Jon's Real Estate ramblings

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Real Estate Broker/Owner - Daytona Condo Realty, 386-405-4408
Living in Daytona Beach area is more relaxed and easier than in more humid Miami, and it is also the most affordable living by the Ocean.
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Yesterday I received a request for information about a condo. On my website, I have all condos in the area, and because it is impossible (at least for me) to remember all the data, I use my site when I need to get a quick answer. On my site there is information about pets, sometimes very specific...
02/19/2018
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Turned the TV Valentine’s evening erupted in the news that you wouldn’t want to hear… But this is the news the nation hears too often…Let’s stop guns, let’s treat mentally ill, let’s report the strange behavior to authorities…and children keep dying senselessly…And even if you take AR-15 out of h...
02/16/2018
I was talking to an experienced real estate agent, and I mentioned that on Active Rain I often run into “Professional Realtor”. She said that an agent, who does not understand that Professional Realtor is an oxymoron, is … (and she cut the first three letters of the word) …Strong words, but isn’t...
02/12/2018
Read Business news. “U.S. solar industry lost nearly 10,000 jobs in 2017” I immediately remembered recent interview with a lady, representing the solar industry in the United States. She was asked about tariffs against Chinese, and she was adamantly opposing the tariffs.The interviewer thought th...
02/08/2018
Oceans Four Condominium Oceans Four is a 20-story condominium building with 114 condo units in Daytona Beach Shores. It is one of 15 condominium buildings in the Oceans group of condos. Yet on MLS there is only 1 unit for sale as of today, February 5, 2018. Less than 1% inventory is a sign of a c...
02/04/2018
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My cousin in Georgia, the capital of a former Soviet Republic of Georgia, which is a country now, has a Ph.D. in chemistry. A retired colonel, who worked in military and law enforcement colleges, and as expert criminologist. Georgia, like other former Soviet republics, has difficult past, and has...
02/04/2018
I am a condo broker and in my world every property has HOA. Well, not technically a HOA, but rather Condo Owners’ Association, or COA, which is very similar.What this really means is that every owner is a member or a mandatory association. Now, when you read anything on Active Rain about condos, ...
02/04/2018
Sea DipSea Dip  is a 5-story 134-room Daytona Beach condo-hotel. It is one of the oldest condo-hotels in the area – it was built in 1960. In early 2000 it has undergone concrete restoration. The first condo-hotel to go through that. At that time $7K-$8K Special Assessment sounded like a lot of mo...
02/03/2018
The Plaza Resort & Spa in 2017Wow, wow, wow. Haven’t checked Plaza Resort & Spa in 2017 at the very end of the year and can believe how fast things have changed! Only 7 unit for sale in Plaza. I do not remember low inventory like this for a very long time. Actually, I doubt we ever had the invent...
02/01/2018
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Now, when the stream of foreclosures practically dried out, is the time when I get the requests for foreclosures. I am not talking about REOs, I am talking about foreclosures. So, before, when there were plenty of foreclosures, people avoided it as high risk deals. Now they are interested in fore...
01/29/2018