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Guidelines- what to offer and questions to ask before making it
 I have been trying to cover this subject from several different angles during the past month on my blog. I hope I am not boring you. Give me feedback if you think this helps clearify the process: Here goes: 
Home buyers need some guidelines to help them determine what to offer when searching for real estate and questions to ask themselves before they make that offer. I recently discovered the following helpful guidelines to follow when shopping for a home and making an offer on one.
While this appears to be a buyers market, the situation is not that straight forward. In a buyers market the price of homes should be stagnant or go lower. The Northeast Florida Multiple Listing Service has complied statistics on the median price of homes sold in 2006 versus 2005. It may surprise many that there was a 7.7 percent increase in 2006 for all residential property. Real estate still appears to be a solid investment.
The Pre-qualification process for buyers is the first step in the process of buying property /real estate. The buyers through this process will determine how much per month they can afford to spend on their new home including taxes and insurance. Real estate ... more

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