The new server is up and running!

Me and the IT guy spent the holiday doing a migration to our new server and also initializing an email address change. For now, emails to our old email address are being forwarded and we're spreading the new email through responses to those emails. The website address for the company hasn't changed and we don't plan to change it. We're undergoing some major website renovations but those things should be barely noticeable until publication. Thanks for your patience! These changes will increase our efficiency and stability of the system.

Seagull Century-Tuneup Ride 10/09/09

We took a short ride out to Assateague Island and visited with the wild horses -- they're pretty tame for being wild and totally unconcerned with traffic and/or people.

Quite windy on the beach - enough that the blowing sand stung our legs but the wind was at our back on the way back to the house and got up to 29 mph cruising along.


All done at 1:40 pm -- best time for me - five hours and fifteen minutes ride time. It started out rainy, was perfect for a while and ended windy.

Cycling-Seagull Century-10/08/09

Here's a few photos of Travel Day, airport, lunch, dinner, etc.

Cycling Stuff

I'll be out next Thursday through the following Monday (10/8 thru 10/12) for the Seagull Century - a 100 mile bike ride that starts out in Salisbury, MD. I'm totally unfamiliar with the area but the route will take us onto Assateague Island - at right are a couple photos from the ride website. The ride benefits Habitat for Humanity, Salisbury University and many local Maryland charities.



Look for lots of photos and some interesting stories on my return. Here's a link to the route for all you Marylanders http://www.seagullcentury.org/template/AssateagueCenturyDirections09.pdf





Our group will be representing Florida so naturally we are going with the whole citrus theme -- people generally can figure out where we're from based on the jersey, although there was that one person in Tahoe who thought the flamingos on our helmets were pink chickens. See our cool Florida jerseys that we reprised from the last Tahoe ride.
























Departure Day 10/08/09

!! Facebook !!

Remember the seminars I did on social media for real estate marketing in May when we were all so incredulous about FB growing from 40 million users in October, 2008 to 200 million in May, 2009 --- now FB has 300 million users. Wow. By the way --- visit me on FB any time :-) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tampa-FL/Enterprise-Title-of-Tampa-Bay-Inc/72315284227

Ordering surveys

We've always (well only for the past 21 years) ordered surveys on behalf of our buyers based on verbal assurances about the certainty of closing from their loan officer - basically whether the buyer would be approved and whether the appraisal would come in at contract price. Now we're getting some criticism about waiting until the appraisal is done - should we have the buyers pay up front for the survey or just quit ordering surveys altogether? Let me know what you think?