Open-House Secrets and Defeating A Big Contingency

Open-House Secrets and Your Weapons will be needed To Defeat A Big Contingency. Open-House events are springing up like mushrooms everywhere in Central Florida.  House hunting season is in full swing.  We see the spring symptoms of it in the fluttering multi-colored...

Spring Greetings, Gratitude, Funny Statistics and Holiday Joy

Spring has sprung in Florida, and Winter Park is abloom with a heady fragrance of blossoms.  With Nature in full renewal, we at Palm State Mortgage Company feel a contagious joy.  It is absolutely the perfect time of year to be house-hunting.  The spring breeze even...

Contingencies:  The Diamonds in the Ring of the Purchase Contract

Contingencies are quite valuable.  So, we like to see them as the diamond in the real estate purchase contract.  We see a home buyer’s contingencies as diamonds in a nice setting comprised of all the other elements of the real estate purchase contract.  They...

Closing-Day: Your 7 Key Secrets To Survival As A Home owner

Closing-Day on your new house can invite an awful lot of butterflies into your stomach.  After all the work of house hunting and mortgage negotiating, it all comes down to final signatures, the big check and high hopes that nothing will go wrong at the last minute. ...

Rental Payments, Mortgage Payments, Your Life and the Big Picture

Rental payments versus mortgage payments—which one is right for you?  This problem has been a debate for centuries.  Palm State has not discussed this issue for a while.  It seems like a good one for the New Year as families begin to plan budgets and new beginnings....