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      <title>Acreage and Loxahatchee - Muti-Use Land for Sale</title>
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&lt;h1 align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/305986/Acreage-and-Loxahatchee-Muti" target="_self"&gt;- The Acreage and Loxahatchee  -
West Palm Beach - Royal Palm Beach
Multi use Land for Sale
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  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Land for Sale in Loxahatchee - The Acreage - Multiuse land" src="http://www.my561realestate.com/houses/Loxahatchee-Acreage-multiuse/images/100_3073.JPG" vspace="9" border="1" height="188" hspace="9" align="left" alt="Land for Sale in Loxahatchee - The Acreage - Multi-use land" width="250" /&gt;When people think of West Palm Beach, they tend to relate to the city life. The typical congested downtown, plenty of yachts and boaters, night life and all the other typical characteristics of city life.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The western communities of West Palm Beach, which are also located in Royal Palm Beach and Wellington, may be a little different that you would imagine. &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;Royal Palm Beach and unincorporated West Palm Beach is only about 8-10 miles from the hustle of downtown West Palm Beach, but offers a rural lifestyle and living that may surprise you.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;This is the area of the Acreage and Loxahatchee, where the typical lot size is about 1.25 acres, with a range up to 10 acre lots. While neighboring areas typically have about .17 - .25 acres per lot, Loxahatchee and the Acreage offer space and a rural lifestyle. &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The zoning for this area is 'AR', which mean Agricultural / Residential. What does this mean to you, as a consumer looking for land for sale in Loxahatchee and the Acreage?&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;This zoning permits you to be creative with your land. Below are some example of uses:&lt;/p&gt;
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    &lt;li&gt;Residential Use - The obvious and typical scenario includes building a single family home, but with the extra space you could build a second home for the 'mother in law'. &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Tree Frams and Plant Nurseries - Plant trees on your lot next to your home or dedicate the entire lot for growing trees and plants as a business.&lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Equestrian - Keep horses on your lot for personal use, or have a farm with stables for rent as a commercial use. &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Other animals - See photos below where one homeowner raises and sells goats.! I have seen llamas (or similar animals) in people backyards. &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;Plenty of storage space - Build a large garage and keep your boat or other 'toy' locked away safely from the elements. This may also include trailers, airboats, bulldozers and other large utility items. &lt;br&gt;
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  See the photos below for examples of these uses and for images of the area. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;
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          &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/305986/Acreage-and-Loxahatchee-Muti-Use-Land"&gt;&lt;img title="Land for Sale in Loxahatchee - The Acreage - Multiuse land" src="http://www.my561realestate.com/houses/Loxahatchee-Acreage-multiuse/images/100_3130.JPG" vspace="9" border="1" height="188" hspace="9" align="right" alt="Florida Land for Sale in Loxahatchee and The Acreage" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Below are some actual photos that I took while doing some research on land for sale in Loxahatchee and the Acreage. &lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;You can see some of the examples of the uses mentioned above in the photo gallery below. &lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;You can see there are large houses and construction underway in the area. There is plenty of space and lots are available on both paved roads and more private graded-dirt roads. &lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;In the gallery below, there is even a BMX track for kids on one property! &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="4" bordercolor="#009933" border="1" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="650"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Access to Loxahatchee from the south is via newly expanded Southern Boulevard (a 6-8 lane highway).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Access from the North access is through Northlake Blvd, which is an exit off the Florida Turnpike. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are paved roads which lead into and across Loxahatchee, but many of the side roads are graded dirt roads. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;saddr=&amp;daddr=26.742238,-80.240021&amp;mra=mi&amp;mrsp=0&amp;sz=12&amp;sll=26.742544,-80.238647&amp;sspn=0.13521,0.228653&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=12&amp;om=1" title="Location of Land for Sale" target="_blank"&gt;See a map of a lot that is for sale here&lt;/a&gt; (within 1 block).&lt;/p&gt;
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      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:52:11 -0600</pubDate>
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      <title>South Florida Land for Sale in West Palm Beach - Loxahatchee - The Acreage Lot</title>
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&lt;h1 align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/286797/South-Florida-Land-for" target="_self"&gt;Loxahatchee Land for Sale - West Palm Beach - Royal Palm Beach&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
&lt;table cellspacing="4" border="1" bordercolor="#009933" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="650"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="South Florida Land for Sale in West Palm Beach - Royal Palm Beach" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/0/9/2/6/ar119617342762909.JPG" border="1" vspace="8" height="188" hspace="8" alt="South Florida Land for Sale in West Palm Beach - Royal Palm Beach" align="left" width="250" /&gt;Loxahatchee is located within the Western communities of West Palm Beach. It is known for its rural type lifestyle with access to the local amenities. Loxahatchee, also known as 'The Acreage', is characterized by its larger lot sizes and zoning permissibility. Lot sizes are typically 1.25 acres while there are also larger lots of 2.5 and 5 acres as well.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Loxahatchee is perfect for Equestrian and outdoor lovers. Zoning in the area is AR, which is 'Agricultural Residential'. This permits people to have horses and other animals on their properties, as well as have tree farms and plant nurseries. Horse paddocks and riding area are a common site in the Acreage.  It is not uncommon to see goats, ponies and even a few llamas on homeonwer's properties. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tree farms are also somewhat common in the area. You can get some great deals on plants, palm trees and other landscaping items in areas of Loxahatchee. Some homeowners with larger lots may live on one acre and have a tree farm on the other acre.. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can create your own rural paradise and still be within 10 miles of the biggest shopping mall and best hospitals in the area!! Come take a look at Loxahatchee in West Palm Beach and Royal Palm Beach!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bring your horses, dogs, boats, swamp buggies, airboats, boats and other toys. There is plenty of space in Loxahatchee!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="4" bordercolor="#009933" border="1" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="650"&gt;
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          &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/286797/South-Florida-Land-for-Sale-in"&gt;&lt;img title="Loxahatchee land for sale in Royal Palm Beach. West Palm Beach Land for Sale" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/8/4/5/7/ar119617334875486.JPG" border="1" vspace="8" height="188" hspace="8" align="right" alt="Loxahatchee land for sale in Royal Palm Beach. West Palm Beach Land for Sale" width="250"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Below&amp;nbsp;is a nice corner lot on a paved road towards the Southern end of the Acreage, which is near all the amenities anyone would ever neeed.&lt;br&gt;
          It's priced to sell and offers a handsome co-broke commission. &lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;This is a great  location within the Acreage on a corner lot with paved road frontage for $150,000!!!&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;For more information on this lot or the area, feel free to contact me directly.. (561) 594-1027&lt;/p&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;REALTORS&amp;reg;, I invite you to send me your out of state buyer and will gladly reciprocate with a referral fee. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="4" border="1" bordercolor="#009933" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="650"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Access to Loxahatchee from the south is via newly expanded Southern Boulevard (a 6-8 lane highway).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Access from the North access is through Northlake Blvd, which is an exit off the Florida Turnpike. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are paved roads which lead into and across Loxahatchee, but many of the roads are graded dirt roads. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;saddr=&amp;daddr=26.742238,-80.240021&amp;mra=mi&amp;mrsp=0&amp;sz=12&amp;sll=26.742544,-80.238647&amp;sspn=0.13521,0.228653&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=12&amp;om=1" title="Location of Land for Sale" target="_blank"&gt;Click here to see approximate location of lot&lt;/a&gt; (within 1 block).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="4" bordercolor="#009933" border="1" height="162" cellpadding="3" align="center" width="518"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col" width="500"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.my561realestate.com"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/nick-logo-1.PNG" border="0" vspace="8" height="113" hspace="8" alt="Realtor in West Palm Beach - West Palm Beach Appraiser" width="265" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.enjoyfloridalandforsale.com/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/mybrokerlogo2.JPG" border="0" vspace="8" height="130" hspace="8" alt="Florida Land for Sale - South Florida - North Florida Land -" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
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      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:32:12 -0600</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img title=" pre shave days!!" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/5/4/6/4/ar119376298746451.PNG" height="193" align="right" alt=" pre shave days!!" width="473" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I came across a video that&amp;nbsp; just seems like the perfect mix&lt;br /&gt;of fun and helping others.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As the video states, the event is held every year in memory of a lost brother and doubles to help underprivileged families with food during the holidays and to&amp;nbsp;establish scholarship funds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m glad to hear that the event is bigger than ever before..! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;How great is that!!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; the event is the &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.surfline.com/video/video_player/video_player.cfm?id=11841" title="Tommy Tant Memorial Surf Classic" target="_blank"&gt;2007 TOMMY TANT MEMORIAL SURF CLASSIC &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.surfline.com/video/video_player/video_player.cfm?id=11841" target="_blank"&gt;Take the time to watch this video which is less than 5 minutes in length&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;em&gt; (you have to wait 15 seconds or so for it to start,. be patient!!!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I must say I enjoyed hearing about their new division called the &lt;em&gt;&amp;#39;tadpole&amp;#39;&lt;/em&gt; division&lt;/strong&gt;. This is for kids that are so young that they surf with their parents pushing them into waves.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;#39;s the cutest thing and I must say I can&amp;#39;t wait to get my future kid(s) in the water at the earliest age possible. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have kids and live near the ocean?&lt;/strong&gt; Have you taught them to surf.. you know, surfing keeps your inner child alive forever.. just ask or look at any surfer. :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.surfline.com/video/video_player/video_player.cfm?id=11841" target="_blank"&gt;Take a look when you have a chance..&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/9/9/3/0/ar119376283203992.jpg" height="140" align="right" alt=" " width="140" /&gt;I could get into doing events like this....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;what? what did you say Mr Destiny, the head shaving thing was just the beginning.?.. &lt;em&gt;hhmmm, well, I&amp;#39;m listening..!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(what adventures are in store for this new beginning in life,.. &amp;nbsp;in the mid, a-hem, 30&amp;#39;s.. &amp;gt;gulp&amp;lt;&amp;nbsp; :o&lt;u&gt;)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;now, who wants to go surfing? :)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:53:54 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Top 10 Things about Shaving your Head for Charity, for Nick</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Nick&amp;#39;s top ten" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/7/0/8/7/ar119206292578076.PNG" height="144" align="right" alt="Nick&amp;#39;s top ten" width="142" /&gt;#10. I am now more &lt;u&gt;hydro&lt;/u&gt;dynamic!!&amp;nbsp;I&amp;#39;m able to duck&amp;nbsp;waves with ease :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;#9. I can shower is less time and dry my head with one stroke of the a towel.. this equals more time to blog!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;#8. 1 bottle of shampoo lasts the entire year.. this&amp;nbsp;equals more $$ for HUGS for Kids! :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;#7.&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com/2007/10/09/top-10-best-things-about-shaving-your-head-for-charity/" title="Nick&amp;#39;s top ten" target="_blank"&gt;-=(click here for more.......................---&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt;)=-&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:37:53 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Update: Shave your Head date + Experiences</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/205540/Update-Shave-your-Head-date-Experiences" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/2/1/5/2/ar118988280825122.jpg" height="25" align="right" alt=" " width="32" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img title="Nick at Rips Co Surf &amp;amp; Skate shop in Royal Palm Beach" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/6/3/1/8/ar118986786081361.JPG" height="300" align="right" alt="Nick at Rips Co Surf &amp;amp; Skate shop in Royal Palm Beach" width="400" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/205540/Update-Shave-your-Head" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shave your head Charity update!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hi folks.. I just want to update the people&amp;nbsp;that are interested in the fund-raiser and also &lt;strong&gt;Thank the kind hearted people that have sent in checks and written posts&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I&amp;#39;ll be sending out post cards at the end of the event to thank each of you individually)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today is the day!! ok, so it WAS the day to do the head shaving. &lt;strong&gt;It&amp;#39;s been postponed&lt;/strong&gt;, since we are no where near the goal. Yes, I&amp;#39;m still going to do it, but next week on Saturday night. &lt;em&gt;(Sept 22, 2007 8pm at Rips Co Surf Shop)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The blogging world has only taken this fund raiser so far (and I&amp;#39;m thankful for the support).. and being the person who I am, I won&amp;#39;t settle to put my arms down and give up. I&amp;#39;m going out with a fight. These kids and parents are fighting everyday.. so will I.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have a minute of your blogging time to forward this link&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.ShaveYourHeadforCharity.com"&gt;www.ShaveYourHeadforCharity.com&lt;/a&gt;) to all the people in your contact book and ask them to do the same, we can potentially reach a few thousand people, if at least 10 of us do it..? &lt;u&gt;Can I ask for that??&lt;/u&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(I know we&amp;#39;va all forwarded less important things)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#39;s how it went at the car show last night..&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com/2007/09/15/the-final-stretch-change-of-game-plan/" title="Change of Game plan" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Read more about the experience and CHANGE OF GAME PLAN here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;&amp;lt;..&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;comment to show support if you like. Hopefully many people from the car show will see the page also..&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;at &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/94611/Rips-Surfing-Co-Surf" title="Rips Co. Surf &amp;amp; Skate shop in Royal Palm Beach" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rips Co. Surf Shop&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;..&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/maps/ripssurfingcomap.htm" title="Royal Palm Beach Surf Shop" target="_blank"&gt;map to royal palm beach surf shop&lt;/a&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;later gators..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/3/7/4/9/ar119057705194739.JPG" height="70" align="left" alt=" " width="108" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; all done!!! &lt;a href="http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com/2007/09/23/the-day-to-shave-head-for-charity-has-come/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com/2007/09/23/the-day-to-shave-head-for-charity-has-come/&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="no clip Nick" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/5/8/8/4/ar119197551348858.JPG" height="101" align="left" alt="no clip Nick" width="110" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EDIT:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;10-9-2007&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; -for those of you requesting a closer shave.. :)&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&amp;#39;no-clip Nick&amp;#39;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:52:27 -0500</pubDate>
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      <title>Palm Beach Boating Safety - Peanut Island FUN</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/185153/Palm-Beach-Boating-Safety-Peanut-Island" title="Palm Beach Boating Safety on Peanut Island" target="_blank"&gt;PALM BEACH BOATING ON PEANUT ISLAND - FUN&#160;FOR LABOR DAY IN THE SUN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/185153/Palm-Beach-Boating-Safety" title="Palm Beach Boating Safety around Peanut Island" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/2/5/5/2/ar118860547625529.jpg" height="25" align="right" alt=" " width="32" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img title="Peanut Island Fun for Labor Day Weekend" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/4/5/0/2/ar118857324720543.JPG" height="225" align="right" alt="Peanut Island Fun for Labor Day Weekend" width="300" /&gt;Palm Beach Boating Awareness&#160;during the Labor Day&#160;weekend..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;The Labor Day weekend is approaching and all the locals know what that means&lt;/u&gt;.&#160;Long weekends here&#160;make it a perfect time for lots of boating in Palm Beach!! Yes, this extended weekend that is coming up is sure to offer lots of fun in the sun at Peanut Island and other popular boating areas, like the sandbar in Jupiter.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I'd like to preface this by saying that I've been to Peanut Island on many occasions and have never had a bad time, a problem or seen an incident. Then again, I like to stick to the south east side on the beach, just south of the docks. Any shenanigans are more likely to happen on the north side and the sandbar.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Drinking and&#160;hot weather just don't mix..&lt;/strong&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Most Florida beaches do not allow drinking on the beach, but Peanut Island does.&lt;/u&gt; This means a lot of sun, heat, people having fun and beer. This translates into people getting a little too loopy with plenty of alcohol which doesn't mix well with a sun that wont quit beating below 90 degrees. Did I mention that a few weeks ago a boat full of stripper showed up on the sandbar and the local guys were going nuts and getting a little to riled up. There was mention of a girl being found face down in the water after getting alcohol poisoning. Sadly&#160;enough,&#160;no one around her even noticed.&#160;She was rushed to the hospital once the police noticed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img title="Peanut Island Boating in Palm Beach" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/7/9/7/4/ar118860110647971.JPG" height="225" align="left" alt="Peanut Island Boating in Palm Beach" width="300" /&gt;Be Safe when you're boating in Palm Beach..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Safety is an issue whenever there is a lot of water traffic.&lt;/u&gt;&#160;Turns out that June and July normally see the most boating accidents due to congestion and inexperienced boaters.&#160;When Peanut Island gets packed, it gets really packed. Consider that normally, 1,000 to 2,000 people will visit&#160;Peanut Island on any given weekend day. With the festive weekend, you could probably bet that it will be many many more.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Starting August 12, 2007, Operation Zero tolerance is in effect..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Sadly enough, there have been some situations recently on the 86 acre recreational park.&lt;/u&gt;Well, the police just are not having it. We are talking about police boats from 4 nearby cities, the County police and the Coast Guard. If you're boating, you may get stopped more than once. This is a place where people can bring their&#160;families and the enforcement to keep it this way is in full effect. Even the water taxis that take you from SailFish Marina on Singer Island are being enforced by police with ID checkpoints. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Beginning on August 12, the&#160;police have been cracking down&#160;and busted 19 kids for underage drinking and&#160;23 boaters for other violations. Drinking and boating just don't mix, as changing tides rush in and out of the nearby inlet, causing current changes in the channel near the island. Today is a full moon, so watch those tides!!&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;iframe src="http://digitalappraiser.biz/images/peanutpics-laborday2007" height="650" align="center" width="700"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/56181/Peanut-Island-in-Palm-Beach-County" title="Peanut Island info" target="_blank"&gt;More on Peanut Island..&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/59867/Palm-Beach-Inlet-via-Peanut-Island" title="Jet Ski video in Palm Beach Surf" target="_blank"&gt;Jet Ski vids around Peanut Island in Palm Beach, Jumping Waves and playing in the Surf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Check out some other Peanut Island videos including video from the Jet Ski Cam below!!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="445" align="center" width="780"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFN0W4S-FuVGszYTu2VHQrTKMCOr1o_UOVc="&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/params&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFN0W4S-FuVGszYTu2VHQrTKMCOr1o_UOVc=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="445" wmode="transparent" align="center" width="780"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:05:35 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/185153/Palm-Beach-Boating-Safety</link>
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      <title>Foreclosures creating Health concerns in Florida?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Attention Florida homeowners!&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/2/7/2/4/ar118826948342722.jpg" height="132" align="right" alt=" " width="180" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Were your neighbors foreclosed on in the past few months? &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are there houses in the area that are&amp;nbsp;obviously vacant?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Do these vacant home have pools?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chances are that this could affect your family&amp;#39;s health..!!&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;How so?&lt;/em&gt; you may ask..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Truthfully, I never considered the idea &lt;/strong&gt;of a vacant home nearby being&amp;nbsp;a problem or a health issue for myself or my family. After finding some information online, it seems that there are possible dangers lurking nearby.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Vacant homes&lt;/strong&gt; with pools that are not cleaned, filtered and turning green&amp;nbsp;create an&amp;nbsp;ideal environment &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;breeding ground for mosquitoes and other arthropods that can carry, amongst other things, the West Nile Virus. It doesn&amp;#39;t mean that every mosquito out there has it, but potentially, they can carry it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;u&gt;quoting The Florida Department of Health&amp;#39;s website:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Arboviral diseases are those that are caused by an arthropod (insects such as mosquitoes, ticks, mites, and midges). These include West Nile virus, Eastern Equine Encephalitis virus, and St. Louis Encephalitis virus, which are all mosquito-borne diseases found in Florida.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;So it a major issue in Florida? I&amp;#39;m not sure, but I don&amp;#39;t think so. I only see one county in Northern Florida with an alert.&amp;nbsp;(&lt;a href="http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/community/arboviral/maps/arboviral/2007/Medical_Alert_Status_08_22_07.pdf" title="PDf map of Florida Counties with WNV alerts" target="_blank"&gt;see PDF map&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;-Would I buy a few extra cans of &amp;#39;OFF&amp;#39; next time I go to the supermarket if there are vacant homes in the area? -Yes, it couldn&amp;#39;t hurt to have some extra repellent to be on the safe side.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anywhere there is standing water&lt;/strong&gt;, there is a potential for mosquito breeding. Abandoned or empty homes&amp;nbsp;can have multiple areas in the backyard that can hold standing water. These include car tires, flooded plant pots and old plastic/decorative ponds jsut to name a few.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How does that saying go? -&lt;em&gt;An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.doh.state.fl.us/Environment/community/arboviral/index.html" title="Florida Department of Health Website" target="_blank"&gt;Florida Department of Health Information &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.doh.state.fl.us/" title="DOH home page" target="_blank"&gt;Florida Department of Health Website Homepage&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bam.gov/sub_diseases/diseases_westnile.html" title="Center for Disease Control" target="_blank"&gt;Information for Kids from the Center For Disease Control&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/q&amp;amp;a.htm" title="CDC&amp;#39;s Q&amp;amp;A on West Nile Virus" target="_blank"&gt;Center for Disease Control - Frequently Asked Questions about the West Nile Virus&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/westnile/wnv_factSheet.htm" title="West Nile Virus fact Sheet" target="_blank"&gt;West Nile Virus Prevention - Fact Sheet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:05:22 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/186740/Foreclosures-creating-Health-concerns</link>
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      <title>Palm Beach Fundraiser update</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So here we are, almost halfway to that special date when my head gets a trimming.&lt;/strong&gt; Its been quite an experience so far and i can&amp;#39;t wait to ride this out and see what else pops up, whether its a thought in my head or an opportunity or experience in real life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img title="why such a Smiley face? Help others without expecting someting in return and find out." src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/7/4/6/9/7/ar11880068879647.JPG" height="234" align="right" alt="why such a Smiley face? Help others without expecting someting in return and find out." width="164" /&gt;Some things can be explained and others you just have to feel to understand. &lt;/strong&gt;I can tell you what its like to surf a 6 foot wave, but it won&amp;#39;t compare at all to you experiencing it first hand. ok, maybe something you folks can relate to a little better....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;...you have a child and your love for that child&lt;/strong&gt; is all encompassing and it has no end. Your love can extend from one end of this universe to another.. and it will be clear to you. I may think i understand, by relating to the love for my parents or my dog,. but do i really&amp;nbsp;feel what you&amp;#39;re feeling.?&amp;nbsp;Now you can tell me about this deepness of love and explain it until you&amp;#39;re blue in the face, and the day I have a child it will become clear.. almost instantly.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So getting back on track.. &lt;/strong&gt;this experience is great for the families and the organization. There is no doubt about that. Nothing makes me happier to hear that they are benefiting from this fundraiser. &lt;strong&gt;To give without expecting anything in return in a big thing.&lt;/strong&gt; You have to give to experience it.. i just can transmit the feeling through words on this blog.. or in person. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So here is the bonus out of all this... &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com/2007/08/14/thought-of-the-day/" target="_blank"&gt;Feelings, emotions and thoughts&lt;/a&gt; that I had not experienced before, the perspective has changed. Yes, a shift in perspective because of the experience. I&amp;#39;ve always been grateful, as my first post on AR shows. I&amp;#39;ve always have compassion for others, without a desire to hurt anyone. But now the experience has taught me something.. well a few things. And i&amp;#39;m sure it will teach me more things as the date approaches, as the hair comes out and then as i&amp;#39;m walking around with a new look. Other people&amp;#39;s reactions, my ego and other factors will influence my thinking and cause me to grow, as situations arise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So it seems that this is a&lt;em&gt; WIN, WIN, WIN, WIN&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;WIN&lt;/em&gt; for the families.. first and foremost. &lt;em&gt;WIN&lt;/em&gt; for the non-profit agency helping these families. &lt;em&gt;WIN&lt;/em&gt; for the people who donated and got that love buzz.. and &lt;em&gt;WIN &lt;/em&gt;for me, as little Nicky grows a bit more (figuratively speaking of course;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Look at these posts below that the AR members have written..&lt;/strong&gt; it shows how much they care and want to help. &lt;br /&gt;There has got to be something in there.. and there is.. the feeling of giving, helping and doing something good or great for another human being without expecting something in return.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;aahhh... gotta love it!&amp;nbsp; but you gotta&amp;nbsp;DO it to experience it..!!!&amp;nbsp; You can &lt;a href="http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com/2007/08/20/finding-a-way-to-give/" title="Find a Way to Give" target="_blank"&gt;find a way to give&lt;/a&gt; if you really want to!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ruth &amp;amp; Jim Jacobs&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/171137/Nicolas-Our-Hero-Shaving" rel="bookmark"&gt;Nicolas, Our Hero, Shaving His Head for &amp;quot;Hugs for Kids&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rick &amp;amp; Ines&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/172224/Shave-your-head-for" rel="bookmark"&gt;Shave your head for charity - Let&amp;#39;s help Nick&amp;#39;s fund raiser&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fran White&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/170999/Bald-in-the-Rain" title="Bald in the Rain - by Fran White" target="_blank"&gt;Bald in the Rain&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maggie Dokic&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/177556/Will-You-Give-Up" rel="bookmark"&gt;Will You Give Up 1 Dinner Out To Help A Child?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sarah Cooper&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/178201/Time-to-Strap-On" rel="bookmark"&gt;Time to Strap On Your Wings!&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sarah Cooper &lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/182968/Is-That-All-You" rel="bookmark"&gt;Is That All You Got?!&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Celeste &amp;#39;Sally&amp;#39; Cheeseman&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/178426/A-Broader-Look-at" rel="bookmark"&gt;A Broader Look at Our Active Rain Community: Support and Aid for those in Need&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Shane Leady&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/183671/Apella-s-Friday-Community" rel="bookmark"&gt;Apella&amp;#39;s Friday Community Connection - Active Rain Members Support Their Communities&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m looking for guest writers at the &lt;a href="http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com" title="Shave your Head for Charity" target="_blank"&gt;ShaveyourHeadforCharity&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;blog.. got any feelings or thoughts related to donating or&amp;nbsp;charity that&amp;nbsp;you want to share? &lt;a href="http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com/wp-register.php" target="_blank"&gt;Just register&lt;/a&gt; and I&amp;#39;ll grant you author access within the day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;** I also want to mention that Karen George can use your help too..&lt;/strong&gt; **&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/168262/Contributions-For-Karen-George" rel="bookmark"&gt;Contributions For Karen George: Response To What You Can Do To Help&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/172167/The-Outpouring-Of-Love"&gt;The Outpouring Of Love for Karen George&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/171961/We-Have-The-Power"&gt;We Have The Power To Raise Over $400K For Karen George&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/169350/Calie-Waterhouse-s-Post"&gt;Calie Waterhouse&amp;#39;s Post - PLEASE PRAY FOR KAREN GEORGE&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/169280/the-compassion-of-Active"&gt;the compassion of Active Rain, a few kind words would mean so much&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Karen gave of her knowledge in a selfless manner. I think she knows the feeling i&amp;#39;m talking about. Time to help her out as well. I know i cut two checks this month, one for Karen and one for HUGS for Kids.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;is this a great community or what?&amp;nbsp; come on, group&amp;nbsp;hug!!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;;^&lt;u&gt;)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:19:45 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/184117/Palm-Beach-Fundraiser-update</link>
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      <title>Some Prayers for Jamaica &amp; Central America</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Just a quick note to remind everyone that &lt;strong&gt;Hurricane Dean&lt;/strong&gt; is tearing through the Carribean.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/7/0/4/7/ar118753425874071.jpg" height="119" align="right" alt=" " width="150" /&gt;Dean became a category 4 storm overnight&lt;/strong&gt;, after being anounced as a Tropical Storm a few days ago. Seems like as soon as he hit the Carribean Sea, the warm waters gave him the fuel to become strong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Having been throught numerous hurricanes&lt;/strong&gt;, as my collegues who have lived in Florida for a while have also have, I can really relate to this experience. A cat 2 storm is enough to make me nervous, a 3 might even make me leave the area.. but a 4 is a monster. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Consider the limited resources&lt;/strong&gt; in these countries that are in the path of Dean and how the impact of a storm can cause so much more devastation due to weaker&amp;nbsp;building types and varying construction materials. The ability to bounce back after a storm like this is quite different from being in the States. Food, shelter and dry clothes suddenly are not readily available.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Good news&lt;/strong&gt; is that Dean is traveling at 18mph, which is pretty quick for a Hurricane. This means the storm will not linger and Frances did here a few back.. &lt;em&gt;(we were locked up for 22 hours on that one.. she just stalled right over us!)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Please, stop and give a little prayer for the people bracing for this storm today, Sunday 8-19-2007.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and then you can give thanks for not being in the storm today ! :&lt;u&gt;)&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.goes.noaa.gov/HURRLOOPS/huirloop.html" title="Satelitte Loop of the Carribean" target="_blank"&gt;here is a link to see where Dean is..&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:39:01 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/178248/Some-Prayers-for-Jamaica</link>
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      <title>Shave your Head for Charity - Nick's fund raiser</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ok folks, here we go again with another hair post.&lt;/strong&gt; This one is a little different.&amp;nbsp;The last one was to donate the hair for wigs for children with diseases that cause hair loss. That is &lt;a href="http://www.locksoflove.org/" title="Locks of Love website" target="_blank"&gt;Locks for Love&lt;/a&gt; based out of Lake Worth in Palm Beach. &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/32347/Hair-Today-gone-Tomorrow" target="_blank"&gt;&amp;gt;here is that old post, man my hair was long!!&amp;lt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Today I am asking for your donations&lt;/strong&gt; to help another non profit agency, &lt;strong&gt;Hugs for Kids&lt;/strong&gt;.&amp;nbsp;A non-profit agency that &amp;nbsp;works to prevent child abuse and neglect by&amp;nbsp;teaching expectant mothers how to care for their babies and provide a safe environment with support and aid.&amp;nbsp; Their mission statement is on their site, just click the link above.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img title="Jim Jacobs is dying to cut that hair!!" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/0/2/9/7/ar118678215379209.JPG" height="243" align="right" alt="Jim Jacobs is dying to cut that hair!!" width="300" /&gt;Here what i&amp;#39;m willing to do.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;strong&gt;I will shave my head down to almost nothing with a #1 clip, film it, post it so you can have a blast watching it, over and over.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MY GOAL IS TO RAISE $5,000&lt;/strong&gt;. I&amp;#39;m asking for a $20 donation&amp;nbsp;per person, but will accept anything you can or are willing to give. With the amount of people here, a $5,000 goal is very feasible. That&amp;#39;s 250 people at $20 and seems very realistic considering the number of people we have on AR.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;100% of the proceeds will go to &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.hugsforkids.org/" title="Hugs for Kids website" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hugs for Kids&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;, and specifically the Healthy Families Program. &lt;/strong&gt;The money is for basic necessities to help support these families. We are talking about diapers, formula, high chairs, new car seats, bus passes for medical checkups, thermometers (which there is a great lack of), baby clothes and whatever else is needed. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A wish List will be put up on &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shaveyourheadforcharity.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.shaveyourheadforcharity.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;(soon) &lt;/em&gt;along with the running total of how much money is donated &lt;em&gt;(done!) &lt;/em&gt;and hopefully some pictures,if the agency will permit it.&lt;br /&gt;Also, donors will get their name and business info on the site with a link back to their site if they wish.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I&amp;#39;m open to ideas &lt;/strong&gt;for things to put up on the site to make it a success.&amp;nbsp;It&amp;#39;s a wordpress blog so that people can leave comments and it can be more interactive. email me your ideas via &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" title="Nick&amp;#39;s profile page" target="_blank"&gt;my profile&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is my first time doing something like this at this level, but I am confident with your support and others near me, that it can be done and make a BIG difference in the lives of MANY families. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;--&amp;gt;&amp;gt; **EDIT** We are accepting checks at the address below, made out to Hugs for Kids... and hope to turn in the first batch of checks on Friday of THIS week!!!!&amp;nbsp; &amp;lt;&amp;lt;--&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reason for this is to make sure the cash goes to the correct program within Hugs for Kids&lt;/strong&gt;, which is &lt;strong&gt;Healthy Families.&lt;/strong&gt; If you are set on claiming your donation as a deduction, becuase you&amp;#39;re going to donate a HUGE amount ;), then you can freely donate directly to the company and &lt;strong&gt;MAKE SURE to put HEALTHY FAMILIES PROGRAM &lt;/strong&gt;on the memo section of the check. If not, it&amp;nbsp;may go into any of their programs!! &lt;a href="http://www.hugsforkids.org/donate.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Here is their donation form.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Any takers willing to donate and/or blog about it and point back to this post or the website&lt;/strong&gt;? please say yes!&lt;br /&gt;if you&amp;#39;re still undecided, &lt;a href="http://www.wptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=A7178D83-3DDD-4331-9EF7-B4E8F932C011&amp;amp;gsa=true" target="_blank"&gt;check this out, single mother with a child with cancer... and two more children.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;(i actually donated time and my truck to take donated furniture to this young lady)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;date&amp;nbsp;for head shaving is Saturday,&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;September 15th, 2007 &lt;/strong&gt;:)&lt;br /&gt;location is unknown, but likely to be private.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;FOR DONATIONS:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;img title=" the &amp;#39;before&amp;#39; picture" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/0/8/2/1/ar118729122012808.JPG" height="143" align="right" alt=" the &amp;#39;before&amp;#39; picture" width="205" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Make checks out to: &lt;strong&gt;Hugs for Kids&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;in the memo put:&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Healthy Families - client&amp;#39;s incentive&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MAIL TO:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ATTN: Nick the Appraiser &lt;br /&gt;Quantum One Realty &lt;br /&gt;3307 Northlake Blvd, Suite #103&lt;br /&gt;Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33403&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;A SUPER BIG THANK YOU to some bloggers on AR that are creating awareness..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ruth &amp;amp; Jim Jacobs&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/171137/Nicolas-Our-Hero-Shaving" rel="bookmark"&gt;Nicolas, Our Hero, Shaving His Head for &amp;quot;Hugs for Kids&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; -big hearts and great people, can&amp;#39;t say enough good about them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rick &amp;amp; Ines&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/172224/Shave-your-head-for" rel="bookmark"&gt;Shave your head for charity - Let&amp;#39;s help Nick&amp;#39;s fund raiser&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; -solid people, good hearted. gotta love their attitudes and friendliness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fran White&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/170999/Bald-in-the-Rain" title="Bald in the Rain - by Fran White" target="_blank"&gt;Bald in the Rain&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-Gotta love Fran!! She&amp;#39;s always been fun to chat with.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maggie Dokic&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/177556/Will-You-Give-Up" rel="bookmark"&gt;Will You Give Up 1 Dinner Out To Help A Child?&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; -Maggie is offering to raffle a weekend at her cabin if you donate $50 or more!! wow Maggie.!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sarah Cooper&lt;/strong&gt; - &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/178201/Time-to-Strap-On" rel="bookmark"&gt;Time to Strap On Your Wings!&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;&amp;gt;get ready to sniffle&amp;lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sarah Cooper&lt;/strong&gt;- &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/182968/Is-That-All-You" rel="bookmark"&gt;Is That All You Got?!&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; -a big heart in a little lady.. has shown us how to be real and open.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;feel free to post about it and link to this post and the above links :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We also appreciate your support with comments on the public blog that was created for this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.shaveyourheadforcharity.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.shaveyourheadforcharity.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;email the links to your sites and I&amp;#39;ll put them on the blog roll :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is the &lt;a href="http://shaveyourheadforcharity.com/2007/08/14/thought-of-the-day/" title="A thought for the day" target="_blank"&gt;beginning of my diary&lt;/a&gt; on this entire ordeal..&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:52:32 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/170606/Shave-your-Head-for</link>
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      <title>Why use a REALTOR&#174; in Palm Beach (or anywhere else) ?</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Buying and Selling real estate.&amp;nbsp; let&amp;#39;s have an overview on the reasons &lt;strong&gt;why you should use a REALTOR&amp;reg;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I believe in being honest, ethical and always maintain integrity.. so please excuse me if this post sounds harsh.. I&amp;#39;m just telling it like it really is.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Most likely, you want to sell a house&amp;nbsp; ..OR..&amp;nbsp; you want to buy a house.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;SELLERS:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you&amp;#39;re selling&lt;/strong&gt;, you want to pocket the most cash. &lt;strong&gt;If you&amp;#39;re buying&lt;/strong&gt;, you want the best house for the least money. You deserve that after all. Don&amp;#39;t we all deserve that? or at least WANT THAT?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact is&lt;/strong&gt; that a real estate market is evolving and changing due to a collection of factors, influences and economic balances&amp;nbsp;&amp;amp; mathematics that defy 100% certainty, its difficult for the average consumer to be properly informed. In this difficult market, &lt;strong&gt;it takes professional to pocket you the most money or get you the best deal&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As a seller&lt;/strong&gt;, my advice (although it may sound harsh, its just the honest truth),&amp;nbsp;please understand the &lt;strong&gt;sales price that you want or need&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;for your house&amp;nbsp;AND&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;what the market dictates your home&lt;/strong&gt; is worth&amp;nbsp;&lt;u&gt;may be two very different things&lt;/u&gt;. Knowing the difference and being in touch with the market require the&amp;nbsp;guidance of a professional and is part&amp;nbsp;of a&amp;nbsp;successful sale. What is needed is an outside, unbiased and professional&amp;nbsp;opinion and perspective based on facts, not&amp;nbsp;desires or wants.&amp;nbsp;Unless you work in the real estate profession and make money at it, you should be using a professional REALTOR&amp;reg;. &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" title="REALTOR&amp;reg; in Palm Beach who uses his appraisal experience to help consumers benefit the most!" target="_blank"&gt;Why not a REALTOR&amp;reg; who is also an State Certified Real Estate Appraiser? &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#39;re selling, the most common response to the question of &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Why Use a REALTOR&amp;reg;&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt; is &amp;#39;I &lt;em&gt;want to save the commission&amp;#39;&lt;/em&gt;. I understand this point of view as a homeowner.. &lt;u&gt;but please read on&lt;/u&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve seen&lt;em&gt; for sale by owners&lt;/em&gt; walk away with &lt;strong&gt;less money and more frustration&lt;/strong&gt; when they try on their own, especially in a market like this. Typically missing key points like proper marketing &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;exposure, PRICING correctly &lt;em&gt;&amp;#39;right out of the gate&amp;#39;&lt;/em&gt; and then all the mechanics of contracts, inspection, possible title issues, and anything else under the sun that people can find to argue about. Losing time by selling much more down the road that you really need or intended to may be the biggest factor that negatively affects your bottom line. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After being on a the market for a &amp;#39;test run&amp;#39;, your house is now &lt;em&gt;&amp;#39;stale&amp;#39;&lt;/em&gt; on the market.. &amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;How does that affect your wallet? Are you really saving money? of course not..&lt;/strong&gt; you&amp;#39;re led to believe to by our human&amp;nbsp;nature that we will save money.... &lt;em&gt;sadly enough.. it&amp;#39;s not the truth&lt;/em&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;It&amp;#39;s a common misconception&lt;/strong&gt;,.. its perfectly natural to want to save money,.. but the fact is that they sell for less. I can back this up with sales data from the local market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Use a professional REALTOR&amp;reg; in any transaction&lt;/strong&gt;. As a seller, you&amp;#39;ll be much more protected and will avoid likely frustration&amp;nbsp;AND make more money, even paying a commission.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;BUYERS:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;As a buyer there should NOT BE ANY REASON that you wouldn&amp;#39;t use a REALTOR&amp;reg;,&lt;/strong&gt; as it normally doesn&amp;#39;t cost you anything. I&amp;#39;ve seen people lose deposits, get taken advantage of by buying something overpriced, etc.. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fact is: &lt;/strong&gt;Seller&amp;#39;s pay the commission and a REALTOR&amp;reg; will have access to the latest and most accurate information. A REALTOR&amp;reg; can get you into listings and handle all the appointments for you.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A committed A REALTOR&amp;reg;, like myself, will actually preview properties for you&amp;nbsp;to save you&amp;nbsp;time and show you the homes that meet your needs. As a high&amp;nbsp;tech&amp;nbsp;and internet saavy&amp;nbsp;real estate professional, I can even put some previewed homes online so you can view them from&amp;nbsp;your computer when it&amp;#39;s convenient for you.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most importantly, a REALTOR&amp;reg; can inform you propertly&amp;nbsp;so you can make the best choices s your transaction progresses. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now tell me again, why wouldn&amp;#39;t you use&amp;nbsp;a &lt;strong&gt;REALTOR&amp;reg;&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="REALTOR&amp;reg; and Residential Real Estate Appraiser" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/5/2/6/8/ar118625307186254.JPG" height="66" align="left" alt="REALTOR&amp;reg; and Residential Real Estate Appraiser" width="162" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;.. offering the service you expect and deserve...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.comhttp://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/1/3/9/5/ar118625165359313.PNG" height="50" align="right" alt=" " width="200" /&gt;Respectfully,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick M.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quantum One Realty&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:46:12 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/158502/Why-use-a-REALTOR</link>
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      <title>3/2 Royal Palm Beach House for about $200,000!! </title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Mr&#160;&amp; Mrs Consumer,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are you looking for an affordable house in a great neighborhood? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How about a true&#160;3 bedroom 2 bath single family house in Royal Palm Beach for about $200,000.&lt;/strong&gt; This home also has a 1 car garage and side screened/covered patio.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The&#160;title&#160;says&lt;em&gt;&#160;'about' &lt;/em&gt;because the home isn't on the MLS yet, therefore the asking price in not known. But since I am a &lt;a href="http://nicktheappraiser.net" title="Nick the Appraiser sells West Palm Beach Fl Real Estate" target="_blank"&gt;real estate appraiser in Palm Beach&lt;/a&gt;, I know what it's worth. I also sold a house a few doors down and I know that the floor plans are identical, but reversed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This is one of the benefits&lt;/strong&gt; with working with myself, you get a &lt;a href="http://www.activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" title="REALTOR&#174; / State Certified Real Estate Appraiser" target="_blank"&gt;REALTOR&#174; and a Real Estate Appraiser&lt;/a&gt; all rolled into one.&#160; :)&#160; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;This house has NOT&#160;even hit the MLS yet!!!&lt;/strong&gt;&#160;&#160;So you know who to call to get this super deal!!!&lt;br /&gt;I know about this house from my local appraising assignments and from&#160;previewing houses in&#160;the area.&lt;br /&gt;This means that &lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt; have access to knowledge and &lt;strong&gt;YOU&lt;/strong&gt; have the advantage!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If this one doesn't meet your needs or likes, I have a couple other backup properties to show you as well. :)&lt;br /&gt;How about a &lt;strong&gt;single family house for sale sale under $190,000 or another for $200,000&lt;/strong&gt;.?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come steal this house and start your home ownership dreams today!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Call Nick @ 561.337.5040 today for more details&lt;/strong&gt;, before this house is open to the public for sale.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/3/4/3/ar118625321534349.JPG" height="66" align="left" alt=" " width="162" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sincerely,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nick M.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Quantum One Realty&lt;a href="http://www.servingibis.com/About_Ibis/page_1853112.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/5/4/4/5/5/ar118762014855445.jpg" height="21" align="right" alt=" " width="20" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/3/1/3/9/5/ar118625165359313.PNG" height="50" align="right" alt=" " width="200" /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 13:32:37 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/164752/3-2-Royal-Palm</link>
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      <title>Counterpoint Estates in Royal Palm Beach</title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#0033cc" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="700"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/145187/Counterpoint-Estates-in-Royal" title="Counterpointe Estates homes for sale" target="_blank"&gt;Counterpoint Estates in Royal Palm Beach&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img title="Counterpoint Estates information on homes for sale and neighborhood" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/5/4/9/6/ar118427600669452.JPG" height="185" align="left" alt="Counterpoint Estates information on homes for sale and neighborhood" width="259" /&gt;Counterpoint Estates is located on the eastern side of Royal Palm Beach. Royal Palm is located in the western communities on the western edge of West Palm Beach. For now, its the only community with direct access to 441 that is not in an HOA neighborhood. The neighborhood is mainly single story ranch homes which are separated into sections across 5 lakes, an intersecting canal and some community parks. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Even without an HOA (home owners association), the community&amp;#39;s improvements have been extensive in past few years. Improvements that residents are enjoying on a daily basis include new parks, docks in the lakes, pavilions and lighting for night time walks. Just recently the rear park has been completed with a new playground, doggie areas, dock for the lake, basketball court and landscaping. New sidewalks and drainwater system are hardly noticed over the newer roundabout and landscaping.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Initially, improvements came from monies donated by a nearby outlet, but continuing maintenance and completion of rear parks are from local tax dollars. Incidentally, Royal Palm Beach has lowered it tax rate, a.k.a. millage, in the pst 3 years that I am personally aware. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Most &lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/ar/searchMLSforcounterpointestateshomesforsale.htm" target="_blank"&gt;homes for sale in Counterpoint Estates&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;are currently listed through a real estate company with some trying FSBO (for sale by owner) in price ranges from $200,000-$330,000. There is a mix of woodframe and CBS homes, totaling to the approximate 924 homes in Counterpoint Estates. Average lot size is .17 with some up to .25 for pie shaped corner locations, varying in location amongst lakes, canals or other residential properties.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Local growth in the area includes an expansion of the roadway to the south, exploding from 4 lanes to 6-8 with flyovers at major roadway intersections, such as 441, Jog, Haverhill and Military trail to the east. This has helped stimulate further growth in the west, including completion of a new shopping plaza west of 441 on the newly expanding Southern Boulevard. Just to the east, major development is occurring down 411 (SR7) to include office space, storage, retail space, major retailers and residential homes as well. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img title="South Florida lifestyle in the Counterpoint Estates breeze" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/4/3/8/2/ar118427595128349.jpg" height="225" align="right" alt="South Florida lifestyle in the Counterpoint Estates breeze" width="300" /&gt;The Village of Royal Palm is growing consistently and the newly expanding roadway along the south offers future growth opportunity. Royal Palm also offers: low taxes, plenty of amenities including major shopping outlets and hospitals within 4-5 miles, plenty of new &amp;amp; future stores and restaurants, additional residential housing, more large retail companies in the area, South Florida fairgrounds in your backyard and even a local water-park for the kids. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The nearby Turnpike is adding exit &amp;amp; on-ramps, just north of Jog Road and Belvedere,. which is just 4 miles to the east of CounterPoint Estates via Belvedere Road. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Palm Beaches&amp;#39; City Place is only 20 minutes away and the beach is another 10 minutes away!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/ar/searchMLSforcounterpointestateshomesforsale.htm" class="style1" target="_blank"&gt;Search Counterpoint Estates homes for sale&amp;nbsp;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/145187/Counterpoint-Estates-in-Royal-Palm-Beach" title="Counterpoint Estates Information"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/6/0/1/8/7/ar118427627478106.jpg" height="19" alt=" " width="22" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/43470/Tax-Calculator-Palm-Beach" target="_self"&gt;Calculate Palm Beach Taxes&lt;/a&gt; | &lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/maps/counterpointestatesmap.htm" title="Counterpoint Estates Map" target="_blank"&gt;Map to Counterpoint Estates&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/46684/Counterpoint-Estates-Royal-Palm-Beach" title="Counterpoint Estates in Royal Palm Beach"&gt;More detail about Counterpoint Estates real estate &amp;amp; general information.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/2/1/1/5/3/ar11842763135112.PNG" height="50" align="right" alt=" " width="200" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:58:39 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/145187/Counterpoint-Estates-in-Royal</link>
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      <title>Carnival of Project Blogger Week #3 - Nick the Appraiser's Top 5 submitted posts</title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0000cc" border="1" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img title="Carnival of Project Blogger" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/3/6/9/2/ar118044656029638.jpg" height="53" alt="Carnival of Project Blogger" width="400" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Week 3 of the Carnival of Project Blogger&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The submissions were in by Friday night.. but I will admit that I didn&amp;#39;t read them until last night. Let&amp;#39;s just say it&amp;#39;s been a very busy week which ran into the weekend.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My heart is torn and I want to mention all the articles, as they were all good. If yours didn&amp;#39;t make the the 5, please don&amp;#39;t take it as being that it wasn&amp;#39;t good or worthy. I really did struggle with which ones to write about. Am I forgiven? :) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The articles mentioned below are in no particular order.. and are the top 5 from the submitted articles. Since there is no set criteria on what makes one blog better than the other, I&amp;#39;m going with my overall feel for the post and my thoughts after reading the post. They were all printed without the names and I wont consider site design or other aspect of the presentation aside from the actual article/post. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;In no particular order... here are my top 5 recaps and thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;Along with some link love :) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/1/9/1/1/ar118044659811911.PNG" height="102" align="right" alt=" " width="80" /&gt;Jackie Colson-Miller (posted on the &lt;a href="http://www.realestatesizzle.com" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Sizzle&lt;/a&gt;) -&amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.realestatesizzle.com/2007/05/14/how-to-be-a-good-neighbor-on-howard-avenue-in-south-tampa/" target="_blank"&gt;How to Be a Good Neighbor on Haoward Avenue in South Tampa&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Jackie writes about a local hotspot in Tampa that comes alive with people but falls short of parking spaces. The problem is that some stores which are closed during certain hours don&amp;#39;t allow parking for the patrons to neighboring stores that really explode during later hours. Shouldn&amp;#39;t business neighbors help each other out? I guess that grocery store with all the golden parking spaces doesn&amp;#39;t think so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I enjoyed this post cause it stands out for what is right and considerate. I got a little feeling of rebellion and I wouldn&amp;#39;t buy from that supermarket after reading this. I think Jackie got her feeling of &amp;#39;boycott&amp;#39; to me after reading this article! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Terri Lussier (posted on the &lt;a href="http://www.thebrickranch.com" target="_blank"&gt;Brick Ranch&lt;/a&gt;) - &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.thebrickranch.com/2007/05/25/project-brickranch/" target="_blank"&gt;Project Brick Ranch - Elsa Shows Us Her Life, Her House&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/5/7/3/8/9/ar118044661098375.PNG" height="84" align="left" alt=" " width="90" /&gt;Terri tells of an inspirational story of a lady named Elsa. Throughout the narrative story we find that Elsa has nothing but tough breaks.. bankruptcy, divorce, unemployment, moving from state to state, welfare and then moving back home. Elsa hangs tough through it all, repairs her credit, makes some good decision and backs them with hard work. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;An inspiring story to never give up or take the short route. Elsa has recently purchased a house and it seems that it needs a little work and she has agreed to keep Terri posted. Terri seems excited about this since her blog is all about people sending her pictures of &amp;#39;dinged&amp;#39; houses, before and after. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;All I can say is that I&amp;#39;m a sucker for inspiration. Life has so many twists and challenges and sometimes we feel all the weight on our shoulder. Anytime I hear about someone&amp;#39;s struggle and victory, it makes my journey a little easier and turbo boosted.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Julie Ferenzi (posted on her&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogs/julieferenzi" target="_blank"&gt;Active Rain Blog&lt;/a&gt;) - &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/103589/What-Makes-a-House" target="_blank"&gt;What makes a House a Home, Plainfield, IL&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/8/0/5/8/3/ar118044662438508.PNG" height="100" align="right" alt=" " width="97" /&gt;Julie discusses the simple idea of this title. &amp;quot;Can you have &amp;#39;wings&amp;#39; and &amp;#39;roots&amp;#39;??&amp;quot; is the question she poses. She brings her personal life experiences and thoughts into her post by including her family and past moves. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Although a simple post, the layout was easy to read, short and sweet. A good format to capture the reader and get a point across. I also took note of certain aspects of her presentation of suttle SEO, unlike your&amp;#39;s truly over here. I thought it was a good outline for understanding effective posting. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Ines Hegedus-Garcia (posted on her &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogs/ineshg" target="_blank"&gt;Active Rain Blog&lt;/a&gt;) - &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/104510/Real-Estate-Questions-answered" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Questions Answered with Conviction&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/9/8/2/6/0/ar118044663606289.PNG" height="96" align="left" alt=" " width="88" /&gt;Ines brings us along with her on a property viewing with some buyer clients. They are viewing a &amp;#39;renovated&amp;#39; home and begin to inquire about the windows.. &amp;quot;Are they impact resistant?&amp;quot; is a question bound to come up here in South Florida. Since the answer was &amp;quot;no&amp;quot;, Ines brings up a great point. They should be since that is what code requires, so that mean this wasn&amp;#39;t done with permits. This could be a potential liability to the buyers if they choose to purchase this home. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The next example Ines provides is regarding electrical cables that are buried underground rather than hanging from an electrical pole. Seems like the listing agent wanted to impress the potential buyers by stating that the owner had buried the cables for safety purposes. Ines was there to point out that &amp;quot;it&amp;#39;s code&amp;quot; to do so. The city won&amp;#39;t allow electrical cables to by dangling over the pool.. hheeeeeelllo?? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;As an appraiser I can appreciate this aspect of permitted vs, non-permitted work and the potential headaches from backed taxes to inadequate workmanship of the renovations or addition. Understanding your local codes allows you to provide a better service to your buyers, and Ines clearly did in this post.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/1/4/5/9/8/ar118044664789541.PNG" height="104" align="right" alt=" " width="88" /&gt;Mary Pope-Handy (posted on her blog &lt;a href="http://liveinlosgatos.realtownblogs.com" target="_blank"&gt;Live in Los Gatos&lt;/a&gt;) - &lt;a href="http://liveinlosgatos.realtownblogs.com/los-gatos-neighborhoods/surrey-farms/" target="_blank"&gt;Great Neighborhood: Surrey Farms in Los Gatos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Mary tells of an exclusive neighborhood in California consisting of larger lots, wide open spaces, green areas and other enticing neighborhood characteristics for those looking for some serenity. Mid post the topic shifted into discussing &amp;#39;water and drainage&amp;#39; which surely is a big topic in those parts of the country. Keep that water away from my house!! Mary explains what the situation is and how to take steps to overcome them. Definitely a good read for anyone buying property on a mountain or hilly area such as in California.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This made the top 5 because living in Florida, we don&amp;#39;t see or have mountains or hills. It&amp;#39;s all flat around here..(except for some landfills) so I found this post interesting. I was engaged by the picture Mary painted of this exclusive neighborhood and then I was interested in the water drainage topic. Just a personal preference, but its always interesting to learn something new.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#ff0000" border="1" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks for your submissions and the opportunity to host this week&amp;#39;s carnival of project blogger. I hope that I was able to meet your expectations and still getting some love from all the contestants that made the effort to write and took the time to submit an article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/1/8/6/6/ar118044667266814.JPG" height="66" alt=" " width="162" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://nicktheappraiser.net" title="Nick the appraiser&amp;#39;s water adventures" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 08:54:25 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/110220/Carnival-of-Project-Blogger</link>
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      <title>Palm Beach County Property Appraiser</title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;As the South Florida real estate market changes, and selling &amp;#39;For Sale By Owner&amp;#39; (FSBO) is becoming more difficult as pricing is more critical now than ever, i&amp;#39;m getting more and more calls for private apprasials. During the boom in the South Florida Market in 2004 / 2005, it was much easier to price over the last sale and consider it sold. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/logo99-NMreg.jpg" height="40" align="right" alt="Palm Beach County Property Appraiser - State Certifired Real Estate Appraiser #RD6321" width="44" /&gt;In today&amp;#39;s market, feel free to call &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" target="_self"&gt;Nick the Appraiser&lt;/a&gt; if this is your situation and are considering selling FSBO. An appraisal will give you a realistic idea of what your house is worth in today&amp;#39;s market and give you an idea of what are the major factors that influence the value of your home. We will estimate the current market value of your home so you can decide what to price your home at depending on your individual needs (like timeframe to sell or other motivating factors that will influence your salesprice). You can also use it as a bargaining tool when people are uneasy or question the asking price of your home. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;As a &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/62172/Being-an-South-Florida" target="_blank"&gt;Realtor&amp;reg; in Palm Beach&lt;/a&gt;, I can can give you some tips and advice on selling. Ideas about how to prepare your home, some typical &amp;quot;Do&amp;#39;s&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Don&amp;#39;ts&amp;quot; and what are some things to expect from buyers in this market.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;I wonder how many other appraisers are getting more private appraisals these days? &lt;br /&gt;Appraisers, is this happening in your market also?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz" title="Palm Beach County Residential Property Appraiser" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 11:31:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/97075/Palm-Beach-County-Property</link>
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      <title>Real Estate Shows - News from the South Florida Real Estate Market!!</title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#cc0000" border="3" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;img title="News about Real Estate Shows and their unlimited virtual tours!!" src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/news2.jpg" height="100" align="right" alt="News about Real Estate Shows and their unlimited virtual tours!!" width="63" /&gt;From the Front Lines of Real Estate in South Florida!&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Extra, Extra, Read all about it!! &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Real Estate Shows is rocking the South East Florida Real Estate Market!! &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Unlimited virutal tours for your real estate properties at one low price per year!!" src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/reshows.png" height="77" alt="Unlimited virutal tours for your real estate properties at one low price per year!!" width="415" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Active Rain is the premier Real Estate Networking site!" src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/arlogo.gif" height="51" align="left" alt="Active Rain is the premier Real Estate Networking site!" width="190" /&gt;That&amp;#39;s right,.. not only is it evident on Active Rain, but in the field as well. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While I take off my &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/62172/Being-an-South-Florida" title="South Florida Realtor&amp;reg; and Real Estate Appraiser" target="_blank"&gt;real estate sales hat and put on my real estate appraiser&lt;/a&gt; hat, I start making calls to confirm sales on possible comparables and I am running across more and more people using Real Estate Shows. So I thought to add the question to the list of my boring old ones.. you know..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Were there any seller concessions on that deal? (boring and frustrating)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How was the condition of that home? Any major upgrades? (boring).. &amp;#39;Yes they just painted it!! &lt;em&gt;yipeeee!!! :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Was there any distress on that sale, like divorce or just had to move? -&amp;#39;Nope, no distress, but he owned 5 properties and wanted to get rid of them..&amp;#39; :))&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;So here is my daily routine and I&amp;#39;ve come to accept it since I can&amp;#39;t really change it. I also repeat my mantra between calls.. -&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Anger is a sign of weakness&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; :) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So now, my new questions when I notice that the agent uses &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Shows&lt;/a&gt;.. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;4. So How do you like that Real Estate Shows for your virtul tours?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#cc0000" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;u&gt;And the mood seems to change instantly!!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;em&gt; (note to self, maybe I should ask that first?)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh I LOVE it!! they say.. so i reply with a quick,.. -&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;yeah? really? what&amp;#39;s to like?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;And they start babbling like a kid with a new popsicle..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Oh you can have unlimited shows !!&lt;img title="Even babies love Real Estate Show&amp;#39;s incredible deal!!" src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/bigsmile.jpg" height="98" align="right" alt="Even babies love Real Estate Show&amp;#39;s incredible deal!!" width="111" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;and they are so easy to make !!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;and it only takes a few minutes !!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;and they have all this neat music !!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;and you can pan from this angle to that angle !!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;and you can have an unbranded or branded show!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;and its unlimited!! did i say unlimited ?!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;I just LOVE using those shows !!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;u&gt;Wow.. they seem to be excited!!&lt;/u&gt; So of course, my good friend Nick (aka, my ego) likes to have some good, clean fun..&lt;br /&gt;-&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Well, you know that I know&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/respres" target="_blank"&gt; the owner of Real Estate Shows&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.. well, it&amp;#39;s kinda true.. :)) &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;-&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Really?&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; they ask, like a child in hopes of going to the local fair&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;-&amp;quot;Yes I do.. I&amp;#39;ll let him know that you absolutely love the product and I&amp;#39;ll try to get them to incorporate some new stuff into it..&amp;quot; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(as if they aren&amp;#39;t always working on something.., but what do they know? hee heee) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img title="Nick the Appraiser is working hard in the South Florida Real Estate Market!! 561-337-5040" src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/nick-appr.jpg" height="300" align="right" alt="Nick the Appraiser is working hard in the South Florida Real Estate Market!!  561-337-5040" width="211" /&gt;Then I think at all the fun we use it for, and another 1001 uses for Real Estate Shows:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Slide shows of anything from Flat Stanley Project, here is &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/158536" target="_blank"&gt;Flat James&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/show.php?mls=basic&amp;amp;id=158205" title="The Adventures of Flat Matt with Ann Cummings" target="_blank"&gt;Flat Matt&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/154002" target="_blank"&gt;Flat Ben&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/155581" target="_blank"&gt;Playing in a local and public water fountain&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Showing off your area with a Localism tour:&lt;br /&gt;Like &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/128899" target="_blank"&gt;Maine&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/show.php?id=126817&amp;amp;resize=1" target="_blank"&gt;Miami Shores&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/show.php?id=126480&amp;amp;resize=1" target="_blank"&gt;New Jersey&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/159004" target="_blank"&gt;West Virginia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Sharing pics with family&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/show.php?id=43811&amp;amp;resize=1" target="_blank"&gt;Supporting your local Animal Shelter &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Bragging about your vacation &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/show.php?id=152717&amp;amp;traffic=0" target="_blank"&gt;Promoting your Virtual Assistant&lt;/a&gt; business&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Showing off your Staging Services with before and after photos &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;or even compiling a selection of photos for your sellers during the process..&lt;em&gt; (yes, someone was taking pictures of me one day during an inspection.. Nick was a super star that day!! )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#cc0000" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;So, what have you used &lt;a href="http://www.realestateshows.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Real Estate Shows&lt;/a&gt; for?? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Not a user? Heellloooooo!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://create.realestateshows.com/newuser/" target="_blank"&gt;get a free 14-day Trial account here&lt;/a&gt;!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Read the &lt;a href="http://res.realestateshows.com/" target="_blank"&gt;blog for Real Estate Shows,&lt;/a&gt; get with it!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Don&amp;#39;t take&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" title="Nick the Appraiser is your Royal Palm Beach Real Estate Connection!" target="_blank"&gt;Nick the Appraiser&amp;#39;s&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;word for it.. read their &lt;a href="http://res.realestateshows.com/?page_id=157" target="_blank"&gt;customer praises&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalappraiser.biz" title="Florida Real Estate Appraiser who sells Palm Beach Real Estate" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 21:08:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/88213/Real-Estate-Shows-News</link>
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      <title>Acupuncture Services and Acupressure in Delray Beach, Palm Beach County</title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img title="Acupuncture and acupressure services" src="http://activerain.com/image_store/uploads/4/9/8/7/4/ar117750493747894.jpg" height="180" align="left" alt="Acupuncture and acupressure services" width="180" /&gt;Acupuncture &amp;amp; acupressure really work!! The medical technique of acupuncture has been practiced in China for a couple thousand years (and most likely for more). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By using thin needles, &lt;em&gt;chi&lt;/em&gt; or energy, is unblocked along certain &amp;#39;path&amp;#39;s or meridians they travel throughout the body. This unblocking of chi is to balance the body&amp;#39;s level of opposing energy, known as Ying and Yang. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Personally, I stumbled upon a man who is excellent at providing &lt;a href="http://centerforhealth.blogspot.com/" title="Acupuncture Services in Delray Beach - Palm Beach" target="_blank"&gt;acupuncture services&lt;/a&gt;! It started with a cough I couldn&amp;#39;t shake. I had trouble breathing without coughing, as my airway was constricted, like a persistent asthma attack. Upon my visit and initial consultation, &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/83333/Acupuncture-Services-and-Acupressure" title="Acupuncture Services in Palm Beach" target="_blank"&gt;Edward Scarlett&lt;/a&gt; went to work on me. It was amazing, as I could feel my breathing deepen with each breath!! I kid you not!! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I kicked the cold/flu immediately and have been going back for his acupuncture services every 3 weeks for about 3-4 months now. Some sessions would offer immediate changes in my body while others would be felt over a period of a few days. I am continually amazed after each acupuncture session. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edward not only works with your body, but he takes a holistic approach and probes with questions about your lifestyle that really make you think. Of the top of my head, one of the biggest things I realized is that we need to take time to relax. As an appraiser and Realtor&amp;reg;, I really get caught up in deadlines and the &amp;quot;go, go, go&amp;quot; lifestyle. Mr Scarlett has showed me (and I&amp;#39;m paraphrasing) that the music of life is not only about the notes (the events) but the pauses in between the notes. Wow! great analogy!&amp;nbsp;Now that I have slowed down, I feel much better, relaxed and have incorporated my&amp;nbsp;one day a week to enjoy life with a trip to the beach, go out with my wife and to&amp;nbsp;meet with friends and find some balance between work and play.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I asked him about using &lt;a href="http://centerforhealth.blogspot.com/" title="Acupuncture is great for weightloss, high blood pressure and more!" target="_blank"&gt;acupuncture for weight loss&lt;/a&gt;, for high blood pressure, for children with ADHD.. and he mentioned that all can be treated. Mr. Scarlett will meet with you for a free consultation to see what your needs are, explain the process and then allow you to decide if you would like to continue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edward Scarlett is based out of Delray Beach and owns the &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://digitalappraiser.biz/maps/delrayacupunctureinpalmbeach.htm" title="Location for Acupuncture Specialist" target="_blank"&gt;Center for Health&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;With 15 years of experience, Edward is an &lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/83333/Acupuncture-Services-and-Acupressure-in-Delray" title="Acupuncture specialist in Delray Beach" target="_blank"&gt;acupuncture specialist&lt;/a&gt; who&amp;nbsp;really knows what he is doing. I have been to other acupuncturists in the past and the pale by comparison. &amp;#39;Ed the Healer&amp;#39; is the real deal, he is a true acupuncture specialist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="1" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &amp;#39;Center for Health&amp;#39; is located in Delray Beach, &lt;br /&gt;just north of Atlantic&amp;nbsp;Avenue, off of NE 5th&amp;nbsp;Avenue, 1&amp;nbsp;block&amp;nbsp;West of Federal Highway. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=500-5+N.E.+5th+Avenue,+delray+beach,+33484&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=31.564064,79.980469&amp;amp;layer=&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;z=14&amp;amp;ll=26.473569,-80.065269&amp;amp;spn=0.034804,0.078106&amp;amp;om=1&amp;amp;iwloc=addr" title="Google Map to the Center for Health" target="_blank"&gt;500-5 N.E. 5th Avenue&lt;br /&gt;Delray Beach, Fl 33484&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://digitalappraiser.biz/maps/delrayacupunctureinpalmbeach.htm" title="Acupuncture Services" target="_blank"&gt;Acupunture Doctor / Physician&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Edward Scarlett &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;. : . Phone: 561.272.7816 . : .&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;tell them that &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" title="Palm Beach Realtor&amp;reg; &amp;amp; Residential Real Estate Appraiser " target="_blank"&gt;Nick the Appraiser&lt;/a&gt; (who also sells real estate) sent you! :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:56:35 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/83333/Acupuncture-Services-and-Acupressure</link>
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      <title>Palm Beach County Western Communities - Western Lake Worth, Wellington, Royal Palm Beach, Golfing &amp; Equestrian Real Estate. </title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/83021/Palm-Beach-County-Western" title="Royal Palm Beach is just 20 minutes away from downtown West Palm Beach and Cityplace" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img title="Royal Palm Beach is just 20 minutes from downtown and Cityplace" src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/wpb/DSCN4628.JPG" height="300" align="left" alt="Royal Palm Beach is just 20 minutes from downtown and Cityplace" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;There is no doubt about the past and future growth of the &lt;strong&gt;Western Communities&lt;/strong&gt; in the&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" target="_blank"&gt;West Palm Beach real estate&lt;/a&gt; market &lt;/strong&gt;. I don&amp;#39;t mean Western, like horses parked in front of local bar or canteen. We are talking about communities in the West side of West Palm Beach (and the Florida Turnpike) from as far South as &lt;strong&gt;Delray Beach&lt;/strong&gt; all the way up to &lt;strong&gt;Royal Palm Beach&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/44094/Royal-Palm-Beach-Market" target="_blank"&gt;real estate in &lt;strong&gt;Royal Palm Beach&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is booming with growth, streets widened, lots are being cleared and bridges built for access, new buildings seem to appear overnight boasting more stores than you can shake a stick at (or will be able to soon). This is to include small retail strip malls, medical office space, larger chain stores like Best Buy (Wellington on 441) and super Target (in &lt;strong&gt;Boynton Beach &lt;/strong&gt;on 441 &amp;amp; in &lt;strong&gt;Royal Palm Beach&lt;/strong&gt; off 441). Land is being cleared for a new 10,000 home community in Royal Palm Beach.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The &lt;strong&gt;Western communities&lt;/strong&gt; are poised for growth and values will benefit from it. &lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/83021/Palm-Beach-County-Western-Comminities-Western" title="Golfing in Royal Palm Beach, Palm Beach County" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/wpb/DSCN4751.JPG" height="225" align="right" alt="" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Many amenities are available in the West with the newer Wellington Mall, Equestrian Neighborhoods, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://enjoymadisongreen.com" title="Palm Beach County Golfing community " target="_blank"&gt;Golf Communities&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/maps/westpalmfloridaretirementcommunityguidemap.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Retirement communities&lt;/a&gt; and local parks are within reach. Speaking of local parks, a large planned park is going to be built just South of the Wellington Mall. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The major expansion of Southern Blvd into a 6-8 lane major roadway artery is a clear hint. We are poised for growth in the years to come. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Each of the Western communities has something for you. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Enjoy Golfing? Madison Greeen offers a lifestyle to match a golfers dream.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;If you own horses and enjoy&lt;strong&gt; horse back riding&lt;/strong&gt;, jumping horses, polo and the equestrian lifestyle.?? well you have a place in &lt;strong&gt;Wellington&lt;/strong&gt; or &lt;strong&gt;Loxahatchee&lt;/strong&gt; (also known as &lt;strong&gt;The Acreage&lt;/strong&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Come see what Western West Palm Beach has for you and come enjoy the lifestyle of South Florida.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="1" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;img title="Royal Palm Beach Real Estate" src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/logo99-NMreg.jpg" height="40" align="left" alt="Royal Palm Beach Real Estate" width="44" /&gt;For more information about Western Communities, &lt;br /&gt;West Palm Beach and Royal Palm Beach,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" target="_self"&gt;contact Nick the Appraiser, who also sells real estate&lt;/a&gt; @ 561.337.5040 &lt;br /&gt;Licensed Realtor&amp;reg; &amp;amp; State Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:58:42 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/83021/Palm-Beach-County-Western</link>
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      <title>Comprar Casa con un Agente de Inmobiliaria es Gratis! Casas en Venta en West Palm Beach</title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="1" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Bienvenidos a su busqueda virtual de casas en venta online. La Internet es el lugar en el que muchos, como Usted, empiezan a buscar para comprar casa. Hay varios lugares para buscar casas e inmobiliaria pero hay varias cosas que Usted deberia saber antes de comprar una casa. &lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/bigpalm.JPG" height="250" align="right" alt="Comprar casa en West Palm Beach" width="180" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Tenga en cuenta que las inmobiliarias que encuentra en ciertos buscadores del MLS (el sistema en que casas en venta estan listadas) puede ser que no esten&amp;nbsp;actualizados. El sistema del MLS que el publico en general usa para buscar casas en venta, no es el mismo, el que tienen acceso los agentes inmobiliarios (REALTOR&amp;reg;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Una sugerencia es que Usted busque un agente inmobiliario, o REALTOR&amp;reg;, que lo pueda orientar en su compra de inmobiliaria. Asegurese que esta persona sea un individual con el que Usted se siente comodo hablando de su posicion economica, y con el que pueda tener un dialogo sincero y abierto acerca lo que Usted desea y necesita en una casa. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Tambien, tenga en cuenta cuales son sus necesidades en este momento asi como en los proximos 5 a&amp;ntilde;os. Me refiero a su situacion familiar y financiera. Esta confirmado que cada persona y/o familia se muda una vez cada 5-7 a&amp;ntilde;os.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/intra2.JPG" height="175" align="left" alt="Casas en venta en Palm Beach County" width="250" /&gt;Su agente inmobiliario puede ayudarlo con la busqueda enviandole una lista de casa en venta en una zona determinada, o a partir de algunas cosas para considerar cuando esta buscando comprar una casa.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Sientase libre de llamarme para cualquier consulta sobre la compra de inmobiliaria cuando piensa en comprar una casa en West Palm Beach, Royal Palm Beach los alrededores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Nuestros servicios son gratis para el comprador. No hay comision para pagar! Llamenos hoy para su consulta gratis! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#0066ff" border="1" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" target="_self"&gt;Contacte a Nicolas, agente de inmobiliaria &lt;/a&gt;561.337.5040 &lt;br /&gt;Tasador Certificado del estado de Florida y &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" target="_blank"&gt;Agente licenciado de imobiliaria&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/logo99-NMreg.jpg" height="40" align="left" alt="Solucion imobiliaria" width="44" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;State Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser &amp;amp; Realtor&amp;reg;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:19:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/79586/Comprar-Casa-con-un</link>
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      <title>Madison Green Visual Tour in Royal Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida</title>
      <description>&lt;table bgcolor="#99cc66" cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#009900" border="3" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="707"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col" width="683"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Madison Green Photo Tour&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/70918/Madison-Green-Visual-Tour" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/madison300/DSCN4720.JPG" border="1" height="300" align="left" alt="Madison Green Golfing in Palm Beach County." width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Welcome to Madison Green in Royal Palm Beach, or at least our version on the internet. We hope you enjoy our visual tour of the area via our map / photo interface. As time and weather permit, we&amp;#39;ll be adding videos, more photos and points of interest within the Madison Green community and the golf course, The Links at Madison Green.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;**Visit our &lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/maps/madisongreenmap.htm" target="_blank"&gt;interactive map of Madison Green for photos&lt;/a&gt; **&lt;/p&gt;&lt;hr /&gt;&lt;object movie="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/media/madison1.swf" height="225" seamlesstabbing="true" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" quality="1" width="300"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="7938"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="5953"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/media/madison1-green.swf"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/media/madison1-green.swf"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Base"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/searchMLS/MadisonGreenhomesforsale.htm" title="Madison Green Homes for Sale" target="_blank"&gt;Search Homes for Sale in Madison Green&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/52853/Madison-Green-Real-Estate-Market-Report" title="Market Report for Madison Green" target="_blank"&gt;Madison Green Market Report&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/51353/Madison-Green-in-Royal-Palm-Beach" title="Madison Green in Royal Palm Beach" target="_blank"&gt;An introduction to Madison Green in Royal Palm Beach&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/madisongreen/thumbs/thumb_DSCN4712.JPG" border="0" height="121" alt="Playing golf in Royal Palm Beach at Madison Green." width="160" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/madisongreen/thumbs/thumb_DSCN4726.JPG" height="121" alt="Real Estate in Royal Palm Beach in Madison Green." width="160" /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/madisongreen/thumbs/thumb_DSCN3718.JPG" height="121" alt="Resort Style Clubhouse with Olympic pool &amp;amp; kiddie pool at Madison Green" width="160" /&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/70918/Madison-Green-Visual-Tour-in-Royal" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/madisongreen/thumbs/thumb_DSCN4731.JPG" border="0" height="121" alt="Golfing at the Links at Madison Green in Royal Palm Beach." width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Benefit from our team&amp;#39;s combined experience and real estate focus. &lt;br /&gt;Realtor&amp;reg; in West Palm Beach / aka. Nick the Appraiser&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For more information about &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/51353/Madison-Green-in-Royal" target="_blank"&gt;Madison Green in Royal Palm Beach&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to contact Nick the Appraiser @ 561.337.5040 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" target="_self"&gt;Licensed Realtor&amp;reg; &amp;amp; State Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/agents/floridarealestatepro" target="_self"&gt;Royal Palm Beach Real Estate&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enjoymadisongreen.com" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 10:50:31 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/70918/Madison-Green-Visual-Tour</link>
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      <title>Search homes for sale in Madison Green, a Golfing Community * Royal Palm Beach Real Estate</title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#009933" border="2" cellpadding="7" align="center" width="700"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enjoymadisongreen.com" target="_blank"&gt;Madison Green Homes for Sale&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you are looking for a &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/51353/Madison-Green-in-Royal" target="_blank"&gt;West Palm Beach golfing community&lt;/a&gt; in a quiet yet accessible area of Royal Palm Beach or West Palm Beach, then Madison Green May be for you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/royalpalmbeachrealestate/madisongreen/images/madisongreenentry.JPG" height="450" alt="" width="600" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enjoymadisongreen.com/Madison_Green_Homes_for_Sale/page_1812941.html" target="_blank"&gt;Royal Palm Beach Real Estate and homes for sale in Madison Green&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" background="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/royalpalmbeachrealestate/madisongreen/images/madisongreenlandmark.JPG" border="0" height="450" cellpadding="7" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col" valign="top"&gt;Madison Green&amp;#39;s Welcoming site each time you reach home! &lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Madison Green features resort style amenities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" background="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/royalpalmbeachrealestate/madisongreen/images/madisongreenoympicpool.JPG" border="0" height="450" cellpadding="7" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col" valign="bottom"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Visit Madison Green&amp;#39;s resort style clubhouse with fabulous pool! &lt;br /&gt;There is also a kiddie pool and playground nearby!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit our post with more info about &lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/51353/Madison-Green-in-Royal-Palm-Beach" target="_blank"&gt;Madison Green, a golfing community&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="2" background="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/royalpalmbeachrealestate/madisongreen/images/madisongreengolfinginwestpalmbeach.JPG" border="0" height="450" cellpadding="7" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col" valign="top"&gt;Have a few golf swings to warm up for the course. &lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/royalpalmbeachrealestate/madisongreen/searchMLSforMadisonGreenhomesforsale.htm" target="_blank"&gt;Search the MLS homes for Sale in Madison Green&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Take a look at the interactive &amp;#39;tour guide&amp;#39; &lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/royalpalmbeachrealestate/madisongreen/maps/madisongreenmap.htm"&gt;Madison Green Map&lt;/a&gt; here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table bgcolor="#99cc99" cellspacing="5" bordercolor="#009933" border="1" cellpadding="7" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="row"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;For more information about Madison Green in Royal Palm Beach,&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" target="_self"&gt;contact Nick the Appraiser&lt;/a&gt; @ 561.337.5040 &lt;br /&gt;State Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser &amp;amp; Licensed Realtor&amp;reg; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/63172/Search-homes-for-sale-in-Madison" title="Madison Green - Golf Community with Royal Palm Beach Real Estate" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 13:20:11 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/63172/Search-homes-for-sale</link>
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      <title>Being an South Florida Real Estate Appraiser makes me a better Palm Beach REALTOR&#174;</title>
      <description>&lt;table cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#99ccff" border="1" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="700"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the real estate business,&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/city2.JPG" height="76" align="right" alt="West Palm Beach Real estate at City Place" width="100" /&gt;there are many groups within the professional community. Agents, Realtors&amp;reg;, Home inspectors, Appraisers, Title companies, Mortgage Brokers/Bankers, Stagers are the main real estate professions that come to mind. Some people take a liking to more than one of these services and that brings me to the topic of this post. Why are people with &amp;#39;multiple hats&amp;#39; or licenses frowned upon?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The general idea or perception,&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/idea2.jpg" height="98" align="left" alt="YES! APPREALTOR!!" width="83" /&gt;from my personal observations, is that most people feel like if you do more &amp;#39;than one thing&amp;#39; then you can&amp;#39;t be an expert in your field. As much as I have to agree with that statement, but my experience in real estate has a foundation in appraising and then I built upon that to get into sales and become a REALTOR&amp;reg;. The former was a true challenge to obtain, and is the person least seen in any given real estate deal. During that process I saw the deals from another point of view, and analyzed many aspects of the game and the players in it. With pleasure I can say that experience make me a better REALTOR&amp;reg;, and allows you to have access to another part of the process. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;em&gt;So if you&amp;#39;re thinking,.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;He&amp;#39;s an appraiser, a REALTOR&amp;reg; would do a better job finding us a OR selling our house&amp;quot;,.. I would say &amp;quot;THINK TWICE !&amp;quot;. Am i saying that unless a REALTOR&amp;reg; has an appraiser&amp;#39;s license they are clueless?? no, not exactly. There are a lot of great agents and REALTORS&amp;reg; out there, but they are the minority of the numbers here is the South Florida Real Estate Market. Part-time, no-time, some-times workers are not uncommon. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;I put the two &amp;#39;hats&amp;#39; to work together in parallel, not against each other, along with some talents of my own. I&amp;#39;m sure any other Broker or REALTOR&amp;reg; out there with an appraiser&amp;#39;s license would agree. It is as asset to have both perspectives. I know what the house is likely to appraise for, while others are sitting with their fingers crossed. Use this to your advantage. My appraisal routines bring me across FSBO&amp;#39;s constantly, I may find your home this way.. Living in the MLS is also part of my appraisal business. My technology edge will have the newest information at your fingertips instantly. This blog demonstrates &amp;#39;outside the box&amp;#39; thinking, in case you needed someone who actually thinks and can offer opinions. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 align="left"&gt;Bottom line in selling real estate, &lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/dollarhouse.jpg" height="170" align="left" alt="Real Estate Marketing specialist sell your home for top dollar!" width="260" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who better than to talk about pricing than an appraiser? Price it right to maximize your profit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who better at marketing than the Ocean30 Marketing Group? Proven Marketing experts at your service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who better to compare properties than the person who previews homes for fun? I&amp;#39;ll find what you are looking for. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 align="left"&gt;Leverage our team:&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/ocean30.PNG" height="100" align="right" alt="Ocean 30 Marketing Group" width="283" /&gt;Expert marketing experience.&lt;br /&gt;Years of real estate experience.&lt;br /&gt;Multi-linguistic agents.&lt;br /&gt;Several professional associations.&lt;br /&gt;Unmatched internet presence.&lt;br /&gt;Technologically advanced.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;h2 align="left"&gt;What&amp;#39;s in a name? Nick the Appraiser..&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/nicktheappraiser.PNG" height="41" align="right" alt="Nick The Appraiser" width="303" /&gt;is what people remember me by.. it&amp;#39;s a name and it doesn&amp;#39;t define me or anything else I do. In working with me, you&amp;#39;ll benefit from the experience and background that our team and I can offer you. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Consumers will know I have their best interest at heart. I work for their protection and benefit when dealing with the biggest investment of their life. I can relate to first time home buyers and with seasoned pros. Fire me anytime policy is no strings attached.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Fellow REALTOR&amp;reg;, know that I will do the job when you send me your referrals. If I won&amp;#39;t be&amp;nbsp;able to handle it personally, we can look for a better option for your client. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Whether its sales or appraisals, I like to give it 110% and over deliver while making sure your expectations are met and exceeded. Feel free to send me your South Florida Referrals for the Palm Beach and surrounding areas. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" title="South Florida Real Estate" target="_blank"&gt;Nick the Appraiser&lt;/a&gt; is your real estate connection&lt;br /&gt;in the South Florida Real Estate Market. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/nickm-sig.JPG" height="66" align="left" alt="REALTOR&amp;reg; Nick is Nick the Appriaser" width="162" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PS. by the way.. Yo Hablo Espa&amp;ntilde;ol ;) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:20:07 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/62172/Being-an-South-Florida</link>
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      <title>Palm Beach Inlet via Peanut Island - Water Video from Surf-ski Cam</title>
      <description>&lt;h1 align="center"&gt;Palm Beach Water Cam &lt;br /&gt;Launching from &lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/56181/Peanut-Island-in-Palm-Beach-County" title="Palm Beach Peanut Island" target="_blank"&gt;Peanut Island&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" background="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/lakeworthinletviewfrompeanutisland.JPG" border="0" height="338" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="599"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col" valign="top" width="599"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;p&gt;With a convenient location on the beach, we are within eyesight on the Lake Worth Inlet in Palm Beach County. This allows for access to the ocean and local beaches with ease, while having the comfort of a beach for parking your ski or boat, shady &amp;amp;&amp;nbsp;grassy areas, pavilions and rest rooms! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Exiting the Lake Worth Inlet on the Jet Ski&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wYJUs1xgscg"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="false" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wYJUs1xgscg" movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/wYJUs1xgscg" height="350" seamlesstabbing="true" wmode="transparent" quality="1" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" background="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/eastshorefacingsingerislandrealestate.JPG" border="0" height="450" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col" valign="top" width="733"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The East Side of Peanut Island offers for relaxing ski and boat parking and dock access to island. It also has a nice beach area which leads you southward to the snorkeling area. Singer Island Real Estate is booming in the background.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;h1 align="center"&gt;Jumping waves just outside the Lake Worth Inlet in Palm Beach&lt;br /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IZL1nXE3bnM"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed allowfullscreen="false" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IZL1nXE3bnM" movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/IZL1nXE3bnM" height="350" seamlesstabbing="true" wmode="transparent" quality="1" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;table cellspacing="0" background="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/beachandsnorkelingareaonpeanutisland.JPG" border="0" height="450" cellpadding="8" align="center" width="600"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th scope="col" valign="top" width="733"&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;This is a calm day at the beach on the east part of &lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/59867/Palm-Beach-Inlet-via-Peanut-Island" title="Peanut Island - testing water cam in Palm Beach / Lake Worth Inlet" target="_blank"&gt;Peanut Island&lt;/a&gt;. The snorkeling area consist of some rocks forming a few round little bays. A great place for the fish to congregate and live. This south east area of the island faces the Inlet and is adjacent to the entry path to the Port of Palm Beach. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/maps/peanutislandmap.htm" title="Map of Peanut Island in West Palm Beach" target="_blank"&gt;InterActive Map of Peanut Island - Visit the Island now!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the local&amp;nbsp;Palm Beach Boat ramps and more Peanut Island&amp;nbsp;points of interest!..&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://localism.com/article/56181/Peanut-Island-in-Palm-Beach-County" title="Peanut Island in Palm Beach County" target="_blank"&gt;Read more about Peanut Island&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/parks/peanutisland/aboutpeanutisland.htm" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/parks/boating_fishing/" target="_blank"&gt;Palm Beach Boating &lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://activerain.com/blogsview/32760/West-Palm-Beach-Florida" target="_self"&gt;West Palm Beach Water Guide&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/ocean30nickappr.PNG" border="0" height="113" alt="The Ocean30 Marketing Group" width="265" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://activerain.com/floridarealestatepro" target="_self"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.digitalappraiser.biz/images/copyrightnotice.PNG" border="0" height="50" align="right" alt="&amp;copy;2007 - All rights reserved" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <author>Nick M -Realtor&#174;-Appraiser in West Palm- South Florida Real Estate Appraiser (Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate)</author>
      <pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:05:27 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://activerain.com/blogsview/59867/Palm-Beach-Inlet-via</link>
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      <title>Peanut Island in Palm Beach County, Boating and Palm Beach Recreational Island</title>
      <description>&lt;h1 align="center"&gt;&lt;a href=