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4 Easy Steps to HARP Program Refinance Bliss for Upside Down Florida Home Owners

On January 24, 2012, in HARP, Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

    Pick-Your-HARP-Lender: The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) Mortgage Program Requirements and Rates.   Why is the simple so frequently made complex?  This is the question I seem to be getting from other underwater home owners.  Other?  Yes.  I am one of them.  Until recently, there has not been a program for those of [...]

Lake Mary Real Estate Buyers Benefit from Tax Credit Extension

On November 16, 2009, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

Watch the Tax Credit Video here – Lake Mary Real Estate buyer’s are due to benefit greatly from the extension AND expansion of the $8000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit. Now it includes the $6500 Move up Buyer Tax Credit! Not only do first time buyers get more time to find the perfect Lake [...]

Florida Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension makes it through Congress

On November 6, 2009, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

Congress both extended and expanded the First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit program Thursday. The White House says the President will sign it into law today. The up-to-$8000 tax credit’s expiration date has been pushed forward to spring, requiring homebuyers to be under contract by April 30, 2010, and to be closed by June 30, 2010. [...]

An FHA True Story: An $8000 First Time Home Buyer IRS Check!

On October 8, 2009, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

Watch the Fox 35 News Video here. . Andrea was one of the “implementers”. With the deadline of the $8000 Tax Credit approaching – it is of utmost importance to have a plan of attack.  Most people are focused on closing BEFORE Dec 1.  That is just fine, but many are not flipping the pages [...]

Florida FHA Mortgages – The First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit Dates to know…

On October 7, 2009, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

  The government’s $8000 First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit available for Lake Mary Real Estate expires Nov. 30 — a short sixty-ish days from now. When you consider that in the “New World” of Lake Mary Real Estate financing, closings can take up to 45-60 days, first-time buyers have 2 weeks at most to find [...]

Florida First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit… Extension or Extinction?

On October 2, 2009, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

The Florida First-Time Home buyer Tax Credit may soon be known as the Home Buyer Tax Credit… being opened to non-first time buyers… but here is what needs to happen. [Enjoy] The Florida First-Time Home Buyer tax credit is on the verge of extension. While it is not yet through he entire process, the momentum [...]

$8000 FIRST TIME HOME BUYER TAX CREDIT CLOSER TO BEING USED FOR ORLANDO DOWNPAYMENTS?

On May 29, 2009, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

FHA plan will stimulate new Orlando home sales and help stabilize Orlando housing market Today, while speaking to the National Association of Home Builders, U.S. Housing and Urban Development [HUD], Secretary Shaun Donovan announced that the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) will indeed allow homebuyers to apply the $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit toward the purchase [...]

Easy Florida FHA Mortgage Loans – The Secret Urgency

On May 11, 2009, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

By Chris Brown – Florida’s #1 FHA Mortgage Broker There is a lot of speculation regarding whether the best Florida interest rates and Florida house prices are going to be around twelve to eighteen months from now. It is no secret that many of the recent steps taken by our government are highly inflationary… but [...]

The Secret Formula to steal a house in Longwood/ Lake Mary

On January 8, 2009, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

FHA Loans + $7500 Tax Credit + High Inventory = Orlando Real Estate Deals Phew – Made it through the holidays, and day-to-day life is setting back in. I love Christmas, for me it helps pull everything back into perspective for an approaching New Year. So now that the lights are back in the boxes [...]

First Time Home Buyers can couple $7500 Tax Credit and Low Interest Rates to buy Longwood Real Estate

On December 26, 2008, in Tips And Advice, by Chris Brown

Okay, so the subject line is long – but, believe it or not I cut it short. It could have been, “First Time Home Buyers can couple $7500 Tax Credit and Low Interest Rates and high inventories to buy Longwood Real Estate” We are seeing an unbelievable ‘perfect storm’ for buyers! Beware though – when [...]