Mitch Ribak

On November 3rd, from 9am - 5pm, I will be holding an Internet Marketing Seminar for Real Estate. Basically I will be teaching the processes and systems I have used to build my Melbourne Brokerage to over 300+ sales annually from the Internet.

I will be teaching the following:

• Website do's and don'ts - If your website isn't set up properly, you are wasting tons of money and business!
• Internet Marketing - How to generate traffic to your website - Step by Step process to buying Pay Per Click Marketing through Google, Facebook and Homegain
• Landing Pages and Lead Capture - You can drive all the traffic in the world to your site, but if you don't have proper landing pages, you won't capture leads
• Social Media and how it has affected Marketing with special guest speaker Chris Frerrick from Kinetic Knowledge
• Lead Conversion - Our step by step process to convert Internet leads to sales (this is worth the entire seminar)
• Drip Campaigns - Drip campaigns we use that have had dramatic results for our brokerage
• and more!

It's the beginning of one of my favorite holiday weekends. While most of the country thinks of this day as a chance to party and enjoy an extra day off on Monday, I'll think of how lucky I am to live in a country where I can do what I want, think what I want and say what I want. Why do we have this freedom? It's because of the great men and women who over the past 200+ years gave their lives so I can have this freedom. While you are out this weekend having a great time, please take a moment just to remember that hundreds of thousands of people just like you and I believed so much in our country, that they were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. Remember the kids that are oversees putting their lives on the line to hopefully keep the evil from coming to our shores. They are the true heros of this generation and my heart and prayers are with them. Have a great weekend and God Bless America!

Hi Everyone!

June was another good month in the world of Real Estate in Brevard County. For the month, 759 homes were sold which is a small increase over the 738 homes sold in May. However, this is a nice jump from 678 in April and 562 in February. It's also up significantly from the 620 homes in June 2008.

All of this is good news for the local real estate market. We are seeing homes that are priced correctly going within a week or so with mutiple offers. Foreclosures and short sales are all selling very quickly too with multiple offers. There are still so many homes on the market that offer a great value for the product. The key is to be open minded and a little flexible. Most homes in Brevard County are up to 44% lower than their 2005 prices.

With interest rates so low and the inventory shrinking, this is probably one of the best timesl we have had to buy in a long time. Actually, a few months ago was probably the best prices, but it's still a great time to purchase your home! This is especially true if you are planning on taking advantage of the $8,000 tax credit.

As always, if there is anything we can do to help, just email us at thestaff@mitchrealty.com . You can click here to view all homes that are for sale in Brevard County. Our office can show you any listings any where in the county. We look forward to helping you!

Mitch

Well it's been an interesting few years to say the least. We have been extremely busy at Tropical Realty in Brevard County Florida. Over the past few months our sales have doubled and it's very obvious to us that we finally have hit bottom. Most people don't realize that we actually started our decline about 6 months ahead of most of the country. With that said, it makes sense that we would hit bottom first.

So how do I know we are at the bottom? It's pretty easy to see. Our inventory is down from 8,000 at the peak to 4900 right now...almost half. On top of that, just about every home that is priced correctly is selling within 30-60 days and the best properties have multiple offers on them.

It's pretty funny actually what happens. We work hard to educate our buyer by supplying them with stats. For instance, homes right now are selling at 91.8% on the list price on average with the lower homes selling at over 95% of the list price. Of course our customers don't believe us. I can understand that with all the national media saying that Florida is in so much trouble. However, once they lose a house or two to other buyers they start paying attention. An Agent of mine said it well. She said that everyone is paying attention to the national media, but Real Estate is a local commodity. She is so right.

If you are seriously thinking about buying that retirement home or vacation home or even your first home so you can take advantage of the $8,000 credit currently available, then this is probably the time to get your best deal. Actually it was two months ago, but right now our prices are stable and with interest rates at or around 5%, I can't think of a better time.

And if you are looking for condos, there are some great deals. A few years ago you couldn't touch an Oceanfront condo for under $500k. Now we have some that are at $300k and some less. There was a one bedroom one bath last week, on the Ocean, for $89k. As you can guess, this was gone within a day or so....it's also not the norm!

At Tropical Realty, most of our customers come from out of state. Last year we were the number 1 Brokerage in Buyer Transactions than any other office in the county (out of 500 offices). We are very proud of this as it shows that hundreds of customers have put their trust in us to help with their relocation to Brevard County. If you would like to look at homes, you can click here to start.

We are always here to help. If you would like to talk to an Agent, call 321-259-9115. Our phones are answered by real people every day, 7 days a week.

Hi Everyone!

If you have been thinking about buying a vacation or retirement home in Florida, this is the time. With interest rates around 5% and prices at a 6 year low, we may never see this type of opportunity again! Currently 30% of the homes on the market in Brevard County are foreclosures. The down side to this is almost every offer we are currently doing have multiple offers. The upside of dealing with us, Tropical Realty, is that we sell a ton of foreclosures and understand what it takes to win the house of your dreams at a price you wouldn't believe!

If you are interested in receiving an up to date list of foreclosed properties, just go to:

http://www.melbournehomesearch.com/index.cfm/Foreclosure_List

You will be sent a custom list of foreclosed properties and if you wish, be sent any new foreclosures that match your criteria as they become available. Don't let this opportuntiy pass you buy. This is true for everyone and especially first time home buyers. This is your time!

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at thestaff@mitchrealty.com or call us at 321-259-9115.

We look forward to serving you!

Mitch Ribak, Broker
Tropical Realty of Suntree, Inc.