New Years Resolutions – 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mortgage Shopping For Your Florida Home
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 discovered that life is often best lived with moments of looking backwards. The challenge with looking backwards is that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Curing Everything That Ails You.
Yesterday afternoon I was sitting in one of my favourite local cafes out here in King township where I call home when I picked up a flyer for a talk given by a Dr. who had written the book Dead Drs. Don’t Lie. Seems he has sold 83 million copies of this book. The title [...]