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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Back on December 25th, I told Roger D. Mucci Lake, Cuyahoga and Geauga Counties I would be TAKING IT OFF IN THE RAIN with him this year as I am making 2013 MY YEAR for CHANGE.  Back on January 2nd, I gave everyone some details about my struggle with weight and now I am daily tracking everything I do, everything I eat, and I am in COMPLETE CONTROL of my destiny. Take a look at my story here Upclose and Personal. My personal triumph is not yet complete, but it's coming! Well my personal goal was to lose 100 lbs this year and be ready to run the 2015 Miami Marathon as this will be my 50th Birthday and this is how I want to celebrate is by completing the only race I ever ran in my life that beat me. I ran Miami in it's inaugural year in 1983 and completed 21 miles before injury took me out....
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Market Analysis Report Property Type: Residential Status: New, Active, Price Change, Back On Market, Contingency, Pending, Sold Number of Properties: 297  BedroomsFull BathsLiv Area SqFtList PriceLP Per Living SFSold PriceSP Per Liv SFSP / LPMarket Time [DOM] High 7 7 7,000 $1,275,000 281.19 $840,000 200 113.2% 2,199 Low 2 2 1,196 $64,900 53.28 $62,000 50.69 71.7% 0 Average 3 2 2,225 $283,685 119.93 $238,448 104.79 92.79% 220 Median 3 2 2,054 $244,900 116.25 $204,000 99.39 93.2% 144     Property Type: Residential Status: New, Active, Price Change, Back On Market, Contingency, Pending, Sold Number of Properties: 297  CountTotal PriceAverage PriceMedian PriceAverage DOM New 0 $0 $0 $0 0 Active 100 $33,497,897 $334,979 $275,431 241 Price_Chg 0 $0 $0 $0 0 Back_On_Mkt 0 $0 $0 $0 0 Contingenc...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
I will start out by saying that I grew up a chubby kid.  My mom cooked more southern than Paula Deen. I was chubby up to 15 y/o.  When I hit High School, a very special young lady caught my eye and just like any silly kid, I set out to impress the girl. I started by trying out for football, but that didn't work out after breaking my arm.  Then I tried out for non contact and found that i really liked track and field.  Little did I know this would turn into something life changing. I ran cross country which was 3 miles, then I ran 1 mile, 2 mile, hurdles, and then shot put and discus throw. I started in my Sophomore year and continued into my Junior year.  Turns out I liked it and this became my success against weight.  While I didn't set any records in my first year, I did trim down ver...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Back in October, I reported the importance of and the necessity of the extension of The Mortgage Debt Relief Act and Debt Cancellation of 2007.  Today I am proud to announce that the 112th Congress did pass a one year extension to this act to end December 31, 2013.  Before I go forward and tell you why this is so important, take a few moments and read this DETAILED EXPLANATION of the Act: Latest update: The Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act and Debt Cancellation 2007. Now, I know you are asking WHY is this event so monumental?  Well here is an example... When you SHORT SALE your home, you get a portion of your mortgage forgiven and the amount of the forgiven debt will be reported to the IRS as INCOME on a 1099 at the end of the year.  While the The Mortgage Debt Relief Act and Debt C...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Today it was announced that CARMIKE CINEMAS INC has acquired 16 Rave Motion Pictures locations. CLICK HERE to see complete story. Rave Motion Pictures has been a St Lucie West Icon since 2001 and has now sold its operations to CARMIKE CINEMAS INC. From the reviews available online, many more folks have been happy with Rave Motion Pictures than CARMIKE CINEMAS INC in the past but today we visited CARMIKE CINEMAS INC for the first time and was pleasantly surprised at 2 changes right out of the gate. First, they offer a refillable popcorn bucket that you purchase for $18.00 and the normal cost of a large popcorn is now $7.50.  With this $18.00 bucket, your first $7.50 is in it and then refills are $3.50 each time you bring it back for a year.  So if you visit more than 4 times you are savi...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Friday, December 21, 2012 will be forever remembered by the very special group of agents from Keller Williams Realty of Port St Lucie who came together this day to distribute 500 traditional Christmas dinners to families that needed just a little help this Christmas season. You have all seen my series of updates along the way, these agents developed this Project H.O.P.E., raised the funds, shopped for the food, packaged and finally delivered and distributed on this day. However today I am taking this moment to personally thank some of biggest hearts anywhere today and I am proud to be a part of this family called Keller Williams Realty of Port St Lucie. WALTER SALAMON, P.A. and SHIRLEY ALBERT, P.A. and Barbara Johnson and Mona Bates and Jennifer Whitwam and Gary Campbell and Tammy Eisem...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Today was the almost culmination of our year long Project H.O.P.E which stands for HELPING OTHER PEOPLE EAT.  For the last few weeks, I have been giving you progress reports and today was the loading of the trailer to take all of our bagged groceries to the Harvest Food and Outreach Center tomorrow where we will distribute 500 traditional meals to wonderful families that need a hand up at Christmas.  These are all folks hand selected by the Harvest Food and Outreach Center who have made a conscientious effort to not only reach out for food but also for help.  This wonderful organization job trains the breadwinners into new jobs if they have lost theirs while at the same time, offering them greatly discounted grocery shopping, and sometimes just a simple hand here and there. But these fo...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Just 2 weeks ago, I let everyone know about our wonderful Project H.O.P.E with this Blog:  Keller Williams Realty of Port Saint Lucie once again GIVES WHERE WE LIVE! Project H.O.P.E. 34986 and today was the first of our most beautiful week to come. Today we went and picked up over a ton of food from BJ's and Walmart and brought it back to our office to set up for the next phase which is the bagging process on Tuesday when 20 local High School kids will help us turn all these groceries into 500 GREEN grocery bags for delivery to the Harvest Food and Outreach Center on Friday. Here is some shots taken today of Santa's helpers hard at work.                                                                                       
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Just over 1 year ago on Nov 11, 2012, I wrote this blog and I just thought it was an appropriate repost for the contest, out with the old and in with the new. I wanted to send a message to the newbies out there that it really is not that hard to achieve the FREE LEVEL of Activerain of 500,000 points. It has taken must just over a year to now be at 420,000 points and I will break 500,000 sometime in the first quarter, and most importantly at the same time achieving PAGE 1 on google in all of my farm areas.  This is the most important part of BLOGGING and I hope that everyone gets this message from this post.  Get out there and BLOG BLOG BLOG and see more leads that your ever imagined and just after 500,000 points it is FREE to BLOG on Activerain. 70,000 POINTS! Yes this is all about the ...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Project H.O.P.E. stands for Helping other people eat and in January 2012, Walter Saloman of Keller Williams Realty of Port St Lucie came up with this very lofty goal of raising $10,000 to feed 500 families a traditional Christmas dinner.  Now this in a normal economy would be a lofty goal, but in this very trying economy, it was indeed a lofty goal.  But this is just the kind of goal that Keller Williams Agents rally behind and put their heart and soul into.  Mo Anderson tells us we should GIVE WHERE WE LIVE and that is the true spirit of Keller Williams.  Along with a God, Family, Work priority attitude, we spend hundreds of hours per year in the service of others thru our Red Day Project, KW Cares, and then a personal project each year, we as a CULTURE COMMITTEE come together to plan,...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
I hope that many of you do as I did this weekend and find a veteran in your hometown and just walk up to them and say Thank You for your service. Then if you know of one that needs some help around the house or need their yard cut or their home painted, maybe you and your neighbors can pitch in and give them a Christmas to remember. Your heart will be filled with the true spirit of Christmas and you will forever make this person's day.
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Do you know how I spent yesterday? First I let my office talk me into doing a charity golf game this Friday, so I thought it best to maybe go and learn how to at least hold a club. 3 of the guys took me and we played my first ever round of golf. Yeah I know no big deal? Try carrying your 280 lb but around a golf course for nearly 5 hours in 92 degree heat. I lost weight. And I missed church for this. So on the way home when I have had more than enough of this heat and I looking forward to some football in the A/C in front of my TV. Well, God had other plans just cause he knows me... I passed First United Methodist Church and saw a semi parked in front and about 8 people starting to unload pumpkins. They sell them every year for charity and so me being me, I stop and ask if they could us...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Today is 25 years since Florida launched it's lottery and it is still going strong. Not without a bit of controversy along the way, but still bringing in plenty of money for our state. I know I have made plenty of donations and with no returns and I can't even think of what the odds are for never winning in 25 years, but hey, we still keep trying. So here is a challenge... Everyone leave a dream for a comment...  You just won $3,000,000 in the Florida Lottery. What do you do with it? Let's make a list below.    
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
  News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Stephanie van Hoek Phone: 817-729-9504 Email:  stephanie.vanhoek@kw.com Keller Williams® Realty, Inc. Announces Expansion into Indonesia, Southern Africa AUSTIN, TX (September 20, 2012) Keller Williams Realty, Inc., the second largest real estate company in the United States, announced today at its annual Mega Camp event that its continuing international franchise expansion now includes Indonesia and the Southern Africa region. Mega Camp, held in Austin, TX, boasts more than 11,000 registrations across three major sessions (Mega Technology Camp, Mega Agent Camp, and Mega Leadership Camp) featuring interviews and panels with industry experts and top producing agents. KW Worldwide President, Chris Heller, announced the signing of the company’...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
It is always flattering when your efforts get noticed and apparently this week, I have inspired many in the Rain to write posts about me. Some while tongue and cheek like this one:  What does a girl have to do to stay ahead? while others were a bit less flattering as some folks just can't take criticism well. However, one thing no one who knows will dispute, I have 2 sides:  I can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. Most choose to have me as friend, teacher, partner, consultant, and confidant as I love to help others and I am always first to help you when you need it. If I see you are going down a path that may not be the correct one, I will certainly try to help you back on the straight and narrow before you go astray. If I see you can use some mentoring on your blog, I am not...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
Today we have the honor of welcoming yet another in a string of new businesses to call Port St Lucie and St Lucie West home this year.  Today we welcome Jimmy John's Gourmet Subs at 1785 NW Saint Lucie West Blvd, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986. You can place your order by CLICKING HERE or by calling 772-873-6899. I personally met new owner Bobby Malek's father who is co owner and together they just opened what is likely to be the first of many more locations to come in South Florida. They bring to the area 24 new jobs and while they like to stick to their menu, they will allow for changes but this is NOT that other SUB shop where you walk down the window and pick what you want.  Jimmy John's Gourmet Subs wants you to tell the cashier exactly how you like it in advance so that they can keep th...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
So 3 weeks ago, I posted this contest entry: Homefindermaker.Com Challenge: What would I do to makeover my business? LIVE BOLD! Read on! And 2 weeks ago I posted this: Homefindermaker.Com Challenge: What would I do to makeover my business? LIVE BOLD! UPDATE! And in Week 3, I posted this: Homefindermaker.Com Challenge: What would I do to makeover my business? LIVE BOLD! UPDATE WEEK 3 And now for the WEEK  4 news of the week... Drum Roll Please: My weight this morning was 286.2 lbs or a bit of a gain and disappointment. The problem has been business this week... many listing appointments from last week, along with many darn broker opens and bad food choices served and yes, I am week and I see food and I eat. So this week it's back to the drawing board and see if I can recover and prosper ...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
I can get to 300K today with the help of all my AR friends.  Everyone grab an item and comment or reblog and let's all have a stake in my next milestone. I am doing my part and getting my last blog points of the week and my daily comment points, but for the person that puts me over the top, I will repay you by subscribing to your blog and making you a part of my daily comments network.  For those of you newbies that don't realize how important these points are, there is the reduction in the cost of using AR, but there is more importantly the GOOGLE JUICE that you get from daily blogging and daily networking and the priceless exchange of information among agents that truly GET IT when it comes to high level of success and what it takes. So if you want to hitch your star to a winning wago...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
So last week, I left you with this blog:  Homefindermaker.Com Challenge: What would I do to makeover my business? LIVE BOLD! Read on! Tonight and every Monday i am going to leave you with a short progress report good or bad. I started on Monday with a 2 mile run/walk and took just 28:53 to complete.  Now I hear you already, but I was 288.4 lbs on Monday. By Saturday, I was able to to a 2 mile non stop run and completed in 23:59. On Sunday, I took it to 2.75 miles. I rested today and I weighed in tonight at 286.8   Now I hear you, it's only 1. 6 lbs but the best part is I just ran 6 days straight and I am not sore and ready for tomorrow. So the makeover is underway.  Stay Tuned Folks.  Please visit us on Social media by clicking below:   If you are underwater in your current home, and wa...
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By Florida Tolbert Team Keller Williams Advantage, Keller Williams Land Luxury Division Specialist
(Keller Williams Advantage III Realty in Lake Nona)
I do not normally do activerain in the morning as I like to spend the last 2 hours at night catching up on and commenting on and talking to my AR friends, but last night I saw this contest and all this week we have been reminded about a wonderful training program at Keller Williams called BOLD as it is coming for it's second anniversary next week and I was in it's inaugural 8 week class last year. Now, many of you may think this is a recruiting pitch, but you SERIOUSLY WOULD BE WRONG and I encourage you to READ ON! BOLD stands for BUSINESS OBJECTIVE: A LIFE by DESIGN. The concept is over 8 weeks to teach us how to live our work life and career by DESIGN and not by DEFAULT! This means we are coached, challenged, role played, and taught to RUN OUR BUSINESS and not OUR BUSINESS RUN our lif...
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