If you sent me an email yesterday (Tuesday January 8th) and I did not respond to you, please resend your email. I noticed some strange things going on yesterday with my email server and still don’t know the full extent of the issue, but everything seems to be working good now.
Please, if you sent me an email yesterday and I did not respond, please resend.
Thanks.
Again Northwest Florida has been recongnized in a national publication. Ocean Home Magazine featured our area in their Winter 2007/2008 issue in the article titled StoryBook Settings. The article speaks into the area’s “picturesque developments [adhereing] to the principles of New Urbanism”.
I have to admit, after reading the first part, I wonder if St. Joe played a significant part in influencing this article, but it does speak into other areas such as SanDestin, Seaside and Alys Beach. The article is very flattering and definitely reinforces my pride in our area.
Read the article.
For those of you that are out of towners, the weather over the holidays has been great. Christmas was warm and New Year’s Eve was warm, but it got pretty chilly yesterday and last night. I think it was in low 30’s at my home, the thermometer read 37 when I went to work this morning, burrr.
The cold front that blew through cleared up the sky. Coming from Dallas, TX, the bluest the sky would every get on the clearest of days was a very diluted gray-blue that left much to be desired from a clear day. The blue sky here is awesome to say the least.
The pictures capture the color of the sky perfectly.
Every year Panama City Beach hosts a Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony at Frank Brown Park. Music, fun and Santa is always guarateed. It is always perfect to roll in the holiday season. It reminds my family and I that Christmas is here; even though the warm weather doesn’t. I love Florida!
Ok, I know it’s not real estate related, nor is it necessarily related to Panama City Beach, but I just wanted to share my Windows Vista experience. Upon powering up my computer on Saturday, I quickly discovered that some of the key software I use day to day was not working right. I ultimately ended up reformatting the hard drive and reinstalling everything and figured since I was going this far, why not upgrade to Vista. I had heard horror stories on how the upgrade had been a disaster with countless compatibility issues and unfamiliar error codes, but I figured, “why not, I’m a genius.” Well, I’m no genius, but I did get it all figured out; I spent the better part of 3 days working through error codes and compatibility fixes, but finally, everything works perfectly.
I must say, Vista is cool, definitely cool. There are little quirks that are annoying (like how it assumes you are not an administrator even though you are signed into an administrative account and ceaselessly asks for verification whenever you are making system changes, even minor ones), and certainly some things are in different places (such as the user directory hierarchy is a little different the ODBC registry works a little differently), but all in all I like it.
My wife made fun of my initial response that was based on only what I knew at the time, not knowing how everything, system-wise, would work. “I find it very visually appealing.” With the smooth movements and crisp imagery, the windows seem to “fly” in and out and the subtle yet effective little pings it gives you to indicate changes are being made seem to be, somehow, soothing. We can’t forget the cool “switch between windows” feature in the quick launch toolbar, and the “gadgets” on the side that keep the news at your finger tips and help you monitor your cpu usage..
Its funny, and somewhat geeky, but I actually look forward to turning on my computer and entering the cool, exciting world of Windows Vista. Perhaps I’m not a true geek. All my geeky friends loathe Vista with their grip firm on XP, but isn’t this how most geeks felt about XP when it came out? What can I say, I’m a sucker for something that looks cool, and Vista looks really cool, even though it does seem to suck up 25% to 35% of my 2 gigs of RAM. 😦
There certainly has been a lot of buzz about the acquisition of Shark’s Tooth Golf Course in Wild Heron by St. Joe in the last couple of months. Every since Playground left in January, I’ve been hearing rumors of this very thing taking place. St. Joe closed on Thursday paying $30 million with the acquisition including Shark’s Tooth Golf Course, a 10 acre practice facility, a 21,000 square foot clubhouse, a huge cart storage facility, a 4,000 square foot pro shop, four lighted HydroCourt Har-Tru tennis courts and the private 100′ waterfront beach club property.
Click here for the entire press release.
John Skinner, a local agent also known as the “Condo Man” was kind enough to allow me to post his monthly newsletter providing some current data on sold pre-construction condos.
As of right now, he indicates that the MLS shows:
This brings the total of new condos sold this year to 254. He also notes that the current inventory has gone down consistently since August 2006. (more)
I continue to get emails from agents telling their positive stories:
When I watch the news and they say that the real estate market is doomed, I look at my team partner and say so then why have we already closed over 13 million in production numbers this year? Why are we so stacked with customers that we are literally forced to work 7 days a week to keep on top of all of the deals we are currently working on? My 2 person Realtor Team did over 15 million in 2005 which everyone sites as our “boom” year. If we close a fraction of the deals we are currently working on then we will exceed our 2007 goal of 20 million in closed production numbers with ease. I wonder what our numbers could have been this year if we had some positive press instead of all the negative…….hmm…..
Stephanie Adams, Realtor
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