Helpful Guide for Our "Snowbird" Friends

This is the time of year when our friends from up North start coming to Tampa Bay, Florida to enjoy our fair weather and our casual sun-soaked lifestyle. Every year, more than a million Canadians and U.S. citizens from our more northern states migrate to Florida. Some are seasonal visitors while others consider becoming permanent citizens of Florida.

Some of these "snowbirds," as we like to call them, consider buying a home or condo here in Tampa Bay. Some of these "Snowbirds" also seriously consider taking the additional step of becoming residents of the state of Florida.

In both cases, these folks often wish they had better and more comprehensive sources of information to help them make good decisions about either buying a home or condo here in Florida or becoming Florida residents. While as a real estate agent, I can be very helpful, there is still much more one might wish to to learn before "taking the plunge."

There are two paperback books currently available for purchase that I think can be very helpful to those considering purchasing real estate in Florida and/or becoming residents of the state of Florida. I would like to point them out to my readers:

•"The Canadian Snowbird Guide" by Douglas Gray
•"The Official Snowbird's Guide to Becoming a Florida Resident" by Dean Hanewinckel, Attorney

Each of these books can be purchased from Amazon.com so we have included below direct links to the Amazon.com pages on which they are advertised.








For those of you with an E-Reader device such as an IPad or Kindle, it is noteworthy that these two paperbacks are also available to be downloaded to your E-Reader.

These two books are also available from other Internet sites such as buy.com and books.Google.com and from from many local bookstores such as Borders and Barnes and Noble. We encourage you to consider taking at look at these books either before you come to Florida this year, or, if you are already here in Florida, at one of our local bookstores.

For a permanent home, vacation getaway or an investment property, the Tampa Bay real estate market, after our recent price corrections, is hard to beat. I invite you to request my free Tampa Bay Real Estate Information Package or, for immediate assistance, I invite you to call me directly on my cell phone at 813-263-6806 for more immediate service.