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Miami Shores Unity Day 2008

Miami Shores had its annual Unity Day celebration yesterday, March 1, 2008 and we had a blast. To think that this event gets bigger and better every year and the community spirit is truly amazing. Unity…

Miamism Fridays

This is a typical billboard in Spanish seen throughout Miami.  Talk about Bud Light being multi-cultural! It translates “As good as roasted pork prepared in a chinese box” – you need to read what a Caja…

Real Estate Videos 101

I was Twittering away when Jeff Turner mentioned Into TheBox.tv and I HAD to share this with you. I’ve been dying to do real estate videos but I am petrified because first, I don’t know what…

Short Sales – what, when and how?

Because of the down real estate market in Miami and everywhere, a lot of people are asking us about short sales. Our dear friend Bob Carney, aka “Got Bob” has written a series of really helpful…

Major Power Outage in Miami

As I was multi-tasking today, doing the miami beach real estate thing and ready to go into a webinar while entering new listings to our website, my computer screen went black and realized we had lost…

Hello!!! Answer the phone!

RING….RING……..Remember that sound? To think that we talk about web2.0 here on a daily basis and make fun (sometimes) of going back to the very basics to improve or make our business grow and we can’t…

Food and Wine Festival in South Beach

I was at my son’s baseball game yesterday and a friend that worked at the Delano for many years came up to me and said, “Did you see what the Today Show is doing for the…

Miamism Fridays

Check out this beauty sent by none other than Nick, The West Palm Beach Appraiser! This is what he had to say: “I didn’t realize that ‘hybrid’ meant combining a car and a truck.. and that…

Using other listings for leverage

One of our listings was used as leverage by another agent. I know we all have our techniques for selling real estate, but do you push your own listings to buyer customers by showing them other…

Real Estate Reggaeton Style

What can we learn from sticky music like Reggaeton and “La Gasolina“? Most of you reading this will go…..Huh?? What’s Reggaeton? What’s “La Gasolina” – so of course I have to relate to my local market…

Miamism Fridays

The Port of Miami cranes are pretty amazing and part of our every day landscape. Their scale is simply amazing. This photo was taken by Rick from Rickenbacker Causeway in Key Biscayne…..one of those sights that…

HGTV in Miami Shores – Real or Fiction

We’ve all seen HGTV’s real estate reality shows, they’re fun and entertaining and it’s exciting when you hear that one of them will be hosted in your neighborhood. We were recently contacted by a customer telling…

Black Sheep Realtor

I was recently organizing a progressive brokers open house for a listing of ours and I had a great discussion with one of the participating agents. Let me explain how I plan these progressive brokers opens.…