Jon's Real Estate ramblings

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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408
Living in Daytona Beach area is more relaxed and easier than in more humid Miami, and it is also the most affordable living by the Ocean.

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2009 

How do we know that we got Google Juice? That's right... it is when the phone rings. That's the moment we wait for, and that's the moment that we are trying to make happen more often. But no good deal come unpunished (LOL) Below is the conversation as real as it can only be when you did not recor...
11/29/2009
I have always been fascinated by the ability of other people to add humor to everything. Like spices, which accentuate the tastes in the food, humor brightens up everything it touches. It is the best way to make something you want people to remember - more memorable. It piques your interest; it m...
11/27/2009
Inventory is rapidly decreasing in Daytona Beach Area condo-hotels. There are 224 condo-hotel units on MLS as of today, a far cry from the all-time high of 362 just 18 months or so ago. Here are available units in the most prestigious condo-hotel in Daytona Beach - Ocean Walk Resort. 7 units for ...
11/24/2009
According to News-Journal, Reno, NV, Cincinnati, OH, and Portland, OR have a similar festival but now there is a new town on the block and it is Ormond Beach, FL. “Ormond Beach's scenic river for the first time will take center stage over its usually more popular destination -- the Atlantic Ocean...
11/22/2009
Remember Mikhail Gorbachev? A popular political figure often viewed very favorably in the United States? Many of us, Russians, after the initial euphoria of Perestroika and Glasnost (the latter, by the way, is like Transparency), hated him with all our guts. He betrayed our generation. He promise...
11/21/2009
Recently Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan went on a killing spree and 13 people lost their lives. And it happend on a military base Fort Hood, TX. There is a controversy here, whether he is a terrorist, or a disgruntled major acting like one. With the word disgruntled being a keyword. As if terrorists are ...
11/20/2009
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Greta Van Susteren from FOX went to Pakistan to interview Hillary Clinton. In her first appearance on Fox after she got there was a dose of surprise. She said that even though they got to Pakistan in the middle of the night and did not really speak to many people, her first impression was that th...
11/19/2009
Time to update on the Condo Deals in the Oceans - Daytona Beach Shores, a popular Oceans complex. In the last months the market has changed: there are fewer units remaining for sale, the prices are somewhat higher, and multiple offers can happen... I have clients who are still waiting to see how ...
11/17/2009
Daytona Beach Area...Where Living Is Cool... It was a picture perfect day in Daytona Beach. At 79F it felt on a cooler side, crispy and clean air, blue sky... I was showing an apartment building on Daytona's Beachside, just a block from the ocean. We looked at several units and were ready to leav...
11/17/2009
Daytona Beachside is a 23-mile long but narrow Barrier island squashed between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway, also called Halifax River. This is a small part of the Daytona Beach area, but when we are talking VACATION, this is what we have in mind.  The rest is for locals. Ther...
11/15/2009