A couple of years ago we helped buyers from St. Petersburg, Russia, to purchase a house on Daytona’s Beachside. They were in Russia when Hurricane Matthew hit, and knew about hurricanes only from neighbors. Majority of what they hear is that it is no biggie, you can sit n your […] Read more »
Summer Coming to Daytona. It is June. Temperatures are in the upper 80s on the beachside, and hitting 90s in the mainland Daytona Beach area. The turtle season is active, and today I saw 3 new nests on our beach. Water in the ocean is in the upper 70s, and […] Read more »
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 »
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…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 »
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 »
The beginning of this week started with the Jeep-siege of Daytona. Jeeps were everywhere. On the roads, on the International Speedway, on the Beach… The biggest Jeep event in the nation started only 7 years ago, and the first one attracted only a few hundred of Jeeps. In 2016 there […] Read more »
If you check Flagler Today Online, you would dive into a heated discussion of vacation rental, a ferocious opposition of residents to the Florida House Bills limiting the powers of counties and municipalities in regard to regulating short-term rentals. Actually, there was time when the State took away the powers […] Read more »
I love the Fall in Daytona Beach. The temperatures comfortably in the mid to upper 80s, and it is a welcome change from even low 90s. It is comfortably warm. The water in the ocean is still warm, and you can be outdoors pretty much the whole day… I find […] Read more »
.It is an old story. I met Rick Sita when we needed to build out a sub place in the Food Court in the Shopping Mall. It was about 15 years ago. Rick is a General Contractor with decades of experience. He came, took the measurements and then kept working […] Read more »
The history… Market reports, listings… Market reports, listing… how boring… I am looking at The Plaza Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach, and I ponder about its past… A few years ago my Moscow friend from school and college years sent me a photo of Hotel Clarendon on one Sunday […] Read more »
Surprisingly some of the statements about Daytona Beach oceanfront condos are not exactly true. You would keep reading remarks in our MLS about sitting on the balcony with a cup of morning coffee watching dolphins play. Well, if this is what you plan on doing when you move here, think twice. […] Read more »