Last week Tami sold a new work-live condominium at 1010 Central in St Petersburg to a buyer who will be establishing a branch office here in St. Petersburg for his business. We provided the buyer with the 1" informational notebook and the 3" condo docs. Deposit received, inspection done, appraisa
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01/18/2008
Today we visited the St Regis fractional interest residences under construction at The Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Starting from $195,000, these have many aspects you'd expect from luxury fractional interests: concierge services, luxury amenities, spa, privacy. One interesting aspec
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01/18/2008
At the Luxury Conclave today I was sitting at a table in the back corner (only because it was a wired table and I and my tablemates could plug in our computers), the group discussion turned to how each of us was generating leads.The sources mentioned for generating leads weren't any big surprises
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01/18/2008
The weakening of the US dollar against the Euro and other currencies means that US real estate is a bargain for most of the world. Couple this with the increasing number of immigrant buyers for US real estate and you have a wonderful opportunity to increase your business. (Isn't that positive new
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01/18/2008
This afternoon I met with some clients who had purchased a land lease waterfront home from me in 2003 - they wanted to know its value now, to determine whether they should sell it and move back up north (medical, personal reasons). I have already sold this home 3 times over the years, so this wou
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01/12/2008
For our latest listing we have three sets of photographs, one set from the owner, and one from each of the above cameras. It was interesting to have three photos on the screen to compare the results from each. The owner's camera was a "normal" lens where the other two had wide angles to different
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01/11/2008
It's generally an emotional time when offers come in, and it's hard for the sellers to concentrate on the language of the contract as well as the specifics of the offer - and it's easy then to forget an exclusion or a detail.For a long time we've prepared a partially filled out contract and inclu
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01/10/2008
Today Rob showed one of our listings to a couple from Romania. They decided to make a full price offer on the home, but wanted the furnishings included, and also wanted a power boat that ran and that would seat 4 people.Now, we've had requests for furnishings before, and at least some of the furn
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01/10/2008
Our new broker not only attended caravan this week with the agents, he sent an e-mail to everyone in the office, those who went on caravan and those who didn't. He included a nice photograph of the front of each home on the caravan along with a 2 line summary of its features and desirability. The
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01/10/2008
Housing horizon brightens was the bold headline for the business section of the St. Petersburg Times today. The article itself went on to discuss the good and bad of the housing future, probably more bad than good - but what a change! Usually the headline is all doom but if you read the article y
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01/09/2008
