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2008 

          Ovation is the newest luxury condo in downtown St. Petersburg being built by JMC Communities. Ovation is in a prime location with wonderful park and waterfront views. Only two condominiums per floor and then the penthouses are only one per floor. Watch both sunrises and sunsets! Toppin...
09/30/2008
Villa Terranova is the latest home on Snell Isle built by Windstar Homes. Snell Isle is close to downtown St. Petersburg, Florida, and has many 1920s homes as well as 2000s homes. This home on Snell Isle Harbor has 18,000 sq ft and is built on two lots. It will be occupied by a family of three: J...
09/27/2008
Multiple offers are here in St Petersburg, Florida and the Gulf Beaches. No - it's not back to 2005 when each listing had multiple offers, rising above the listing price. This is 2008 and it's buyers making offers on multiple homes. Version 1:  4 condos in this building would be acceptable to Buy...
09/27/2008
One of my favorite magazines is Fast Company, because it has some cutting ideas and interview with many leading, interesting people. This month, in it's October issue it has an article called The Cure. This discusses how 3 hospitals in central Pennsylvania have reduced costs, improved health care...
09/23/2008
Broadwater is a great waterfront neighborhood in southwest St Petersburg, on Boca Ciega Bay and the Intercoastal Waterway. The rainbow ends here, and living in this neighborhood is indeed a pot of gold. A neighbor sent me this photo with the rainbow ending right on this waterfront home in Broadwa...
09/23/2008
Last week I blogged about Kahwa coffee shop in downtown St Petersburg. One of the questions was: was the lovely design a heart or a leaf.  Answer: a heart.  The second design was a leaf. This morning I shared coffee with both Raphael and his wife, Sarah, co-owners of Kahwa coffee - both this loca...
09/23/2008
Greg Gorman continues to be one of the most influential Realtorsâ the real estate and for nearly 17 years, he and his Team Paradise continues as one of the top Naples Florida real estate Teams. Greg has been a featured speaker at 3 NAR Conventions, several state conventions, 3 CRS Sell-A-Bration...
09/22/2008
We could (and should) say Welcome to our new neighbors across the street, since they moved in on Friday, but they beat us to the punch - our new neighbors invited the owners of all 98 homes on our street as well as their own family and friends to a New Home party last night. It started with their...
09/21/2008
This Costa Rica sunset shot was taken by one of our co-travelers, Jeff. It's been a month since Tami and I visited Costa Rica to check out investment opportunities for some of our clients - and now it's time to write about that experience - long past time, to be precise. We went to the Central P...
09/21/2008
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The many comments to my Webinars post brought up some additional points: Main criteria are interaction and convenience. With "webinars" that are really teleconferences or broadcasts, i.e. that are primarily listening to the speaker, panelists, interviewer/interviewee - which are the least desirab...
09/21/2008
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