Gulf Life Now
Home maintenance, buying and selling your home, personal finance, and other lifestyle topics. Personal experience is the key to topics on Gulf Life Now. You need not live on the Gulf Coast to benefit from this podcast. Topics including taxes and how they affect your decision to buy real estate. Retirement planning and buying or selling a home after retirement.
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Podcasting since 2022 • 95 episodes
Gulf Life Now
Latest Episodes
Your income tax rate will go up in January 2025
That great 2017 tax bill which gave us all a big tax break is going away. Elected officials can't seem to get it reauthorized before the end of the year. It is getting in the way of at least one campaign that wants to scrap it becau...
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Season 5
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Episode 6
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11:35
Your house is listed for sale and someone wants to deal outside of the contract
There is always someone who wants to skirt the law. People contact property owners who have listed their property with real estate agents under contract. They don't care that the real estate agent and the property owner have an agre...
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Season 5
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Episode 5
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13:38
Where are mortgage rates going?
No one knows where mortgage interest rates are headed. There are some indicators that we discuss in this podcast. Interest rates are not the only factor in your decision to refinance or buy a new home. You need to balance the ...
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Season 5
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Episode 4
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16:46
Buying or Selling a house? Major changes will affect you now!
Everything is changing in the Real Estate industry. After August 17, 2024, if you want representation in buying a house, you will have to agree to pay your agent for their efforts if the agent is not being compensated by the seller. ...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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52:57
Government backed second mortgage loans something new
Apparently, some bureaucrats in DC have not learned their lesson from the massive real estate market failures of 2008-2010. Freddy Mac a government buyer of mortgage paper is starting a new pilot program to buy second mortgages. Th...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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21:58