http://www.kristafracke.com/blog Real Estate According to Your Schedule Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:34:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jacksonville FHA and VA Foreclosed Homes Another good source of foreclosed homes in Jacksonville can be FHA and VA. Look here for Jacksonville FHA Homes for sale and here for Jacksonville VA Homes These homes have gone through and completed foreclosure. They are usually sold "AS IS" and repairs will not ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/08/13/foreclosure-part-iii-jacksonville-fha-and-va-homes/ Jacksonville REO Homes For Sale Real Estate Owned (REO) is a term used to describe a property that has gone all the way through the foreclosure process and is now owned by the mortgage holder. The homes can usually be shown by a buyers agent and the title and liens issues ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/08/12/foreclosure-part-ii-jacksonville-reo/ You can not pick up a newspaper or turn on the news lately without hearing about the sub prime mortgage meltdown and the impending surge of home foreclosures. Locally, the number of Jacksonville foreclosure homes is going up. If you think you might be interested in buying foreclosure homes, here ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/08/11/how-to-buy-jacksonville-foreclosure-homes/ I just setup a new fast search for finding oceanfront Ponte Vedra homes for sale. So far this year 12 homes have sold on the ocean in Ponte Vedra, the prices have ranged from $790,000 to $5,975,000 Most of this activity was in South Ponte Vedra Beach. http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/05/07/new-ponte-vedra-oceanfront-home-search/ Ok, this is definitely an out of the ordinary post for my blog. But I just had one of those moments where a company so blows it at customer service that I have to just tell a couple of people :) The company I am talking about here is none ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/03/15/microsoft-calls-and-asks-me-to-pay-for-their-mistake/ After years of rocketing sales, the housing market is beginning to finally settle down into a more stable pattern but one kind of property which is persistently bucking this trend is waterfront properties which puts Jacksonville in an unbeatable position. With approximately 1000 people relocating to Florida each day, many people ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/03/07/waterfront-properties-in-hot-demand/ An interesting article has appeared in the local newspaper about the difficulties of trying to sell a house during holiday periods, in particular Christmas and Thanksgiving. Although it is now the beginning of the year, I thought it was still an interesting subject to try to broach as ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/03/06/selling-your-home-during-a-holiday-period/ Many buyers are under the mistaken impression that a condo is a fancy apartment only for rich people. However, condos are becoming more and more affordable, bringing it into the price range of a single-family home. But some of the extras currently being offered to some ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/03/04/condo-extras-offer-a-different-kind-of-lifestyle/ Sales of homes are brisk in the heavily wooded North Jacksonville area of Oakbrook but there could still be the possibility of snapping up a residence there if your luck holds. The available residences were built by Mattamy Homes and sales were quite brisk as soon as the majority of the ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/03/02/oakbrook-homes-available-soon/ Builders Showcase is reporting that The Strand condominium tower will be completed by "winter 2007". The condo tower, which will be located on Jacksonville's Southbank, will have 28 storeys and one of its biggest selling points is that residents will have an umatched and spectacular view of the St Johns River. ... http://www.kristafracke.com/blog/2007/02/28/winter-2007-completion-date-set-for-the-strand/