jon zolsky: I Will Never Pay Full Price…
- 12/06/11 02:25 PM
I Will Never Pay Full Price…
I have known this guy for 5-6 years. He is a retired college professor. He and his wife have bought a unit in condo-hotel and live there since then.
Sufficient to say that I do not know of anyone in Daytona area, who has money and lives in the condo-hotel.
Time from time he would start talking about buying, and every time he smiles from ear to ear and tells me that this should be a deal.
And then a new listing pops up in St. Regis subdivision of Venetian Bay in New … (28 comments)
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jon zolsky: Real Estate is Local… Real Estate is Local….Real Estate is Local…
- 12/05/11 02:44 PM
Working with a client looking for a house on the Ormond beachside. Inventory is very low, in the under $200K price range there are few houses, and they do not sit long.
We narrowed to 3 houses. A $179,000 house is showing the just value in the county as $151K. The Buyers are making an offer, which is low, but they are open to a counter.
There is no counter. The house goes under contract for way higher than our initial offer. The Buyers are both upset and surprised. Upset that they did not get the house, and surprised that this … (6 comments)
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jon zolsky: Relativity Theory...
- 12/02/11 04:54 PM
We are taking 2 days of our quite busy schedule to go south. There is Art Basel in Miami this weekend and this is a huge cultural annual event. We went there once for this event, but this was 4 years ago, so we are ready for a short fun and a long drive.
I had a warning from my car that there is a lamp malfunction. So, we are in the parking checking the lights and fluids before the drive to Miami.
My wife is in the driver’s seat, and she is turning on the light, and my son checks … (20 comments)
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jon zolsky: Joystick For AR
- 11/28/11 03:57 PM
Why Are You So Frustrated With Me?
I posted about Featured Posts on AR, and some of the comments felt like people are frustrated that I spend so much time on it. It also happened with my some other posts. Whoever is frustrated, have all the right to feel this way, but if this is true, then they are wasting their time on commenting… It is simple arithmetic: if what I write is waste zero, then what you comment is waste zero…
I am also puzzled by the notion that there is the one and only way to spend time. For my … (21 comments)
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jon zolsky: Want To Be A Millionaire? Be It... It Is Easy
- 11/27/11 04:35 PM
Time flies.
It was not long ago that AR got its first millionaire (in AR points), and now we already have 20 members with more than 1,000,000 points. And the Olympus is going to be even more crowded in few months as there are 16 members with over 900,000 points, who are tirelessly climbing the steep slopes of AR Olympus.
Like in general economy, there are some signs of inflation, brought by incessant shower of challenges points, and by valuing logging in same as 4 bona fide comments.
But this is not the general economy, and those 20 are not … (32 comments)
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jon zolsky: How Posts Are Featured? Would You Change The System?
- 11/27/11 01:38 PM
How Posts Are Featured?
Does anyone know what are the criteria, when choosing posts for feature on AR?
Does even AR know it? I really doubt it….
I practice reading featured posts time from time, and the idea behind it seems way more complicated than Google algorithm.
At least with Google you can figure what you need to do to be on page one, and there are some rules that we can understand, and follow.
With featured posts on AR it is impossible. There is no rhythm or reason. I guess, there are a few gals/guys, who would be featured no matter … (46 comments)
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jon zolsky: Screwing People is Hard Work. Don't be Lazy...
- 11/25/11 07:40 AM
This is a light (it is still a Holiday Season) wish to all screwers out there (I was told that there is no such word as «screwers» but I find it very unfortunate)
Here is an e-mail I received today:
Good Day You are a registered client ID-83624517593 Personal page Shestakova Sofya ID-8164847 First name: Sofya Surname: Shestakova Country: Belarus City: Orenburg Date of Birth: 11/09/1983 Height: 177 centimetres Weight: 47 kilograms Education: university Profession: designer Marital status: never married Good afternoon!
And there was nothing else. Just the link, which, I did not follow. Of course, I did not register for … (25 comments)
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jon zolsky: My Wish List For AR Item
- 11/24/11 09:39 AM
This is from the wish list for AR. Very often I am interested in member’s blog, and it makes me wonder who s/he comments upon. I would love to know whose posts this person is reading and leaving comments.
In a hectic time we live in, where not only hours, but minutes count, we so often want to rely on someone’s experience, someone’s advice. That’s why I like Patricia Kennedy’s weekly summary, as she would do the preview for us, and it is like going to read featured blogs, not featured by AR. So many times I think that her … (21 comments)
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jon zolsky: A Cool Guy In New York
- 11/23/11 03:38 PM
If you can find fun in Market Reports, check Mitchell Hall’s Manhattan Monthly Market Report - October 2011.
Maybe it is because I lived in New York (N.E. Bronx, to be exact), or simply because New York can leave anybody indifferent, but I find Mitchell’s report fascinating.
I do not think Manhattan is the most expensive real estate market, but it might be the most fascinating, due to the sheer volume of properties on a relatively small island. Which is not the island in the sea, but rather the Island of the World…
I am looking at condominiums and the … (24 comments)
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jon zolsky: Are You A Good REALTOR Or A Good AGENT?
- 11/22/11 08:06 AM
A few days ago I ran into a rant about bad agents, which started with “I know I 'm good REALTOR” and a few sentences later “and I'm a real estate instructor myself!”
For someone, who 19 years in this business, and IS AN INSTRUCTOR using the term REALTOR as synonym of “agent” is wrong. But I did not write it to bash the broker, who wrote it. I am simply using this common (very common usage) for my own goals here.
"I am a good REALTOR" in the strict sense of the word only means “I am a member of … (14 comments)
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jon zolsky: Life Is A Journey
- 11/20/11 01:50 PM
Friday was just a regular day, but when the door opened and I saw the guest coming in, it was a surprise.
It was Mister A, the guy who owned Fountain Beach Resort in Daytona Beach, and who converted it to a condo-hotel in 1998-1999.
Mister A (he is younger than me, but this is how his employees called him) came to US from Africa on investor visa, investing $1 Mil in two oceanfront rundown hotels side by side in the heart of Daytona Beach. Fountain Beach Resort, and Paradise Inn.
Money was tight, business was very slow, and he … (6 comments)
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jon zolsky: Un-Trivial Trivia
- 11/19/11 06:10 AM
I am sitting in my office and the maintenance guy walks in and asks me where I can write him a list of countries in Africa. I start writing, but then ask him what he wants. After all according to different sources there are 47 to 54 countries, and I won't remember all of them...
Somebody told him that there is a country, which has AK-47 on its flag. My first reaction is that this can't be true. Who in their sound mind would like to put AK on its flag?
I know Russian Flag, there is no AK.
But then … (13 comments)
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jon zolsky: We Will Be Old One Day
- 11/18/11 01:51 PM
We are getting older, is that the news? Ha-ha… Everybody knows it.
Knows what? That every birthday you are getting one year older? Yes, we all know that. But getting older is not just more birthdays.
Real Estate agents tend not to understand it.
I am in the resort area, and like everywhere in Florida, we have our fair share of retirees moving to spend their silver years.
Showing them properties may pose a very specific problem. It is considered a taboo to use a restroom in the property they are viewing. Every agent would tell you that it is a … (32 comments)
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jon zolsky: Seagulls on the Beach... Daytona Beach
- 11/14/11 01:29 AM
Seagulls are as part of our gorgeous beach, as pelicans and crabs. They are always there, but I have rarely seen them fishing.
I have seen them fighting for fish, which ended up on the sand, sometimes I see them trying those crystal transparent jelly fish…
Sometimes, a beachgoer brings bread and start throwing breadcrumbs in to the air, and birds fly around, grabbing bread and fighting for the crumbs…
They live by their own rules. Sometimes they congregate on the beach and as long as you can see, there are seagulls standing on one leg in the company of … (18 comments)
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jon zolsky: This Is Our Beach… Daytona Beach
- 11/13/11 04:26 PM
I am a big fan of walking barefoot on our gorgeous beach. Today it was a wonderful sunny day with 76F and cooler water at 69F.
Sand is usually very clean. We very rarely see seaweeds, it is only after strong storms. However, the ocean was quite rough last week, and we got unusual amount of seaweed on our beach, and accompanying it poignant smell of iodine.
Here is the photo that I took at sunset.
This is our beach…
Beautiful beach…
Daytona Beach...
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jon zolsky: Who Stayed In Holiday Inn Express?
- 11/13/11 01:44 PM
Did they all stay in Holiday Inn Express?
I know a guy, who exudes confidence with every breath he takes and every word he says. He is a chef.
It was a few years ago. He lost a job, because the owner could not sustain it any longer and closed the operation. He came to a friend of mine, who was struggling with a small franchise restaurant, and offered his help.
He did some right things, took a tough look at scheduling, reduced the labor. Coincidentally, the business started recovering, and the owner believed in the magic of this guru. … (8 comments)
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jon zolsky: Where Pelicans Sleep?
- 11/13/11 08:02 AM
Walking on the beach, I am fascinated by these large birds graciously grazing the sky above the ocean or over the Intracoastal. Pelicans usually fly in formations. You see them gliding and it is quite a sight…
And then they suddenly dive into the water to catch the fish…
Living in Florida, you learn not to swim when there you see pelicans actively fishing by the shoreline… It means that there is plenty of fish, and, most probably there are other efficient hunters in the water – sharks.
Pelicans are here for 30 Millions years, way longer than humans. … (18 comments)
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jon zolsky: Power Of Consumer
- 11/12/11 12:36 PM
It is a fascinating world. Before, the media was all Big Thing. We read the newspapers and watched TV. It was all produced by big companies with huge budgets and enormous professional stuff.
Internet has changed that. Now, there was World Wide Web and it cost you pennies or nothing to disseminate your ideas. So, the new media emerged. It is blogging. First, blogging was done by the same media professionals, they simply got a different instrument, and they started venturing out. And then millions and millions rushed into blogging.
When before we relied on someone to produce and deliver the news, … (4 comments)
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jon zolsky: Best Way To Clean Your Laptop
- 11/12/11 02:20 AM
"A clean home is the sign of a broken computer"
Hugh Krone left this comment on my post Power of No Power
This is a very funny comment. Now I know that cleanliness of our homes is part of electronics. Well, life is changing, and definitions are changing as well.
I know so many people with perfectly working computers. Does not matter whether PCs or Macs.
In our home, it seems, though, that my wife's computer is always broken. But mine works wonders.
Of course, it is now a Mac...
;-)
P.S. So, how to clean a laptop?
Hmmm... how … (13 comments)
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jon zolsky: Managing Expectations
- 11/11/11 04:55 PM
I am following Trip Advisor, a site where you can find information on local hotels, entertainment, restaurants… I read reviews and it is shocking when you read how great the hotel is, and then the next comment is saying that it was plain terrible. You look at the dates, and it is practically the same.
Same thing with restaurants. One is raving about food, service and ambience and the other is about disappointment, mediocre food and poor service…
Were they really in the same hotel, had different level of service? No, it was the same. And the food and service … (24 comments)
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