palm coast: How You Want To Be Seen?
- 06/07/08 08:44 PM
As many others, I sometimes write for Localism. This is something that I expect the customers to read if they are looking for properties in the area. Listings and Market reports go into this category. I mark them as for Customers only and do not place them with any group. Straight to Localism.
However, because they are posts, they are still showing if you click on "Blogs' in navigation. I personally would rather them not. They are intended for clients only, or I would have included them in at least one group. I remember there was a post written in Spanish, and I got … (2 comments)
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palm coast: Daytona Beach Club Condo-hotel. Market Snapshot
- 06/07/08 04:47 PM
Daytona Beach Club is a condo-hotel in Daytona Beach at 800 North Atlantic Ave..
12 units for sale today on MLS with prices for a city view studio starting from $59,000, and a direct oceanfront studio for $75K and all the way to $175K for a one bdr oceanfront unit.
One of only few condo-hotel, where you can claim homestead and live full-time.
Since January 2008 only one direct oceanfront unit sold in the resort for $60K, As in other condo-hotel resorts, there is a serious gap between the asking and the selling prices. Recently the bank sold a foreclosed unit … (4 comments)
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palm coast: Castaways. Market Snapshot
- 06/07/08 04:32 PM
Castaways Resort is a condo-hotel in Daytona Beach Shores.
16 units for sale today on MLS.
Prices for an oceanview studio start from $74,900 and up to $159,900. One of only few condo-hotel, where you can claim homestead and live full-time.
Since January 2008 only one unit sold in the resort, Asking price was $55,000. Sold for $50,000. As in other condo-hotel resorts, there is a serious gap between the asking and the seling price.
Jon Zolsky, Your Daytona Beach connectionswww.BeautifulFlorida.com
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palm coast: Property Tax in Florida. Part 1.
- 05/30/08 11:00 AM
People moving to Florida often complain that the taxes are high. At least the majority of them. Then there are always people who say it is low compared to their place, so we are not the cheapest, but not the most expensive.
However, we need to keep in mind that the State needs money and they get it one way or another. So, if something is much cheaper in other places, the State has the way to get that money imposing some other fees or taxes.
People, who come from the Carolinas brag about their very low property tax, but do … (0 comments)
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palm coast: NAR Settles With DOJ. Now What?
- 05/27/08 05:39 PM
The latest news is that NAR settled with DOJ (http://www.realtor.org/RMODaily.nsf/pages/News2008052701?OpenDocument)
NAR claims it a victory. Yes, no money to be paid, no wrongdoing to accept.
A lot of brokers would not consider this a win. We are dreaming of the green pastures of the past. The past where we had the exclusive access to the information. Whether you consider this a victory or loss, this is history. Three years to decide how the information is presented on VOW sites, another 90 days to implement, and then what?
After VOW were dead for 3 years, the settlement would allow to perform CPR to revive what has since lost … (8 comments)
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palm coast: My Good Boy, My Grandson
- 05/26/08 05:31 PM
New Page 7 Two weeks after we came to the US from the Soviet Union, my daughter learned that she was pregnant. She brought this news to our hotel room without an AC in 104 F July heat of summer 1991. No money, no food, no English (except for me), no idea what to do and what is ahead. NYANA (New York Association for New Americans) asked her what she wanted to do, and told her that they could help with abortion if she chooses to go that route.
Recently Daniel celebrated his 16th birthday.
He is a good … (12 comments)
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palm coast: 20 Year Ago Today. Worlds apart
- 05/25/08 04:17 PM
It was 20 years ago today. I worked as a military instructor at a local high school. This was mandatory for boys in 9th and 10th grade. 2 hours in class a week, and after the first year at the end of May 10 days of field training with living in the camp (all kids of the school district participated and we used to occupy a school building). This was not a joke. Boys learned AK-47 and could take it apart in half a minute with their eyes closed, they shoot AK-47, learned grenades, dug trenches, knew how to detect and … (15 comments)
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palm coast: Bigger Than His Own Mind
- 05/23/08 06:09 PM
On Fox News on Hannity and Colmes tonight one of the guests was Jesse Ventura, former Navy Seal, former professional wrestler and former Governor of Minnesota.
Has 3 years of active duty behind his belt. Big guy, looks very impressive...
Hannity asked him about his conspiracy theories regarding September 11, he started answering and it was painfully pathetic. It was embarrassing...
I do not understand why people like the conspiracy ideas so much. Is it that these people want it to be something even more sinister than it was?
Thousands died, this was more than any movie, and coming with these ridiculous ideas does not … (20 comments)
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palm coast: The President... And The American Idol
- 05/21/08 06:31 PM
I have just turned off the TV after watching the finale of American Idol. David Cook became the American Idol, and I agreed with Simon that it did not really matter who won this year, as both were brilliant.
Of course, after yesterday's Simon's statement to little David "you came here to win, but it was a knockout", I personally thought that David Cook lost. He didn't, and that was fine. No big deal. Well, it depends how you look at it.
It was by 12 million votes that he beat David Archuleta. I spoke to several compatriots and turned out … (15 comments)
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palm coast: It Is Not For Me To Judge...
- 05/21/08 05:24 PM
After I posted Ted Kennedy Is Fighting For Life. And It Is Not A Bullet... , I have received a number of comments form both Ted Kennedy's admirers and critics.
I usually respond to each comment, but I couldn't do it this time.
When I wrote this post, I reacted to the news, but I did not know much about this man, his ups and downs, achievements and failures, loves and hatreds. Headlines in the Soviet press were not a trustful source. And even if I knew, it would be an act of incredible arrogance for me to judge him. I am here … (8 comments)
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palm coast: Daytona Lost Another Rowdy Event. Good Bye BCR!
- 04/06/08 03:49 PM
The most controversial event in a party city of Daytona Beach has practically died. The trickle, that is left is not viewed as an event any more, it does not scare people, create gridlocks and cause the city to hire additional police force from all over the State of Florida.
Black College Reunion (BCR) came as a very small group of people, like last year or maybe even less.
The city really struggled between political correctness, and was careful not to be sued, which was always in the air, and the tone of this the most rowdy event. I came to … (0 comments)
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palm coast: Live Steps To The Ocean.. for only $147,500
- 04/04/08 09:48 AM
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palm coast: Beverly Beach
- 11/02/07 02:08 PM
Beverly Beach is a small town north of Flagler Beach in FLagler County, Florida. The community was named for the granddaughter of attorney Claude Varn. Population is not easy to define: by one account it was 547 people in 2000, and estimates for 2006 were at 307, which would constitute a 43.9% decline, however, another source estimates for 2003 at 562 people and 45% of the population is over 45 years old.
The town is on a narrow stretch of barrier island occupying only 0.35 sq. m.
Not New York by any standard but this is a different way of life … (0 comments)
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As many others, I sometimes write for Localism. This is something that I expect the customers to read if they are looking for properties in the area. Listings and Market reports go into this category. I mark them as for Customers only and do not place them with any group. Straight to Localism.
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