Section 8 housing opportunities in Palm Beach County
Laura Pearlman, a West Palm Beach Realtor who specializes in rentals, said "there is still a stigma attached to Section 8 - that it lowers housing values and increases crime in a neighborhood." "But," she said, "it all depends on the tenant."
Home Sales Up?
"You really have to look at what's current and that's what's happened the last few months," said West Palm Beach Realtor Laura Pearlman of Signature Service Realty. "Everything just changes too much and too quickly in this kind of economy."
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Have We Reached the Bottom?
"In my experience, the only homeowners that are seeing any sort of return on selling their home in this market are ones that have owned their homes at least 10 years, had a fixed-rate mortgage and didn't refinance to pull all the equity out," said Realtor Laura Pearlman of Signature Service Realty in West Palm Beach.
Wellington Rentals in demand
"Rental demand has absolutely gone up, no question about that," said Laura Pearlman, a rental specialist at Signature Service Realty Inc. in West Palm Beach.
Craigslist Scammers in Palm Beach County
"Unscrupulous people know how hot the rental market is right now and they are preying on the unwitting public," Pearlman said. "They know this is just another niche for them to make money."
Beware the cheap rental ... Craigslist Scams
This is an old scam, but it keeps popping up. Someone takes a legitimate rental listing, reduces the price, puts it on Craigslist and requests an up-front payment before handing over the keys.
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"I found a fake ad yesterday." Laura Pearlman is a realtor and she operates her own rental web site. "They are seeing what the realtor has it priced at and then cutting the price in half. They're posting email addresses so people are like 'I've got to get this before the next person does."
Renting vs Buying in Palm Beach County
Just last week Pearlman said she found rental properties for people with high credit scores who could easily qualify for a loan. In the housing boom of the early 2000s, most people like that were looking for their dream home.