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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
My wife is attending her 20th highschool reunion in Long Island, NY this coming Saturday, so the family and I decided to make it a summer vacation. Just to make it more entertaining, rather than fly or drive form Tallahassee, we chose to take the train. We picked up the Amtrak train in Jacksonville, Florida and stayed on the train from 5:30 p.m. on Monday until noon on Tuesday. With merely 18 stops along the way, it was quite an adventure. Since we have made it safely to New York, 1/2 of our train experience is completed. I have never taken such a long trip on a train, but it was definitely a positive experience. We had a few set-backs, like the train dying on the track and us having to jump trains (which resulted in our bags arriving six hours behind us). But nevertheless, it was neat...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32308-Tallahassee (Brockswood Park) MLS #198421 FOR SALE$205,000 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(9) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(9) Details Address: 1005 McClendon Drive Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 1,807 square feet Year Built: 1957 More Details Description All brick home centrally located in prestigious Old Town- Just two blocks to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, Walgreens, Old Town Cafe, and schools. Hardwood floors throughout. Minimal cosmetic touchs needed along with kitchen upgrades. Show today!More Description Brokered and Advertised by ...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32311-Tallahassee (Louvinia Lakes) MLS #198336 FOR SALE$349,500 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(13) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(13) Details Address: 4223 Louvinia Dr Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 5 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 2,501 square feet Year Built: 1984 More Details Description Great house for raising kids! Five big bedrooms, huge fenced yard, plus recent updates: granite counters in kitchen, recent applicances, new roof, terra cotta floors, and flat screen tv too!!!! Special showing instructions: call agent - evenings and weekends only please - to accomodate health...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
eadership at the Tallahassee Real Estate Blog is growing, but we have found that a good number of our subscribers are reading our daily feed through an RSS reader or our feedburner email feed. This means that the daily content is being delivered to them directly, without them even having to visit our site. This is a super-convenient way to receive information about Tallahassee housing and real estate market reports, but these readers just might be missing out on some of the new upgrades that we have made to our real estate blog. Real Estate Blog Sidebar Is Loaded With Special Features The purpose of today’s blog is to show our readers, through the video below, how to use the sidebar and its contents. If you have not checked out the sidebar in a while, you just might be surprised at some...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
  When I first got into the real estate business in Tallahassee, the multiple listing system (Tallahassee MLS) was not computerized. We all submitted our listings and every three weeks or so, a new “MLS Book” was published. Sorting through this colossal printed assembly was not fun. We would sit with buyers and show them grainy black and white photos of what was available. Sorting through homes for sale in Tallahassee was another problem. One section of the book contained all the three bedroom homes, the next four bedroom homes, etc. So if a homeowner wanted to properly market their 4 bedroom home, it would show up in the four bedroom section, but it would also show up in the three bedroom section under another listing number. I suspect that this is where the practice of listing a home ...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32317-Tallahassee (Lake Cassie) MLS #198254 FOR SALE$225,000 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(10) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(10) Details Address: 1824 Benado Lomas Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 4 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 2,137 square feet Year Built: 2004 More Details Description SHORT SALE! All offers pending lien holder's approval. Beautiful like new home with plenty of space in and out. Large Open floor plan, kitchen has large eat in area, spacious master bedroom with sitting area - screened porch with deck. On over an acre in gated community - Lake Cassie -More Desc...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32303-Tallahassee (Oak Valley) MLS #198253 FOR SALE$98,000 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(5) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(5) Details Address: 5391 Water Valley Dr Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 1,134 square feet Year Built: 1991 More Details Description SHORT SALE! All offers contingent on lien holder approval. Property needs lots of TLC. NEGATIVES: needs carpet/paint, smells of cigarettes, needs garage doors, one broken window, A/C needs to be repaired, dirty & messy. POSITIVES: LOCATION, POTENTIAL, SIZE OF LOT, STRUCTURALLY SOUND. Great for i...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
If you want to predict By keeping an eye on the number of lis pendens being filed each month in Tallahassee, we will get a feel for the inevitable onslaught of distressed properties that will be for sale in the coming months (years). While we have covered this point in the past, I think it is time to take another look at where we stand. The Tallahassee Foreclosure Web Page is current through mid-year, and July’s report will be filed in the next week or so. This updated Tallahasssee distressed property site shows that lis pendens filings were up 34% in the second quarter of 2009 versus the second quarter of 2008. Even more disturbing, January through June of 2009 Lis Pendens filings were up 47% compared to same period in 2008. Top Tallahassee Subdivisions By Lis Pendens Filed For those o...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32310-Tallahassee (Seminole Manor) MLS #198103 FOR SALE$80,000 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(9) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(9) Details Address: 3822 Roswell Dr Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Suite: No Living Area: 900 square feet Year Built: 1950 More Details Description Come tour one of Tallahassee's cutest starter homes! Located in a quite neighborhood where the near by homeowner's take pride in maintaining the exterior appeal of their houses. Features include good size fenced back yard & bedrooms, indoor laundry room with new washer and dryer, genuine rock solid...
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By Carol Palacios
(Century 21 Manausa & Associates)
Details Photo Gallery View Rooms 32304-Tallahassee (Westwood Condominiums) MLS #198260 FOR SALE$104,000 Century 21 First Realty Joe Manausa - Tallahassee Real EstateEmail Joe Manausa - Work: 850-386-2001Cell: 850-523-6178Fax: 850-383-6400 More Photos(10) 1 Quick Links Virtual Tour Request More Info Email Listing More Photos(10) Details Address: 102 Westwood Dr Type: Residential Style: Single Story Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 2 Suite: No Living Area: 1,260 square feet Year Built: 1976 More Details Description This 3BR, 2BA unit overlooks the community pool complex. The larhe living and dining rooms look out onto private fenced patio. All appliances stay including washer and dryer. Vacant show anytime. Bring offers!More Description Brokered and Advertised by Century 21 First Realty LID 394302...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
Every month we take a look at housing inventory in Tallahassee in order to see whether or not the supply is growing or if the supply is shrinking. We have come to learn that there are two ways to look at home supplies in Tallahassee: Absolute Home Supply – This is the total number of homes for sale in Tallahassee Relative Home Supply – This is the number of months of supply of homes for sale in Tallahassee, as measured using the current rate of sales (demand). I have just completed the August Home Supply Report which can be downloaded by clicking the picture on the right. This report is updated each month and the current version can always be downloaded from the Tallahassee Real Estate Market Reports Web Page. This month we find some good news in both relative and absolute supplies, wi...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
We have several customers who are buying high-end homes in Tallahassee (homes priced greater than $500,000) so I was wondering what the high-end market has done in the past few years. I decided to pull all of the home sales in the Tallahassee MLS in order to see if any trend existed. The first thing that really caught my eye when analyzing the higher priced homes in Tallahassee is just how explosive this market has been. For example, home sales with prices over $500,000 grew by 670% from 2001 to 2006! Even this year, the worst year in the past 20 years for total home sales, the high-end housing market has grown 168% compared with 2001. One has to wonder how this part of the market has grown so rapidly, even as local jobs and wages have only grown with limited cost of living increases. A...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
Trend Watch - Gray Walls By Jaime Derringer Jul 28th 2009 11:00AM Categories: Decorating, Color Email More I was over on Apartment Therapy checking out Jon and Ro's fantastic Brooklyn walk-up. However, one of the rooms really caught my eye, the gray office.   Jon and Ro's beautiful office desk jumps out of the dark wall. Photo: Apartment Therapy Gemma Ahern's entire apartment is painted dark gray, including floors, radiators, shelves and doors. Photo: Design*Sponge So I thought, "Hmmm...that's interesting." But then I saw it again on Design*Sponge's sneak peek of Gemma Ahern's London-area apartment. Except Gemma's entire apartment was gray. It seems there happens to be a mini-trend in paint: floor to ceiling dark gray walls. And I'm talking the moldings, too. And not just gray, deep dar...
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
One of the best ways to keep tabs on real estate in Tallahassee is through monitoring our Market Bulletin. This site is updated multiple times each week and contains charts, graphs, and analysis of the real estate market in Tallahassee. As I was updating the Tallahassee Real Estate Web Site this morning, I realized we hadn’t used these graphs in our blog for quite some time, so today is an updated review of the current housing market conditions in Tallahassee. Tallahassee Housing Market Inventory Change Trends This first graph shows the short, medium, and long-term trends in housing inventory in Tallahassee. If you have any interest in real estate in Tallahassee, then this is one graph you should keep monitoring on a regular basis. The good news is that all trends show inventory reduct...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
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By Joe Manausa - Tallahassee, FL, Tallahassee Real Estate
(Joe Manausa Real Estate)
Today is a short post, inspired by a recent reader question, that allows us to pursue a “statistic” that many “real estate professionals” quote, but few truly understand. Today’s topic is about the relationship between the asking price and the selling price (sales price to list price ratio) of homes that have recently sold. While we will be utilizing information found in the Tallahassee Board Of REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service (Tallahassee MLS), I suspect my findings would be valid with information from any other MLS in the country. As you will see, our findings will much more subjective than objective. Tallahassee Real Estate Blog reader “Ashley” asked: I was wondering if you could provide me with some information on the median list to sale price ratio in the Tallahassee market.  Do...
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By John Stehmeyer
(Riverking Custom Painting)
Sherwin Williams   To ensure a quality paint job that will last, the paint you'll use depends on the type of surface you want to paint. Walls - Because it's easy to work with, latex paint is an excellent choice for do-it-yourself projects. Latex paints can be applied over properly prepared wood, vinyl, aluminum and stucco. Metal - Use either latex or oil/alkyd paint on properly primed iron or steel. You can apply latex directly on aluminum and galvanized metal. However, these metals need to be properly primed if you're using oil/alkyd-based paint. Trim - Either latex or oil/alkyd paint is appropriate for trim. Gloss and high gloss finishes are generally your first choice, but flat or satin finishes are fine selections. Masonry - H&C® Concrete Stains and Sealers and Loxon® Coatings are e...
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