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So you live in an average community. Say three bedroom two bathroom homes around 1200 square feet with an average price of $225,000 in the neighborhood. Assuming you had the money, would you go and spend $60,000 on your dream pool? If the answer to that was yes, two other things better be true as...
06/30/2006
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Why is it that some real estate professionals refuse to present offers? They ALL have a legal requirement to present ALL offers and yet if they don't like what's on offer, often they simply refuse to present the contract to the seller.It is not for an agent to decide what may or may not be accept...
06/30/2006
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For those of you who don't know, Eminent DOmain is a power Government has (of all levels) to take private land for the betterment of the community. Now this betterment has always been for things like schools, roads or even military bases.Recently two communities - New London CT and Riviera Beach ...
06/29/2006
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In addition to being a real estate broker, I am also a real estate investor. I am involved in projects in Florida (of course), in Las Vegas and in North Carolina to name but a few.It is interesting to me to see the kind of incentives developers are now offering. In fact I spent most of the day on...
06/29/2006
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SO very recently I was the sponsor for the Orlando leg of Glenn Beck's Mid-life crisis tour. For thos eof you who don't know, Glenn has the third most listened to radio show in the USA and he now also has a nightly show on CNN. There';s a magazine too and his wife just gave birth to his fourth ch...
06/29/2006
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My daughter recently bought me an "Uncle Sam" hat to be worn of course on July 4th. But somewhere along the way history became confused as Independence Day should actually be July 2!July 2, 1776 is the day that the Continental Congress actually voted for independence. John Adams, in his writings,...
06/29/2006
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Every Sunday morning I get up and head to the Clear Channel Radio Studios here in Orlando Florida. At 11am my show - "The Home Team" - takes to the air.Its entertaining as well as educational. We seem to laugh more than anything else and yet at the same time we manage to help people every single ...
06/29/2006
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SO I'm sat at home one evening and the phone rings. "Is that c-mon?" they say? "No - this is Simon Conway" I reply.And off they go. They are just calling to help me save a small fortune on my mortgage. No they have no idea what I'm paying. In fact they have no idea if I even have a mortgage! But ...
06/29/2006
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It seems to me that something as simple as a helmet insert costing around 70 bucks should be an automatic equipment upgrade available for our troops in harms way.Unfortunately and for whatever reason, the Department of Defence is not supplying these inserts. The current helmet without inserts was...
06/29/2006
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You know the thing about a Real Estate bubble is that it is patchy. So we should be talking about bubbles. The smaller ones will float gently away while the bigger ones will indeed burst.Here in Orlando and Central Florida we have a unique situation. In the year July of 2004 to July of 2005 more ...
06/29/2006
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