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Sitting at the closing table as a first time home buyer is easily one of the most exciting moments of your life. Getting there though, can be one of the most confusing, stressful, and heartbreaking experiences of your life, making you doubt your quest will ever come to fruition. That is unless you choose the right realtor. Someone that not only knows the basics of his trade, anyone can fill out paperwork, but possesses a wide array of intangible skills that allows them incredible knowledge of the market they service.

I am happy for myself and my family that I found a realtor in St. Lucie County that possessed the basics, advanced knowledge of the area, an understanding of the very volatile local market, and an incredible devotion to getting me into not just any house, but MY house. That realtor was Brad Colean and the rest of his team.

Brad helped my family understand the very turbulent market we were entering into (<100k bank owned properties) and educated us on what to expect. We would have a lot of competition for the good houses, going against investors with resources far beyond ours. Still though, he was undeterred in making sure we attained our first house.

You have to find a realtor that is going to help you find YOUR house, not try and force you into the first half decent place you come across. This can take an unimaginable amount of patience on the part of your realtor. Now let me be clear, my wife and I had some slightly different requirements for our first house and it lead to many instances of being just too picky. Over the 4 months of our search, we must have seen over 150 houses, dragging Brad all around the county, and with gas prices the way they are, I am sure it wasn’t cheap. Brad never complained though. Brad never seemed in a rush to get his commission check, but much more interested in making sure my family was in a house we would be happy with for years to come.

Most importantly was the amazing accessibility we had to Brad and his team. As first time home buyers we had an infinite supply of questions, and Brad had an answer for any that we sent his way. He never seemed annoyed, even if he was receiving the fifteenth phone call from us in the past hour. Weekends or after 6pm we still got answers, if not right away, well within what would be considered an acceptable time frame. We weren’t Brad’s only customers, though we felt like it, he was seemingly on call only working for us! Anytime we needed to go look at houses, whether it be 1 or 10, Brad would make himself available either the very same day or early the next morning.

Overall my family’s first foray into the real estate market was educational, exciting, and a pretty enjoyable experience. I owe most of our positive outlook to Brad’s services. Brad did an outstanding job educating us on the realities of the current real estate market, was never annoyed by the length of our search, and was full of expert advice whenever we asked for it. Most importantly, Brad made us feel comfortable, like he was happy to see us, and when we finally did get the home of our dreams, I am not sure who was more excited, Brad or my family!

After our experience with Brad and his team, it leaves little doubt who our real estate experts will be in any of our future real estate endeavors.

Sincerely,

The Mauss Family (Ted, Nicole & Teddy V)

— The Mauss Family (Ted, Nicole & Teddy V)

Will Cogress Extend The $8,000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit?

Monday, August 31st, 2009 at 8:01 am

Most Realtors and first-time home buyers in Port St. Lucie are eagerly waiting for the Senate to reconvene to see if the IRS $8,000 tax credit to first-time home buyers will be extended. A first-time home buyer can be someone who has not owned a home in the last three years. Currently, the buyer has to close on a home by November 30, 2009, meaning they have little time to go find a home, go to contract, and close on that home.

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According to Allison Ables Trulia blog, a real estate agent in Gainesville who quotes an article in the Las Vagas Sun, Senator Harry Reid, who is the Senate Majority Leader, says he expects the credit will be extended. The National Association of Realtors has been lobbying for its extension. They also want the credit to be given to all buyers and to lift the income limitations of $75,000 per single person to $150,000 per married couple from the credit criteria. Reid thinks that might not be as easy to accomplish. Port St. Lucie sorely needs this extension to help keep our housing recovery on track. We will be entering our season when many Northerners will come into our area to look for the good deals they have been hearing about, and many of them will be first-time home buyers

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