Bertucci Group Real Estate Blogs

By Andrew & Tony Bertucci, Bertucci Investment Group If you own a house across the river in Algiers and you are ready to be done with it, you already know the calculus is different from the East Bank. Older housing stock, elevation and flood-zone paperwork, hurricane-repair fatigue, and inherited homes from grandparents who bought in … Continued

If you are behind on property taxes in Kenner or anywhere else in Jefferson Parish, the mail starts turning red. The Sheriff’s Office sends the annual tax notice. If it goes unpaid, it moves to a delinquent status and interest starts accruing. Eventually the property lands on the annual tax sale list, and if the … Continued

If you own a house in Kenner with an open code enforcement case, the letters from the Property Standards Division stack up fast. Grass over the height limit, an unpermitted addition somebody built in 1998, missing handrails on the back steps, a fence in violation of the setback, a rental unit that never got inspected. … Continued

The calls come every month. A parent in Fairhope or Daphne passes, the adult children are scattered across Birmingham, Atlanta, Houston, or out of state, and now there is a house to deal with. Nobody wants to fly in every weekend to meet an agent, stage rooms, and haggle with retail buyers over an inspection … Continued

After every major storm on the Alabama Gulf Coast we get the same call. An owner in Foley, Fairhope, Daphne, Orange Beach, or Gulf Shores has a wind and hail claim in play, the adjuster came out, and the settlement offer just landed. The number is smaller than expected. Now the owner has to decide: … Continued