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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2015 

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June 30, 2015In Oceanside Inn the Board meetings seem to be the only time when members get any information regarding the affairs of the Association. Looks like the Board is clueless about transparency. They do not understand that it is not only easy to be transparent in the era of Internet, so th...
06/30/2015

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 I am from the Soviet Union, and my knowledge about any religion did not go beyond that "religion is the opium for the people” (V.I.Lenin). Not that I believed it then, nor do I believe it now, but I am as far from any religion as you can only be.When we landed in J.F.K. in hot summer of 1991, an...
06/27/2015

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I believe I am often not the first guy people contact. I am used to the calls, where people say that they visited Daytona a few weeks ago, and they have seen this and that, then went home, Googled, read my blog, and called to clarify some issues.I got one such call yesterday. The gentleman told m...
06/25/2015

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Announcement of Zillow selling Active Rain was quite enthusiastically met by AR community… but was it for all the wrong reasons? It might very well be. So many commenters were hyped not because it was great for AR, which we do not know yet, but because they strongly dislike Zillow and Trulia. So,...
06/23/2015

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I guess by now everyone is aware of the changes to AR. One post by Zillow, and the other by Ben Kinney.When I am reading comments to both, they sound as if AR problem was in Trulia or Zillow. No, folks. It is AR problem. AR, which lost its identity and became a compendium of endless Market report...
06/20/2015

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The magic lure of foreclosure... Practically every conversation about condos in MG on the Halifax ends with the question about foreclosures.And you instantly understand that everything you said, the lowest prices you mentioned, the market you described, means nothing. The notion behind the questi...
06/16/2015

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 The condo-hotel market in Daytona Beach area is pretty sluggish, but as the saying goes, some are more sluggish than the others.These more sluggish than others seem to be The Plaza Resort & Spa, and Oceanside Inn.For some reason, while we read in the newspaper that tourism is up, the County coll...
06/15/2015

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The condo-hotel market in Daytona Beach area is pretty sluggish, but as the saying goes, some are more sluggish than the others.These more sluggish than others seem to be The Plaza Resort & Spa, and Oceanside Inn.For some reason, while we read in the newspaper that tourism is up, the County colle...
06/15/2015

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There is something I do not really understand. Sometimes I feel like everybody around me had never had a problem in life, not a single blemish on his or her record, never a trouble… Like as if everyone around me is an angel… And as if everybody is supposed to be an angel… I was not an angel. I ha...
06/14/2015

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When I receive a call and the question is about rental limitations, and now more often about the limitations on owners’ stay in condo-hotels, I get that uneasy feeling.When people are trying to find the condo-hotel, which would allow unlimited stay, when people are telling me that they plan to us...
06/14/2015
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