Poinciana, FL

DNC My Cellie

Cell phone numbers went public on Friday, August 29th, which means that you can now enjoy the thrills of receiving telemarketing calls on your costly cellie minutes. All cell phone numbers, nationwide, were released to telemarketing companies on the 29th. To prevent those telemarketers, call the...

VA Ceiling Raised

According to the Florida Association of Realtors, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is raising ceilings on its no-downpayment home loans from the current $417,000 to as much as $729,000. The VA increases went into effect immediately under legislation enacted under the Housing and Economic...

Values on the Rise

Glimmers headlined in August that the housing crisis has finally hit the bottom and may be on the rebound. The decline in home prices is starting to ease and, in some cities, values are rising again. Existing home sales rose slightly and the glut of newly built homes fell to a five month low. Like...

Expert Helps Reporter

When Lakeland newspaper, The Reporter, needed a local expert to help them understand the extent of the housing crisis in Poinciana, they didn't have to google "Poinciana Home." They already knew they could turn to Poinciana's expert, Darhlene Zeanwick. Darhlene relayed statistics from the multiple...

Housing Recovery Near Start

As a Poinciana homeowner myself, I find too many responsible homeowners being affected by the housing crisis. It is so rare that I am able to provide good news to homeowners these days, that when I do, I must blog it. The good news is that the federal homeowners assistance program is kicking-in...

Insurance - The Bad & Good

There's good and bad news when it comes to damage caused by hurricanes and tropical storms. Damage caused by storms that never become hurricanes, like T.S.-Fay, are treated differently. For example, since Fay never became a hurricane, higher deductibles don't apply. Flood damage is also not covered...

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Carts on the Byway

While using a poorly worded and downright mean approach in their September issue of the Poinciana Pioneer, the Association of Poinciana Villages (APV) did provide some useful information about how to get rid of shopping carts littering the sidewalks and byways in Poinciana. To help reduce this...

Tell Crist How You Feel

The Florida Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with Gov. Charlie Crist's office, created eight online surveys to find out the opinions of Floridians' on issues impacting the state. One survey focuses on small businesses, and specifically wants to know what you, as a small business owner, think...

Confidence Rising

Even as Obama, Biden, McCain, and Palin, each try to grab our attention for a brighter future, Florida's economists sound like they concur. According to University of Florida economists, happier days may be around the corner again. Consumer confidence among Floridians made huge gains in August,...

Bouncing into Recovery

A recent report by the Florida Association of Realtors® (FAR) agrees, we may have finally landed at the bottom of our housing crisis. Actually, bouncing is a more accurate description. The market value for homes in Poinciana appears to be making some attempt to stabilize. Like skipping a stone in...

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Here are a few photos I took while driving around Poinciana Florida today. If it's true that a picture paints a thousand words then I guess these pretty much sum up what's going on with the Poinciana Real Estate Market.

IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE!!!

MOVED ON WITH NO FORWARDING ADDRESS!

TRYING TO MOVE ON!!

NEED I SAY MORE?

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A recent report by the Florida Association of Realtors^® concurs, we may have finally landed on the bottom. Actually, bouncing is a more accurate description.

The market value for homes in Poinciana appears to be making some attempt to stabilize. Like skipping a stone in one of Poinciana's many ponds, sales are bouncing between about 40 and 60 sales per month.

While some home values have declined, particularly in the Bellalago area, home sales have stayed steady in areas like Solivita and Crescent Lakes. Overall, property inventory has not increased much over the past year, staying below 1,200.

While sales have increased slightly, helping to keep home values from the downward spiral that the Poinciana area has been experiencing, the area's absorption rate has been declining from a summer-time high of about five percent. Absorption rate for Osceola County stood at 3.98%, which reflects a one percent decrease in sales since late July. A total of 314 homes have been sold in Poinciana so far in 2008.

Overall in Florida, FAR recently reported that sales for single-family existing home sales rose for the first time in more than two years. While only six more homes sold in July 2008 tha ... read more ...

Hi foks. I am always reading and hearing about leads.

• How do you get them?
• What do you do with them?
• Have you bought leads from this or that company?

Well, this got me thinking about.... what is a lead? A lead to me is someone that contacts me and tells me they want to sale or buy a house in the next 30 days and they were given my name by so and so whose house I sold last year. Leads are gold. Leads are money in the bank. They are ready to buy or sell and they are ready to work with you. Leads will turn into customers or clients and if satisfied will result in more leads by referring your services.

If you could get a couple of leads a week you could easily covert them into 3 to 5 closings per month. Leads can't be bought. Leads come from hard work and a loyal customer base that is built over years from providing honest and professional service. And from keeping in touch with past customers and clients.

Usually, when we are talking about leads, I think we are really talking about prospects. A prospect is someone that may be interested in selling or buying, sometime in the future, when Venus aligns with Mars. These are the people who spend days on the Internet contacting every Realtor they can. Or call off the yard sign while riding around on a Sunday afternoon. You can buy prospects. There are many large web based "lead mills" that are wanting to sell you what they call "leads."

Folks these are not leads they are prospects. To pay for these types of "leads" in my opinion is a waste of money. If these prospects were truly leads they would not be selling them to you for a few bucks.

So, save your money and concentrate your efforts on keeping in touch with past customers and networking with people in your community. Always provide honest and professional service and before you know it you will have a steady stream of leads. Remember leads can't be bought they must be earned.

I wrote this post over 2 years ago and still believe it to be true today. What say you?

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