,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    Florida Escrow Deposits and Going Hard: Transaction Step 6

    You wrote the offer. It got accepted. Now your agent is asking for a check, and the contract has two deposit lines on it with two different deadlines. This is the step where a Florida deal stops being theoretical and your money is in the middle of it — and where buyers most often misunderstand what

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  • Writing the Florida Offer, FR/BAR vs AS IS: Transaction Step 5,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    Writing the Florida Offer, FR/BAR vs AS IS: Transaction Step 5

    You have your financing lined up, you know who represents you, and you have chosen a lender who understands Florida. Now comes the moment the house hunt turns into a transaction: you write the offer. In Central Florida that almost always means one of two forms published jointly by Florida Realtors a

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