True or False:   You can’t force Grandma to close on her Homestead Property once it’s gone Under Contract. Answer:   Read the Contract.    Real Estate Contracts mean something.  Terms make a big difference.  And nuances can have more impact than Grandma’s fudge brownies.  Once the Seller goes Under Contract, then the Seller is subject to the Terms of that Contract and all its nuances, even with a Primary Residence.   Before you grab a second helping of the notion that

The risk is ridiculous for a Buyer who takes an Agreement for Deed because then the Buyer is truly subject to whatever’s going wrong in the Seller’s financial life .  An Agreement for Deed or a Rent-To-Own, lets the Buyer make payments towards a property, eventually to own that property once enough payments are made.  In a twenty year financing plan, that’s a long time for things to go wrong.   David and Sam were friends.  David was just starting out and wanted to buy a home

What were you going to be for Halloween?  Let’s say you own investment properties, and in the course of business, you offer financing to some of your buyers.  You’re going to be in legal trouble for Halloween and beyond if you make too many of those loans without a license!   You might be a LENDER if you’re holding three loans.  Often, three is the golden rule, but there are lots of rules for Lenders, and if you’re an unlicensed Lender, you could get tangled up in them.  Sure

There was a man who had two sons, and they formed an LLC for their cattle ranch.  The Father was the Manager, and his Sons were Members...

Tax Deed sales are a good way to pick up property at a low purchase price.  Plus, wave a Tax Deed over a piece of property, and certain...

Just because it’s legal doesn’t mean it’s to your best advantage, and that goes double in real estate.  One person’s deal can be...

Attention Tax Deed Investors: We need people to buy Tax Deeds to get money back into the county coffers.  Tax Deed sales keep the funds...

Meet the team —A picture is worth a thousand words.  My closers are Wayde Carter, Cindy Brown, Shannon Gray, Stacey Mackey, Brandy...

Just because you can get a County Permit to change your property in St. Augustine South does not mean those changes are condoned on the...

You never really know who’s reading this.  I’ve gotten calls from Denver and New York City about this blog.  A woman recently posted to...

In Malta, Idaho, there is a private homeowner, who out of the goodness of his heart, built a long water slide for friends and neighboring...

A “hiatus” in land-title-speak is where there’s a gap between two pieces of property that’s not meant to be there .  Often I talk about...

Pistols at dawn was a much faster way of settling property disputes—a lot less paperwork.  Forget the title search, who needs a survey,...

Federal Bankruptcy Court in Jacksonville says that if you are the Trustee of a Trust that you are also the Beneficiary of , it’s like you...

It’s very expensive to be completely innocent.  I say that a lot because it’s true a lot .  Your ownership of real estate is only as...

Where do Title Claims come from?  Do they fly in from outer space?  Does the man on the moon make them?  Does the stork bring them?...

Owner’s Title Insurance is like a pre-written alternative ending to avoid misfortune.  The happily-ever-after of home ownership should be...

Make sure to get title insurance enough to cover the land AND the loan. Newlyweds Bob and Mary were going to build a home on vacant...

It’s one thing to do something; it’s another thing to know WHY you do it.  That’s the difference between a closing company that issues...

A real estate closing is like the icing on the cake of home ownership.  Icing is great, but if you don’t have the cake to go with it, you...