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"BEACH NOTES "Buyer/Owner Edition" Online Newsletter - Ocean City, New Jersey I started mailing out my "BEACH NOTES" newsletters on a monthly basis back in 1996 when I didn't even have a computer. Later I did an online newsletter where I had to send out about 25 email addresses per email so as...
12/04/2013
"Now is the Time To Sign Up for One of My Online Newsletters" ... Ocean City, New Jersey My location is a small barrier island off the coast of South Jersey. Ocean City (NJ) is about nine miles long and about 1.5 miles wide at the most. This is a "resort market" with summers by the ocean draw...
12/03/2013
Occasional Book Review - "The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?" (2013) by Jared Diamond ... Ocean City, NJ Having previously read Collapse and Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, a Professor of Geography at UCLA and the Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for...
12/02/2013
"A New Business in Town" ... Ocean City, New Jersey Now we get new businesses all of the time here in Ocean City, NJ. We get some, and we lose some. A resort community with most of the action during the summer season tends to have a lot of great efforts by lots of people who try in introduce ...
12/01/2013
"Weekend after Thanksgiving ... Open House in Ocean City, NJ" If you get an opportunity on Saturday, November 30th; check The Philadlephia Inquirer for a sale listing with photograph for 913 First Street, a great single family ... the third house from the beach and boardwalk with terrific views...
11/26/2013
"Getting the Rental Properties Ready ... in Ocean City, New Jersey All rental agents are involved in both rental listings and rental bookings. Depending on the particular real estate agency, most rental agents receive some type of rental percentage for both obtaining the booking of the propert...
11/26/2013
"Maybe My Final Closing of the Year ... But Maybe Not!!!" ... from Ocean City, New Jersey Well, once you get this close to December ... and you don't have any more of a lineup of closings coming along ... it probably looks like it will be the end of the line for 2013. "BUT MAYBE NOT!!!" What ...
11/25/2013
"Thanksgiving & December ... A Real Estate Turning Point" - Ocean City, New Jersey To put in more details ... there is the Ocean City Halloween Parade, a bit colder weather, Thanksgiving (and more water and heat is turned off in the single family properties around town), and more colder weather...
11/24/2013
"Resort Market Real Estate" ... It's Different Here in Ocean City, New Jersey The first difference here in Ocean City (NJ) is that we are on a barrier island ... entrances to the island are from Somers Point across the new bridge/causeway, from Egg Harbor Township (Longport and Margate) via the...
11/22/2013
"Referrals to Ocean City, New Jersey" ... "Make the Right Pick" - Ocean City, New Jersey A lot of real estate agents refer their clients when the particular property location gets to be "just a bit too far for them to go." Now some agents will travel two or three hours to show a particular cli...
11/20/2013