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Savanna In Weston Florida- Homes For Sale 

We had this cute little listing in Savanna that was priced just right, it was a short sale and we got it approved to close as a short sale. We had a lot of offers on this particular property with multiple offers coming in at the same time. It is a very popular area to live because the homes in Savanna of Weston Florida are just a 30 mile drive to Miami and a 20 mile drive to downtown Fort Lauderdale. Savanna is just minutes from Sawgrass Mill mall and Wannado City®. If you need to do a short sale on your home in Savanna in Weston Florida give us a call.  We have a buyers' agent that specializes in the Weston homes for sale market.

Savanna is a gated community with a guarded gate. It is the largest gated community in Weston Florida. There are around 12,000 people residing in Savanna and there are over 60,000 people living in Weston Florida. 

There are 2,963 homes in Savanna in Weston Florida.  Those homes are divided up into different sections based on price ranges.  

Here is some fun trivia about Savanna that even if you live here you may not know: 

• Savanna has 8 parks, 
• 855 light poles, 
• 119 fire hydrants, 
• 87 cul de sacs, 
• 5,252 Swale Trees, 
• 9,640 irrigation heads. 

The Savanna clubhouse and amenities are extremely varied. The clubhouse here even offers swimming classes and Tae Kwon Do and dance classes. You can rent the clubhouse out for your Birthday parties, anniversary parties, Bar Mitzvah parties and whatever your entertaining venue might be. 

The pool area is very inviting! The resort style pools are immense so you can get your daily laps in right here. There is a large lap pool and a main pool with a waterslide.  There is a kiddie pool that is interactive and there is a wading pool for your teeny ones.  and a playground.

The amenities also include to lot playgrounds, a roller hockey rink, a multi-purpose field and Basketball courts. 

There is a 9 hole miniature golf put put course with lots of shade and decorative landscaping all along the way. They even have a little store right at the clubhouse with snacks, sandwiches and such. This is real resort style living. You never have to leave home for vacation! 

Many of the homes are on the lake with great views. 

The price ranges of the homes range from the low $200,000's to over 3 million$ USD depending on the size of the lot and the square footage of the home. 

The search screen below is a search of the homes for sale in Olympia - Wellington Fl. You can see all the homes for sale right now in Savanna in Weston Florida. If you want to search other areas just change the search fields below. It is interactive. You can use it right here and now! No clicking to another site. Just search for your home right here. Have fun and don't hesitate to call Nestor Gasset and Katerina Gasset with any help you may need at 561-753-0135.

Wannado City® at Sawgrass Mill in Sunrise Florida- A Kid's Place You Will Not Want To Miss Out On!

Our homeschool support group planned a group field trip for the kids to Wannado City® last week. It worked out great for us because we hired a new buyers' agent who works in Weston Florida and that is right close to Sawgrass Mill in Sunrise. Sawgrass is absolutely my favorite shopping mall in the world besides all the shops at Disneyworld. ( we are Disney Fans), but more about shopping at Sawgrass in another post. I am not a big shopper. I like to buy online and I don't buy anything I don't really need or that does not serve a purpose, and absolutely no dust collectors.

So our plan was to spend a day with Julie Locke our new buyers agent in Weston. We asked her to take us on a tour so we could take tons of photos and blog about the are so we could get her the buyers leads that we will get from blogging. We spent the night in a hotel right next to Sawgrass and in the next morning met our homeschool group outside of Wannado City which is located right at the Sawgrass Mills shopping mall close to Rainforest Cafe.

Our son was standing in line and started meeting and talking to a couple other homeschooled boys around his age. He is 7 years old and is very good about making friends with other kids. He and another boy connected well and ended up being buddies the whole day. Of course that meant that I made a new friend also in this boy's mom since we were going around together following the boys on their trips around Wannado City®.

Wannado City® is the largest indoor theme park in the United States. It is so much fun. I was saying to Nestor; I wish they had a place like this when I was a kid. I would never want to leave! You can not do everything in one day so you need to pick your favorite things to do first and then go back through the city to do the second favorite things to do.

Wannado City® is a place where the kids get to explore many different occupations in near to real life situations. The parents are allowed to watch from outside but for most activities the parents are not allowed to go into the specific career buildings except for a few of them.

The first thing on the boys' list was to become Police Officers. So they go into this miniature, child's level, police station that looks very real, a dozen children at a time. Each event takes about 20 minutes. In the police station the adult cops divide the kids into cops and robbers. My son and his buddy were robbers. So they get to go rob the Wannado City® bank, ( just run in and steal the Wannado dollars out of the Wannado City® bank) then they try to hide as the cops come to find them and put them in jail It was so funny and the employees acting out with the kids seemed like they were really enjoying themselves.

The next really fun thing the boys did was CNN. Our son was the Weatherman! He had SO much fun with this activity. It was a real life sound stage with the green screens with the tele-prompters and all! Nestor ordered a DVD of his performance. This one is going to stick with him for a while. He still talks about it a week later!

Among the other events the boys did were:

• the Firefighters,
• Airline Pilots,
• Newspaper Reporters and writers,
• Candy makers, Bakers,
• Pizza makers,
• Bank tellers,
• Cookie bakers,
• Private Eye Detectives,
• and then our son's favorite was mining for gems.

At each one of these learning stations they get paid in Wannado Dollars which are redeemed at the end of the day for junk toys or they can use them to do things like ride the bus around Wannado City ® or climb the rock wall. Well, in the mining trip, they got these fake gold nuggets that they then go take to the jewelry store to sell. It was such a blast!

What a great and fun way for kids to learn about the different careers in a very hands on way. We are going to go back to Wannado City® again!

The one thing that is kind of irritating is that for the parents: once you go in you can not leave. If you leave, you can not get back inside. Nestor was in Wannado CIty ® with us until after Lunch. That is when he told me, this is why mothers have more patience. He went shopping while we stayed and finished up our tour and activities at Wannado City.

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We regret to inform you that we are going to be canceling our listing contract with you. We have tried to do all that we can to help you including feeling sorry for you but you must be able to help not hinder the sale of your home.

When you first called us I felt so bad for you. My heart went out to you. You were no longer able to pay your payments. The first thing we do is have a telephone intake evaluation to make sure that your listing is one that we see being able to close as a short sale. You wanted to keep your home so we did the numbers for you to see if you could get a loan modification. You also tried on your own to get a loan modification. That was not possible as you have no income coming in except for some disability payments. You can not afford to keep your home no matter how low the payments could be adjusted.

We felt so bad for your situation. You really needed to talk to an attorney. You did not have the money to pay for the attorney. We even told you how to go get food stamps and get help from local churches. We did not want to see you homeless and you assured us that you had some friends who were going to let you live in their property. So we held a fundraiser for you. We collected donations from Real Estate agents around the country so that you could hire the attorney and be able to live in your home while we were doing the short sale for you.

I should have gotten a clue when you complained about the amount of money we raised for you! Where was the gratitude then? Well, we moved on and the next monthly payment to your attorney you could not make and now your lender filed foreclosure papers on you. This was over a year ago. SO we paid the monthly attorney payment for you.

Then you made if very difficult to show your house. No matter what we said to you about not following the buyers around the house you still did. You would beg them NOT to buy your house. When we started to get this feedback we told you then that we could not have your house listed if you were not going to sell it. So you laid off of the pestering for a while.

Then you got served after months of not paying your payments, a date for the foreclosure. We got an offer in time. You started to call us every single day about your auction date. What were we doing to stop your foreclosure? Excuse me? The question really is, what were you doing to stop your foreclosure!

We went all the way to the top management consisiting of hours and hours on the phone with your lender and the judge and the case worker to get your sale canceled on the courthouse steps. 3 days before the auction date we were able to get the auction canceled. So now you want to drag out the buyers offer and the processing of the short sale. You tell me your fax is broken, your internet was down, etc. This drags on and on and then the buyer finally realized that you have no intention of selling the house. You are just trying to live without making payments until the last possible moment.

So we place the house back on the market but there are no offers because prices are dropping like crazy in your area. We get you to reduce the price and then the showings started happening again.

Then you get a new auction date on the courthouse steps. You get served the notice of the sale date and call me yelling and screaming at me! Me! The one who raised money for you, who got you food, you held fundraisers for you! You are yelling about what are we going to do to stop the foreclosure this time. Let's see, now it has been 1.5 years that you are still living in your house- rent free.

We start to get the calls again from buyers agents saying that you are following the buyers around the house, telling them your sad story and asking them now if after they buy the house will they let you live there? Excuse me! Live there rent free while someone else is paying a mortgage? You are totally scaring the buyers away and we told you over and over again to stop doing this.

We just can not take it anymore. You are going to lose your house in foreclosure and there is no longer anything we can do to stop it this time. You are the one who created this. I am not going to take the blame nor am I going to accept the guilt. I feel bad. I feel terrible. But we did everything humanly possible and then some to get your house saved from foreclosure.

Sometimes you just need to take on the responsibilty for your own stuff and sometimes we need to learn when to let go.

Wellington Florida Real Estate News: Mortgage Fraud Comes To Wellington Florida. 

We get asked quite often why the prices have dropped so dramatically in Versailles of Wellington Florida.  Versailles in Wellington Florida was built right at the height of the boom and right before the bubble burst. 

The homes are stunningly beautiful in old French Provincial themes and the most extravagant entrance probably in all of Wellington. The entrance alone cost the developer millions of dollars. This is a gated community with a resort style clubhouse and pool. You can read more about Versailles Wellington Homes For Sale on this post that I wrote. 

By the time the building started you could not touch the smallest home in Versailles for under $600,000 with many of the homes selling between 1 million to 3 million dollars at that time. This attracted wannabe investors who were planning to flip these properties before the completion of the building. So what would happen is the buyer would go to the sales office, pick out their lot and their model to get built, then put down a very small deposit, usually about $10,000 To $15,000. The buyer did not have to go through the loan process until the end of construction. Some people bought two or more of these properties this way. Then the bust came and these buyers were stuck with having to close on the loans since they could not flip them during escrow because the values started to decline. Some people leased their properties and many just walked away and let them get foreclosed which drives the prices lower still. 

A federal grand jury just indicted 8 South Florida licensed mortgage brokers, title agents and straw buyers. These people have all been indicted for committing fraud on buying five homes in Versailles of Wellington. 

The indictment consists of 15 counts. The indictment alleges that these people flipped these 5 properties sometimes TWICE in the same day!!! And doubling the value of the property in ONE DAY!  The group recruited buyers who did not have to bring any money to closing, took title to the property and then 24 hours later transferred the title. For doing this they each were paid $10,000. 

Then when the second buyer took title to the property 24 hours later they were getting $437,000 of the mortgage money from Washington Mutual, WAMU. Then they walked away from all of these homes and allowed those homes to go into foreclosure and committing fraud against WAMU to the amount of $8.5 million dollars. 

 Please remember that all people accused of a crime have the right to defense and are innocent until proven guilty. The following names are in the indictment, a matter of public record and reported also in the local newspapers: 

Most of the defendants are from Miami Florida and some also from Columbia, Rony Alberto Aguilar, Reinaldo Perez-Sanchez, Pablo Atouro Aponte-Torres from Puerto Rico, Fabio Salazar, Roger Omar Nunez- Murillo, Idalmis Arias, Ericson Perez of Georgia and Juan Carlos Lopez of Miami. 

You can get a really good price on a magnificent mini mansion in Versailles Wellington Florida! Their loss is your gain!

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Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum is asking the state legislature to pass some new state laws that will make it easier to regulate and prosecute debt collectors who violate the law in their collection practices. The Attorney General's office would like to be able to sue the debt collectors that overstep their legal bounds. He also wants to make it easier to pursue these collectors instead of having to pose undercover to catch them in the act of abusing their powers with consumers. He also wants to make it easier to connect the consumer who has a complaint with his office as well as passing that information and documentation on to the Office of Financial Regulation. It is cumbersome right now to lodge a complaint against a debt collector which keeps people from following through with the complaint process.

CFO Alex Sink will be asking to broaden the powers of the Office of Financial Regulation. The current complaint form needs to be notarized and she is asking that a consumer can file a complaint without notarizing the form. She is also seeking to increase the fines for debt collectors who keep breaking the law.

Consumers and attorneys have said that debt collectors have really gone overboard in this economy towards people who can no longer pay their bills. The state of Florida has received over 1,400 complaints so far this year and not one of those complaints has been investigated.

If you have been harrassed by debt collectors you can file a complaint by going to the State Attorney General's office website at myfloridalegal.com.

Here are the phone numbers for your convenience.

Main office telephone numbers
Switchboard: 850-414-3300
Citizens Services: 850-414-3990
ADA Coordinator: 850-414-3900
Florida Relay/TDD: 800-955-8771
Florida Toll Free: 1-866-966-7226

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