Okay, [my signature beginning for the return readers] given the stock market’s recent plummet, it is not at all surprising that oil’s free-fall has got very little attention. That doesn’t make it any less relevant though. Since peaking at like $146 per barrel, oil prices are off by a HUGE amount. Friday, it was at [...]

“You buy when there’s blood in the streets” –Baron Rothschild With the simple statement, Buy-Low, Sell High… what should people be doing now?¬† Um, isn’t it obvious?¬† To the smart, forward thinkers it is… Real estate buyers are jumping back into the Orlando housing market and taking advantage of Orlando mortgage rates. Each month, The [...]

Sooooo, [I thought i would start with something other than 'okay...' LOL] The FED made an “emergency rate cut” yesterday, dropping the Fed Funds Rate by one half-percent to 1.500%. What you care about, is the PRIME rate dropped to 4.500%… this is what HELOCs and credit card rates are based on… yeah I know… [...]

On Monday, the Dow Jones closed below the mental barrier of 10,000 points for the first time since 2004. Bad news… well it depends… doesn’t everything these days!? Despite the milestone of ‘doom and gloom’ there is a large group of the American public with reason to “stand up and cheer” [You gotta say that [...]

Okay, we all know that the loss [unless something changes] of Ameridream and Nehemiah is going to stifle the first-time buyer’s ability to jump in the market, do we not? Well… maybe not so fast. What about the IRS-Funded Down Payment Assistance? I am talking, obviously, about the new $7500 Tax Credit for First-time home [...]

The “NO” vote turned into a “YES” vote last week… I guess that is the biggest news… and boy did that [cough] stabilize things [cough]. Ughhhhmmmm. Sorry. Congress did approve the $700 billion “Bailout Bill” Friday. Ironically it was not exactly $700B… it was closer to $850B. Well, i mean come on… they had to [...]

Okay, FHA Loans are only 90% of today’s market… conventional loans DO still exist. In an effort to provide “the most market support possible”, one of our beloved GSEs, Fannie Mae, is slicing one of its standard loan fees by 0.25%. Fannie Mae introduced their, [Good Lord, who thinks up these names...] Adverse Market Delivery [...]

While I am a big college football fan, as I know many of you are… this is not about football… and as my veins bleed Orange and Blue [cough] Go Gators [cough], the players in this ‘game’ have colors of their own. The question is… who are the players? Is it the Green Tycoons of [...]

The sure thing that uncertainty seems to bring with it…¬† more uncertainty.¬† With uncertainty, comes inaction.¬† This is good and this is bad.¬† I guess the proper [in]action is whatever you must do to keep your powder dry. For some people that may mean… do nothing.¬† For many more, it may mean getting things in [...]

<‚Äî‚Äî‚Äî HAVE YOU SUBSCRIBED TO RECEIVE THE RSS FEED YET? Get notified when new Orlando Real Estate Posts are made. After the House of Representatives defeated the ‘Emergency Economic Stabilization Bill of 2008′ affectionately known as the$700B Bailout… the stock market fell more in any single day in history.¬† [You probably have already recognized that [...]