North Port Cornhole Tourney

Yes, it is back! The North Port High School Cornhole Tournament. Be there! This exciting event is held at the North Port High School Football field. There is a small entry fee, but it is all for the good of the North Port High School Varsity Football Program. This program has lots of promise as earlier in the year the young guns of the community, the future of North Port High School Football, went to Orlando to play in the finals for Pop Warner for the entire United States. Stay tuned to Bobcat Football!

Sarasota Golf Course Homes for Sale

Golf Course homes for sale:

Venice, Florida Golf Course Homes for Sale:

Pelican Pointe has 48 homes for sale.
The Platation has golf course 34 homes for sale.
Sarasota National has 7 homes for sale.
Venetian Golf and River Club has 59 homes for sale.
Venice Golf and Country Club has 50 homes for sale.
Sawgrass has 16 homes for sale.

North Port, Florida Golf Course Homes for Sale
Heron Creek has 48 homes for sale.

Englewood, Florida Golf Course Homes for Sale:

Boca Royale has 9 homes for sale.

If you cannot decide where to play or live, contact www.playgolfsarasota.com. These PGA professional will do the best job of matching your budget and game to the course and club. Fore!!!

Sarasota County Short Sales

It seems most of the sales in Sarasota County and Charlotte County are from short sales at this time. Charlotte County has listings that number in the thousands, as does Sarasota County.

Banks are doing well with their inventory. They are holding it and letting it out slowly. As they control most of the inventory, they also can, and have, a significant effect on market price. By letting the property on the market slowly, they they can effect market equilibrium.

Market equilibrium is when supply equals demand. When supply is greater than demand, the price drops bringing in more buyers until the buyers buy up the supply. With a lot of homes for sale, prices drop. The banks do not want that as they want the most for the homes they now own from foreclosure. So, they don't put them on the market as they get them. They wait.

They do have other issues also. Stockholders who want a return on their money.

Discount Brokers in North Port

I am unaware of discount brokers in North Port who are not National Brands. It seems to me that dicount brokers in North Port are disappearing. Assist to Sell had an office on Tamiami Trail in North Port next to the restaurant...

The Olde World Restaurant is nearby. There are for sale signs on the building where Assist to Sell was located. I don't believe they are in business at this point, at least in North Port.

I don't think there are existing discount brokers. If any one knows of any discount real estate brokers in the area, please blog here or let me know.

Discount Full Service Realtor

If you are considering a full service Realtor at a discount, find out what you get, and what you pay for. It sounds simple, and it is simple.

Should I hire a Venice, Sarasota County Realtor?

That is the bog question isn't it? Can you do it alone?

Again, your decision needs to be on what you can and cannot do with your skill set. Where are you in the sales process? Are you just thinking about it? Have you already started?

The statistics are that most For Sale by Owners nationally will eventually list their home with a Realtor. That's why you are getting all those calls from Realtors in Sarasota, Venice, or in some cases from the East Coast of Florida. Realtors know you have to sell and they will try to get the business. They are real estate SALES people.

To sell your home it needs to be priced right. The Sarasota Realtor will certainly be the best person to determine the market value of your home. It is because they have the best tools. The best tool, as we've discussed in a prior FSBO entry on this site, is access to the Venice or Sarasota MLS sold data. It is the most current most up to date sales data in your area. Using that comparative pricing, comparing your home to the homes that sold in your neighborhood at what price, gives you the best, most accurate, most up to date pricing.

You need to decide whether or not you want to hire a Realtor. You certainly need this critical information; the up to date comparable Venice or Sarasota Real Estate sales information for good, market sensitive pricing.

Real Estate Attorney?

Yes, Real Estate Attorney's can help you. There are some things the can do and some things they cannot do.

Attorney's can write the contract for you. A Real Estate attorney has experience in writing and negotiating contracts. The contract a Real Estate attorney will prepare will be legally binding. The contract will most probably consider all of the things that a contract on a real estate transaction will require. They will not leave anything out.

The attorney does have to represent one party or the other. That means while you may want to have an attorney prepare a contract to the mutual understanding of the parties, there will be one party, the party who brings the attorney the deal, who may very well benefit from doing so. It may be a slight issue. It might be a major issue disguised as a minor issue. But in either case, the other party beware!

In addition, a Real Estate Attorney has the legal authority to actually close a transaction. While in " title states" (Florida is a "title state") a real estate closing is usually done at a title company.

One thing an attorney cannot help with is valuation. I have seen deals where attorney's put in there opinion of what a property is worth, and end up losing the deal for the buyer client. Also, in preparing a market price, attorneys have no access to MLS, a lockbox key, or other ways to help you with valuation.

In addition, attorney's generally are not known for marketing skills, and usually have had absolutely zero training in marketing.

So, yes, an attorney can be helpful to a FSBO seller. An attorney can be helpful to a For Sale By Owner Buyer. Do yourself a favor and know when it works best, for whom, and what specifically they will do.