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Friday, August 27, 2021

Mike Explains: Listing Price Strategies

Imagine, if you will: you list your home in a hot seller’s market, and you expect a bidding war. But when it goes on the market, all you hear is crickets. Or worse, you get one offer at full ... read more >>

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Mike Explains: Rental Scams (And How To Avoid Them)

Imagine, if you will: you pull up at your appointment to show a vacant home you have for lease. To your surprise, you find a strange car in the driveway. Then, someone is standing in the living roo... read more >>

Monday, July 26, 2021

Mike Explains: Listing Price

Imagine, if you will: you are thinking of selling your condo, which you love but have outgrown. But then you hear all this talk from other sources about properties “selling over list.”<... read more >>

Thursday, July 15, 2021

Mike Explains: What Is Included in the HOA Dues?

Imagine, if you will: you find that perfect place and you are ready to make an offer. Then you see the homeowner’s association dues and they seem high. You wonder, what is included in those H... read more >>

Friday, June 18, 2021

Mike Explains: Tenant HOA Violations

Imagine, if you will: you are happily receiving rent every month from the tenants leasing out your Ocean Blvd condo you used to live in. Everything seems great.

Then you receive a violation n... read more >>

Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Mike Explains: Return of Tenant Security Deposits

Imagine, if you will. You spent the last month getting this property ready for the new tenants. Not after much work and expense, it’s ready to rent.  To your surprise, you get serve... read more >>

Monday, May 3, 2021

Mike Explains: Homeowner's Association

Imagine, if you will: you have a building with over a hundred units, all independently owned. How do you operate that building? Who decides when it gets painted, in what color? Who decides what tem... read more >>

Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Mike Explains: Lockboxes

In real estate, we have everyday situations of granting access to properties with various potential buyers, tenants (some may or may not have agents), and vendors. You need to accommodate different... read more >>

Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Mike Explains: Escrow

Imagine, if you will: you're offered $500,000 for a piece of property. You accepted the deal, and then, you told the buyer: "give me the $500,000, and I'll sign over the property."... read more >>

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

Mike Explains: Renter’s Insurance

Let's picture this: Sunday evening, end of a relaxing weekend... And, you get a phone call. Turns out, there's a fire at your rental property.

The good news is: the tenants are OK. Yo... read more >>


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