Nov
19
Vacation rental homes in Florida (and other places too!): Easy money
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I have written before about my parents’ having a vacation home in North Carolina. They’re at a point in their lives where they are trying to decide if they are going to keep it or sell it due to retirement and health problems - they just can’t get away as much as they hoped.
I say, why not do both? Keep it AND sell it - or, rent it for a bit, that is. Did you know that you can list your vacation rental and reach 25 million travelers? They bought their North Carolina mountain vacation home many years ago and are fortunate enough to have a mortgage payment of $400, give or take. Do you realize what 2 bedroom mountain vacation rental cabins go for?
About $2,400 per month.
They’re leaving a lot of money on the table, aren’t they? When you advertise your vacation home rental, you get access to a worldwide market, the same way a hotel would. You can list on 4 vacation rental websites for one price and centrally manage your inquiries and listing,
ensuring you reach the maximum audience with your vacation home.
The Florida vacation rental market is especially attractive thanks to the abundance of attractions in this state. Disney World, Sea World, Universal Studios, and the rest that Orlando has to offer create built-in demand for Orlando and Disney vacation rentals. While the rent you charge as a homeowner will easily cover your mortgage AND provide a generous profit, in most cases it will be cheaper than hotels for tourists. And with 0% commissions on vacation rentals bookings, you really can’t go wrong.
Maybe you have a beachfront vacation rental property in Destin or Panama City? Perhaps you’re a snowbird with a vacation rental in St. Petersburg or Ft. Lauderdale? You should give it some thought, and if you decide the extra money will come in handy, join the world’s largest vacation rental network with over 100,000 vacation rentals.
Sep
4
Only in FLA: Nub City
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Man, this is weird, even for Florida…
Seems that back in the 1960’s a bunch of the men in town blew off hands and feet for the insurance money. You simply HAVE to read this story at tampabay.com!
Here’s a couple teasers for you:
Once upon a time, the Panhandle city of Vernon was a national laughingstock. Its people were ridiculed as bumpkins and cranks, freaks willing to shoot off their own hands. Then things changed. Time and hard work helped bury the past, and now Vernon has reclaimed some of its dignity. If only that were the end of the story.
Hmmm… tell me more…
The characters are not heroes. They are not even villains. They are merely conniving mercenaries with a tolerance for gore.
No shee-ite, y’all ain’t gonna believe this…
How does a town become known as Nub City? Why did more than two-thirds of all loss-of-limb accident claims in the United States in the late ’50s and early ’60s come from the Florida Panhandle? What was the first event in the bloody chain that led a national insurance investigator to Main Street in Vernon, to sit in a parked car on a hot summer night, watching the maimed walk by in a shuddersome parade?
Ok, I’m not going to steal this guy’s thunder, it’s a great story and you gotta go over there to read about the amputees of Vernon, FL. However, here’s a list of things you can find in Vernon, FL that you can’t find anyplace else:
- A REAL second-hand store.
- More one-legged women named “Eileen” per capita than anyplace else.
- The original IHOP.
- Every parking spot in town is a handicapped spot.
- Wheelchairs with mud tires and lift kits and gun racks… up on blocks…
Sep
2
About
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Florida Sun Dog is a Florida-centric blog. Rarely will I take time to comment on matters elsewhere. Subjects I discuss include funny news, commentary, theme parks, real estate, cities, towns, businesses, people. I also touch on Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Pensacola, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Ft. Myers, St. Petersburg, Daytona, Clearwater, Bradenton, Orange Park, St. Augustine, Amelia Island, Cocoa Beach, Disney World, Universal, Epcot, Sea World, Busch Gardens, Brooksville, Spring Hill, & Hernando County.
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Aug
29
Moving to Florida?
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There are plenty of guides to moving available, but they are either buried deep inside a very large website, or they are just some reworked junk thrown together to make a little Adsense cash.
Relocation.com is neither. The guides are at the heart of this website, readily available, and gloriously free of Adsense. By browsing the extensive site you can find information on Real Estate, Mortgage, Moving, Apartment Hunting, Insurance, Careers, and Home Improvement. You can also reach those large database-driven sites from within Relocation.com - it is designed to be a portal for all of the relocation needs one might have.
The company also runs some closely-related sites as well. Carmovers.com is similarly designed to be a portal for your auto shipping needs, something many of us need when making moves in multi-car families, or across long distances, especially during corporate moves. Another site they run is Internationalmovers.com, where you can get quotes from licensed international movers. For me, this would definitely be the place to start the planning process for an international move, because honestly, I am clueless about what it would take.
I also expect to need these services shortly, as I have purchased the winning ticket in the $320M Georgia lottery this Friday night. Oh, they haven’t drawn it yet, but I know. It’s a feeling. Then it’s goodbye Florida, hello Belize!
Aug
9
St. Augustine home for sale
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My wife started the ball rolling on this one for her sister and brother-in-law; they’re selling their St. Augustine home and we want to get the word out and get their listing pushed up a bit in the search engine rankings. So, here goes nothing:
St. Augustine Million Dollar Home for Sale
Apr
30
I swear, sometimes I think lawyers could screw up an orgy!
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As a marketing professional, I can tell you that when someone wants to use your brand for something like an elementary school, that’s a good thing.
But, leave it to the lawyers to screw up a good thing:
World Golf Village, a registered trademark, will no longer be included in the name of the St. Johns County School District’s newest elementary school.
The school board chose the name after polled community members gave the highest number of votes to the name “World Golf Village Elementary,” which was previously known as new elementary school K.
Lawyers from the World Golf Village Foundation notified the district that the name is a registered trademark. The district could have kept the name under some stipulations.
For example, they would have to ensure that the school was always referred to as World Golf Village Elementary, and never an abbreviation of WGV or just World Golf.
Original Article: District drops WGV name
(Gotta love the attempt at editorial irony in that headline!)
