As our local housing market continues to hold its ground at levels well below the post-COVID market highs in a post-hurricane recovery to slower, more normal historical sales levels, the biggest wildcards in our real estate market in the near term seem to be from outside influences. A number ...
Spring brings the blooming of many showy, ornamental flowers. Two standouts are the Easter lily and the Barbados lily. The Easter Lily, Lilium longiflorum, is native to the Ryukyu Islands in Japan. Its large white, fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers symbolize purity, rebirth and hope while ...
Mr. Feichthaler: I read your column weekly and have taken the information to heart. So, I entered into a contract to purchase a property in Cape Coral with an “as-is” contract, which gave me 10 days for inspection. During that time, you have noted a buyer can cancel for any reason, or no ...
While expert economists, media pundits, politicians and various market analysts continue sorting through the details of the recent banking crisis and how it will impact the Fed’s next moves, there is a growing debate about the potential fallout from these developments. The view seems to be ...
Mr. Feichthaler: I closed a loan refinance title transaction with you and your team two years ago, and everything went great. We locked in a low interest rate, which looks really good now with the massive increase in interest. Now to the problem. I received a call from someone at the Florida ...
With all eyes focused on this Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting, the banking crisis, interest rates and inflation, the long anticipated decision about when the Fed would “blink and pivot” away from its “higher interest rates for longer” war on inflation was being made after we wrote ...
Have you ever been leisurely strolling through your garden, admiring your handiwork and suddenly stopped short because you see a plant that is in distress? Perhaps you’ve seen pieces of the plant on the ground, or leaves that have holes or tears; and the worst case is a plant that appears to ...
Ironically, just about three weeks shy of April Fool’s Day and a week before St. Patrick’s Day, the “Luck of the Fed” seems to have come up a couple of four leaf clovers short in its attempt to engineer a soft landing in the U.S. economy when Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) swiftly collapsed ...
Dear Mr. Feichthaler: I purchased a lot from a German family last year, and used a local title company. They issued me an owner’s policy for the sales price we paid, and there were no exceptions on the policy, other than the standard plat exceptions for Cape Coral. Last week, I received a ...
I have been rethinking my gardens. After Ian stripped our holly tree of all its red fall berries, I was worried our mockingbirds wouldn’t find anything to eat. As they sat on the wires above me, I started throwing blueberries on the driveway. They flew down and ate them! It became a daily ...
