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Yup. We Be Booming

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  Construction jobs in the Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford metropolitan area grew at one of the fastest rates in the country from March 2015 to March 2016, according to a report from  Associated General Contractors of America .  When ranked by percentage growth, the metro region ranked No. 20 out of 358. When ranked by number of jobs added, however, the metro area was the fourth-highest with a one-year addition of 8,300 jobs. This brought total construction employment from 58,000 in 2015 to 66,300 in 2016. Presented  by Dawn Deegan, Broker/Owner of Make A Brilliant Move Realty. Dawn holds the designations of ABR (Accredited Buyer Representative), CRS (Certified Residential Specialist), GRI (Graduate Realtor® Institute), Short Sale Foreclosure Resource (SFR), and is a Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE). She is Quality Service Certified (QSC), holds the Transnational Referral Certification (TRC), and is Gold Key Certified. Dawn is devoted to providing only the best possible services an

Should you avoid moving close to one of these "features?" Buyer Beware.

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The following neighborhood features emerged as the ones that could potentially drag down home values by the greatest amounts:  1.       Bad school: -22.2% (translation: home owners near a bad school received 22.2 percent less than an average home in the same county could get) 2.     Strip club: -14.7% 3.     High renter concentration: -13.8% 4.     Homeless shelter: -12.7% 5.      Cemetery: -12.3% 6.     Funeral home: -6.5% 7.      Power plant: -5.3% 8.     Shooting range: -3.7% 9.     Hospital: -3.2% Source: “ The Neighborhood Features That Drag Down Your Home Value – Ranked ,” realtor.com® (March 28, 2016) Presented by Dawn Deegan, Broker/Owner of Make A Brilliant Move Realty. Dawn holds the designations of ABR (Accredited Buyer Representative), CRS (Certified Residential Specialist), GRI (Graduate Realtor® Institute), Short Sale Foreclosure Resource (SFR), and is a Certified Negotiation Expert (CNE). She is Quality Service Certified (QSC), holds the Tran