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How Can You Beat This View?

NEWLY LISTED! Vina Del Mar is a close-knit community where neighbors enjoy impromptu gatherings and holiday celebrations. Walk to the community park, relax on the beach or enjoy the quaint Pass-a Grille shops & restaurants nearby. Revel…
Clean, Modern, Declutter
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Home Staging-What Is It?

We've talked a little bit about home staging & you may have wondered what it’s all about. There are even a few television reality shows that feature staging experts doing their magic on a particular house or condo. So what exactly is…
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Staging Your Home Starts in the Kitchen

Selling your home is about presentability: from the front yard to the laundry room, your home's features must be presented in a way that shows off the best parts of your home. This is why staging is such an important part of the selling process. Susan…
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Town n’ Country Short Sale With Upgrades Everywhere!

This short sale home at 6903 Shady Place in NW Tampa is loaded with upgrades and new amenities. You’ll find a 3-bedroom, 2-bath pool home plus a den that boasts a double-door entry and could be a 4th bedroom. The brand new designer kitchen…
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Your Credit Score and What It Means

Just like a person’s cholesterol number, the credit score ranks right up there with life’s potentially worrisome 3-digit numbers. If you’ve ever bought a home or a new car, then you’re already familiar with a FICO score. But what exactly…
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The History & Charm of Carrollwood Village

Beautiful Carrollwood is one of the area’s first planned communities that was conceived as an alternative to South Tampa’s increasingly crowded neighborhoods. In the late 1950’s, developer Matt Jetton purchased 325 acres of citrus land…
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NEW LISTING! Beautiful Property in Arbor Lakes

If you’re looking for a country lifestyle with city convenience, check out this sprawling 4 bedroom, 3 bath with pool and 3 car garage in Odessa’s Arbor Lakes.  It’s close to Sickles High School and Citrus Park Mall with no CDDs and…
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Open House This Sunday 1-4 PM!

OPEN HOUSE - SUNDAY May 18 1-4pm Super-clean, super big and such a deal. Here’s an amazing 4 bedroom PLUS den, 3 car garage home in Valrico’s Buckhorn Preserve. PRICE REDUCED TO $249,900. Check it out on Sunday 1-4pm.
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Open House This Sunday!

Open House Sunday April 13 1-4pm – 2825 Pankaw Lane in Valrico! If your home is bursting its seams, this meticulously-cared-for 4 bedroom plus den, 2.5 bath, 3 car garage home is the perfect solution at a big 2851SF. Located in Buckhorn…
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Market Watch for 2014

We are not at all surprised by the National Association of Realtors home sales statistics for 2013: over 5 million existing homes were sold in 2013, the most since the real estate frenzy of 2006 when home sales reached 6.5 million. In fact,…
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Resolve To Keep Your Home Organized in 2014!

2014 is still shiny and new, but how about those resolutions? They seemed like such a great idea, didn’t they? This is just about the time in the New Year when resolve can weaken, fitness plans are abandoned and someone sneaks the Oreos back…
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Open House-Sunday January 26th on Lake Elaine

"Gone With The Wind" Staircase! All this and more in the traditional 4 bedroom plus den, 3.5 bath original Carrollwood pool home at 10108 Lake Cove Lane. Situated on Lake Elaine in the White Trout area – this home has lots to love:  downstairs…
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A Less Than Perfect Home

Do you have a clear image of your dream home?  Have you created a list with all the “must-have” features you want?  Will you walk away from a home that doesn’t have the picket fenced yard, the swimming pool or the hardwood floors? (Or…
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What One Happy D&K Customer Had to Say…

We recently worked with Kim on selling her new home, and she was kind enough to pass on her experience in working with us: "I've used the Nielsen's for several real estate transactions, and each and every time, it has been a wonderful and…
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Title Insurance and Why It’s Important To You

A home is one of the largest purchases that most people will ever make.  Did you know that when you purchase your home or land, you are actually purchasing the title to the property – not the actual property?  When you close on your home…
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Your Home Purchase “Protection”

In the after-glow of having your offer accepted, are you now worried that you might be paying too much for your new home? Even if you carefully study the market, (homes for sale and those that have sold), there are a lot of outside factors that…
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88 Types of Turbulence

Whether buying or selling a home, one of the most important things to remember is there more than likely will be some sort of problem or issue during the sales process that will need to be resolved before you can close.  Sometimes it’s unavoidable;…
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To Buy Or Not To Buy

By Karla Nielsen | Dick & Karla Nielsen | Keller Williams Tampa Properties You have been looking for a home and finally find one that you really like.  Now you’re faced with the question:  Should you make an offer, or not? As a…
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Florida Home to 7 of Top 15 Retirement Investments

Via floridarealtors.org IRVINE, Calif. – July 5, 2013 – RealtyTrac released a special report on real estate investing in cities that are retirement hot spots – ones where at least one-third of the population is age 65 or older. “These…
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Home equity loans: They’re back

NEW YORK – April 26, 2013 from Florida Realtors As housing values rise, home-equity loans and lines of credit are staging a comeback, MSN Money reports. In late 2008 as the housing market slowed dramatically, home-equity borrowing came…
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A smoker’s home can lower value up to 29%

April 18, 2013 – A recent survey of Ontario real estate agents and brokers, sponsored by Pfizer Canada, found that smoking in the home could lower the value of property up to 29 percent. “Smoking has a profound impact on how appealing…
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Millennials want to buy – boomers want to sell

Via © 2013 Florida Realtors® ORLANDO, Fla. – April 2, 2013 – Is it the perfect real estate storm? A survey released yesterday by PulteGroup Inc. finds strong demand soon from buyers 18 to 34. Meanwhile, Arthur C. Nelson, a professor…

Survey: Buyer age impacts preferred home size

Via Floridarealtor.org WASHINGTON – March 21, 2013 – A recent study from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) finds that age, race and ethnicity impact the size home the average buyer wants. NAHB’s survey – What Home…

Time to look at the FHA 203k mortgage program?

From Floridarealtors.org WASHINGTON – March 20, 2013 – With the housing market showing signs of growth and expansion it’s surely the right time to look at the FHA 203k mortgage program, financing that allows borrowers to finance and…

Let’s Talk About Earnest Money

When we find the home you want to buy, we’ll meet at our office to write the offer.  Be sure to bring your checkbook!  When you make the offer, you must include “earnest money,” sometimes referred to as a “binder” or “good faith”…