Kite Festival in New Smyrna Beach I love this small charming city called New Smyrna Beach (NSB), our very close neighbor to the south. Especially, those several blocks on the beachside, which are the true NSB downtown. It is only a 20-minute drive from us, but the feel is very […] Read more »
Wine Walk in New Smyrna Beach
My son and his beautiful girlfriend are fond of New Smyrna Beach, a neighboring city to the south from Daytona area. He has friends there, so he knows about all events and hardly misses any. He went to Wine Walk in New Smyrna Beach quite a few times before and […] Read more »
Can I Show Your Daytona Condo?
To the Listing agent it sounds like a question we all would like to hear. Yes, I should be glad to show you this daytona condo… And yet, “of course you can” is not the first thing I say when I get a call. I ask the agents whether they […] Read more »
Daytona Beach Resort & Conference Center. May 2017.
Daytona Beach Resort & Conference Center is an interesting condo-hotel. Sort of unique. It is definitely one of the nicest. On a par with The Plaza Resort & Spa. What is interesting – the fact that it was a very long conversion, as they still have about 60 unsold units. […] Read more »
Loving Nature…
Do We Love Nature? To tell you the truth, it is a silly question. It is like asking whether we like the air we breathe. For the most part we need to minimize human interference in Nature. And that would equal loving nature. When I see doofuses feeding bread to […] Read more »
Hard Rock Hotel is Coming to Daytona Beach
Hard Rock Hotel is Coming to Daytona Beach…Yet Again After a lot of hype, a lot of enthusiastic articles about this huge project for Daytona Beach, where Canadian investors from Bayshore Capital were going to build Hard Rock Hotel and Hard Rock Café on a 10-acre oceanfront lot. This was […] Read more »
Are You Flipping Ready?
Thinking of flipping Daytona condos? We used to go and participate in foreclosure auctions at the courthouse. In all these years watching and participating in the foreclosure and Tax Deed auctions, I couldn’t believe how many eager participants were jumping into flipping without being able to say “yes” to any […] Read more »
Turtle Season is Back on Florida Beaches
Sea Turtle Season is Back on Florida Beaches May 1 is the beginning of the Sea Turtle season on the beaches of Florida and in Volusia County where Daytona Beach is. “All of the world’s sea turtles are designated as either endangered or threatened and are protected by state, federal […] Read more »
Ocean Walk. A Condo or a Condo-Hotel?
Ocean Walk. A Condo or a Condo-Hotel? An excellent question. Honestly, I do not have a definite answer. Let’s think about it. First of all, the term condo-hotel is not a legal term. It is a condominium if we are talking about the form of ownership and in this sense […] Read more »
Daytona Area Condo-Hotels in Numbers
Daytona Condo-Hotels in Numbers There are 14 condo-hotels with 2,448 condo-hotel in Daytona Beach area. A brief description of a typical condo-hotel would be a property built and operated as a hotel, which at some point converted it into condominiums with the goal of selling units to individual owners, however, […] Read more »
Los Angeles = Daytona Beach?
Is Daytona Beach = Los Angeles? In Los Angeles this oceanfront condo would Cost $3 Mil. Probably… This is what people tell me. And they find it very important for their search of condo in Daytona. But Daytona is not LA… I doubt Daytona will become LA anytime soon. So […] Read more »
Cap on Estoppel Fees in Florida
“Florida Realtors scored a big legislative victory today following the passage of a bill that caps estoppel certificate fees, among other changes.” This is on the Florida Realtors’ website. It says that “”After several years of educating legislators and building support in both legislative chambers on the issue of estoppel […] Read more »