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 

Ponce Inlet, a quiet jewel of Greater Daytona Beach area, is a small town of just over 3 thousand residents on the southernmost tip of the barrier island. If you think there is no such thing as a quiet place in Daytona Beach area, think Ponce Inlet. The town is past the last bridge to the mainlan...
07/23/2009
Marina Grande On The Halifaxis still there, at least physically, which is encouraging. It was morning when my phone rang, and it was Bob Koslow, a staff writer for our local daily - New-Journal. I guess he Googled Marina Grande on the Halifax, and ran into my blogs about it on Active Rain. He was...
07/22/2009
Tough Luck for developers of Plaza Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach.In September 2008 I posted Daytona Shooreline Hotel Tycoons File for Chapter 11. It was a sad story of a local real estate developer with a vision falling prey to this unforgiving market. Bray & Gillespie, who are behind a number of...
07/22/2009
The debate about the plans of the government to take over the Healthcare system in America will hardly leave anyone impartial. But if  many are trying to see the future, I am looking into the past. The following is the quote from the review that I ran into on Google. Please, note how highly regar...
07/21/2009
Presenting to you this direct Oceanfront Studio in Oceanside Inn, Daytona Beach Shores premiere condo-hotel. For a price which is just half of what the owners paid in 2004, just before the prices started going up. 496 SF unit isthe second largest floor plan. Direct oceanfront north east corner un...
07/20/2009
Maybe it  is too late, or maybe I am tired, but I am in a light mood (don't worry, does not happen too often-LOL). Anyway, I went to New York last weekend.A group of old friends got together. One of them brought her granddaughter. My friend asked her to find the missing dollar.Here's the line3 gu...
07/19/2009
I feel awkward when I read the blog and want to comment, but there is not name. Instead there is "Tampa Bay Florida Real Estate And Tampa Homes for Sale", or "Starfish Real Estate", or "State Financial Services, LLC Financial Hope for America", etc. I was reading the blog Coastal or Almost Coasta...
07/18/2009
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I recently saw this fragment, when Obama was campaigning, and when he said that they will redistribute the wealth, and that he thought this was a good thing, it sounded painfully familiar. This wonderful experiment with someone else's money has been tried before. In 1917 Russia decided to push sl...
07/18/2009
The history will repeat itself. I hear this very often from those who stop at our office to "talk real estate", a new activity that seems to have replaced buying and selling real estate. I agree, the history will repeat itself. And if that's true, then the next phrase should be "and the values wi...
07/17/2009
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For the last two days I noticed that we are under attack from spammers promoting some sites. Someone figured that they can put their spam message in the comment, and this is their greatest marketing plot. I deleted already about a dozen of those comments. I am sure it is very irritating. Below is...
07/16/2009