Kelly Taylor's Blog

If you are currently selling your Lakewood Ranch home, you may already find yourself playing the waiting game. It’s a normal course of affairs in most real estate markets—but that doesn’t make it any less frustrating. You’ve got decisions to make, moving deadlines to order, but everything goes in...

The volume of Lakewood Ranch home sales this fall will depend on more than just the number and quality of listings—though they do seem to be stacking up fairly well. Predictions are always less than reliable, but when a major benchmark is met for real estate activity on the national scene, it ca...

Sparks are flying. Your imagination has become hot and heavy. It’s true love. You’ve fallen hard–for a Lakewood Ranch house! Buying a Lakewood Ranch house is serious business. It’s not only where you’ll be hanging your hat: it’s also a great investment. So when you find the one that’s the total k...

If you find your Lakewood Ranch rental property without a tenant this fall, it may not take long before you’re tempted to take the first applicant who shows up. Sometimes it doesn’t take much longer to remember why that can be a costly mistake! Hastily selected tenants can transform your Lakewood...

It's a terrible feeling to have a mortgage loan denied. Most people are going to feel frustrated, but there are things that you can do change your circumstances. At least one third of all new home applications and one half of refinance applications are turned down. After the real estate meltdown ...

For just about everyone who will soon be preparing to list their home in Lakewood Ranch, selling price is a principal focus. What price will this fall’s market support? How will that number affect the time it takes to attract serious buyers? Are there ways to maximize the ultimate selling price w...

  There are many reasons why homeowners make the decision not to refinance their homes. The truth is though that it can be a costly mistake and the exact amount lost per homeowner is affected by their individual circumstances. A new research study was conducted recently to try to quantify how muc...

Lakewood Ranch residents don’t have to have children at home to know when we’ve gone through the familiar back-to-school rituals. Just turn on a radio or TV, step into a retail store, or drive past a school and the calls to educational muster are evident. At the same time, it’s hard not to be rem...

      Four Mistakes To Avoid During the Mortgage Loan Process So, here is how the mortgage loan process goes for most people. You meet with your mortgage loan officer, they check your credit and debt to income ratios and establish that you have sufficient funds to close. Congratulations you are a...

Once your property appears in the Lakewood Ranch listings it’s time to prepare for the all-important initial open house. Whether it’s really “all-important” (or just very important) is a matter for debate—you can’t really pin down exactly how important the initial open house is because some of it...