• New Construction in Winter Garden FL: CDD Fees, Lots & Upgrades,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    New Construction in Winter Garden FL: CDD Fees, Lots & Upgrades

    The number on the builder's sign in Horizon West is almost never the number you'll actually live with. I've walked enough Winter Garden model homes with buyers to know exactly how the afternoon goes: you fall for a floor plan advertised "from the $480s," you sit down with the sales counselor, and ni

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  • School Zones & Rent Premiums: Clermont & Winter Garden FL,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    School Zones & Rent Premiums: Clermont & Winter Garden FL

    Every August, the same thing happens across Clermont and Winter Garden: showing traffic on family-sized rentals spikes, then falls off a cliff by mid-September. Investors who own inside a desirable attendance zone fill the vacancy in ten days at asking rent. Investors two miles away — same square fo

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  • First-Time Buyer Closing Costs in Winter Garden & Clermont FL,Rebecca Redman-Hamaoui

    First-Time Buyer Closing Costs in Winter Garden & Clermont FL

    Almost every first-time buyer I meet in West Orange and South Lake County has a number in their head. It's usually the down payment — 3%, 5%, maybe 10% — and it's the number they've been saving toward for two or three years. Then we get to the closing disclosure, and there's a second number undernea

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