Tons of inexpensive decorating tips on my Facebook page. On Wild Wednesday's I post a decorating tip!! I love it when people submitt tips or ideas! Feel free to click the picture and contact me with your great idea!! 08/06/2013

Show me the money!! What bump could I get for a henna tattoo?! lol 08/06/2013

Although this is a silly fun fact it is important to stay well informed when it comes to real estate. My face book page provides daily updates and news flashes to keep you well informed. If you like me on FB you will always know the latest. click the picture to be redirected to my FB page :) 08/05/2013

Prices are as low as they are going to get and mortgage rates are at a momentary dip so if you have been playing with the idea of buying real estate either for investment or to create a home now truly is the time. My team is ready to walk you through the entire process with around the clock assistance. Call me today or click the picture to check my website out. I offer FREE MLS searches in the top left corner of my webpage. 08/04/2013

Dear Gloria,   I am planning to move to Florida within the next year and would like to purchase a new construction home in the Wesley Chapel area. I have heard that a buyer can incur additional charges during construction. I would hate to purchase a new construction property and pay much more than I originally planned. Have you ever experienced a similar situation with a past buyer?   Jenny F., Boston, Virginia   Jenny,   I have never experienced this situation with any of my new construction buyers. Typically the process is similar among many builders. After a buyer has viewed the model and has made the decision to move forward with the builder, they sit down with the sales consultant to discuss floor plan, home site, and designs. An initial estimate is provided at that time. The buyer... 08/04/2013

​ Let me help you to find your dream home at Your Dream Price!! Click the picture or call me at 561-906-9012 08/02/2013

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How to become a better Realtor? Let’s think of a real estate transaction as a dining experience.  When the service is extra ordinary, that enhances the perceived food quality, taste and experience. On the other hand, the opposite can happen. One can dine at a great restaurant and have a negative perceived value, quality and taste if the service is not excellent or acceptable based on the past experiences. Agents must do their best to be available and respond quickly to their clients and counterparts. Most buyers and sellers are not familiar with the process and it is our job to educate them on the process by being patient, showing respect, kindness and behave professionally. Do not disregard their silly questions and make them feel ignorant. Do your job and be the best agent you can be ... 07/18/2013

Beyond Bricks and Mortar Internet-capable handheld devices are moving typical office functions into the field, allowing real estate professionals to be increasingly less reliant on a brick-and-mortar brokerage office. Today's real estate office can be any where, a car, a coffee shop or most any location within reach of a signal tower or wi-fi hot spot. A virtual brokerage office can serve increasingly more purposes. Shifting from paper documents to electronic documents can create greater efficiencies and improve tracking in the transaction process. There is also the simple "green effect" of cutting way down on paper waste and gas usage traveling to and from the office.   The increasing use of Web applications and Web metrics allows brokers and agents to better measure productivity and t... 07/17/2013

  (813 695 4557 )  Blake Plesco  Florida realty   You’re going love the Tampa Bay area    I was recently asked by one of my customers why so many people move to the Tampa Bay area.  My thoughts reverted back to when I relocated here more than 17 years ago from Westerville, Ohio.  Westerville is a great town but compared to the available activities of  Tampa Bay it could just as well have been located in a deserted area of the Smoky Mountains.    Tampa has so many activities to offer besides year round sunshine and warm weather it would be impossible to list them all. If you like to live around people who enjoy your passion in life there is probably a community that caters to it.  Golf, boating, lakes, water sports, hunting, fishing, polo and airplanes to name a few.     I've listed just... 07/16/2013

How To Format and Italicize Your Content on Google Plus Recently, I wrote an article on How to Emphasize Your Content on Google Plus. I showed you how to underline your keywords so that they will stand out when those little spiders thingies come to your Google Social Media site. Today I am going to continue on the subject and teach youhow to format and italicize your content on Google Plus. Why? Again to make your content stand out in big haystack called the internet. So here we go (hang on to your hats, Fred) Step one in how to format and italicize your content on Google Plus -- Learn how to create a Google Plus page. Step two -- Create content.  This can be a blog to another website, including your personal website, active rain page, etc Step Three -- Take a link (from step two) and c... 07/13/2013

Raising Your Confidence Level So, you’re a new real estate agent or someone about to be licensed for the first time. That’s awesome, I remember how excited I was when I first got started in real estate, except for one small thing. I was scared to death that potential clients would ask me how long I had been an agent and how many homes that I had sold.  I was so convinced that potential clients would immediately turn their noses up at an inexperienced agent like me that I wondered how I’d ever get any business at all. If you believe that you’re too new to attract clients, you probably know this exact same feeling, but there is an answer for this problem. Here’s the deal, people respond positively to confidence. Clients don’t necessarily work with the oldest agents or those who have been ... 07/05/2013

Waterchase | Tampa FL | Homes For Sale Homes For Sale In Waterchase From your first glimpse of Waterchase, you will know instantly this is a place quite unlike anything anywhere in the Tampa Bay area. Delicately cascading waterfalls and explosions of color from countless flowers adorn the entrance, inviting you down the Grand Boulevard past the staffed gatehouse and into this most remarkable community. Waterchase is located in northwestern Hillsborough County, and within this pristine setting you will also find every contemporary amenity you could desire. A spectacular 6,400 square foot clubhouse. Tennis courts. Swimming pools. A multi-use play field. Charming European-style street lamps. And, of course, exquisite homes in six distinctive villages, each bearing its own unique architectu... 07/02/2013

Celebrating the Fourth of July, 2013 at Channelside in Tampa, Florida Have you made your plans to celebrate the Fourth of July in Tampa, Florida?  One week from today, all across America, people will attend parades, picnics, pool parties, and fireworks displays to celebrate Independence Day. Here are some of the events and fireworks displays taking place at Channelside in Tampa.Fourth of July, 2013 at Channelside in Tampa - One of the biggest fireworks displays in Tampa is at and around Channelside Bay Plaza. The fireworks display will be right on the water at 9 p.m. Only 3,500 wristbands will be given out to allow access on the wharf. Beginning at 7 p.m., wristbands will be given out at the Garrison Street Gate. Lawn chairs, personal fireworks, and coolers are not allowed. Parking will... 06/26/2013

           It's finally summer! It's that time of the year to take your family and friends out and go somewhere exciting to beat the heat. Well if you're doing just that, I might just have that wonderful place you are looking for. The Adventure Island Tampa Rides boasts of, not only their exciting and thrilling rides, but also their sensational water park equipped with all the slides and even a wave pool.      This theme park takes its inspiration from its home, Florida and is incorporated with a Caribbean feel. The park comprises a lot of remarkable rides and slides. One day isn't enough to try them all. Their attractions are suitably named Yahoo Operate, Calypso Coaster, Vital West Rapids, Everglides, and Gulf Scream.      All of the rides here are absolutely "fun-proof". Just like th... 06/26/2013

New home or resale home? Tough decision. Tampa Bay is full of choices. Builders offer a variety of price ranges. Townhomes ranging from $139,000 and up. Single family homes in the Tampa Bay area range from $200,000 for a very basic home to an arrangement of homes with stunning features over a million. Buying a new home in Tampa Bay, like anyplace else, comes with many decisions regarding options available for the home. Some include options in their base prices, other do not. Crown molding, tiled or wooden flooring, granite countertops. You can always upgrade and make this home look like the model. But with that comes a price. So keep this in mind when you are comparing your new build home to a resale home that you have your eye on. As in any decision, there are trade offs for buying a n... 06/25/2013

Perfect 10 Agent Fundamentals Right now, real estate agents all over the state are watching their markets surge with buyer and seller interest. As often happens in a recovery, the day-to-day of keeping up with business can keep you from working on essentials that will help you thrive should the market contract in the future. Here is a list of everyday tasks you should consider undertaking in order to help ensure your business is strong enough to withstand fluctuations. To those of you agents just starting out, this could be considered a list of “The Perfect 10 Agent Fundamentals”:    1. Email at least two past clients you haven’t talked with in a while (or two previous professional contacts). 2.  Read at least three articles focused on developments related to the real estate industry. (... 06/20/2013

      I don't think so! If you research where the Tampa Bay housing market was at just a me-er 2 years ago you will see that we were in the top 5 cities with the highest rate of foreclosures and now we are No.9! I know it's not much but at least we are moving in the right direction! I see home prices slowly but steadily starting to rise.        It's becoming very frustrating for my clients and I, when we go see a home and put an offer in on it after thinking about it for a day or two, to find out there is already a pending contract on their dream home by an out of state investor! Very disappointing :(  it never gets easier telling 1st time home buyers that they've been out bid by a lower cash offer. Who are the banks really out to help? Themselves obviously!      What about short sales?... 06/18/2013

Tampa Florida Foreclosures For Sale Tampa Florida Foreclosures For Sale Foreclosures, bank owned, or REO – Here are the current listings for the Tampa FL areas. Tampa Florida Foreclosures For Sale   Tampa is the largest city in Hillsborough County, Florida. The city of Tampa, along with other areas, comprise the Tampa-St.Petersburg-Clearwater Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hillsborough is the largest county in the metropolitan area, with Tampa forming the region’s hub, and the fourth most populous county in Florida.    Tampa Florida Foreclosures For Sale If you’re in the market to buy bank owned Real Estate in Tampa FLor thinking about relocating to Hillsborough County FL, you’ll find many residential options from which to choose. Whether you’re looking for Real Estate in Tampa Florida,... 06/18/2013

  The City of Tampa is requiring duplexes located within Sulphur Springs and have been vacant for more than six months to be converted into Single Family Homes. I discovered this information as one of my investors were hoping to add a few duplexes to his rental portfolio. Unfortunately, the duplexes he was hoping to purchase would need to be converted to single family homes. This would defeat the purpose of purchasing these properties and cut into his potential ROI. If you are looking to purchase a duplex within the City of Tampa, I would advise that you check with the Tampa’s Code enforcement department to ensure that the property could be used as a duplex. So far, Sulphur Springs has the six month vacancy stipulation and I have not come across any other areas that enforces this stipul... 06/18/2013