For people
buying a villa in Orlando it is all too familiar a story. We have seen it happen to many.
People buy, it becomes a financial noose around their necks and then sell
up at a loss. Don't fall in to this trap. It is easily done. Villa property companies make it sound very easy. Buying
is easy, but renting your villa or condo out
to meet your commitments is not. Do your homework first. From villa rental magazines,
phone a few owners. Get a perspective on things, ask for their views and
how much time it takes to manage their properties. Ask questions
such as:
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"If you knew then what you know now would
you still have bought your holiday villa?"
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"Having gone through the process, what would
you have done differently?"
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"What information did you not receive that,
if you had got it would have made things easier?".
Remember, if you
intend to rent out your villa to finance your purchase or to produce an
income stream, the considerations are no different from setting up and
starting any type of business - because, in effect, this is exactly what
you are doing.
Providing You With The Right Help
We can provide you
with help, advice and assistance. Firstly we will run through
all the pre-purchase considerations, marketing advice and information and
help you with costings. If you then still believe you can make a
success of it and want to buy a property we can help you with this too - if
you would like us too. We can help with free accommodation,
introduce you to the people we used or currently use (and always have
used) e.g.:
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Our 'buyer's
agent'/realtor (solicitors are not used in the US for property purchase) who
will assist you in buying the right property. He in turn will
introduce you to a mortgage consultant if required or we can make a
recommendation
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Each year you
will need to do an IRS tax return so we can introduce you to our tax
accountant (he is a self-employed tax accountant and not a large company
so your tax preparation costs will be much cheaper)
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Provide an
introduction to the management company that manages our villa and whom
we are extremely satisfied with. (We have had a few management
companies over the years and our current m/c is by far the best yet)
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Provide an
introduction to a US Bank (our own Bank Manager) to open an account.
What's In It For Us?
A good question and
one you should ask and have the right to know the answer to. We will
be upfront with you as we have nothing to hide.
Having seen so many owners come unstuck by
unscrupulous villa property companies we would not wish to see others fall
into the same trap. Take our advice, guidance and help - it's FREE!
As owners, we have been there. Much assistance that would have
been useful to us was not available - at least not at a cost that we could
afford. Fortunately, as one of us is a marketer, the marketing
considerations were planned and thought out before we bought.
Further help and assistance was provided through a friend that
does web design and who is also a professional copy writer. Please
do note that this site was not designed or written by
this friend! We did have it done for us by someone else but
have subsequently modified it considerably ourselves. Some
technical know-how was supplied by this friend! If you
require web design or copy-writing services we would be happy to
put you in touch with him.
We have also set up a villa rental
advertising site on the web (again we were not happy with the
ones that currently exist and felt that we could do better). This
will be free for 12 months for anyone that uses our villa purchase
service. If you do not wish to use our services then
you may wish to pay for an advert on our site. Our villa rental site
is
WebVillaRentals.com. As advised, our
advice, help and guidance will be provided FREE of charge- if you wish to
continue to make use of our FREE turnkey service
then we shall be pleased to help
you with your purchase.
As the villa rental
costs will be met by the buyer's agent that we introduce you to, we
benefit from getting the villa rental cost! If we do not have
availability then we have many friends that have villas that can benefit
through providing the use of their villas. In addition, we also
receive a commission from the buyer's agent. There is absolutely no
cost to you in using our villa purchase assistance.
