funcoast realty: Daytona Inn Beach Resort
- 10/29/07 05:13 PM
Daytona Inn Beach Resort is located at 219 South Atlantic Ave. It is a north east corner of the intersection of International Speedway Blvd (SR 92) and Atlantic Ave. This is a dream location, right on the beach, steps to Boardwalk, Ocean Center, Peabody Auditorium, Main Street with all the event and activities within walking distance.
4-story Hotel was built in 1962, converted to a condo-hotel in mid 90s. 150+ rooms are 60% studios and 40% suites. Units 1 to 8 do not have much of a view, no balconies, walkway. Units 9 to 25 are direct oceanfront with large balconies, and the … (0 comments)
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funcoast realty: Technology vs Realtors. Part II
- 10/24/07 05:07 PM
You can read Part I at http://activerain.com/blogsview/236631/Technology-vs-Realtor-Part
So how all this relates to Real Estate? Our office is in the oceanfront Resort. It used to be that people come to Daytona, drive the street, and pick the place to stay. Not any more. People come with reservations; the whole thing takes place a thousand miles from the resort.
Similar with us. We still do not comprehend that we are witnessing the GREAT RETREAT of buyers away from REALTORS. The tools are now available to everyone, and soon there will be nothing that Realtors control. Not MLS listings, that they used to control before Internet, not access … (2 comments)
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funcoast realty: Looking into the mirror. Not a nice picture
- 10/18/07 04:59 PM
Anita Zahn wrote about a seminar, where the broker compared Realtors to car salesman. (see the post http://activerain.com/blogsview/242461/Are-you-a-Luxuary)
I really did not want to do it, I have annoyed a few people in AR already, and this could only add fuel, but I see it quite often on AR, that we, for whatever reason, tend to put ourselves above over groups. Whether it is Realtors (Lisa Hill has a way to stick that R symbol to the word Realtor, but I did not figure how she does it) vs Real Estate Agents, or Realtors vs representatives from other industries.
I do not have anything against … (12 comments)
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funcoast realty: Blogging. Where does it take us?
- 10/18/07 08:19 AM
Laurie Manny wrote a great blog http://activerain.com/blogsview/241373/Does-Blogging-Really-Work
It is really worth reading, and comments are great.
A few things here. Website can be a cover. One can hide behind a website, which could be more a product of a good web designer. Can you fool people with the website? Of course, you can. Syndicated materials, cute pictures, nice video, and nothing of our own...
Now, here comes the blogging.
Can we hide behind blogging?
We can steal, we can (or soon will be able to) syndicate the content, but with the industry as it is, it is significantly more difficult. If we write ourselves, it is a different situation, we can't hide. When we … (3 comments)
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funcoast realty: Proud Realtors or just Brokers and Agents?
- 10/16/07 05:58 AM
Susan Walters' post (http://activerain.com/blogsview/238744/Mass-emails-on-new) caused a heated exchange, and it clearly shows two different approaches. Obviously, there is a rationale behind both of them.
Nice things said, the reality is that we are often lost is endless rules, regulations, laws... Sometimes it seems that our allegiances are not to the customer, but to the rules and regulations. We are getting so technical.
Sometimes it gets plain stupid. Take the use of the term "Realtor" for example. General public associates it with everyone, who is licensed. They do not know, that there is a narrow (and protected) definition of the term. If you are a … (4 comments)
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funcoast realty: Are you losing your shirt?
- 10/15/07 06:22 PM
There is a lot of discussion about the bad market, and, surprisingly, about the need to keep of the negativity, and be positive, and all that. No, there is nothing wrong with being positive, it is just the connotation is strange.
This is just the naming game. There is no such thing as good or bad market. If your client buys when the market is low, and sells when the market is high, he is doing terrific. If, however, he bought at the peak and has to sell when it is so low, he is not doing great. In every market there … (7 comments)
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funcoast realty: $5 for a feedback. Am I nuts?
- 10/15/07 04:14 PM
Our office is in the oceanfront condo-hotel. There is a Marquee sign enticing the passers-by with another distressed price, so we do have people walking in and asking to show them the cheapest unit. These are mostly lookers, we take them upstairs, show them one or two units, explain how the things work, and they leave with my card in their pocket and I never see or hear from them again. It is sort of the nature of the business. Some are curious, ask tons of questions, swear that they would come in a week, and then the same thing, they disappear. … (3 comments)
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funcoast realty: Do you want your clients lose money?
- 10/15/07 01:32 PM
Jon Higgins http://activerain.com/blogsview/238239/Rent-your-house-out thinks that this is crazy that some agents suggest that their client's rent their properties instead of selling.
Guilty, we do that. Of course, we would be interested in selling, of course we would be interested in maintaining the level of sales we enjoyed in Seller's market, but this is not all about us. It is about our clients. It is about their interests.
And what we are supposed to suggest to a client, who bought at the height of the market, and now his property is not worth even close what he needs to sell it for simply … (6 comments)
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funcoast realty: Studio Condo Hotel Unit 429. Fountain Beach Resort
- 10/04/07 03:06 PM
Cozy unit on the fourth floor with southern view of the ocean. Newly tiled and custom furnished. Unit is rented by the owner. Queen beds with custom frames containing linen storage. All new appliances. Clean and immaculate throughout.
Very good views from the 4th floor. Condo-Hotel unit is on the preferred South side unit in Fountain Beach Resort. Enjoy your panoramic views of the Ocean. Wathch dolphins play right from the balcony. Amenities include the pool, restaurant & Tiki Bar, coin laundry.
The resort has gone through major renovations. New roof, balconies are done, new paint, new electric. The lobby and the whole first floor … (0 comments)
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funcoast realty: Oceanside Inn
- 10/03/07 05:43 PM
OCEANSIDE INN, DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, FLORIDA
Built in 1973 and completely remodeled in 2003. 4th condo-hotel developed by John Rainey, and so far his best. Used to be a 195-room Days Inn. Was shut down because of the unsafe balconies, and the owner, who ran it down to the ground, sold it to the developer cheap. Rainey had just completed conversion of Hawaiian Inn, the market got a little better, and he could afford to create a better quality property.
Major renovations were competed and the last units were sold just couple of months prior to Hurricane Charley, followed by Frances. G-d swiftly provided quality control, the … (0 comments)
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funcoast realty: Fountain Beach Resort
- 10/03/07 04:09 PM
Fountain Beach Resort was built in 1976 and converted to condo-hotel in 1998-1999. This 6-story 149-room resort features studios and 18 one bdr/2 bath units. Studios are practically same size - 385 sf plus 49 sf balcony, while one-bedroom units consist of two studios with the one door from the hallway blocked. Suites feature jetted tubs in the master bedroom, and majority of them have full kitchen. Studios have kitchenettes with underconter fridge, microwave and toaster oven.
The property, as many others, benefited greatly from the destruction of Hurricane Charley and the flood of water from Hurricane Frances. The windfall of insurance … (0 comments)
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funcoast realty: Dare to be sexy?
- 10/01/07 06:40 PM
Surfing through today's posts I ran into Bret Noel's blog about Sex and Real Estate. (http://activerain.com/blogsview/221634/SEX-SEX-SEX-SEX)
Imagine you are driving a highway and there is a billboard and a there's a real estate licensee posing in a Bikini. The author gives the lady the credit for the beautiful body, however, to my total disbelief, concludes that sex and real estate do not mix. What is even more surprising is that several comments second this opinion, with no dissenting voice. Am I missing something here?
You can't separate them. Sex is part of our daily life, and it is as alive in real estate as it is alive in any other … (15 comments)
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funcoast realty: Happy marriage ... or a bitter divorce?
- 09/30/07 08:08 AM
FSBOs are trying to change the rules of the game. With a famous 90/10 rule, a Seller has 10% chance of being really well represented by someone, who would deserve his/her commission with no questions asked. Sellers can't surf through agents in hope of finding this one and only, they are tied in a Listing agreement, and have to pay cancellation fees if they want out. Also, there is not clear instrument that would tell them when they are talkig to the best, or to the worst. They do not see it as a necessity to go through several to end up … (1 comments)
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funcoast realty: Fighting for the customer. Are we losing the battle?
- 09/29/07 11:05 PM
AR is addictive, and I am not the most organized person, so I am spending more than I can afford. But I am glued to it trying to see if guys out there figured where we are going. It bothers me, there is a lot of uncertainty, and hey, maybe someone has a crystal ball?
Unfortunately, the overall tone of the blogs is not that encouraging. We are sort of enthusiastically complaining. About the media, which causes people to be concerned, the FSBOs who have more and more chutzpa, and about tons of other things. The idea is that if we eliminated … (21 comments)
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funcoast realty: Making a lot of money in Real Estate today? You bet you can...
- 09/22/07 06:44 AM
John Paul Getty, a self made billionaire, was quoted that the way to become rich is to buy when everyone is selling, hold on to it, and sell when everyone is buying.
People, who follow his advice, do extremely well. The majority of us do the opposite. We wouldn't buy until every newpaper and every broadcast screams about the hot market, where everyone is making money. So, that's when we buy. However, it is too late, we paid too much, the market collapses... Now all newspapers and the news are full of apocaliptic predictions, we are scared, so we are selling. We are doing exactly the opposite … (1 comments)
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Daytona Inn Beach Resort is located at 219 South Atlantic Ave. It is a north east corner of the intersection of International Speedway Blvd (SR 92) and Atlantic Ave. This is a dream location, right on the beach, steps to Boardwalk, Ocean Center, Peabody Auditorium, Main Street with all the event and activities within walking distance.
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