Florida is my licence. Rexburg is a referral.

Why you are reading this

If you searched for an agent in Rexburg and landed on the site of a Florida licensee, one of two things is true: either the site is overreaching, or it is offering something other than representation. This one is the second. The offer here is an introduction through The Keyes Company, and the rest of this page explains exactly what that is and is not.

Boundaries worth naming

I will not take a payment from you, and could not lawfully do so if I wanted to. A Florida sales associate may be compensated only through his registered broker, so any fee here is paid by the receiving brokerage to The Keyes Company out of a commission earned only if a transaction closes. There is no invoice at the end of this and no version of it in which you are billed for an introduction.

The process, in three steps

Before you go: the structural differences

• Licensing in this industry is granted state by state, not federally. A Florida licence carries no authority in Idaho, and a Idaho licence carries none in Florida — which is why an introduction, rather than representation, is the only honest offer on this page.
• Idaho is a non-disclosure state: sale prices are not public record. Researching value works differently there than in Florida, where documentary stamps on the deed make the price effectively public. Your Idaho agent will explain what that changes.
• Idaho levies a tax on income; Florida does not. It is a change worth modelling against the housing cost before you commit to a price range, and it is a question for your own tax adviser rather than for any real estate agent.
• Idaho is a community property state. How a married couple may take title, and what happens to cost basis on the first death, follow different rules than in Florida. Raise it with your attorney before closing, not after.
• Closings in Idaho generally run through a title or escrow company rather than requiring an attorney as a matter of course — structurally closer to what you are used to in Florida than not.
• Neither the homestead exemption nor the Save Our Homes cap travels with you out of Florida. Idaho sets its own assessment rules, its own exemptions and its own limit on how fast a bill can rise — confirm the specifics with the local taxing authority rather than assuming a Florida analogue exists.

What I would ask if I were you

• What are the property tax mechanics — how is assessment set, when does it reset after a sale, and what exemptions exist?
• How is a shortfall on the appraisal usually handled in Idaho, and what do buyers here commonly write into the contract to deal with it before it happens?
• What is the local convention on inspection and financing contingency periods, and how tight are people making them right now?
• Do you work alone or as part of a team? If it is a team, ask who writes the offer, who attends the inspection, and who I will actually be speaking to at nine o’clock on a Tuesday morning.

What I can do directly, without an introduction

There are two possible orders and they carry different risks. Sell first and you know your number but may need somewhere to live; buy first and you have somewhere to live but two sets of carrying costs until the Florida property closes. Which suits you is a conversation for you, your lender and me, and it is far better had before you are emotionally attached to a particular house in Rexburg than after.

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