New Years Resolutions 2009 – Getting Off The Fence
So here we are coming to the start of a New Year. Have you started your New Years resolutions yet? Are they random or laser focused. Are your really clear on what your decisions should be? The biggest challenge is that most people don’t make it past the 1st week. Was it the wrong decision or just plane laziness or inaction that caused it. Some tips on making a decision and getting off the fence to do it. 1/ Decide what the correct decision is and why you are making it. If you want to lose weight simply for glamour reasons that may not ...
Closing A Florida Home
First bit of info is knowing about occupancy. If you are Canadian you can stay in your Florida home for up to and 1 day less than 6 months without incurring a need for permission from the U.S. authorities and without both tax and health care ramifications in Canada. One day more than 6 months and you could lose your OHIP benefit if it was discovered you were out of the country. Pretty easy to do when you know that your comings and goings are recorded at the border. To purchase a Florida property you will need to write an offer ...
A Place In The Florida Sun
You’ve probably been hearing all about the serious mess in the U.S. real estate market due to the sub prime mortgage debacle. Thousands and thousands of people are losing their homes. There are new home subdivisions sitting vacant completely built and ready to go. If you have ever considered escaping Canadian winters and I am sure we all have especially after this past winter with it’s 5 months of snow; this may be your time to consider buying a Florida getaway. Given a 10 year time frame from now to say 2018 this will most likely be your best price ...
Mortgage Shopping For Your Florida Home
It’s a great time to buy a second home in Florida with the market so soft, particularly for Canadians . A lot ot the concern with doing this results from not understanding how to finance a property and how to take title and manage taxes. I recently had the opportunity to attend a Florida seminar and glean some more info on this which I will share with you here. Please don’t construe this as legal advise. You will need to talk to a lawyer and or accountant who deals with cross border issues to determine what to do in your ...
Tax Planning For Your Florida Home
When planning your Florida purchase you want to also plan for the eventuality of a personal disaster, death; or necessary disposition of your home. Probate When a property is owned by the deceased alone, the property will be subject to Florida probate. This is a legal process which allows for a property to be transferred to an owner\s beneficiary. Probate is costly, time consuming and freezes your estate. Probate can cost up to 3 percent of the market value of the property at time of death. And can take between six to 12 months. How to Avoid Probate To avoid probate you ...
What Can You Accomplish In Five Years?
Thought For The Week We greatly overestimate what we can accomplish in one year. But we greatly underestimate what we can accomplish in five years. * Peter Ferdinand Drucker After many years of living I have disovered that life is often best lived with moments of looking backwards. The challenge with looking backwards is that as humans we tend to look at what went wrong instead of what we have accomplished. Particularily when we are young we tend to set goals that are mammoth and often difficult to achieve particlarly on the short time lines that we expected. This often causes us to lose ...
Five Great Cell Phone Tips
I bet you didn't know you could do Most of These With Your Cell Phone. I sure didn't. Cellular phones seem to be one of the most used technology items over the past few years. It is very rare you know a person who doesn't have a cell phone or hasn't had one in the past, Here are 5 great things you can do with your cell phone. 1/ One of the first things I discovered really interesting that could be done on my phone is when I was travelling over in Europe I didn't know what their Emergency Number was. I discovered that if ...
Send Brendan To Oxford
Found this one today in our local National Newspaper. A Young man by the name of Brendan is trying to get to Oxford. He has been accepted but doesn't have the $90,000. required. So he is using the internet to gather the money. He is asking 30,000 people to each donate $3.00 so he can go to Oxford. You can find Brendan at www.3bucksforbrendan.com A new and novel way to use the net. I still remember the One red paperclick trade http://oneredpaperclip.blogspot.com/ where a fellow Canadian named Kyle made about a dozen trades starting with one red paperclip and traded his way up ...
Canadians Mortgage Shopping For Your Florida Home
It’s a great time to buy a second home in Florida with the market so soft, particularly for Canadians . A lot ot the concern with doing this results from not understanding how to finance a property and how to take title and manage taxes. I recently had the opportunity to attend a Florida seminar and glean some more info on this which I will share with you here. Please don’t construe this as legal advise. You will need to talk to a lawyer and or accountant who deals with cross border issues to determine what to do in your ...
Buy Florida Bargains
You've probably been hearing all about the serious mess in the U.S. real estate market due to the sub prime mortgage debacle. Thousands and thousands of people are losing their homes. There are new home subdivisions sitting vacant completely built and ready to go. If you have ever considered escaping Canadian winters and I am sure we all have especially after this past winter with it's 5 months of snow; this may be your time to consider buying a Florida getaway. Given a 10 year time frame from now to say 2018 this will most likely be your best price opportunity ever. ...
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