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Tallahassee Doors 2007-09-24 19:31:34 Doors are everywhere. Look at all the homes in your community and all the doors connected to those homes. As a real estate agent, I see plenty of doors in Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. The doors of homes reveal so much: about what the interior is probably going to look like, and what the attitude of the people living there are like. The door is the like the mouth of the house. When people see a home, they often see the door first and will remember if the door is interesting, and colorful, or dull and dirty.
You know when someone has a dirty mouth, a milk mustache, food hanging on the side of the lips, unshaven around the mouth, just an undesireable sight. We often tell children to clean their mouth when they are eating as they do not always know to do that, or remember to do that. The mouth is not the beautiful part of anyone’s body. The act of eating with the mouth is not a beautiful sight to behold either.
However, the door of the house is the important factor in how w Read more:Doors
Your Home and the Benefits 2007-09-21 21:42:58 You see a home you like. It is in the neighborhood you like, near the schools you like, close to your work. Now, you need to think about the benefits of living in that home.
We buy real estate not just because of the location and price, but also because of benefits. Maybe the home has built in bookshelves, which would be a benefit for someone wich a lot of books or decorative accessories.Maybe the home has a big covered porch in the back. This could be a benefit for those who like to entertain outdoors, or who like quiet spring evenings sitting outside. Maybe the home is in a cul de sac, which would allow for quiet, greater safety for the children and no traffic passing through. I tell buyers when they are out looking at homes, to focus on the benefits. Benefits
serve us. Something is not a benefit if it does not serve us in a positive way. I ask them if they can see themselves living in that home and why they can see their lifestyle there. A home represents a lifesyle. There are so ma
A Neighborhood We Had to Come Home To 2007-09-20 07:08:11 My wife, son, and I sold our beautiful Lakeside neighborhood home in northwest Leon County, just outside of Tallahassee, after living there for a number of years, and thought we would go west, to better opportunities. We did so much to our beloved home in Lakeside: painted the walls several times throughtout the years we lived there since we built the Leon County, Florida home in Lakeside Subdivision, had fun decorating with accessories, furniture, rearranging furniture in innumerable ways it seems, and had a remarkable vegetable and flower garden. Our son had a very attractive child’s room. We were proud of our home and what we did. People often are proud of what they put into their homes, but when opportunity knocks, many of us will leave our homes to establish roots and work on a new home elsewhere.
I started working in Pensacola, Florida, in real estate sales. Did good considering I just entered that profession earlier that same year, about 6 months earlier. I listed an Read more:Neighborhood
A Lovely Tallahassee Ranch style Home For Sale 2007-09-19 07:18:04 Homebuyers: Looking for the right place to call home? Make a wish come true.
Remodeled ranch style home in desireable Eastgate neighborhood, in Tallahassee, Florida. 3/2, nice fenced back yard.
Offered at $189,900. Seller willing to assist with closing costs for
Buyer.
There are many more ranch style homes available as well. Get back into a ranch.
Call Ken Fach, REALTOR, 850-339-5753 http://KennethFach.com
Weichert, REALTORS-Anchor, 1607 Village Square Boulevard, Suite B 103
Tallahassee, Florida
Each office is independently owned and operated.
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A way to get all your real estate news in one place. 2007-09-17 19:36:25 I recently found a very good web source in which you get news information from many different subjects on the same page. In my case, I chose real estate and technology news, so each day, I can check new inputs in these areas of knowledge. As a real estate professional it is important for me to know and learn about real estate issues, and markets in other communities.
Visit http://www.congoo.com/realestatetechnician and register to get daily real estate and technology news.
You might even want to create your own news circle and invite others to share your interests. You can even have your own real estate news circle. Then, you and I will have a lot in common.
Subjective and Objective in House Hunting 2007-09-14 12:52:19 Subjectivity and Objectivity occur all the time when buyers are house hunting. I regularly used these two literary terms in graduate school, in my literature studies. I had to apply these terms to my literary research of novels, and essays. I had to determine which characters or heroes represented subjectivity and which, objectivity, and I had to prove my findings.
How to be subjective and object in when house hunting:
Every time we view a structure, or a lot that we like, we get emotional, and desirous of having that property. We view things subjectively, from the “me now” perspective. We think we have to have that. Much of what we buy is an emotional and therefore, a subjective experience. I remember when I was a school teacher, I often graded the kids subjectively, not just objectively. I did this because each student to me, to my viewpoint, is not a number, a rating, a grade, but instead, a human being with a unique way of learning and viewing the world. There Read more:House
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What is happening to beautiful Lake Jackson 2007-09-12 07:33:21 Tallahassee and Leon County is a wonderful place to live in. So many benefits, and so many natural habitats, lakes, forests, and parks to enjoy the area’s nature. However, unfortunately, we have four politicians on the Leon County Commission that are pro growth and anti environment. There record proves this.
I believe we need a balance, of growth and protection of the ecology in the region. We have a wonderful Comprehensive Plan protecting our area’s resources, but that plan has been breached it appears, and attempts are being made to change it, or abuse the plan, a plan well thought out in prior times.
On October 26, 2004, the Leon County Commissioners voted 4 to 3 against protecting Lake Jackson
, which is one of the biggest lakes in the area. There are over 60 lakes in Leon county. Lake Jackson has been a popular place for fishing, boating, swimming, and for having picnics in the parks around the lake. It is an important habitat for many species of flora and fauna. Instea
From Usenet to Google 2007-09-12 04:10:00 Back in the mid 80s, when I was a university student at the University of West Florida, in Pensacola, Florida, I rarely used the computer, did not care too, as I focused my time on reading philosophy, history, literature studying a foreign language, swimming and playing tennis. When I did come aboard in computers, in the late 80’s, early 90’s, I was getting into USENETS, and using the old search engions such as Web Crawler, DejaVu and little by little making the transition to using Yahoo. I thought Yahoo was the greatest discovery of all time it seemed. Then, as I started my gradate studies at Florida State University in the mid 90’s, I started to get very interested in online research, partly thanks to the demands of my graduate studies, techno professors, and peers. Then, when I got into real estate, I kind of left Yahoo, though not completely, and became a Google
fanatic. I absolutely am so grateful to Google. Knowledge is so readily available thanks to the excell
Your happy real estate friend is the Executed contract 2007-09-11 10:43:48 Here is a tool, that will take all parties in a real estate transaction to the closing table, or settlement as it is technically called. When every thing goes well in a real estate transaction, the culmination is a completed real estate sales contract
, an executed contract. To have an executed contract, the contract must be valid. For it to be valid, certain ingredients must be included: a legal purpose, both parties having capacity to go into a contractural relationship, an offer and acceptance of that offer, the contract must be in writing and signatures included, and there must be some consideration (money for example). Agents learn this in real estate school.
To have an offer and acceptance, both parties need to understand what the real estate contract is asking for, and what is the obligation of each party. The real estate agent’s job is to assist with preparing the offer for his or her customer, and to answer questions about the clauses. If the buyer or seller nee Read more:Executed
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There is a Bald Eagle in These Parts 2007-09-29 11:22:47 We have bald eagles around Tallahassee, Florida. They like our many forests that constitute the fabric of northwest Florida. My son and I recently saw one. Many live their entire lives and never see one.
I recently went to St Marks National Wildlife Refuge, outside of Tallahassee, Florida, with my son and his about pack. They went to pick up trash as they do each year. After picking up the trash the forest park service provided lunch for everyone. The kids got to view and touch native water species from the area’s shoreline.
Anyway, as we were picking up trash, a couple boys shouted, “Look, there is a bald eagle.” I went over and saw the most beautiful sight, a bald eagle proudly perched at the top of a tall, dead tree. It stood at a height taller than all the other trees around it. It truly is worthy of being a symbol of power, leadership, 8&2@?6, strength, courage. I was in awe looking up at that bird, which was igboring all of us.
Seeing a bald eagle is one of Read more:Eagle
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Made in America including a great real estate system 2007-09-26 05:18:45 Here are some things that are America
n bred, made in America, and the strength of America. I have been giving some thought of what countries offer, and should be known for, and I started thinking about my own nation.
The computer, internet, blogging, the most popular blog sites, and the Multiple Listing Service.
About the Multiple Listing Service, or what is commonly called the MLS, originated in America, and provides real estate data, including homes on the market, homes sold, and property statistics, for the entire United States of America. No other nation on earth has such a complex, practical system.
I have had conversations with educated people throughout South America, Europe, and elsewhere, who have never even heard of the concept of a national real estate database or local databases connected together, in one vast web of real estate information used by real estate agents to study the real estate markets, and share property information with buyers and sellers. I tried to introdu
Get Free Acorns With Your Home 2007-10-04 04:11:36 The acorns are on the ground now all over, here in northwest Florida, a sign that autumn is here. I like walking in the parks, and in neighborhoods, stepping on many acorns and hearing the crunchy sounds this creates. However, there is more to acorns than just the announcement of a change in seasons.
Squirrels eat acorns. The native Americans ate acorns. This member of the nut family is nutricious, and abundant. There are tons of acorns everywhere, enough to feed a lot of people. So what do you do with acorns? They are on the ground waiting for harvesting hands, and they are free.
When I was an archeology student at the University of West Florida,I had an interesting assignment during a fall semester.I had to gather wild acorns and make bread or muffins out of them. Other students had to gather or hunt other foods in the native American way. We were to have a natural harvest feast with everyone bringing what they were to bring: roots, rabbit, deer, an edible bark type, seeds, vegeta
Living in Killearn Lakes, is Like Living in a Forest 2007-10-07 21:19:28 Killearn Lakes
is one of Tallahassee’s biggest residential neighborhoods with over 2070 single family homes, according to the Leon County records, but more homes are under contruction. The neighborhood is filled with ranch style homes, contemporary home styles, and some older architectural styles. What attracts me to the neighborhood is the many trees, especially pine [...] Read more:Forest
, Living
Northwest Florida adds a new State Park 2007-10-06 03:44:40 Many people from all over the world, including myself, are attracted to Florida
’s many state parks. There are now 161 state parks in Florida, many of them in northwest Florida. The parks offer natural Florida ecosystems, campgrounds, well maintained bathroom/shower facilities, hiking trails through the forests, fishing, swimming, boating, canoeing and much more. I [...] Read more:Northwest
, State
My Favorite Real Estate Tools 2007-10-18 12:38:07 To get any job done, tools have to be used. Tools
can be high tech, low tech, or no simple tech. Below is a list of the seven most important real estate tools that I use both in my work as a real estate agent here in Tallahassee, Florida, and in my personal life as [...] Read more:Estate
, Favorite
Keep Your Coffee Grinds 2007-10-18 11:11:04 I did it, I called Starbucks and asked if they can save their coffee grinds as I would like to pick them up for my garden. The person at Starbucks stated that there are 6 other people who regularly go there with buckets to gather up the old coffee grinds. Wow, I was impressed. I [...] Read more:Coffee
, Grinds
A Great Benjamine Franklin Quote 2007-10-18 10:58:30 “You will observe with Concern how long a useful Truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally receiv’d and practis’d. “
(From a letter writen by Benjamin Franklin
in July of 1786 on lead poisoning)
Benjamin Franklin found the bad effects from lead poisoning in a number of different locations both in the Old World [...] Read more:Great
, Quote
Considerations for homebuyers 2007-10-23 09:19:49 Buying a home is a serious life task. Most of us will go through this event multiple times in our lifetime.We buy, but we want to buy right. Below are some considerations for homebuyers.
1. Know your financial situation. Speak with three mortgate professionals starting with your bank, or mortgage company and see what the options are for purchasing [...] Read more:Considerations
Seven Fundamentals from my Dad 2007-10-23 08:05:33 I am sharing seven fundamentals that my Dad taught me when I was growing up, and even when I got into the business world. Dad gathered much of his inspiration from gardening. Dad was a great gardener and even constructed an awesome Japanese Garden, an authentic one, with pond, waterfall, walking bridge, pebbles, and stone. He spent [...] Read more:Fundamentals
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Weekend Camping in Seminole State Park 2007-10-23 06:52:03 Again, another weekend past, and another camping trip has ended. It is so much fun setting up camp, exploring nature, cooking over an open fire, and meeting other campers.
This was another a series of campouts with the Scouts. We went to SeminoleState
Park in southwest Georgia on the enormous Lake Seminole. Georgia, as well [...] Read more:Camping
, Weekend
In Real Estate, You Need Tinder, Kindling, and fuel 2007-10-26 21:45:05 When I go camping, I get much inspiration from the campfire. The campfire inspiration helps me with my perspective on things, and supports my business building endeavor. I have plenty of opportunties to build a campfire too. I know the fundamentals to building a successful, long lasting fire.
Next time you are in nature, and [...] Read more:Estate
, Real Estate
Seven Qualities of Good Citizenship 2007-10-26 19:25:08 I grew up in ranch style homes, and in a very patriotic family. Dad was the most patriotic American I ever knew. Dad just about had the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution internalized, and valued the fundamental meaning of the American Republic. He regularly exercised his right and duty to vote and [...] Read more:Seven
Canopy Road Future In Tallahassee, Florida 2007-11-05 19:12:19 Roads
I am attending the Canopy
Roads Visioning Workshop at Dorothy B Oven
Park in Tallahassee, Florida
. The issue is how to manage, protect and
plan for the future of the canopy roads and canopy corridors in
Tallahassee, Leon County. I am attending because I honor the trees and
want to see these majestic oaks and other tree types protected [...] Read more:Future
Some Practical Tips for Homeowners 2007-11-04 15:34:28 We homeowners can sometimes need a review of things we can do for our real estate. We can learn new tips to better maintain our property.
I would like to share seven useful suggestions or tips for your home and garden. They work for me.
To clean my Garbage Disposal this is what I do:
I [...] Read more:Homeowners
, Practical
Bigger Kitchens but Fewer Cooks 2007-11-04 14:29:52 I see many new and older homes in and around Tallahassee and Pensacola, Florida. I have observed that homebuyers want bigger kitchens and that the kitchen is very much the center of activity, conversation and planning. It is used as an office, decorative piece, place for preparing checks to pay the bills. It is a [...] Read more:Fewer
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