December 2013 Housing Sales Results and 2013 Annual Housing Report Available 2013 finishes strong: 21.7 percent increase in closed sales over 2012; $153,400 median price for 2013 is 15.3 higher than 2012; homes selling in average of 88 days. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – December 2013 monthly result
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01/13/2014
I have had HBO for a few years, mainly because they have one show or another I like to watch. The most recent was True Blood. Yesterday, I managed to get my Smart TV to download Netflix, and started with Orange is The New Black - which is hysterical and very smartly written. With the abillity to
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01/13/2014
I'm working with another agent in my office as an accountability partner. To that end, we both purchased the Daily Real Estate Planner, and she mentioned a Tom Ferry app. The app, for iPhone & iPad only (not yet for Android, sorry), has you set your income goal, how many days a week you want to w
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01/12/2014
Most Realtors I know use their car not just for transportation: it's their mobile office, in addition. I know my car trunk has signs, lockboxes, old files, and a stack of business cards, among other things. Following my theme of cleaning up to prepare yourself for the new year, go ahead and clean
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01/11/2014
I, probably like many of you, had a pretty cluttered workspace. So cluttered with stuff, I wasn't sitting there. It felt too crowded for me and my current stuff. So, I took inititive the other day/s, and cleaned it out. All of it. I shredded files that I had brought with me from my last broker -
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01/09/2014
If you made a New Year's Resolution to improve your networking opportunities, you may want to consider your Chamber of Commerce. Our Jacksonville Chamber of Commerce has a large organization, with events spread out over our large geographical area. There are several councils to choose from, inclu
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01/08/2014
Another change for the New Year - our area master planned community known as Rivertown has been sold by St. Joe to Mattamy Homes in Ontario, Canada. St. Joe has been slowly peeling off many of it's real estate holdings over the past few years. Rivertown includes 3.5 miles on the St. John's River,
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01/07/2014
I'm sure everyone has their own list of New Year's resolutions - goals, maybe you just have one word. I have just one word: FOCUS. It applies to so many different areas, but I found it would help me accomplish what I need and want to, without getting distracted by "squirrels". One of the ways I'v
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01/07/2014
As I wrap up my year as President of NEFAR, I was contacted by Roger Bull at the Times Union the other day. He was putting together a collection of 2014 predictions, (called a package the ad biz) and asked me to to give my predictions for real estate. You don't have to ask me twice! I was thrille
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01/05/2014
For those of us in the Jacksonville, FL MSA, we've missed Tim Deegan for the past month or so - he was off the air as our local weather guy at WTLV/NBC 12 and WJXX/ABC 25. I've known Tim since I moved here, pretty much. Prior to real estate, I was in advertising, and bought media (literally, time
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12/30/2013
