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The Real Benefits of Getting a Home Inspection for your Westchase Home   You will never be able to avoid this advice when buying a new home: Get a home-inspection! Is it really that important to get a home-inspection? Whether you are buying a newly constructed home or are including your house in the listings of Westchase homes for sale, getting a home-inspection will probably be the one of the best decisions you will ever make in your life. Buying a new home is an exciting experience yet it may be burdensome at some point because of doubts that will fill your mind when you are about to do a purchase. Home-inspections take out the doubt and prevent you from unnecessary worry wondering about the home. You will appreciate it more once you know the real benefits of having one. For the buyer...
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By Steven Pahl, Real Estate Consultant Tampa, FL 813-319-6423
(Keller Williams Tampa Properties)
It's never been a better time to buy a home!  Who says so? Well, among others Freddie Mac, short for The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation which is a GSE (government sponsord enterprise) created by the United States Congress. Why it's never been a better time to buy a home is illustrated in this chart issued by Freddie Mac showing how the cost of a $100,000 loan has decreased over the past 10 years.   Many people are comparing today's housing market to the market in 2003 because prices are roughly the same! But there is one big difference!  The COST of a home is now 28% cheaper today than in 2003 and here is why! This chart shows the monthly principle and interest payment per $100k borrowed today compared to 2003, the payment today is only $443, versus $609 in 2003, which is 28% le...
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By Steven Pahl, Real Estate Consultant Tampa, FL 813-319-6423
(Keller Williams Tampa Properties)
Coming to Westchase in Feb 2013 - Forgotten Pets, a fund raiser for animals that have been left in pet shelters and with rescue groups throughout the Tampa Bay region. Sponsored by St. Francis Society and Icon Realtors, the event will be held to give attention to the forgotten pets of Tampa Bay with a fund raising walk in the Westchase Town Center. Along with Tampa Bay Veterinary Emergency Service I will be attending both as a sponsor and as a Captain of a fund raising group to help our own stray and rescues pets, as well as those sponsored by St. Francis Society and other deserving rescue organizations throughout Tampa Bay.
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By Steven Pahl, Real Estate Consultant Tampa, FL 813-319-6423
(Keller Williams Tampa Properties)
Flash back to 1973, senior year of high school and a book I was required to read, "A Hero ain't nothin but a Sandwich", about a young boy living in the inner city.  Why I thought of this book specifically and at this time I am not sure, because if yesterday you had asked me about it I probably wouldn't have remembered it.  1973 was quite a few years ago. But the book suddenly came to mind while watching the news on television and seeing the ceremony where Marine Cpl Dakota L. Meyer was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan two years ago while saving the lives of 36 US and Afghan soldiers.  He is the first "living" Marine to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam War, so you can see it usually comes at a great sacrifice. Later, in the same newscast, was an updat...
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By Steven Pahl, Real Estate Consultant Tampa, FL 813-319-6423
(Keller Williams Tampa Properties)
That was the headline in the "local" section of yesterdays St. Pete Times Newspaper, and then today the following headline appeared in MSN News from Realty Trac "Foreclosure Activity Increases 7%...". Is this Armageddon; the beginning of the end or just the inevitable result of the current market and actually the solution to the current housing market. I know in my market area here in Tampa Bay that on nearly every residential street I drive there is going to be at least one home on average that has had at least a "Lis Pendens" filed in county court indicating the owner is delinquent on their mortgage.  Some were filed last month and others were filed months and in some cases years ago.  But, because of our "robo signing" fiasco and the closing of three of the major law firms handling f...
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