How often comments on a good blog tend to veer away from the original blog post… It seems that people come and do not read the post but catch a comment and then comment on the comment… How often you get a feeling that you are seeing comment after comment, and feel that they have not read the post
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05/31/2010
AR has had its share of fights about what to write, what is appropriate, why we are here... I am glad nobody ever won convincingly. If this was a pure real estate network, with high quality stuff... I am afraid it would very soon turn into another library, where if you need something, you go and
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05/30/2010
Jerry Murphy from Arizona left a comment on my post Featured Blog... Is It Your Best? that he wrote a quick rant and out of a hundred posts he has it was featured. I went to his post and left a comment. I guess, he was frustrated with a short sale and thought that Everyone should have to work on
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05/30/2010
Special Assessment for $3,600 is the last in the series of assessments for concrete restoration that hit a popular Hawaiian Inn – a Daytona Beach Shores condo-hotel. Hawaiian Inn, built in 1965, added the fifth floor 9 years later in 1974. It was fending off the Special Assessments for as long as
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05/26/2010
I just read a blog posted by Lewis Poretz I'm just saying.... It is well written… not a demand, it is a thought… It made me think about why America is not taking care of their own when people are losing their homes? I think it does, maybe not in the proper way… I can understand the frustration,
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05/24/2010
A few days ago I received an e-mail. In all caps it shouted at me: - NEW! NEW! NEW! **XXXXXXXXX BEACH – BEACH HOUSE** OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY 1-3:30 5/23/2010 WITH LARGE INGROUND POOL! Sunday 1-3:30 5/23/2010 with large inground pool? It reminds me an old army joke when the sergeant tells the plat
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05/24/2010
We Are All Different I have not written any purely political posts lately. So here is one coming. This is about the art of hearing each other. I am afraid that with time we move in the opposite directions, while both sides claim they are moving in the 'right' direction. It is difficult, and that’
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05/24/2010
I have to admit that I am a huge fan of American Idol. And ‘You think You Can Dance’. They fascinate me with their creativity, talent, ability to work under extreme pressure… It is a fascinating show, because it shows how much one can achieve if s/he is put in extreme competitive environment. We
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05/21/2010
James Foxx posted HOAs Contributing to San Antonio Foreclosure Auctions I am not in Texas, I am in Florida, and there might be difference in how it is handled, but I want to address some issues of basic understanding. HOAs have a budget, and this budget is as lean as it can be. There is no seriou
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05/21/2010
Oceanside Inn, a premium Daytona Beach Shores condo-hotel (or hotel condo, if you wish to call it this way) was resisting the fall of the market for a long time. When Plaza Resort & Spa was selling for $30s and $40s, Oceanside Inn maintained its lofty status… but you can’t swim against the curren
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05/20/2010