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Florida insurance ground zero

Apr 30, 2024 – Louise Bolger
March 26, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Save our homes

This column should be titled “Save our Taxes,” since that’s what we’re really talking about. However, saving on property taxes is part of the Save Our Homes benefits and portability transfers are ano…
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March 20, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Energize your home

When you think of energy you probably think of power used to generate light and heat. But have you ever thought of the type of energy that isn’t physical or chemical, the kind that can’t be seen? Wh…
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March 12, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Declutter, depersonalize, clean

After perusing what I like to consider my very organized database of columns, I realized it’s been some time since I wrote about getting your house ready for sale. Since we are dead in the middle of…
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March 5, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Winter of the big freeze

You should have warmed up from the unusually cold Florida winter. Now the question is, has the housing market unfrozen? The entire country has been gripped in an exceptionally cold and stormy winter…
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February 27, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Are mortgage rates really going down?

Did we ever think this day would arrive? Those in the know kept saying rates will be better next year, and this is finally next year, and by golly, it appears they were right. Since nothing is ever t…
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February 19, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Insurance premiums painful

There are few things related to the real estate industry that I can’t figure out. That may sound like an overabundance of hubris, but what it is, is decades of experience and mind-bending research. T…
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February 14, 2024
By Louise Bolger

In love with luxury

Happy Valentine’s Day! Every year this day is put aside for the lovers of the world and the greeting card companies. But this year, deep-pocket lovers have even more to be in love with, since luxury…
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February 5, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Condominium disclosures a different animal

There are loads of different animal species in the world and although some are part of the same group, like mammals, they still have differences within their group. This is the same with real estate…
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January 29, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Disclosure vital in ‘stigmatized’ property sale

You may think in the land of sunshine, surf and sand there can be nothing defined as stigmatized. Maybe not, since the word can mean different things to different buyers. The National Association of…
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January 23, 2024
By Louise Bolger

Changing tides

Every day I watch the tides change. Sometimes they’re low, sometimes they’re high, and every day is different. You could say almost the same thing about mortgage interest rates, but the tides for rat…
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