At least in South Florida, that is. . I've never heard of a house having a basement. What I found out was – If you want to go below ground, you must install what's known as well-points. These are small pumps – to look at them, you'd think they were giant hypodermic needles – and [...]

Want to buy a mobil home. But, do not know if it will be wise to do so. Here in southern florida. Basically… OK, this is two different questions. The price of insurance on a mobile home is going to vary depending on how much is insured, and the age of the home (not to [...]

House hunting in central Florida , gulf coast and I find the house of my dreams . The only problem is that the house is almost water front and needs flood insurance and also it is an older home so the regular insurance is high anyways . I have heard that flood insurance can be [...]

Does anyone have any preferences for alternate insurance carriers since State Farm may not be insuring homes in Florida any longer? They say that State Farm may not drop people for quite a while but we may as well look around now than later. Do you know what I found? It pays to start shopping [...]

I plan on moving to florida within the next one or two years. I'm not sure on an exact location, but whats the average cost for a simple condo in Florida. With two bedrooms. Also, how much money should I have saved when going to Florida? I will be rooming with someone. Today I found [...]

My fiance and I are planning on moving to Florida in April and we are looking for places to rent down there weather it be a trailer or home. We don't know where to look and we can use all the help we can get. After looking around, I learned — you should try rent. [...]

I live in Ohio and I'm wondering if a florida property that I would try to have rented out the majority of time would be a good investment. Basically… With property prices, taxes, and insurance as high as they are here in FL right now, it might not be as good an idea as it [...]

I live in the UK. When I see programmes about people thinking of buying houses in the USA I am amazed that houses in desirable areas such as Florida seem to be so cheap to buy. Big houses, small price. There must be a catch somewhere, or Americans would buy up all the houses advertised [...]

There is one property in FL that is registered as "homestead". But there are two properties in NY currently generating income. Are those properties taken away. After speaking to others on the web, I found the answer. Good question. 11 U. S. C. Section 541 defines what property becomes property of your bankruptcy estate. Normally, [...]

I'm looking to buy a small single family house in florida on some beach or oceanfront. My budget is 100K max and I'm looking for something around 2Br house. Is it possible ? Which area is cheapest for oceanfront houses ? Where should I start to look. Essentially — I was just down there on [...]