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Staying Ahead Of The House Hunting Competition

My knowledge of the local market is an essential factor in the house search.

I'll let you know when the market in a particular neighborhood is "hot" and requires immediate action or when the market is "cool" and allows for thoughtful consideration. As we tour houses, I'll let you know when the asking price has negotiating room and when the house is "priced to sell".

My unique market knowledge will keep you a step ahead of the "house hunting competition".
In a "seller's market". It is not unusual to see multiple offers on a property, full-price offers and even above-price offers. On the flip side, during a "buyer's market" there are more houses for sale than buyers. This gives us more negotiating room as houses are taking longer to sell.

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Disclaimer: The above Real Estate information was provided by Vincent Martinez, Realtor for the #1 Real Estate offices in New York and the #4 office in the USA. Vincent Martinez is a Certified Realtor Short Sale Professional by the Long Island Board of Realtors (L.I.B.O.R.) and a member of Prudential Douglas Elliman - Licensed Real Estate Broker. Vincent Martinez does not guarantee or is any way responsible for the accuracy of the information in this blog post and information provided is without warranties of any kind, either express or implied. Information here represents the opinions and ideas of the author; comments by others may not express the views of the author. Staying Ahead Of The House Hunting Competition Copyright © 2009 By Vincent Martinez, All Rights Reserved.

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Inventory as at 02/25/09:

8 units of 2 family - median asking price $882,000

16 units of 1 family - median asking price $619,000

30 units of condo - median asking price $377,000

138 units of co-op - median asking price $215,000

Units closed in the last 3 months period from 11/1/08 to 01/31/09:

2 units of 2 family - median selling price $780,000

4 units of 1 family - median selling price $570,000

4 units of condo - median asking price $363,000

30 units of co-op - median selling price $210,750

Units closed in the same 3 months period last year from 11/1/07 to 1/31/08:

3 units of 2 Family - median selling price $710,000

7 units of 1 Family - median selling price $575,000

8 units of condo - median asking price $287,500

48 units of co-op - median selling price $212,500

Source: MLS of Long Island

A new superhero on the planet? Living in L. A.? There are heroes... there are superheroes... and then there's Hancock (Will Smith) - this line was directly from the movie poster. He saves people's lives and has a strong dislike for the wicked. So why is Hancock hated so much? Maybe it's because he a klutz!! OR Maybe because he's an @$$%^(#!!! The guy's just out of control. He leaps over skyscrapers in a single bound at supersonic speed but hasn't found a way to slow it down for the landing. The one-superhero wrecking crew hits like a missile causing some serious damage. He's also a boozer which may be partly to blame for his lack of control. The public has finally had enough - as indebted as they are to have their local superman, the citizens of Los Angeles are wondering what they ever did to deserve this guy. Hancock isn't the kind of man who cares what other people think - until the day that he saves the life of PR executive Ray (Jason Bateman), and the superhero begins to recognize that he may have a helpless side after all. Stressed, conflicted, cynical, and misunderstood, Hancock's well-intentioned heroics might get the job done and save countless lives, but always seem to leave jaw-dropping destruction in his path. He has the impulses of a child but is actually centuries old. It's a harsh, dark, rocky tale of a man on the edge of his own sanity who must come to grips with who he is, whatever that may mean.

I enjoyed Hancock it was a great movie. This is not your typical superhero movie i.e. Xmen, Superman and Iron Man. This is more a comedy superhero movie asking a big question - What if a superhero has problems that affect humans?

Well it's the 4th of July weekend for us Americans and there is only 1 movie opening this week to make the weekend start with a bang!!

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Tooth and Nail isn't what I'd call a horror flick. There's some shocking violence and a few events that try something like suspense, but it isn't scary!! The world is thrown into a violent disaster as the last oil well is bled dry. Without gas everything goes to hell, and the majority of humanity is dead (what happened to the usual ‘super flu' or nuclear bomb?). Petroleum supplies vanish, and soon after so do electricity and any form of civilization. People are trying to survive as best they can. This horrible future comes courtesy of the world running out of gas. A small group of survivors holds up in a deserted hospital where they make plans to start civilization over, but things go all crazy when watch duty brings back an outsider who is hunted by a mob of cannibal survivalists.

It's a really bad Hills Have Eyes meets Mad Max-on-a-budget clone that's packed with predictability. Ten minutes into the movie my wife and I had successfully deducted the entire plot, including last act twist.

The idea of a cannibal Judgment Day story could work well as a horror film, but unfortunately the bad guys show up as normal men who don't seem all that intimidating. Other than the fact that they are a little bigger than average, it appears after the gas ran out, the tall people with gym memberships decided to eat people. That's not all that much of a stretch and not too scary. The movie is pretty stupid when you get down to it, and I guess that puts a stop to it from being too damn frightening. If you like post-apocalyptic cannibal flicks, then maybe you'll get more out of it than we did. It's awesome, then nothing happens, and then even more of nothing happens. No suspense, no action, NOTHING!!!

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Batman Begins explains how Bruce Wayne creates the persona of The Batman. The flick begins with Wayne in a Chinese jail, fighting the other inmates and beating them unconscious. The film is dedicated to deal with the actual mechanics of being Batman. As well as catching a glimpse of the military labs from where all his crime-fighting gear comes, as well as seeing his suit and his automobile and his arsenal as military hardware, we're even told how the invoicing is done, and why he's always got additional bits of Batsuit when he needs them. The biggest clarification of all, though, and the one that really grounds the film in 'reality', is just why a guy dressed up as a airborne rodent might not be such a harebrained idea. It's good, though, that the Jedi-like stuff where Bruce becomes skilled at his tricks is revealed early on. Montage of ninjas, and training out in the backwoods, and hard-won zen understanding usually comes in the middle of rights-of-passage movies, and it's always to a certain extent humorless, harsh and macho. Batman Begins is done with them in the first half hour, and when Alfred turns up to gather Master Bruce, a much better flick kicks off.

The movie does an very good job of reinventing the Batman character without making him cartoon-like or cheesy at all. This Batman is convincing and that's the reason I really liked it.

Although some of the situations might be straight out of the comics, Batman's driving force is captivating and attention-grabbing. Where the other Batman films were freak-shows this movie is all about doing what needs to be done to save those you hold dear. I liked this flick and can honestly say that this is a strong movie, quite likely the best this character has ever been done on the big screen.

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