Lynn's Blog

Our Vanguard Realty 'Agents with a Heart' team walked and walked and walked last weekend to raise money for The American Cancer Society's Relay For Life.  The event was held at Bartram Trail High School and our real estate team raised a couple thousand dollars in an effort to help find cures for...

What a freezing cold AWESOME day!  We worked on a coat & blanket drive all week & put it together for Saturday, January 9th.  What an amazing outpouring from the community!  We had people from all over our city bringing coats, blankets, sweaters, mittens & more. There were people who saw our sign...

Some CDD (Community Development District) information; ~~CDD fees in Florida are usually associated with master-planned communities that become, in their final phases, self-contained little cities within a city. The determined fees for each parcel in the community are collected monthly as an addi...

This is from a friend in Seattle who sent the story in an email yesterday...... The Seed [A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a competent leader to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he decided to do something dif...

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What a fun, easy read.  Now I'm hooked and will be going to a sold out preview of Twilight along with my nieces on Saturday night.  Have any of you Active Rainers been reading these?  They're addictive!

Recently, I sent a prospective buyer a list of 30-35 available condominium listings in Jacksonville Beach, Neptune Beach and Atlantic Beach Florida. The information on MLS was so random and confusing that my customer made a comparison chart and wrote back with many questions. Imagine how frustrat...

St. Joseph's Catholic School will host it's 5th annual Fall Fun & Craft Show on Saturday, October 11, 2008 from 9am to 4pm at 11600 Old St. Augustine Road in Mandarin.  Admission is free for kids and adults and the festival will go on rain or shine.  Several vendors will showcase their many arts ...

If you are looking for a great deal in south Jacksonville Florida, there are plenty of properties to choose from, even in desirable Mandarin, where I concentrate my buyer business. A couple of years ago, a buyer couldn't move to Mandarin for less that $225K at the very minimum.  Now, there are do...

This is NOT a short sale!  As I'm booking showing appointments around Jacksonville Florida, I'm noticing that this is how we now have to market property for any sellers we're lucky enough to have who will actually receive proceeds at the closing table.  In Mandarin (south Jacksonville), where I c...