Lisa Hill (Daytona Beach Real Estate)

If you're a resident or a visitor of the Daytona Beach area, (or if you're considering buying real estate in Daytona Beach) here's an affordable, fun, fascinating way to spend some quality AND cultural time. From now through Sep 26, 2009, every Tuesday - Saturday from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., the Halifax Historical Society Museum in beautiful downtown Daytona Beach is hosting a special Girl Scout treat.

In case you don't think that sounds exciting, check this out! Two local teenage Girl Scouts spent hundreds of hours, creating an exceptional exhibit, depicting the history of the "Girl Scout Gold Award", with a display of Girl Scout memorabilia, illustrated on a timeline. If you haven't heard of this award, it's the highest honor a Girl Scout can get, and it's on an International Level! You can thank Cheyenne Conrad and Heather Larson for the enjoyable experience that is now available to you.

This historical exhibit, features many local women. So be sure to carve out some time for this amazing presentation, located at 252 South Beach Street in Daytona Beach, FL. Admission is only $5.00 per adult and $1.00 for children age 12 and under.

For information call (386) 255-6976 or visit www.halifaxhistorical.org.

If you're interested in buying or selling real estate in the area of Daytona Beach FL, Lisa Hill is a Daytona Beach native with experience selling real estate in every city in east Volusia county and beyond.

For all your real estate needs, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill with Adams Cameron & Co., REALTORS®.

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If you live in the Daytona Beach area, there's a good chance that once a year you make the trek to the Volusia County Fairgrounds in DeLand. I just missed the Wordless Wednesday deadline (again) by just a few minutes, but I got an idea after reading Liz Moras' blog post called Wordless Wednesday-Hind Sight~

. Now that is a hilarious post! And it reminded me about my family's trip to the Volusia County Fair, when I decided to video tape the animals.... and the rides! Woo Hoo! So enjoy =)

If you're considering buying real estate in Volusia County, I'm a Daytona Beach native, with experience selling real estate in Daytona Beach, Port Orange, Ormond Beach, Ponce Inlet, South Daytona, Holly Hill, New Smyrna Beach, Edgewater and more!

For all your real estate needs, make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill with Adams Cameron & Co., REALTORS.

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Atttention First Time Home Buyers: If there's even a chance that you'll be interested in buying a home in the Daytona Beach area; including Port Orange, South Daytona and all of east Volusia county, DO NOT WAIT any longer! Time is running out, to take advantage of the $8000 tax credit!

Although your mortage MIGHT take only 30 days for full financing, in today's real estate market it is highly unlikely! And to receive the $8000 tax credit, you MUST close on your home by November 30, 2009! If you don't close by the cutoff date, you will not receive the $8,000 tax credit.

If you have not yet started your search for your home, call me ASAP! I'll help you with your search, and work for you in finding just the right home for you, and negotiate to help you get the most house for your money.

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I look forward to helping you with all your real estate needs.

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It's Wordless Wednesday again. So once again, I'm providing a photo-centered blog on the appropriate day; while tossing the whole "no words" idea out the window... Hey. At least I'm consistent! ;-)

So, for this Wednesday, I'm sharing two photos from one of our marinas/yacht clubs; Halifax Harbor Marina & Yacht Club.

This yacht club is absolutely beautiful, as it was completely remodeled a few years ago. It's also one of the more affordable yacht clubs in the Volusia county area.

I have many photos that I've taken while attending functions at the various yacht clubs in the Daytona Beach, Ponce Inlet, and New Smyrna Beach areas, so choosing just one can be quite difficult. (So I didn't!)

In this first photo, I like the blue skies and puffy clouds, and the rows of boats and yachts that look so inviting. It makes me want to go water skiing! And the second photo is of the front elevation, showing how beautiful the newly renovated Halifax Harbor Marina and Yacht Club really is. And the inside is just as beautiful!

The Halifax Harbor Marina and Yacht Club is in a perfect location on the Halifax River/Intracoastal Waterway, and within walking distance to the fabulous Daytona Beach downtwon area, where we have trendy new restaurants and shopping, and the new "Wall Street lofts" for those of you who like a condo in the middle of the downtown hot spots. (Call or e-mail me for more info on the Wall Street Lofts!)

If you're considering buying real estate in Daytona Beach FL, be sure to visit our beautiful downtown area. I can help you find a house or condo that is close enough for you to enjoy the many street festivals, fine dining, the Halifax River, riverfront pavilions, walking paths and much more. You can buy a beautiful Daytona Beach house or condo, within minutes of all this!

To buy your Daytona Beach house or condo... make a Smart Choice and contact Lisa Hill with Adams Cameron & Co., REALTORS® today.

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As I was posting the price reduction to all my real estate blogs (using several is great for pushing your web site up the search engines!), for my real estate listing: Daytona Beach house for sale, within walking distance to the beach... as I got to my personal, Trulia real estate blog, I stumbled across a link that questioned the "walkability of the neighborhood". Well I can't say I've ever seen a web site like that before, so my curiosity was piqued. But not only am I a REALTOR®, I'm also a Daytona Beach native, so I already know the statistics and demographics of pretty much any neighborhood; such as whether or not it has sidewalks... how safe it is... and other factors you might want to know, if you like to walk for exercise.

So to do a test on the Walk Score web site, I used my home address as a test subject... and FYI, I live in a gated housing community in Port Orange... (10+ years ago, we knew we wanted to live in Port Orange; and we decided to buy a house in a subdivision, within another subdivision.)

Now before I tell you my own neighborhood's walking score, let me provide a few more details about Port Orange. The whole city of Port Orange has sidewalks on both sides of the street in almost every neighborhood; and even along the sides of the busiest roads! It also has doctors, all sorts of shopping, banking, restaurants, etc., within walking distance of almost every community in the city. It also bears mentioning, the motto for Port Orange is "Unique by Choice, Not by Chance". Needless to say, a LOT of thought has been put into the planning of this beautiful city. Oh, and on a personal note, I frequently walk several miles at a time, sometimes late at night, without a care in the world.

Now to get to my neighborhood score... I input my address and discovered we had been given one of the lowest possible scores. Well, to put it bluntly, that is absurd! So what the heck is the criteria for these supposed walking scores!? I'll let you see for yourself. Just follow the links below. Because the irony gets even better... Check this out!

At the top of the web page, there are links about the sit that say "How it Works" and "How it Doesn't Work". Excuse me for thinking this but if you have to post a link on your own site, that tells you how it goes wrong, you have a serious problem with your system.

So to finalize this, I'm interested in what kind of results you get when you run your own walkability tests. I'm not going to list all the criteria from the How it Works, and How it Doesn't Work links. I'll let you check it out for yourself. And then, I'm VERY interested in what kind of results you get. Run your own little tests, and let me know what you think.

Is the Neighborhood Walkability Score a legitimate test, or a malfunctioning piece of crap? As Broker Bryant would put it... What Say Ye?

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