• Florida Real Estate, Defined: The Estoppel Letter,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    Florida Real Estate, Defined: The Estoppel Letter

    If you are buying a home in a Winter Garden, Horizon West, Clermont or ChampionsGate community with an HOA or condo association, one document can sit on the critical path until the week of closing: the estoppel letter, also called an estoppel certificate. This Friday explainer in the Bella Trae Real

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  • Liens and Title Defects in Florida: Transaction Step 19,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    Liens and Title Defects in Florida: Transaction Step 19

    Your title commitment came back, and Schedule B-I lists something you did not expect: a recorded judgment, a contractor's claim of lien, or a requirement for probate paperwork. This is Step 19 of the Bella Trae Realty Florida Transaction How-To series. It covers the problems that most often hold up

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  • Reading a Florida Title Commitment: Transaction Step 18,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    Reading a Florida Title Commitment: Transaction Step 18

    About two weeks before a Florida closing, the title agent sends a packet called the title commitment. It is the title company's written promise to insure the home, along with the list of things that must happen first and the things it will not cover. Buyers in Winter Garden, Horizon West and Clermon

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