Miami Condo Fiasco

Interesting that BuyVacationCondos.com bought in today. I was actually wondering how hard it would be to rent out my condo to vacationers. As I was reading about the advantages of vacation condos, it made more and more sense. Because rentals are short term, vacationers pay a premium and the condo remains vacant part of [...]

Today NorthFloridaNewHomes.com joined the family. So I did a little research…to see who my new friends were. NorthFloridaNewHomes.com is a full service brokerage in Jacksonville, Florida. They specialize in new homes and condos. Sean M. O’Brien is the broker. I actually [...]

So far the friends of CF include title web sites and mortgage websites. I was missing a property appraiser website until today! Amcor, LLC joined today so I went to investigate who they are. Amcor offers appraisal services in Miami-Dade, Broward, Collier, and Monroe county. Visit the website and you will see tons of [...]

Bob makes a good point that the developer should seriously consider renegotiating the price of the unit. After all, there are probably tons of people who will simply walk away. Wouldn’t it benefit them to negotiate a more realistic price and guarantee income. I would really like to hear from other unit owners. After the [...]

I will confess that finding something very exciting to write about mortgages is very difficult. But I wanted to say something about LoanNetwork.com, who bought a link from me before yesterday, so I went to their site and read through some of the pages. To get this out of the way, LoanNetwork.com let’s you [...]

Yesterday I drove down to Miami for an interview with Diana Olick. The taping lasted much longer than I had anticipated but I’m not complaining. Diana interviewed three of us. The other two people (Jamal and Barry) had also purchased condos. Barry seemed pretty eager to tell his story even though he was the luckiest [...]

FSBO.com is actually an old time friend. You may remember I posted about FSBO sites and FSBO.com ranked among the top sites to post your property ‘for sale by owner’. There are so many places to post your property for sale that you need to qualify them or risk spending all your time posting [...]

Man, now talk about a cool idea. Picture this scenario, you get invited to a new restaurant with some friends, everybody orders something but you have no idea what to get. So you get what you think you like. When the meals arrive, everybody digs in and is loving it except you. When I [...]

Today I took off from work to take care of CondoFiasco. It has been a week since I went public with my idea. I have basically made $600 with the links. Kinda far to go still ($284,400 to be exact). It is, though, very encouraging. I have made some new friends and at the very [...]

For obvious reasons, my site has been attracting advertisers related to real estate. HomeLendingQuote.com is a network Mortgage Lenders. When you request a quote you will receive offers from five different lenders.

FreeTitleQuote bought a link today and as I was looking at their site, something occurred to me. Both time I bought a home, I had no say as far as who the title company would be. FreeTitleQuote makes a point of mentioning this on their homepage. Choose your own title company next time…it’s your right.

Today a mortgage website bought a link. LowRateMortgage.com is an online loan comparison service. I did some research and saw the domain has been online since 1997 (that’s a century in Internet years). For information you can call 1-877-621-5875.

So finally a condo related website bought a link! It is CondoDomain.com. I also had the opportunity to speak with Anthony Longo of CondoDomain over the phone today. CondoDomain.com lists new construction condos nationwide and resale properties from agents and brokers. But most importantly, I became an instant fan of the condodomain blog! [...]

I’m flattered by some of the comments people have made. I ran some numbers and most (over 50%) of comments have been of either encouragement or at the very least, indifference, but I’ve gotten some comments (which by the way I do not censor) about what I’m doing that have been less than positive. It’s [...]

I gotta hand it to Bob. He really “get’s it”. I love seeing creative marketing ideas. So I’ll start by telling you what I’ve learned about Bob’s Beach House. I’m not too familiar with the Pacific Northwest so I looked up Pacific Beach, WA on Google Maps and saw that it is pretty remote. If [...]