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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2010 

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When several men & women were arrested in the US as alleged Russian spies, the reaction of official Moscow was that this was a provocation like in the times of cold war, that the timing was political, that Russian had no knowledge that these individuals were spies… Hey, after living there for 40 ...
07/25/2010

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If your water bill has been really high, and there is no visible reason for that, there may be a thief stealing your water. The couple checked everything, and it was all in perfect order, and the bill was bad… So, one day the husband does not feel well, and stays at home… and catches the thief an...
07/25/2010

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Yesterday (and for me it means before I went to bed) I posted Am I In The Wrong Business? It is about a guy who is privately arranging vacation rentals for 20 owners of Ocean Walk Wyndham Resort - Daytona's premier condo-hotel, and to my surprise the comments came agreeing with me. Practically ev...
07/24/2010

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I do not really understand the burning concern about the reputation of the Real Estate industry as a whole. There are over 2 mil real estate licensees in the Nation. It is obvious that, like in any other industry or occupation, there are good people and not so good people (which has nothing to do...
07/24/2010

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Do you ever get that feeling that you are in the wrong business? I sometimes do. We think that we know something in our business, and then some regular guy comes along and proves me wrong. We are mostly doing sales, but for the last couple of years a small part of our business is property managem...
07/23/2010

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I am putting together the contract for an out of state buyers, who are purchasing a direct oceanfront one-bedroom condo-hotel unit in Ocean Walk Wyndham Resort in Daytona Beach. I asked them to send me their contact information to put on the contract. Among other things there was the following: "...
07/20/2010

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I just read in the news that Vice President Joe Biden at a fundraiser called Nancy Pelosi “the mother of Health Care”. “Speaking at a fundraising luncheon in Philadelphia, Biden said: “The single most successful, the single most persuasive, the single most strategic leader I have ever worked with...
07/19/2010

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Maybe this is a slow market, but I have never seen deals like that in any other market. Take Ocean Walk. This is the classiest condo-hotel in greater Daytona Beach area. With all its amenities, this is a world class Wyndham Resort. There is direct oceanfront one bedr/one bath unit for $149,900 as...
07/19/2010

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Working on a blog I needed some info, and I clicked on the States pop down menu and clicked on Florida. The page that populated the screen was not what I used to, so I thought that I might have clicked the wrong button, and I went back, checked what I clicked and … got to the same page. Of course...
07/18/2010

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I once wrote a blog post Got a License? ... Now What? about licensing, where I expressed disappointment that getting the license had very little to do with a day-to-day operations in Real Estate. Margaret Woda, a wonderful AR blogger summarized it this way: “we all need to know our state and fede...
07/18/2010
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