Caterer EVERYONE is asking about!
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Coral Gables, Real Estate News
hiThe question keeps coming up: ”Who was the phenomenal CATERER The Venetian Coral Gables Villas hired for the event at Cernuda Art Gallery in September?” After several requests for information … (each of those neighbors and friends subsequently having hired and reported back with gushing raves) … and one more request right now for “Who was that fabulous caterer that everyone is talking about?” I thought I’d put it in
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Boil Water Advisory For Residents of Hollywood Beach
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Hollywood, In The News, Real Estate News
hiSome residents of Hollywood Beach are under a boil water advisory this evening. Also, their water service might be interrupted.
The boil water notice extends from Iris Terrace to Azalea Terrace and from State Road A1A west to the Intracoastal. Apparently a crew struck a main pipe while digging.
Residents in those areas are asked to bring all water for
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Open Houses… Worth Doing? 100 responses to a blog topic …in 24 hours?
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Buying Real Estate, Open House, Real Estate News, Selling Real Estate
hiWondering whether open houses are worth doing, over 100 responses flooded in, in response a Keller Williams blog published in Active Rain, in the span of a day! http://www.up0.net/c.html?rtr=on&s=eage,4h79,469,k0e0,c2hn,aloq,c2jr The ’value of the open house’ question sparked every response imaginable… and then again some. My response was an emphatic ‘YES’, because open houses, for me… (even in our currently sluggish Miami market)… have been a worthwhile means of moving property. ”FOR SALE BY
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ICE … “In Case of Emergency”
Categories: Around Town, As Heard on the Street, Real Estate News
hiUnder the heading “ICE” in your cell phone (meaning ‘in case of emergency’) insert names and numbers for whomever should be contacted, in an emergency. Paramedics may not have the opportunity to debrief your phone, but hospital personnel and medical staff often do. Scrolling to “ICE” is far simpler than searching blindly. (Guessing at an emergency contact is a hit and miss game… as anyone knows who
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Triangles and Control
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Just For Fun, Real Estate News
hiDid you ever wonder what those little indentations were on the end of your aluminum foil package or plastic wrap?
Have you ever been upset when you are pulling the aluminum foil off of that stupid cardboard roll and the entire thing, meaning the roll of whatever it is, comes out in your hand before you can
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Understanding the US Energy Crisis
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Green Resources, Real Estate News
hiThe high cost of fuel is affecting everything from the value of the US dollar to price of gasoline, food, electricity, etc. Is the big SUV many of us drive the primary cause? The SUV may contribute and may be the symbol of our wasteful nature but is not the primary cause. Most people are concentrating on
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Real Estate & High Fuel prices…
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Real Estate News
hiAccording energy experts, high fuel prices are here to stay — how is this going to affect real estate? Is this positive or negative for Miami-Dade? The days gasoline at $1-$3 per gallon may be gone forever. Some experts predict that gasoline prices will reach $7/gal in less than three years. This is not far fetched when
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Pink Ribbon Campaign…
Categories: Around Town, As Heard on the Street, Real Estate News
hiI just received a telephone call from the American Cancer Society or so it seemed. My wife has survived two bouts with cancer, so we give to the Women’s Cancer Center and the ACS. Something about this call did not sound right — it sounded too much like a boiler room operation.
So I asked how
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Google map takes you up close…
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Real Estate News
hiHave you seen this yet? Check it out…it’s called streetview.
A buddy of mine who’s on the GoodMorningRealEstateticket, sent me a link to Google’s new “drive-by” service.
It’s a nice compliment to Google Earth, now you’ll be able
to see street level views as well as ones from space. Watch the YouTube and see how awesome this is:
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/streetview/index_.html
Thought
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Reduce Unwanted Catalogs in Your Mailbox
Categories: As Heard on the Street, Real Estate News
hiA good friend and colleague passed this on to me. If your tired of unwanted catalogs filling up your mailbox there’s an easy way to opt out. In just six months, Catalog Choice has become a significant consumer voice in the direct mail industry. The Catalog Choice community is presently 753,546 persons strong,
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