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One of my pet projects every year is ringing the bell for the Salvation Army. I usually work at the Sam's Club on North Dale Mabry and hope to see you there, please give me a donation. I know the bell ringers tend to be annoying, but just the change in your pocket or maybe a spare buck helps so m...
11/23/2010
I would like to thank those of you that got in touch with me regarding last nights blog regarding the Metropolitan Ministries, here in Tampa. I would also like to encourage those of you in other areas to do the same by simply going to Google, putting in, food donations and following up with a cal...
11/23/2010
Now is the time to help our neighbors have a great holiday, Metropolitan Ministries, located at 2002 North Florida Avenue, Tampa, Florida, are in need of food donations and volunteers to help with loading unloading and prepping the donations for distribution. In a year when paychecks are short an...
11/22/2010
This blog is for our friends up north. I used to live in Pennsylvania and came to Tampa in 1998. Why did I come down here? One word, SNOW. I got sick of driving in it, shoveling it and just seeing it. I.m proud to say I haven't lifted a snow shovel in more than twelve years. In the winter the Wea...
11/22/2010
Whaaaat? Yes you heard it right, outside ice skating in Tampa. Of course it an artificially developed ice, what do you expect in an area with average daily highs in the mid seventies, but that's not stopping the kids and the kids at heart from flocking to Curtis Hixon Park in downtown Tampa, to t...
11/19/2010
How to find Real Estate in Tampa Bay? Well the old way was to ride in your car and drive around neighborhoods and write down addresses and call the numbers on the signs, not a very economical way in this era of $3 a gallon gas. Or you could look in the Newspaper for adds, have you looked recently...
11/19/2010
Fannie Mae, the largest owner of bank properties, has stated a pilot program right here in Central Florida, the Mid Florida Rregional MLS, has been selected to launch a test program. Here are the highlights. The number one complaint from Realtors on bank owned properties REO's, is that the offers...
11/18/2010
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By starting to blog, I have entered a long curvy tunnel that just keeps going and going. If you're going to blog, why not tweet, so now I'm tweeting and building my following.  I happened to mention this to my rep at Zillow and he asked, "Are you putting your Zillow profile out there?"  So learni...
11/18/2010
I have really enjoyed my time with Active rain and found that I really enjoy blogging, although, here's the rub, I don't like to type. I am learning to type a lot quicker in the last month so, I think it's time for a new challenge, typing on a little tiny keyboard on my phone. I'm 6'4" and 240 wi...
11/17/2010
I have been giving an overall view of the Tampa Bay Area in recent blogs. Now I want to get specific and go over market conditions in specific communities in my own backyard. Cheval is a gated community located off Dale Mabry Highway about 10 miles north of Tampa. Homes range from the low 200's t...
11/17/2010
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