I am an active real estate investor in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties, Florida. My company, Creative Vision Investors, Inc. specializes in wholesale and rehab/retail of foreclosured properties. My column of local real estate and investing news and issues is on-line at http://www.examiner.com/x-38756-St-Petersburg-Real-Estate-Examiner. My blog, The Zen Estate at http://zenestate.blogspot.com/, concentrates on real estate issues. I write my own copy and use my own photography for my two business web sites, www.CreativeVisionInvestors.com and www.FloridaImageTools.com. I relax with hiking and canoeing the Tampa Bay area and photographing the local wildlife and birds. During the summer I spend as much time as possible swimming in the Gulf.