The Orlando Condo Blog

Renting out your Orlando vacation home, condo or villa will not only help offset some of the costs of second home ownership but the U.S. Tax Code also provides some pretty decent breaks. 1.) If you rent your home for 14 days or less in a given year, you don’t have to pay any tax [...]

I know, I know, there haven’t been any postings for a week or two but I haven’t had a vacation in a year or two – and friends invited me to ride around the Grand Canyon on dirt bikes. I have a few cuts and bruises to show for it – but at least I [...]

Just a quick email to let you all know that we have recently upgraded our search engine! New features include: Search for all property types (not just condos) Automatic map population with zoom Google Earth satellite technology embedded Draggable maps Local schools information Neighborhood statistics Mortgage calculators Property ‘saves’, bookmarks and email-able links PDF doc [...]

Investors have survived another week of wacky business antics, violent market swings, and general malaise domestically. However, I want to diverge from my normal within-boundaries commentary and discuss our friends on the other side of the globe: the Chinese. Why should we be so concerned with an emerging economy half a world away? Because they [...]

Saturday, June 14, 2008 Registration: 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Auction: 1:00 p.m. Example property below…

One of the Tradewinds condos auctioned last month has failed to close due to financing issues and is now available for anyone who can take it down quickly with cash. The 2/2 units are now back up to $130k but this one can be obtained at original auction pricing of $93, 500 for a serious [...]

For all his aggressive responses to our current credit crisis, Ben Bernanke certainly does like to end with a light touch. The Fed Funds Rate and the Discount Rate both received a 1/4 point cut on April 30th. This was what most experts predicted. Since rate cuts really take about 6 months to be felt [...]