Alexandra Fernandez Dupille Realtor - Immobilier Floride & Miami

02/24/2022

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01/03/2022

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09/21/2017

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TIP TO REDUCE YOUR PROPERTY TAXES!!! 🤓🤔📉😍✨👏💃

Apart from the existing tax exemptions that already exist, like the homestead 🏠 exemption for primary residence homeowners (which we will go through in another tip), there is a way to TRY to reduce your property taxes... 📉😎

Either you follow the following recipe (the steps described on the picture) on your own 😱 📚 or you can hire a...
.. TAX ADJUSTER!!!! 😃🤓👍👏

They will do the work on your behalf for a small starting fee $ and get a percentage % of the refund check 💵you will receive... .. so their objective is the same than you... 🎯 : win against the county!!!! 🏆
And it can be worth it!!! 💰💰💰

Real estate property taxes are based on the assessed value of the property 🏠🏷🔍, (which was determined by the county property appraiser in each county, and so, reassessed every year📆) minus the amount of any applicable exemptions.🎁

The tax adjuster will work on contesting about the "property assessed value". 👊🗣

Indeed, there are real gaps 🕳 to play with, as the assessed value is based on market price at purchase time 🏷but "market value" is such a fluid concept 🔮 that most of the time, the tax adjuster can obtain a decrease 📉 of the assessed value which will automatically reduce the final taxable amount. 📉👍👏

Worth to try!!! Worse case scenario, you loose the start fee. 🙄
But as we say in French: "qui ne tente rien n'a rien". In English: who does not try does not get anything. 💪🤞

09/08/2017

Hurricane Irma is on its way please if you are planning to evacuate, DONT leave a pet behind they will need you more than ever!! Im booked with sweet Toby. However I can help Thursday, also my partner will be able to help my other clients if need. Stay safe everyone 🐶🐱🐰🐦🐠🐷 *please share and spread the word* 🌀

09/07/2017

Stay safe Floridians!

✨✨✨ Tip of the day ✨✨✨.. Delayed due to Irma hurricane preparedness! Sorry! I was chasing water and gas yesterday!!!

TIPS FOR HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS

Apart from the usual official instructions, here are a few additional tips: 📝

Before the hurricane watch and warning ⚠️ are being issued officially, call your insurance broker 📞 and check the level of coverage on your property 🏡 and belongings 🚙🛥 (boat, car, jet ski, motorcycles) and check your deductible. 💰You may still have an option to increase your coverage 📈or reduce 📉to its minimum your deductible. Take your calculator and see what makes sense.
I just did decrease to its minimum the deductible for my car coverage in case of loss.

Have your public insurance adjuster's phone number and contact info safe and ready to call. ☎️
Call ahead of time ⏰ before the storm 🌪💨 if you know in advance you will have damages to your property (high risk areas). 🏚
This is a person you want on your side and have pre booked to come help you ASAP after the storm, in order to help you with the insurance process. 📑 You have to pay them about 15 to 20% of the total insurance payment, but it is worth it as they will fight 🥊🥋to defend you against your insurance, which might find all the ways possible not to pay you.
They will even fight to get more money 💰💰💰than what you could hope for fighting your insurance on your own.
Good Public insurance adjusters are life savers!!! 😍🤗⛑

For the rest, you know the music: 🎼

Evacuate if authorities order evacuation in your area. 🚨
Lives come first.👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
Don't forget your pets!!!!🐶🐱
Pets lives matter too. Foster them if you can't take them with you.

If you stay, have a lot of water with you.
WATER WATER WATER 💧💧💧
Drinking one. In small bottles, conservation is better. Don't forget drinkable water for your pets too.
🐶🐱
Tap water🚰 stored in all containers possible, such as bath tubs 🛁 and pans for instances for the toilets 🚽, personal hygiene and the cleaning.
Have some baby wipes for your personal hygiene.
High floor apartments may not receive the water as the pumps will probably be out of order. ❌

🛒🛒 Dry food 🥜🍪you don't need to store in fridge and don't need to heat up. Like cookies, chips, can food, crackers, etc.

For the lack of electricity ⚡️: flash lights 🔦, candles, 🕯anti mosquito candles, mosquito repellent.
Prepare in advance some ice in zip bags to keep your fridge as cool as possible the longest. ❄️❄️❄️
Empty your fridge and freezer from all the food your can eat 🥒🥑🥝🌭🍰🍔🍤🥖🧀 before the storm, to limit the food loss and make some space for the ice.

In case of indoor flooding 🌊, wrap your personal belongings especially your important paperwork 🗃 into extra large heavy duty trash bags. Wrap your fourniture like gifts into plastic covering.
Scotch tape with heavy duty tape your windows or nail wood over them to avoid window breaking. 💨

Wash clothes 👚👕👖, bed linen 🛏, bath linen 🛀 before the storm and clean up your place 💎 to avoid rapid bacteria development during the after storm. Heat and humidity are a perfect mix for bacteria and viruses development. 😷☠️
Get your pharmacy prescription before the storm and have some general use medication at home with emergency kit. 💊⛑

Have a battery 🔋 transistor radio and listen to the evacuation orders. 📻

More importantly, stay confined and be safe! Don't take any risk!!! 🕯😘

BE SAFE BE SAFE BE SAFE BE SAFE!

More tips after the storm!!! Stay tuned!

09/02/2017

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08/30/2017

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08/28/2017

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ADVICE TO SELLERS - TIPS TO STAGE FOR EFFICIENT SALE

😱😱😱 How can a buyer see what is important in this bedroom???? 🛏

If you want to sell fast 🗝, the buyer needs to imagine his/her own furniture 🛋🖼 and decor in the property they are visiting so they can imagine 🤔 their life in it... it is much harder to do when seller's very distinctive furniture and seller's tastes in interior design are so visible... 📺😱

Use furniture 🛁🛏🛋 that are coherent with the room's volume. If too many furniture or if furniture is too large (like this bed), the entire room will look smaller than it actually is... so rent a storage room and empty your place as much as possible. Keep the minimum furniture and keep it coherent.

Pack away your personal items 🛍
like photo frames, decorative items and hide your shoes 👠 , bags 💼 and cloths 👗👕.
No one wants to see your mess, it actually distracts the buyers and they don't focus on the property.

Paint your walls to white🎨 if you can to keep it simple... red or pink walls are not to the tastes of everyone... buyers may imagine they need to do some paint work and it adds costs 💰and headaches... 😤🤕

A good Realtor will help you stage your property properly for an efficient sale.

Photo credit: MLS

08/24/2017

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