Service Areas
Apollo Beach, FLBradenton, FLBrandon, FLCortez, FLLongboat Key, FLMyakka City, FLOneco, FLOsprey, FLSarasota, FLTallevast, FL
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About Gordon Long
Gordon H. Long Bio Gordon H. Long was born in the great State of North Carolina and grew up in the Dominican Republic as the son of a highly successful Real Estate Attorney. Gordon not only inherited superb exposure and education in Real Estate but also developed a keen business aptitude from extensive Military and Business training, excellent communication skills and advanced education. Gordon is a U.S. Army veteran who achieved a stellar career of 24 years in the U.S. Army, Department of Defense, was awarded numerous honors, medals of achievements, accommodations, secret clearance, and excelled in advanced Military and Civilian education. Gordon achieved a Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Health Care Management. As a Florida Licensed Realtor, Gordon brings extensive experience as a Real Estate Investor and is fluent in multiple languages including Spanish, German and English. Having fallen in love with Sarasota Florida, Gordon relocated to Sarasota 2 years ago. Gordon brings solid residential experience in business strategic marketing and international transactional services to clients across Tampa Bay and Sarasota Florida. In his free time, Gordon also enjoys the local cultural events, venues, athletic events and fine dining with friends and family. Gordon makes it a priority to be active in his community, is dedicated to his client's real estate needs as he is client centered, listens effectively to his clients and achieves results - a superior real estate experience from home search to contract to close.
OTHER LANGUAGES
German, Spanish
Community Involvement
American legion helping my fellow veterans
HOBBIES/INTEREST
Arts ?, fishing, boating, cycling,
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Credentials
LICENSE
Real Estate - Florida - # SL3189465
Designation
Military relocation
Specialties
- Sellers
- Buyers
- Residential Property
- Commercial Property
Military relocation, listing agent, buyers agent, land, commercial, luxury homes, waterfront, beach front
FAQ
First-Time Home Buyer Tips
Pay Off All Debt and Build an Emergency Fund.
Determine How Much House You Can Afford.
Save a Down Payment.
Save for Closing Costs.
Get Preapproved for a Loan.
Find a Home for Sale in Your Price Range.
Research Neighborhoods for Best Fit.
Attend Open Houses and Think Long Term. The steps to buying a house might seem complicated at first—particularly if you're a home buyer dipping a toe into real estate for the very first time. Between down payments, credit scores, mortgage rates (both fixed-rate and adjustable-rate), property taxes, interest rates, and closing the deal, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. There's so much at stake with a first home!
Still, if you familiarize yourself with what it takes to buy your first home beforehand, it can help you navigate the real estate market with ease. So let's get started!
In this step-by-step guide, you'll learn what it takes to buy your first home, from beginning to end. Whether it's your first time in the real estate market or you're an experienced homeowner who wants to brush up on your skills, this list has you covered.
There are two keys to ensure getting top dollar for your house:
Preparing and marketing your home in the best ways possible to ensure maximum exposure and showings (more showings = more offers)
Presenting detailed disclosures and inspections to eliminate any questions or hesitancies about the condition of your home (unanswered questions = less offers)
Hire an experienced agent who knows your home, its value, the area, and comparable sales in the area. S/he will have a strategy for selling your home as quickly and for as much money as possible. Trust your agent and trust the process.
The process works best when everyone communicates frequently, trusts each other and works together as a team. We can line up all of the homes we have sold and it is clear that the sellers who gave us larger budgets, more freedom to do what we thought would help sell their homes, and helped us with the work, made the greatest profit, the quickest.
The “forever” home buyer. Fast fact: Views their home as the foundation of their life. ...
The urban dweller. ...
The quick seller. ...
The profiteer. ...
The first time buyer.
got started when I was 30
,picking up my first property in North Miami Beach , Florida. I'm 57now and these last 3 years have been surreal... I'm at 10 units now.
Everyone around me was talking about "low interest rates" so I finally got tired of hearing that everyday and decided to entertain the thought of REI. I was doing dividend growth investing at the time (earning 3-4% yield), and when I ran cash flow numbers on investment properties in 2012, my jaw dropped... Those returns look astronomical now, but even back then they were incomprehensible to me... 10%+ CoC returns in the Bay Area! So, even as a newbie I knew it was too good to be true.
When I think back to my life moves...
B.S degree? That was worth it as it gave me the career and means to invest in REI. M.S. degree? Totally overrated, I think... I got that in 2009 but wish I would have used those tuition dollars to buy property, instead... or AAPL stock. I would be even further along than I am now. ROI was not worth it and it's unfortunate too many in the workforce drink the academia "higher education" kool aid...
