Buying a House in Florida...........?
Aug 9th 2011, 3:19 pm
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Re: Buying a House in Florida...........?
Also Many Police Forces run a web site detailing the reported crimes per block. You might want to take a look at the crimes being reported in the neighbourhood when deciding to move
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Aug 9th 2011, 4:05 pm
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Re: Buying a House in Florida...........?
The scary thing, from the link that was posted above, that these places have HOA fee's and no mention of what they are.
With the number of places staying empty, means the rest of the folks have to pick up the slack, which means in some places the fee can be more than the mortgage
With the number of places staying empty, means the rest of the folks have to pick up the slack, which means in some places the fee can be more than the mortgage
Aug 10th 2011, 11:32 am
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Re: Buying a House in Florida...........?
The police dept in Holly Hill has just been fired (yes- all of 'em) for corruption, so that might give an indication as to the quality of that neighborhood....
Aug 10th 2011, 1:37 pm
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Re: Buying a House in Florida...........?
Correction - that would be Oak Hill - not Holly Hill - not much difference, however. Both are skeevy, depressing redneck coastal burgs.
Aug 10th 2011, 1:40 pm
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Re: Buying a House in Florida...........?
Insurance may be a problem as they do not like empty houses, the area is not the best and they will have their own crime stats, no credit history and you are in a hurricane susceptible area all go against you. If you do buy a place anywhere and leave it empty for few months you spend the first few days of your holiday cleaning the place, unless you are paying a cleaning service. Of course a property management company will take care of everything except insurance but it will not be cheap.
Aug 10th 2011, 2:43 pm
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Re: Buying a House in Florida...........?
Have contacted a couple of estate agents in the Daytona area after seeing property for sale told them im a cash buyer from the uk looking for a holiday retreat.
Seem's every property i enquire about is sold although still active on web sites as for sale i no this does happen but am i doing somthing wrong by telling them im a cash buyer from the uk. Also iv not got that much to spend $50.000 max.
The propertys iv been intrested in our between $30.000 to $25.000 get the feeling they our not intrested maybe they wont get enough commission or am i being paranoid.
Am coming over to florida in about 6 weeks time to have a look for myself does anyone no how long it would take to complete a sale on say a foreclosure property me being a cash buyer...........regards carl
Seem's every property i enquire about is sold although still active on web sites as for sale i no this does happen but am i doing somthing wrong by telling them im a cash buyer from the uk. Also iv not got that much to spend $50.000 max.
The propertys iv been intrested in our between $30.000 to $25.000 get the feeling they our not intrested maybe they wont get enough commission or am i being paranoid.
Am coming over to florida in about 6 weeks time to have a look for myself does anyone no how long it would take to complete a sale on say a foreclosure property me being a cash buyer...........regards carl
