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Toby Tobin
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Real estate commentator; GoToby.com, Take Action Propertiesi
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Website
http://www.GoToby.com
Office Phone
(386) 597-2185
Cell Phone
(386) 931-7124
Fax
(386) 523-0181
Address
35 Riverview Bend S., Unit 1816, Palm Coast, FL, 32137
Description
GoToby.com, the popular on-line news source for residential and commercial real estate in Palm Coast and beyond. News, critical commentary, analysis, articles, newsletters & interesting rumors

About Toby:

Toby (Don) Tobin is a real estate commentator, consultant & Publisher of GoToby.com, a real estate news and information website. He also is a contributing writer for the Palm Coast Observer.

A graduate of the University of Rochester and an entrepreneur, Toby spent many years in sales, sales management, and consulting in the technology industry, specializing in financial products. Toby is a licensed Florida Realtor® and owner of GoToby.com Realty. He is a member of:

  • Flagler County Association of Realtors®
  • Florida Association of Realtors®
  • National Association of Realtors®
  • Enterprise Flagler
  • Flagler Home Builders Association
  • Palm Coast/Flagler Chamber of Commerce
  • Flagler County Association for Responsible Development
  • Rotary International - Paul Harris Fellow

 

What do I do?

My website, GoToby.com is the most visited Northeast Florida website for real estate news, analysis, articles, listings, building permits, recent sales, newsletters, and interesting rumors. You can become a member (free) and receive email notification of new website postings. GoToby.com is widely read and has been quoted in several well known publications including the NY Times, Washington Post, Denver Post, 5280 Magazine, Golf Digest, and Links Magazine. A Palm Coast resident since 2000, Toby comes from Rochester, NY via 15 years in Charleston, SC.

GoToby.com is also known as the best source for information about real estate developer Bobby Ginn and Lubert-Adler. Toby also follows fraud related to real estate, lending, and appraisal.

I provide consulting services to both buyers, sellers, investors and developers.

As a referring Realtor®, I connect clients (at no charge to them) with experienced agents specializing in their area of interest. My website GoToby.com is a full time venture. I'm in continual contact with local real estate professionals (both residential and commercial) and understand which areas they know best. I use this knowledge to match clients as close as possible to the most suitable agent.

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What my readers say

  • Wanted to let you know your articles were very helpful to me as my firm specializes in private club consulting/management services and we are attempting to provide assistance to these properties. We specialize in providing lenders, developers, and equity boards exit strategies and srategic plans in these types of situations. Your articles helped me "bone up" on the information I needed to be prepared for upcoming meetings.
  • Just wanted to compliment you for your reporting of items related to The Ginn Company. It's much more substantive than the usual blog- in fact, often more informative than the mainstream press.
  • Keep up your wonderful message!
  • Thank you so much for your article on Real Estate commissions.  You have done all of us Realtors an invaluable service by explaining this to your large audience.  Keep up the good work!
  • I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed hearing you speak at last week's homebuilder association dinner.  It was refreshing to hear positive remarks on our local real estate market for a change.  I have been doing title business in Flagler County for 20 years and have seen the peaks and valleys several times.  I have been blessed many times over with great business and I feel like we are moving in a very positive direction again.  Keep up your wonderful message!
  • I love your site and visit it often. I visit many real estate sites trying to get a good picture of real estate trends in Palm Coast. I trust your site the most.
  • Toby, you missed your calling!  You qualify for super financial super sleuth of the year - very interesting article.
  • I check your site every day and I really enjoy it, you have given me more information about Palm Coast than I even know about my home town in which have lived all my life. My husband and I are thinking about moving there and we find you to have the Most accurate information.
  • Let me take this opportunity to thank you for providing GoToby.com as a channel of communication. I so appreciate your site, which is geared toward our specific area, rather than most resources which tend to lump the country's fastest-growing city with "Volusia-Flagler" or even greater Jacksonville!
  • Just wanted to say thanks for posting all this information. It really helps with keeping with everything changing in the market.  I'm sure it takes up a lot of time to maintain so I just wanted to say "thanks!"
  • I am an avid reader of your column - thanks for keeping us informed. I also appreciate your reality check about builders and their contribution to development. 
  • I am an avid reader of your column - thanks for keeping us informed.
  • Do you EVER sleep?  I greatly appreciate your dedication keeping us so well informed.
  • You do a great job in bringing this info to the public. I may not agree with all your conclusions, but your reports are incisive. You should have been a journalist.
  • Toby, you are a really good reporter and spokesperson for your community. I hope you are funding your retirement with this current, contemporaneous info because you do a great and thorough job.
  • Thanks for the Super Duper Website and up to date info.  We appreciate it!
  • You pull no punches, keep telling it like it is.
  • Thanks for the service you render Palm Coast and Flagler County!
  • My husband and I have looked at your web site and are impressed with your candor and accuracy of the information that you put out. 
  • Hey Toby, what a great site you have!
  • I cannot tell you how happy I was to come across your article. I have been researching Mortgage Insurance coverage on mortgage pools for months in order to determine the incentives lenders have to foreclose rather than modifying interest rates for borrowers to salvage loans....Just so glad someone else gets it.
  • I wanted to take a minute to compliment you on the fine eNewsletter you are publishing. You are certainly a voice of reason in this most unfriendly development climate. Ever thought of running for office? I could guarantee you plenty of support.
  • I've learned more about Palm Coast, Flagler County, and Central Florida since GoToby.com than I ever could reading the local and/or regional newspaper.
  • Congratulations GoToby.  You have truly earned your status as a highly respected source for Palm Coast and Flagler County Real Estate information.
  • I love your site.  I had no idea it was new, just thought it was new to me. Thank you for the insight you bring to people like me who do not live in Palm Coast, yet own property there.
  • You are a big help to those who do not live in Palm Coast, but own property down there. Keep up the good work.
  • Thank you for such a thorough and informative site.You have done a supurb job of informing people without bias.
  • I have learned more about Palm Coast, and what is happening in our area, from GOTOBY.COM than I have in the past five years of living here, from anyone, or any other form. The articles are very well written, and the website is superb.
  • You are one of the few lucid thinkers who is bold and talented enough to put your thoughts to words.
  • Your reporting of the auction was on the money. You did not misrepresent one fact, good or bad. I shall be alerting every party who contacted us about the auction that they should monitor your website to remain fully informed about Hammock Beach real estate activities. I am sorry I did not have extra time to visit with you other than to meet you and say hi. However, I can attest that you are a smart, honest guy with no agenda other than full disclosure. The pleasure was all mine and what a refreshing perspective; honesty. Thank you. - Jim MacDonnell, Executive Managing Director, Sheldon Good & Company
  • I wanted to commend you on the fine job you are doing with your Go Toby website. As the Director of Land Acquisition for SeaGate Communities, I use your site to help keep me up to speed on what is happening in Palm Coast. Keep up the good work.
  • Love what I've seen so far!  Great job!  I've signed up for everything.  As a former Chamber of Commerce Executive, I used to get this type of information everyday.  You have no idea what a great service you're bringing to the business community...and the community at large.
  • The absolute best and well informed Palm Coast website!
  • I have been interning as a research analyst/demographer for a retail developer not based in Palm Coast all summer and I visit your site as soon as I get to work.  I read all your newsletters, rumors, and other information about residential and commerical developments. 
  • Toby,  Thanks for this, you have become a trusted source for many of us involved in Palm Coast real estate market.  We appreciate the hours you must put into this site and keeping it comprehendable for folks like me who are unfamiliar with intricacies of your profession.  Great work keep it up.
  • My wife has just introduced me to your web page. I find it fascinating. Great job! Please add me to your list.
  • I'm a realtor with Watson. My hat's off to you. An excellent website.
  • Thank you for striving to provide valuable, factual information.  We enjoy your insight into the local market.
  • Excellent article on Gated Communities!
  • That was an excellent article. You hit the nail right on the head.
  • I enjoy your website about Palm Coast real estate...keep up the great website
  • I have just recently found your web site.  I find it full of useful information. Keep up the good work.
  • I like the way you report the facts and don't candy coat a sales pitch .It is the most informative site about Flagler County. Every county should be so lucky to have such a site.
  • I am an Intracoastal lot owner in Palm Coast Plantation. I have really enjoyed your news about Palm Coast. Thanks for putting it all together.
  • What an informative and helpful site.  I have just become an avid reader. Since I live in St. Johns County, I would love to see something like this here. 
  • Thank you Man for this nice web site. Perfect set of information. Very good job.
  • Great site, I would love to receive your newsletter or any other information you provide to your customers. Thanks.
  • First class, professionally done and a "saver" for me.
  • We have been looking at the Palm Coast area and are glad to have found your website. It is a very interesting site.
  • I love your web-page. Super work.