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Unraveling a Fake Foreclosure While Negotiating Code Enforcement Liens

Posted on: February 21st, 2019 by , 17,569 Comments

When we first met Mai Holley and her family they weren’t even sure if they owned a house that had been abandoned for several years. A fake foreclosure action, combined with thousands of dollars in code enforcement liens created an ominous situation where they didn’t know if they would get any money out of the property. At SouthTampaTeardowns.com, our goal is to provide sellers with a simple transaction with less

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Coming Soon… Serving South Tampa Seniors

Posted on: February 14th, 2019 by , 17,633 Comments

Having helped over 80 families sell to builders over the last few years we noticed that more and more of the transactions involve issues that touch on everything from probate law, to inheritances, to even retirement planning over multiple generations. With that in mind, we will be launching a new show across Facebook, Youtube and our blog in the coming days…. Serving South Tampa Seniors will be where we meet

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Sorry, Patty, I’m one of those guys trying to buy your house in South Tampa

Posted on: January 5th, 2019 by , 16,652 Comments

Sorry, Patty, I’m one of those guys trying to buy your house in South Tampa From a long-term customer service standpoint, I would love to do business one day with Tampa Bay Times and TBO.com writer Patty Ryan, even after she wrote an article in late 2017 about all of the unwanted solicitations she gets to sell her old South Tampa bungalow. I’m one of those guys who mails and calls homeowners

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9.09 Reasons Families Sell to South Tampa Builders

Posted on: December 28th, 2018 by , 828 Comments

We wanted to share some of the reasons that families are working with our team to get their properties sold for a fair price to a South Tampa Builder. If you’re in one of these situations, you should know that you’re not the only one and we can help.

Testimonial – Getting a Fast Response When Selling to a Builder

Posted on: November 20th, 2018 by , 17,473 Comments

Testimonial – Getting a Fast Response when Selling to a Builder. Patti and her family had a property to sell that had been lived in for 48 years. She saw one of our ads on facebook, and called one morning and by the afternoon she had a fair offer from a builder where she wouldn’t need to pay for any commissions, repairs, or closing costs. She was kind enough to

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Selling a Hoarder House in South Tampa

Posted on: November 1st, 2018 by , 16,331 Comments

Selling a Hoarder House in South Tampa Family members who are tasked with selling a hoarder’s house are often overwhelmed the challenges of dealing with the property. One poster on the DC Urban Mom site wrote. “The house is floor to ceiling stuff, and there are significant leaks and mold in the house (no one knows how bad it is until we clear out some of the stuff).” Thankfully, there

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Stronger Builder Relationships… Stronger Offers from South Tampa Builders

Posted on: October 4th, 2018 by , 13,447 Comments

We spent the afternoon at the Tampa Bay Builder Association’s Meet the Builder event… and wanted to share a couple of stories about how maintaining strong relationships with South Tampa Builders has helped us help more families looking to sell a teardown. Relationships with more quality South Tampa Builders are helping us sell more and more lots in higher price points… and to make sure that we can move fast in an

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Understanding Save Our Homes Portability… How to Keep Your Property Taxes From Soaring Even if You Sell Your House and Move into a Much Newer, Larger Home

Posted on: September 12th, 2018 by , 519 Comments

Learn how some homeowners pay as little as one third the property taxes as people living on the same street because of Florida’s Save Our Homes Law. Then learn how to take advantage of the law.  I have a past customer… we will call her “Jennifer” and she lived in her house in South Tampa for 32 years before it started to fall apart. She had to deal with repairs

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Recent Sales of Lots and Teardowns to Builders Gandy-Sun Bay South. (East of Dale Mabry)

Posted on: August 14th, 2018 by , 11,517 Comments

Recent Sales of Lots and Teardowns to Builders Gandy-Sun Bay South. South of Gandy & East of Dale Mabry (Updated Aug 2018) As part of our regular updates to our blog we are sharing recent comparable sales prices to South Tampa Builders.  Today, we are going to be posting lot and teardown prices in the Gandy-Sun Bay South Area, bordered by Dale Mabry to the West and MacDill Ave to the

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When Carol Found the Perfect Home… She Called Us to Sell in Virginia Park

Posted on: July 31st, 2018 by , 17,694 Comments

Carol always thought… “Where would I go?” She would get mail from us from time to time… and while the thought of selling her home that was accumulating lots of maintenance issues was attractive she didn’t know where she would ultimately move. That started to change when I sent her some recent sales a few months ago… similar to what you can see at SoldSouthTampaTeardowns.com with this information it made it

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