It’s just absolutely amazing to me that people must think we are stupid. Here are two things in particular that I’ve just come across. My last post had to do with the Florida property tax issue. This morning I received an email from a Realtor in Miami that must be a supporter of Marco Rubio,…
Category Archives: Property Taxes and Insurance
Florida’s Property Tax Fiasco!!
I obviously haven’t written in a couple of months. It is not that I had not wanted, but did not wish to write about the same topic that has been so prevalent, the local market. I was firstly concerned about the negativity that some may derive from this, even though we are in a quite…
Tax measure goes easy on the rich
In 1992 in Florida, a property tax break measure entitled, “Save Our Homes,” was passed. What this does is take the Tax Assessed Value of your home at the time of purchase and limit this from being increased more than 3% per year for the current owner until the home is sold. The intention of…
Insurance
As I alluded to in the previous post, I wanted to discuss the topic of Insurance and specifically Condo Association Insurance. Again, as I’ve stated while writing the Market Trends post, this also has been a topic in the news that is of great concern to many of us. Insurance in itself has gotten out…
Flood Insurance – You don’t think you need it – Do You?!? – May 18, 2006
A recent article that I read, states that flooding is the #1 natural disaster in the United States. And more importantly, you don’t have to live near water to be affected. “Regional weather systems, hurricanes and tropical storms, runoff changes from new construction and damage caused by wildfires can precipitate flooding in every region of…
