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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2010 

The Oceans Complex in Daytona Beach Shores Market. 11 buildings in the complex are direct oceanfront, and there are 5 buildings, (4 condos), which are between the ocean and the river. We will look at them in another blog. In these direct oceanfront condo buildings we are only looking at 2 bdr/2 b...
01/31/2010
William Johnson posted When Using Technology With Obsolete Equipment, Stress is Likely to Occur. It is a story of the our everyday lives. And, unfortunately, not only with the Sellers and the buyers. A couple of days ago we sent the offer to our local Daytona beach agent, and when we called to se...
01/30/2010
Buying A Condo-Hotel In Daytona Beach Area. Will I Get Screwed?I recently interviewed James Dion (Buying a Condo-Hotel in Daytona Beach Area. Interview With GM), the GM at Oceanside Inn in Daytona Beach Shores. I still get questions about it, so I went to James again, and since I am in the same b...
01/30/2010
Oceanside Inn in Daytona Beach Shores. Market SnapshotJanuary is traditionally the time when we look at the year before in an attempt to figure the year ahead. How is the market changing in the area, or in the neighborhood? What to expect? To sell or not to sell? To buy or not to buy? Oceanside I...
01/28/2010
Below is the e-mail that I have received from a gentleman buying an oceanview unit for $45,000 in Plaza Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach. I thought the question could be of interest to anyone buying a condo-hotel (and not only a condo-hotel) in Daytona Beach area. What is the tax rate. Are the units...
01/28/2010
A baby in the cradle, a toddler crawling on the floor, a kid in a kindergarten, a student, a teacher, a father... Same body, different times. Do we stay the same person?  Would I today shake hands with me in my terrible teens? Would I today despise myself in my terrible teens? Laugh at myself at ...
01/26/2010
I always said that two regimes: Stalin and Hitler - were two sides of the same coin. I keep saying that the two regimes we allies, and it is a big question who was a bigger culprit. And it is the first time I saw and heard the confirmation to that in the film "The Soviet Story". "The Soviet Story...
01/24/2010
The end of the year and the beginning of the new year always brings changes to the condo-hotel plateau in Daytona Beach area. I mean a direct Oceanfront Plateau (LOL) Elections of the Board of Directors, new budgets, changed Assocation fees. How much do they go up? And when you suddenly see that ...
01/24/2010
Gary Woltal wrote "Will Your Legacy Have An Asterisk Beside It? He likes to corner us with questions like these. Just try to do a 25-point quickie on his blog about the legacy. My take on this was changing with time. I used to be concerned, but no more. I know people, who are grateful to me, whom...
01/23/2010
I think I was in the 6-th grade at that time. It was Russian Language & Literature class and our home task was to write a composition. As usual, after the teacher checked our home task, she presented the best and the worst to us. The best was by a boy, who started the composition with the quote f...
01/23/2010