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Time is of the Essence Provisions in Florida Real Estate Contracts: What Does...
Florida real estate contracts have lots of paragraphs and provisions — what many consider to be boilerplate language – which are seen in purchase contract after purchase contract related to buying or...
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Florida Real Estate Partitions And Underwater Mortgages: Are They Connected?
Recently, we had a blog comment asking about the value of real estate and whether or not an underwater home should or can be partitioned under Florida law. Asked another way, is the value of real...
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Fraud in Your Florida Home Purchase?: Water Leaks and Flooding In Your New Home
What Happens When Buyers are Hurt by Misrepresentations by a Florida Real Estate Agent or a Florida Seller? Florida real estate has had its ups and downs over the past few years, with the housing...
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Can I Sue The Florida Real Estate Agent For Falsely Advertising House Was On...
Septic tanks are used as a part of a on-site home plumbing system because there’s no connection to a municipal or county septic system. A home septic tank system cannot be seen in a tour of a potential...
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Is Sharing Ownership of Florida Real Estate Causing a Problem For You? –...
There are all sorts of situations where someone may share ownership in Florida real estate and there are lots of good reasons to own real estate jointly; however, when things go south, jointly owned...
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Can You Sue a Florida Real Estate Agent for Fraud and Can You Recover...
In Florida, if you have been the victim of an unscrupulous real estate agent or broker, you can do two things: one, you can file an official complaint with Florida Real Estate Commission; and second,...
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What Do You Do When You Discover the Value of Your Property Isn’t What the...
Misrepresentation Of a Home’s Value For most of us, the most essential term in any Florida real estate transaction is the contract price: the amount the seller and the buyer agree on for purchasing the...
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Earnest Money Deposits – Is the Deposit in Dispute? – Is the Deposit Missing?
What is an Earnest Money Deposit? When a buyer decides to make an offer to buy a house or condo here in Florida, he/she presents to the Seller a signed Purchase and Sale Agreement, which is normally...
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Defects Discovered in the Home After Closing: What Can a Buyer Do?
There are all kinds of problems with their new home that buyers may discover after they’ve left the closing table and moved into their new home or condo. Home defects can be found in brand new homes...
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Property Disclosure Statements: Duty to Reveal Hazards in Florida Must Be...
Most sellers and buyers of residential real estate here in Florida depend upon their real estate agents to help them through the process. For buyers, it’s making sure that they have all the...
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Is Your Real Estate Agent Guilty of Discrimination?
Real estate agents in Florida can do bad things that hurt both home buyers and sellers in serious ways. A buyer may end up with ugly surprises in her new home: things like hidden defects (e.g., mold)...
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Florida Residential Closings and Price Changes: Is The Buyer’s Offer Set in...
Buying a house or a condo here in South Florida may be the biggest purchase that someone makes in their lifetime, or one of the biggest. Buyers surf the web looking for the perfect home, as well as...
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Inherited Property and Partition: When Your Brother or Sister or Other Heir...
In Florida, when a parent passes away owning real estate and they are the only owner or the only surviving owner, the property, whether it is the family home or the family vacation property, becomes...
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Misrepresentation by Real Estate Agent: Wrong Square Footage in MLS Listing
In Florida, real estate agents and brokers are seen as experts in their field (whether it be residential, commercial or industrial property) due, in part, to the fact they are licensed by the State of...
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