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Why You Don’t Want To Skip Your Home Inspection

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 11, 2025. Posted in Agent Value, Buying Tips, For Buyers, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates.

When you finally find the home you want to buy, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement. You’ve toured the place, imagined your furniture in it, maybe even pictured your morning coffee on the porch. The last thing you want is to slow down the process with more steps or lose out to another buyer’s offer because they skipped their inspection.But here’s the thing. Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions you’ll ever make. And no matter how perfect that house seems, skipping a home inspection is a risk that could cost you a lot more than just time.What Exactly Is a Home...

Winderman’s view: Bulls played like Wednesday meant something; Heat just played

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 10, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Heat, Miami Heat Blog, NBA, Sports.

CHICAGO — Observations and other notes of interest from Wednesday night’s 119-111 loss to the Chicago Bulls: – First the perspective: All that was at stake in this one was the presumptive right to host a play-in game. – And even then, it was the right to host a play-in game that doesn’t even assure a playoff berth, but rather just the right to go on the road for another play-in game. – So, sort of like playing for a playoff booby prize. – But a prize nonetheless. – But it still beat the alternative. – With a loss meaning only road games in the play-in round. – A reality the Heat now face,...

Heat fall closer to play-in the hard way, stumble 119-111 in Chicago to fall behind Bulls

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 10, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Heat, NBA, Sports.

CHICAGO – For their efforts Wednesday night at the United Center, the Miami Heat earned a likely return trip next Wednesday to the United Center. No, it was not the outcome sought or desired, but one likely assured after Wednesday night’s 119-111 loss to the Chicago Bulls. So play-in the hard way it will be for Erik Spoelstra’s team. With the result making the Heat’s final two regular-season games all but moot, it appears 10th place in Eastern Conference it will be for a Heat team 20 months removed from the 2023 NBA Finals. Presented the opportunity to move up in the play-in seedings and...

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami pull off 3-goal rally to top LAFC and make CONCACAF Champions Cup semis

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 10, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Inter Miami, Latest Headlines, Lionel Messi, Soccer, Sports.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are headed to the CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinals and it took a dramatic three-goal comeback to get there. Messi scored twice, including a penalty kick in the 84th minute, to lift Inter Miami past LAFC 3-1 on Wednesday night — good enough for a 3-2 aggregate win in the two-leg series. The Herons needed three unanswered goals to win the series and ensure that they wouldn’t lose a tiebreaker. And for Messi, the series clincher was reminiscent of how he led Argentina past France in the World Cup final in 2022. He scored two goals in...

Does Your Current Home Fit Your Retirement Plans?

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 10, 2025. Posted in Downsize, Economy, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates.

Retirement isn’t just a milestone. It’s the beginning of something really special. After years of hard work, it’s finally time to slow down, explore new passions, and live life on your own terms.But with this exciting chapter comes some big choices. And one of the biggest is this: does your current home still make sense for the lifestyle (and budget) you want in this next phase of life?That’s an especially important question right now. Just in the past five years, the cost of living has jumped by 23% according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That’s based on the Consumer Price...

Panthers top Maple Leafs, snap five-game slide

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 9, 2025. Posted in Florida Panthers, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, NHL, Sports.

By TIM REYNOLDS SUNRISE — Eetu Luostarinen scored about a minute into the third period, and the Florida Panthers defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-1 on Tuesday night and helping the reigning Stanley Cup champions snap a five-game losing streak. Gustav Forsling also scored for Florida, which got 17 saves from Sergei Bobrovsky. Carter Verhaeghe sealed it with an empty-net goal with 46.9 seconds left. John Tavares scored his 37th goal of the season for Tampa Bay, which saw its four-game winning streak snapped. The Panthers got center Aleksander Barkov back in the lineup after he missed three...

Texas AG Ken Paxton launches Senate primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 9, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National Politics, Network, News, Politics.

By NADIA LATHAN, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is running for the U.S. Senate in a primary challenge against Republican Sen. John Cornyn, setting up what is likely to become one of the GOP’s most contentious and expensive contests of 2026. Related Articles Pentagon official: US military has no authority to do drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico Trump’s latest round of tariffs are poised to go into effect. Here’s what we know Congressman Randy Fine says it’s ‘troubling’ that...

US egg giant Cal-Maine says government is investigating price increases

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 9, 2025. Posted in Business, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, National News, Network, News.

By DEE-ANN DURBIN, Associated Press Shares of Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, fell in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company acknowledged it is being investigated by the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine said it received notice of the investigation into egg price increases last month. Cal-Maine said it is cooperating with the investigation. The company’s shares fell more than 4% in after-hours trading. Egg prices have hit record highs in recent months, largely due to a bird flu epidemic that has forced farmers...

The Truth About Newly Built Homes and Today’s Market

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 9, 2025. Posted in Agent Value, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Inventory.

Headlines are talking about the inventory of new homes and how we’re back at the levels not seen since 2009. And maybe you’re reading that and thinking: oh no, here we go again. That’s because you remember the housing crash of the late 2000s and you’re worried we’re repeating the same mistakes.But before you let fear take hold, remember: headlines are designed to be clickbait. And a lot of the time, they do more to terrify than clarify. That’s because they don’t always give you all the context you need. So, let’s take a step back and look at what the data really says.Why This Isn’t Like...

Juan Soto’s RBI double leads Mets over Marlins

Written by Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Syndicated User on April 8, 2025. Posted in Fort Lauderdale Mortgage, Fort Lauderdale Mortgage Rates, Latest Headlines, Miami Marlins, MLB, Sports.

NEW YORK — Juan Soto hit a go-ahead double in the third inning and Kodai Senga combined with a standout bullpen for New York’s second shutout in four days, a 2-0 win over the Miami Marlins on Monday night that extended the Mets’ winning streak to five. Signed to a record $765 million, 15-year contract in December, Soto drove a cutter to the opposite field in left-center off Valente Bellozo (0-1) to score Francisco Lindor, who singled to start the inning for the second of his three hits. Soto also singled for his first multihit game with the Mets. He has hits in nine of his first 10 games...