(Editor's note: The following column was published previously in The Breeze.) Imagine a self-seeding bush that produces tiny, sweet tomatoes all year long. Now imagine this bush is disease and pest resistant, requires little care and thrives in our hot, humid climate. If this sounds too ...
The key takeaways in our local real estate market involve rising mortgage rates, now above 6 percent, a substantial drop in the number of closed home sales in August and a shift away from a wildly active seller’s market earlier this year to a much slower paced neutral market right now. ...
Dear Mr. Feichthaler: My mother held her house in a trust and recently passed. I am the successor trustee, and my sister and I are the beneficiaries. The trust provides that we each receive half of the assets of the trust. My sister wants to keep the house and move in, while I would be ...
Do you feel that we’ve had a lot of rain over the past several weeks? This is only my fourth summer in Cape Coral, but I don’t remember as many morning or evening storms as we have experienced lately. I recall instead the reliable 3 p.m. pop-up thunderstorms that seemed to form and ...
Dear Mr. Feichthaler: I signed a contract to sell my home back in July, and last week was our closing date. The buyer had no contingencies in the contract, so it provides I get to keep the deposit if they don’t complete the purchase. The deposit was $2,000. The escrow agent is telling ...
In trying to develop a theme for this week’s real estate column that deals with the economic realities facing most Americans on the ground, we were torn between two choices. One theme was based on the “stupid is as stupid does” line from the movie "Forest Gump." This famous line seems to ...
