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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2012 

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Gary Coles posted Get Connected in the Rain It is an interesting post about Active Rain. But what surprised me was that Gary transitions from Active Rain connections to telephone conversations, and for him it is still within Active Rain, and it is not so for me. To an extent I am surprised that w...
01/22/2012

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There is always a bigstory, and there is always a little story. When I look at what happened to this cruise ship, Costa Concordia, I know that there are so many sides to a big story, there is investigation, there are reports, there are versions, there will be interrogations, court, punishment, l...
01/21/2012

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Unit 801 in Oceans Five for Sale in Daytona Beach Shores Who can believe that we got to the time when in a whole 21-story building with 112 units there will be only 2 units for sale? This is less than 2%, while in “normal” real estate market this figure is around 7%. And while pundits are talking...
01/21/2012

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I received sad news today. ST. CROIX - After 45 years in operation as the territory's largest private employer, HOVENSA announced Wednesday that the 350,000-barrel-per-day refinery will shut down and more than 2,000 employees will be dismissed.” (Read more) Hovensa, a joint venture of Hess Corp. ...
01/19/2012

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Fountain Beach Resort in Daytona Beach. January 2012 2012 started and we already forgot all the holidays, and the feeling of it as new and fresh. We are firmly in 2012.... Time to look back and see how things were back in 2011, and what lies ahead. Fountain Beach Resort is a Daytona Beach condo-h...
01/19/2012

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When on the dashboard I see a word in the title coming up again and again and again, I know that there is a contest. So, seeing “trust” more often than usual, I assumed that there is a contest, and I was right. I am not participating in contest for some time, so this will be a departure from my s...
01/15/2012

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What DOES it mean to be an Active Rain Ambassador? Niki Parekh posted a blog post with this title, then Alan May used the same title and wrote the most hilarious post on the topic. Read it, use the link above, it is funny and clever. At least now I know the reason the servers were darn slow all ...
01/12/2012

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Well, it is 2012, and there are hopes that Real Estate market will stabilize and start improving, though I am not sure I know what it means. I see people buying properties at very low prices now, and they are not in a rush to start paying way more, so for them this is the best market ever, as the...
01/11/2012

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I am listening to Rick Santorum’s speech after the New Hampshire primary in, and I hear this “true conservative” again. I heard it a lot from Michele Bachman, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul… I am hoping to see the end of Obama era, as I do not see a bigger danger for this great...
01/10/2012

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I often run into blogs with titles starting with “How to…”. I must admit that AR proved to be an excellent resource. Just remember posts by Brad Andersohn, Katerina Gasset, Craig Daniels and so many others. Along with those, there are blogs with “How to…” in the title, but when you click, all you...
01/07/2012
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