Tamarac Homes Sales May 2010

Are you looking to see how Tamarac is holding up to home sale? Here is the latest for May 2010. Ranging Home prices are from $300,000 to under $100,000.

On top of that we have the range of Home Ownership vs Foreclosure vs Short Sales. You will see that Foreclosure and Home Ownership are equal and that there are not that many Short Sales..

If you still thinking about buying a home, now is still the perfect time to buy..

Let me help you find your way to your new home.

The Broward County Property Appraiser’s Office will be at the Tamarac Community Center…

This is Via City of Tamarac…

This is a great thing that the City is doing for the residence!!

Need help with Homestead [and other] Exemptions? The Broward County Property Appraiser’s Office will be at the Tamarac Community Center…

Do you have plans for the Summer?

So with school just about over in 2 weeks. Have you thought about what to do over the summer vacation? Man if you are like me with 3 kids, you will need to keep them occupied.

Last year I had compiled a few things to do, which I will list here. But during the summer, you can follow along to the things I plan on doing with the kids. Summer camps can get expensive when you have more then one child. So we don’t do summer camps. We put the kids in other activties, from the library to pools and parks. There is plenty to do without breaking the bank.

Summer Fun Reading Program
Extreme Go-Karting

During the summer you can follow along… Do you have any places that you take the kids locally? Please do share…..

Jeannette Neerpat

The Magic of the Treehouse

I never had a treehouse nor do my children, wish they did. You see my daughter has been reading a chapter book series called The Magic Treehouse. She has fallen in love with reading it.

My husband and I built her a puppet board and we used the theme from the book. It’s about a brother and sister who finds this treehouse and when they climb up they find 100’s of books. As they start to read they find themselves from the magic of the treehouse within the book ( the power of imagination).

I managed to find a boy and girl puppet, and she has been acting put the different books. So her father suggested she take it to school since her class is also now reading them. She asked and her teacher said what a great idea. Well it has turned out the school loved it. She performed it for her class, another class heard about it and asked that she do it for their class. She does, and now the main teacher for the libary also asked for her to perform it.

She bought the board home this past weekend and we started adding stuff to the board to the theme. Here is a picture of the board, we are still working on it.

Woodmont home owners wins!

Wow! That’s all I can say, is Wow! I am doing my happy dance! Man these last few weeks have been nothing but meetings and writing.

Have been so upset with the thought of the possiblity of losing the beautiful backyard view of the Woodmont Golf course. I am sure you are aware that there was an application to change the land use from recreational to residential/commercial use.

Lennar homes has been trying real hard to purchase this particular land. They were not expecting the home owners to come out in full force. Petitions, standing outside of City Hall with special shirts that said No Land Use Change. Guess the City Commissoners and the builders knew they lost this round, as the notice says.

I still need to continue this fight, why? There is a possiblity that they will try to come and purchase it again. We fought the sell in 2007, now in 2010 and maybe in 2013. Who knows, but we will fight again then.

So Woodmont home owners, pat yourself on the back for now and take a rest, we won!

Jeannette Neerpat

Thank God I am not a Short Sale!

Let me start by saying thank goodness I am not a short sale!! Let me explain how I got to this. As you have read over the past few days I have been fighting Lennar Homes over the land use here inWoodmont. Our community is having an emergency meeting tom night and the president of the association rang my doorbell and asked if in my Warranty Deed was there any mention of the golf course.

I told them I would look at my deed and bring it with me. So I pull out the folder I had from when I closed on my house close to 10 years ago, and before I was a REALTOR. Going through all those pages I couldn’t find my Warranty Deed nor my Title Insurance. So that got me into thinking of when I was suppose to get them. I thought it should have been in that package.

So now on the hunt to find these papers. I called the title company that I did my closing and come to find out that they are no longer in business. OK now where do I go. I wasn’t sure if I was suppose to call the mortgage company I am with now since I had refinanced two years after I bought the house to change the type of mortgage I got, but changed companies at the same time.

I told myself what the heck let me give it a chance. I called the first time and the number they gave me was a fax, I called a second time and spoke with someone else. Then we got to talking as to why I needed the number. The guy was able to email me the Title Insurance and told me that I can find the Warranty Deed info through them.

So now we are calling this company and trying to read the papers of the insurance was confusing because they were asking me for the OR number. He looked up the number and couldn’t find the Warranty Deed. My thoughts are, Are you kidding me, was it not recorded? Do I own my house? The man just told me to calm down, we will figure this out. I then told him about this being the REFI and not the actual purchase.

He checked another place and viola, there it was, it was on a whole other page. Now what I need to do is to take that number and page down to the Broward County Courthouse and get copies.

But can you imagine if I was a Short Sale how crazy this would be, not having the right papers here, the refi, different pages. Glad I was able to figure it out and now pick up the papers tom.

Have you bought your home recently? I suggest you check to see if you have your Warranty Deed and Title Insurance. I gets sent to you after you close your home. I think somehow mine was not sent. I might not be the first person who is going through this, but at least you know what I had to do to find it.

Jeannette Neerpat

What do you think about Amendment 4?

As we all know that there are 2 sides to every story. What do you think about Amendment 4? I’m sure that this one will go a long way with differences or opinion.

The Flordia Association of Realtors want to Vote NO. Now you know that I am a REALTOR, but I don’t agree with FAR. Why you ask? If you don’t know what Amendment 4 is for, let me explain.

Amendment 4 is for Land Use. Having the people of the City, County and State levels, voting for the change of the Land Use. Right now, if a builder wants to purchase a piece of land, what they do is go to the planning commitee and show them what they want to do to the land, commerical or residential use. The planning commitee either approves or denys it. If they approve, then it goes in front of the City Commission where they vote to either deny or approve. If they approve then it goes to the County and so on.

Now with Amendment 4 in place, this same process happens but in the end it comes back t othe voters. We would get to vote whether or not we want the land change, and if we vote no then it gets dropped. They would not get to build.

Florida Association of REALTORS say that by voting no would bring jobs because builders would need people for construction. I don’t believe in this theroy. You see as of now I live on a golf course, where Lennar Homes is in the process of wanting to change the Land Use of this particular golf course. If Amendment 4 was in place then we would be able to vote on this. Lennar has been pushing this particular land to get approve before Novemeber because they are afraid that the voters will Vote YES for it.

What do you think about it? Are you for it or aganist it?

Jeannette Neerpat

Lennar Homes looking to take away another Golf Course!

If you didn’t know that Lennar is looking to build in Woodmont. I’m here to tell you that they are.

Let me first tell you, I live in Woodmont and more precisely I live on the green. By that I mean I live right in front of on of the holes on the 2nd of the two course they have. My back yard is great, LOVE it and the main reason I bought this particular home.

Apparently the golf course hasn’t been doing so well, they are been losing there clients, I think its due to the bad management they have, but that is my personal opinion. So here we are with a predicament. Since he is doing so bad he wants to sell toLennar Homes. Lennar wants only one course of the Woodmont Country Club, but on this course they are looking to build 255 homes, making about 5 communities. I am directly affected by this. That means taking away that green behind and putting homes there.

Now that makes me very angry.Lennar will be build on Colony West Country clublocated off of Commercial and Pine Island. Then there is Sabal Palmscountry club that closed down several years ago off of Commercial and Rock Island. You would think they could build there since its abanoded. But no they want to build on an Active Golf course.

On top of all that, with the inventory still out there, with all the foreclosure that is predicted to happen why in the world would a developer want to start building more homes with the possiblity of not being able to sell them.

They are looking to build homes with Square footage of 2500 to 3500 sq ft. with a price range of $250,000 to $500,000. Are they really that serious? We are trying to sell what we got and they just want to dump so much more on top of it!!!

Now what has also been said is that, if this land does not sell to Lennarthat the ownersof the golf course is going to let it run down causing no other then to sell. But then who do they sell to and when will that happen?

I don’t want homes behind me, but at the same time I don’t want the golf course to look like crap. So what to do, what to do?

The City of Tamarac will be holding a public hearing in regards to the land change. So I will be attending that meeting.  Will you be there? April 14 and 6pm

Jeannette Neerpat
Helping you find your way HOME!

What do you mean no more paper?

Let me start from the beginning for you to understand the title. I am on the PTA board for Tamarac Elementary. This is my first year on the board, I sit as VP of the PTA.

The PTA runs the fund raisers for the school each year, which helps bring in extra money for the school, or which it intends to do. It also runs some of the extra curricular activites. One of the activies that our school does is called Sunshine Math. Which pushes kids t olearn more then what they are learning in class, almost one grade level up. My daughter loves it and has been doing it since last year. She came in third for her grade level and recieved a metal for it.

Now things were moving fine this year upto recently. I noticed she hadn’t gotten any papers for a little over two weeks. So I sent a text message to the president of the PTA and asked what had happen. There were 2 answers, 1. The kids are testing for the next 2 weeks, 2. Not enough paper and may have to be stopped till next year.

What? Not enough paper, how could that be? With all the tax changes for each county has made the school change the way they supple and supplement the money. One of the things that has to go will be no more copying of any papers, we are over the limit for the year. Now remember its only Febuary and have 4 more months to go. Now what is going to happen for the next 4 months? No homework packets, no more sheets of paper with class work? How are kids suppose to learn without the proper tools?

Now it might seem like I am making a big fuss over paper. But think about it, if it starts with paper, what will be next? What will they take next? This school has over 1100 students and is projected to be close to 1200 next year. How can we use the same budget with more kids?

I plan on going to Office Depot or Staples to see if they can discount on making copies for the school. I would hate for the kids to stop doing this program. Not just my daughter but the whole school.

Jeannette Neerpat

Meeting Team England, Tamarac Youth Soccer

As some of you may know, I have been coaching youth soccer for the City of Tamarac. The Division I coach is U6, which are players under 6 years old. So we are talking about 4, 5, and 6 year old players.

I have to say that it has been an experience like no other. I had never played, nor coached before so this was a first. We had coaches clinic to teach us about the game. Now trying to keep the attention of these children is not easy, but they have come such a long way and I have enjoyed coaching and teaching them.

Our first few games were losses and as the weeks have gone by they have gotten better. We have now lost 4 games, won 2 games and have tied 1. So we are almost even here.

So here is a picture of the Team Players, and in the next few days you will see some other pictures of the team.

 

 

Jeannette Neerpat
Helping You Find Your Way Home!

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