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Noel Padilla | Surreal Properties, LLC. | 888-335-8389 ext. 111 1480 NE 33rd Ave Apt 110, Homestead, FL Rents for $1000 per month. More than covers monthly expenses. 3BR/2BA Condo offered at $58,410 Year Built 2005 Sq Footage 1,062 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms 2 full, 0 partial Floors 1 Parking 2 Lot Si...

Noel Padilla | Surreal Properties, LLC. | 888-335-8389 ext. 111 8335 SW 152nd Ave B103, Miami, FL Rent will cover all expenses, investors dream. 1BR/1BA Condo offered at $80,315 Year Built 1984 Sq Footage 849 Bedrooms 1 Bathrooms 1 full, 0 partial Floors 1 Parking 1 Lot Size Unspecified HOA/Main...

Noel Padilla | Surreal Properties, LLC. | noel@noelpadilla.com | 888-335-8389 ext. 111 13922 SW 91st Ter, Miami, FL Price Reduced! 2BR/2BA Condo offered at $125,130 Year Built 1987 Sq Footage 1,224 Bedrooms 2 Bathrooms 2 full, 0 partial Floors Unspecified Parking Unspecified Lot Size Unspecified...

Every sale I get close to closing seems to come with new nuances. Two rather recent ones are associations not having adequate insurance (if any at all). And the other being banks no longer willing to provide payoffs without homeowner authorization. I had to order a payoff and forward it to the ti...

It’s taken me a few days to absorb what happened Sunday and read the articles by the ‘experts’ as to there take on the bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The consensus seems to be that the bailout will help stimulate the real estate market, albeit minimally. They seem to think that lower inte...

Something your stockbroker won't tell you-you can purchase the retirement home of your dreams with your IRA. Traditional and Roth IRAs can purchase all kinds of property, from single family homes to apartment complexes. By owning real estate, you diversify away from stocks and bonds and keep ahea...

This question is asked more and more on a daily basis. It is advisable that before you rent, you should ask the landlord how long he or she has had the mortgage, and whether they have borrowed against it. If it is an old mortgage and the owner has not borrowed against it, chances are better that ...

In my neck of the woods, short sales and foreclsoures make up 70% of the market. Short sales are 90% of that.  So you either learn them and do it right or you will starve. Pretty simple right? Well we happen to have the smartest agents in the world right here in Miami-no really. I'm serious. You ...

When you get multiple offers on your regular non-short sale listings, what do you and your seller think? I STRUCK GOLD! My home is the best yeehaw....wait Mr. Realtor, don't take it off the market yet we may get a better offer. What do think the bank thinks with multiple short sale offers? The on...

What a sham. I get so angry when the uppity keep cramming it down the throats of us poor folk. If you happen to be be blogging here on AR, then I hate to break the news to you but you are the latter. (At least I still haven't seen The Donald's blog yet) The rich SOB's just keep infusing the irres...