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There was a time when owning your own property was the ultimate goal.
Having a home to call your own came with a sense of accomplishment,
pride and security that was unmatched by anything else in life. As an
added bonus to the ‘feel good’ aspect of home ownership was the fact
that buying property was a sound investment move as national housing
prices rose annually for more than 60 consecutive years.

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It appears as though media-hype is tainting the pristine beaches of Florida’s Emerald Coast long before any landfall of oil. If the oil slick does reach NW Florida, which authorities are still unable to predict, the effects on the tourism industry will be nothing less than devastating. Unfortunately, for those with rental properties, apprehensive tourists are succumbing to media reports that Florida’s beaches will be destroyed and they are cancelling their trips to the area. As one tourism operator puts it, “Right now the only disaster in Pensacola has been the bad PR that we’ve got”.

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Whether you are looking to increase the value on your existing home to make it more liveable or to add value to it to increase its saleability once the real estate market regains some of its lost value, value-adding renovations are a good way to make that happen. While some renovations will require a bigger investment up front, there are also less financially intensive renos that you can do which offer high return on the time and money you need to put into them.

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Sometimes it happens that you need to make a move to a new residence for reasons that are outside your own control. This may be due to work requirements like a transfer or promotion, or to be closer to (or sometimes farther away from) family members. But most often, when home owners move it is due to their own needs or desires.

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It seems to be a part of human nature, sadly enough, that when there are people who are experiencing hard times, there is always someone who is ready to take advantage of those hard times and the fear and confusion that often accompany it. As a current example of this harsh critique of human behaviour unto his or her fellow man there is the disturbing trend of the huge growth industry of mortgage relief fraud.

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Everybody loves a good rodeo. The outdoor life, the sun on your back, the competitive camaraderie, the smell of fish in the air. Huh? The smell of… what?

It seems that all rodeos are not the same, and down at Destin, Florida there ain’t a horse, steer, or cowboy in sight at their annual rootin’ tootin’ jamboree. This is the Destin Fishing Rodeo, and it has been reeling saltwater anglers in to the Emerald Coast town, for over sixty years.

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Trawling the internet for real estate news, one could be forgiven for getting a little confused by the sheer volume of contrasting commentary. For example, I recently came across an authoritative article, which informed me that the number of foreclosures was still climbing, and property sales were still falling in the US. Well, there was no big surprise there. Reading this piece, I learnt that poor old Las Vegas continues to reign as the foreclosure capital of the country. I also discovered that Texas, with a huge 35% rise during February 2010, claimed the top spot for the state with the biggest increase in the number of property foreclosures. This second statistic was the one that really caught my eye, as I had only just finished reading another article, published in the Washington Post, under the headline ‘How Texas escaped the real estate crisis’.

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With the lack of construction contracts available these days due to the economic downturn, there are many home owners who are looking at upgrades and renovations for their homes. Some home owners are looking for ways to increase the value of their homes so that when the market recovers enough to sell, they have an appealing home to put on the market; other home owners are just renovating to make their home more appealing for themselves to live in.

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While the entire nation waits expectantly for the housing market to recover from its devastating downturn, the economy seems less than cooperative in doing its part to help the struggling market regain some balance.

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On the road to financial recovery, there are a lot of aspects that all need to improve to support the rebalancing of the national economy. One of the most important pieces of this puzzle is the recovery of the national real estate market; combining not only an increase in numbers of homes bought but also an increase in prices or value of these homes, while simultaneously reducing the numbers of vacant real estate inventory held by banks.

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