Sean Quinn Realtor

Greetings from the Straits of Florida 🌊 June 1 kicked off hurricane season, and from out here on the water it’s a reminder of how much this season can affect the market back home. Hurricane season is just one of many things that create uncertainty in our market — but here’s the good news: the insurance industry has finally had a chance to reform and recover, so that uncertainty around homeowners insurance is less of a factor than it’s been in years. 2026 is forecast below-average, State Farm and Citizens have filed rate cuts, and lawsuits are down 35%. The caveat? One major direct hit can reset the reinsurance market fast. Comment INSIDER for the Treasure Coast breakdown.

House hacking isn't about living for free — it's about making homeownership possible when it otherwise wouldn't be. In 2026, the strategy is less about eliminating a mortgage payment and more about engineering one you can actually afford. 🏡 ⁣
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Here's what's working: ⁣
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✅ ADUs (accessory dwelling units) — Fannie Mae now lets buyers count projected ADU rental income toward mortgage qualification, up to 30% of total qualifying income ⁣
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✅ Multi-generational homes — 14% of all home purchases in the last year were multi-generational, with Gen X leading at 19% ⁣
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✅ Small multi-family properties — FHA loans allow up to 4 units with just 3.5% down if you live in one ⁣
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✅ Realistic expectations — If rental income cuts your $3,800 payment down to $2,200, that's a win ⁣
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The math has to work. The zoning has to be legal. And the lifestyle has to fit. But for the right buyer, house hacking can turn a closed door into an open one. ⁣
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What is more pure than a dog love? We truly don’t deserve them.

Governor DeSantis just called a special session of the Florida Legislature to vote on eliminating property taxes for Florida homeowners.

Before this becomes a political football — it deserves an honest conversation.

Here’s the process. It needs a 60 percent supermajority in the Legislature this week. Then it goes to Florida voters in November and needs 60 percent approval to become law. Two separate thresholds. This is not done.

Here’s the proposal. The first $250,000 of your home’s value exempt immediately. A path to full elimination after that. 60 percent of Florida homeowners would pay zero. 92 percent at the $500,000 threshold. Never been done anywhere in the United States.

Here’s the pushback. School boards, county governments, and first responders are all saying the same thing — this will cost local governments $18.5 billion a year and devastate core services. Roads. Schools. Police. Fire. EMS. Those are not made-up concerns.

Here’s my honest question back.

Property tax revenue in Florida has nearly doubled in seven years — from $32 billion to $60 billion. Did your roads get twice as good? Did your schools improve at twice the rate? Did response times cut in half?

Or did government just get comfortable with the money?

Because once a bureaucracy receives a dollar long enough — that dollar stops being a distribution. It becomes an entitlement. And the loudest opposition to any tax reform is always from the people spending the tax.

The status quo — property taxes doubling every seven years — is also not sustainable. This isn’t a choice between a good option and a bad option. It’s a choice between two risks.

Florida voters will decide in November which risk they’re willing to take.

I want to know where you stand. Drop it in the comments.

→ Is this overdue reform or reckless policy?
→ Do you trust the state trust fund to backstop local services?
→ Or is the opposition crying wolf to protect a revenue stream they’ve become dependent on?

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The most powerful name in real estate is getting outspent and out-strategized — and its big plan to fight Google is a TV commercial.

The math: NAR runs on roughly $360M a year, about 84% of it member dues. Membership has slid from 1.6 million in 2022 to a budgeted 1.2 million for 2026 — and the money shrinks with every agent who leaves. Meanwhile Google, Zillow, Compass and Rocket are quietly deciding who controls your listing data.

Here’s the part nobody at the top will say out loud: no one is coming to save the independent agent. “We don’t just open doors” isn’t a strategy — it’s a defense. The agents who survive this build a value stack and prove it — sharper pricing, harder negotiation, and local intel that never shows up on a portal.

That’s the whole game now.

📍 Got questions about what’s actually happening in the market here on the Treasure Coast? Reach out to The Quinn Group — no pressure, just straight talk.

Your home search app just became a hostage in a billion-dollar fight — and nobody told you.
Chicago’s MLS cut Zillow off last week. Nashville’s doing it June 1st. When Chicago pulled the feed, more than half the listings disappeared from the app overnight.
Here’s the part that matters for you: Zillow was never the source. It’s a copy of the MLS — the system your local agent actually works from. And right now Zillow, Compass, and the MLSs are in court fighting over who controls that data and how your home is even allowed to be marketed.
While the giants fight, you’re scrolling a list that might be missing half the homes on the Treasure Coast.
It hasn’t reached Florida’s MLSs yet. But betting your biggest purchase — or your biggest sale — on a portal that can go dark overnight isn’t a plan. It’s a gamble.
Want the real market, not the app version? Comment “MARKET” below 👇