Holy Inventory Batman

Do you believe that south of 98 on 30 A from end to end there are 354 houses for sale (not including condos here) with asking prices between $1 Million and $2 Million dollars ?

believe it.

illusions vs. what's real

Is there any difference?

How about class 1 illusions, class 2 illusions, class 3 illusions, etc., etc.

Sales up , sales down, Inventory up and down, interest rates up and down,

Storm level up and down, economy up and down,

Confidence up and down, Are we in control yet?

Yahoo Real estate update

New Improved YAHOO!

All over the board

Checking the latest from weather underground (Click Ernesto Link).

Ernesto

we have gone from the LA/TX border all the way to Jacksonville Fl in a few days.
Again the farther out the forecast the more it can change.
All of Florida is still at risk for now.
And we have seen these Bad Boys hook or Jog right before landfall.

Based on Ernestos current speed we will have had no landfalling hurricane from June 1 to August 31 in Santa rosa Beach.
That in itself is quite amazing after last year.

Thanks, I feel better now.....

PROPERTY INSURANCE
The basic solution to Florida's hurricane insurance crisis is for consumers to pay more, insurance officials said yesterday before a state committee created by Gov. Jeb Bush to explore property insurance solutions. Former FAR President Frank Kowalski and Realtor Lee Arnold serve on the committee.Read the full story:http://www.planetrealtor.com/florida/news/daily/news.cfm?article=n1-08252006 __________________________

You want to sell more.....

Does it seem that you are having to wait your turn while other realtors put sales on the board?

Try to resist being envious of their success and focus on the fact that we are getting some movement in the market.

Sooner or later (sooner is better) THIS HELPS EVERYONE.

WaterColor Prediction

143 houses on the Market
And 29 Condos
AND 125 Lots
and 8 Fractional units

Total : 305 Properties

That's a lotta props .

Their are a few deals now and even better deals yet to come in WaterColor.

Thanks Max

Max Mayfield, the retiring head Hurricane Shaman at NOAA decided to scare the hell out of everyone again the other day by saying that if we thought Katrina was bad we haven't seen
anything yet. Timing the announcement before all the Year later Katrina specials that are about to hit the airwaves Max says that an even bigger badder Hurricane is going to hit in mabye 5 years or it could be 100 years.

I am going to go head to head with Max with my own prediction here.
Somewhere on Americas Coastline we are going to have a more devastating hurricane than Katrina, it could be 3 years or it could be 75 years, but we are going to get it sure as Sin.

Now Max has all the training and experience and I am no weather man.

Let's see who wins this prediction competition.......

Locals are starting to relax again

The traffic is getting lighter and so are some of the attitudes of the locals after another season of
busy busy busy.

But NO HURRICANES and it is almost Labor Day !

and let's hope we get a zero Hurricane year and drive all the weather pundits insane !!!!

Weather confounds the pundits

Whats Up ? < click link for article.

The unpredictability of weather forecasting is God's way of keeping us humble.
-Shawn O'Neal

Thought for the Day

"To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."

- William James

international airport

I heard that the new mega airport north of Panama City is going to have a bigger "footprint" than Hartsfield in Atlanta.

2009

Until the Worm turns

Ding bats and hairy rats sense the
flim flam of the thin sham
Like a heavy metal e chord body slam
The robotic lame brains are on the march again

With billions to kill for peace
Pass the potatoes and the anti tank rounds
Get the kids underground
And wait for the worm to turn

The world will burn faster than
Our puny nukes can match
The blinding effulgence of truth asks
Can humankind Learn?

You have nothing to fear
who have nothing to fear
Only to wait until
The worm turns

Until the Worm Turns, a poem by Shawn O'Neal Copyright 2006 All Rights Reserved

Court rulling called a mixed bag

Katrina Mixed Bag

Hey Buddy, can you spare a Tax Break

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Aug. 16, 2006 -- Realtors and other members of Gov. Jeb Bush's Property Tax Reform Committee met for the first time Tuesday to discuss ways to deal with property tax inequities resulting from the Save Our Homes amendment approved by voters in 1992.

"We covered the basics in this meeting -- what our charge is, the restrictions on what we can and can't do, and reviewed information from the Florida Department of Revenue and the Florida Association of Counties," says Realtor Cynthia Shelton of Lake Mary, director of investment sales for Colliers Arnold. "We'll be meeting once a month at public meetings to be scheduled around the state. We plan to allow 30 minutes for public comment at each meeting, and we'd really like to hear from people coming forward with possible solutions to some of these issues."

Realtor Dennis Nelson of Wellington, who works with the Keyes Company, also serves on the 15-member committee.

Realtors bring a lot of resources and valuable expertise to the table, says Shelton. The group's goal is to offer recommendations to the next Florida governor and state lawmakers on how to deal with Save Our Homes and other property tax issues by Dec. 1, 2007. Bush also asked the committee to take a look at increases in local government property tax revenues.

Shelton says the group should serve as a bridge between two groups -- a Department of Revenue study of the same issues ordered by the Legislature and the Taxation and Budget Reform Commission that will meet for the first time in 2007, as required by the Florida Constitution.

Speaking to the group, Lee County Property Appraiser Kenneth M. Wilkinson, who led the Save Our Homes campaign, said he supports the idea of allowing homeowners to take the tax break with them if they move to another home in the state, called portability, but suggests the cap be limited according to the percentage of the old home's sale price that is represented by its taxable value.

"The purpose of Save Our Homes was to provide a safety net," Wilkinson said. "I can't imagine what it would be like in our state today if we were without it."

Save Our Homes limits annual increases in assessed value of homesteads -- homes lived in by their owners -- to 3 percent or the percentage growth in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is less. As a result, it has shifted more of the tax burden to owners of newly purchased homes, second homes and businesses. Another issue: recent homebuyers pay more in tax than owners who have lived in homes of equal market value for a longer time. Some residents are afraid to move because they will lose their accumulated Save Our Tax benefit.

"From my perspective, as a Realtor, a business person and a homeowner, I've benefited from Save Our Homes since I've lived in my home for many years," Shelton said. "But, my being able to receive that means that someone else is bearing a bigger share of the load. Is there a way to balance the intent of Save Our Homes with what's happening to new Florida homeowners or to those who would like to move to a different home? We've got to consider the potential consequences."

Legislation was introduced this year to let homeowners take the tax break with them when moving but only within the boundaries of a county. It did not pass but is likely to come up again next year. The Florida Association of Realtors (FAR) supports limited portability, provided local governments have a choice in the matter. FAR also supports allowing homeowners to move Save Our Homes tax savings to new homes when they are forced to move by the exercise of eminent domain. FAR also supports allowing homeowners to repair and replace homes damaged in casualty events without losing the Save Our Homes tax savings.

© 2006 FLORIDA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

Life's Simple Pleasures.....

Photo by Teresa O'Neal © 2006 All Rights Reserved

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What's your "ism" ?

"It is no coincidence that the loudest voices of opposition to the war against terrorism in this country arise from political forces that promote elements of socialism and communism, such as expanded welfare programs, and more land acquisition and land-use control regulations. "
-Henry Lamb

In the Bellweather States of California and Florida, members of Homeowners Associations , in which one of every six Americans now live under, are reporting cases of abuse , liens, and even foreclosures by Dictatorial Boards of Directors.
Read the Horror Stories

Democracy check up

Brought to you by some of the greatest thinkers in History
Here is a list of 20 quotes.
When you read these quotes how do you feel about the state of America today?


1. When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

2. Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.
Richard von Weizsacker

3. The more corrupt the state, the numerous the laws.
Tacitus

4. The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson

5. When a nation's government becomes more fearful of its citizens' rights than protective of them, that nation's future is only despotism and extinction.
Unknown

6. Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt

7. A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson

8. Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.
John V. Lindsay


9. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is thee
Ayn Rand


10. They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety.
Benjamin Franklin

11. The more developed a nation is, the more complete is the independence of the individual, and the safer the individual from encroachments by another.
Dmitry Pisarev

12. Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

13. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
Frederick Douglass

14. Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right...
H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

15. A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
Henry de Jouvenel

16. In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright

17. It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James Fenimore Cooper

18. Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
James Madison

19. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

20. Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgment and for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support the totalitarian state.
John Dewey


15.

Democracy

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.
Mahatma Gandhi

Is this why we are having so much trouble establishing democracy in the middle east?

The scale of this project is awesome

If you think we have a lot of construction traffic on 30-A , check this out

MEGA BUILDING PROJECT

GO FIGURE

WAR GETS BIGGER
INTEREST RATES STOP GOING UP ?
Hurricane forecast decreased.
Oil going up because of BP pipeline?

Hurricane Season Updated

Hurricane season defying forecasts

By John Ritter
USA TODAY

Welcome back to school........

20/20's STUPID IN AMERICA with John Stossel

THE SHOW

Hellcat to the rescue

Chris gets pounded by the Hellcat

Hellcat

Hurricane in the corner pocket

AAAArrrGHHHHHHHRRRRRAAAAGHHHH!

HIGH interest Rates

Tighter Credit

Insurance rates UP UP UP

Property Taxes UP UP UP

Gasoline UP UP UP

Which leads to my new saying....

C O N S P I R I C Y is a bitch if your not on the inside..............

-Shawn O'Neal