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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2011 

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Lenn Harley with her excellent article HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU SPEND ON ACTIVERAIN? A NEW MEMBER WANTS TO KNOW - PART 2. inspired me to write this blog. I am always surprised when I see this "How much time do you spend on Active Rain"? It pushes me to defend the time I spend on AR. As if the whole p...
02/15/2011

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Vacations can mean busy time, and Sunday came as a surprise. By afternoon I had no comments on AR. I got to the computer by 5 PM. I bought 25 hours of Internet, and I still had over 11 hours yesterday, but computer kept saying that Internet access was unavailable. After fighting with it for 15-30...
02/14/2011

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I read the list of tours offered in this all-inclusive Barcelo Resort in Puerto Plata, and wasn’t thrilled. Actually, they say that going to the top of the mountain in a cable car is thrilling, with my phobia of heights, this was the very adrenaline I would rather avoid. But we thought that it wo...
02/14/2011

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When people are on vacation and are happily killing time, they sometime get crazy ideas. Following the honorable tradition, this is mine. I see that no matter what the market condition is, agents, including AR members, spend money on training, and travel to places where they hope to learn how to ...
02/14/2011

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I have very limited vacation experience since we came to the US. (Hmm, does it make me a virgin?) There is always something that stays between us and vacation. Bad winter turned to be a compelling stimulus, especially after a few good closing, and we are on our way to the Caribbean. The abroad st...
02/12/2011

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800,000 AR points, that means. I am on vacation and have unlimited time but limited Internet. So, I thought that maybe I have missed his post about reaching 800,000 points. Nope, I checked, Gary did not say a word. But then, hey, did we really expect him to do it? This is Gary… I am sure no intro...
02/11/2011

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Second winter in a row is unusually cold and in addition to that we now in Florida get a very unusual pattern when every weekend the weather is bad, and at best we have one day partial sunshine, and it is overcast or raining the rest of the time. It is 8th day in a row of bad weather in Daytona, ...
02/11/2011

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I am on a long awaited vacation out of the country and thinking was not part of the plan, but Andrea Swiedler posted Are you just talking the talk? Or do you walk the long, hard walk too? and leaving a comment for her I could not avoid thinking and now I can blame her for ruined vacation (LOL). I...
02/10/2011

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It is final. Marina Grande on the Halifax, a 972-unit condo development in a sleepy Holly Hill with two of four Towers already in place, has a new owner, Swerdlow Group. The closing was today Of all the groups bidding for this property, Swerdlow Group is the best for the future of Marina Grande o...
02/08/2011

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The wiser older I get, the more fascinated I get with the idea of a reverse mortgage. The concept seems to make a lot of sense. The promise of no worry retirement, where you do not have to sweat about mortgage payment is very soothing… I am afraid it is not a good time for reverse mortgages now. ...
02/06/2011
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