It Was a Long Day

Well I looked up and down, over and out, and around and around, for real estate in Southwest Florida yesterday. Saw all types of stuff. From little walk up efficiency apartments, to luxury high rises on the beach, to pristine golf communities, to vacant lots of land. Wanna know what they all had in common? Foreclosures. I asked my realtor Kent H., if he saw any improvement in the real estate world, and he said that things were definitely moving at lower prices (I could also tell he was very busy, with his cell phone ringing every 5 minutes while he was with me, unless that was a trick). However, he said that the foreclosures keep coming. You replace a bunch of foreclosures with sales and the foreclosures keep coming. Another tip he gave was that if you are a buyer and you see the word "short sale", don't waste your time. Short sales are filled with red tape from the banks and you'll be spinning your wheels for 6-8 months at least, before you even get a chance to get anything done. Now, "Bank owned" is a whole different ball of wax. That's usually stuff the bank wants to get rid of, and quickly. That's what we looked at.

So I'm not going to go into specifics of yesterday's properties here on this blog, but I will be sending a nice specific e-mail, probably tomorrow, to those of you who have expressed interest in partnering up to purchase the Monkey Business McMansion. For those of you who are foaming at the mouth to get involved, you can still e-mail us at www.bensalzproductions@yahoo.com. But hurry. We may be acting quickly on this.

I finished up my evening at the Seminole Casino in lovely Immakolee, Florida. A bit of advice for getting there? Make sure you have gas and a dependable car. I didn't break down or run out of gas but if I did, I guarantee I wouldve been eaten by 1) bugs, 2) alligators, or 3) swamp things. There is NOTHING but swamp once you leave civilization until you get to the casino. How did I do? I lost $40. Not including the $20 in free play they gave me for signing up for their players club. Or the $3.50 voucher some little old lady mustve left behind, that I found in one of the machines. Which caused me to walk around the casino looking at ALL of the slot machines to see if anyone else did the same. Hey, these are tough times. You gotta find any kind of money making opportunities. It was a nice little place too. A little bit crowded as well for a Tuesday night. However, despite not winning, I did not resort to shaking anyone down in the parking lot. I figured that was bad karma for the ride home and I would've most certainly been attacked by the "Creature from the Florida Lagoon".

I'm going to look at a few more properties and then be back in New York tonight. Remember to hit us with e-mails at www.bensalzproductions@yahoo.com if you have further interest in our little project. Enjoy the day.

Comments

[me]

funny I had a typo in the word that was supposed to be typo..."typo" not "type"

[me]

I'm assuming the www before the email address is a type and it's just bensalzproductions@yahoo.com. Also, if we've emailed in the past indicating interest, do we need to email again? I've never received any confirmation that my emails are actually going through.