Happy Holidays!

E-Card – From our family to yours, we hope you have a safe and happy holiday season!

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Gainesville this Week

Tobin and Jill Wagstaff are being treated to a new home by Gainesville residents and the producers of the TV show Extreme Makeover Home Edition.

Thanks for a Great Year!

So many of you helped us celebrate our company’s first birthday in October. Thanks for coming out and enjoying yourself!

Bat Collapse

I’m not talking about baseball here – the UF bat house has collapsed.
Located next to Lake Alice on the University of Florida Campus, the bat house has been home to around 200,000 bats who eat up around a TON of insects each night (literally)! Apparently all that tonnage was more than the building was [...]

Challenge: Sell my Townhouse in under 90 days!

Our friend Ms. Johnson loved the community she lived in. She has a lot of furniture and personal items and when she moved from a larger home just a few years earlier she couldn’t bear to part with anything.
The Deadline
Ms. Johnson called us up in the beginning of 2009 asking for our help. A [...]

Rental Scam to Watch Out For

I thought this was really worth sharing. If you are looking for a rental you really need to double check that you know who owns the property and that they are up-to-date on their mortgage (if there is one).
Another “amzng deal” from Nigeria
There is another scam from Nigeria going around, where some guy lists [...]

When a tree falls in the woods – who pays to clean it up?

If a tree falls in the City of Gainesville there are a couple factors that come into play when figuring out who pays for it.
If you or a neighbor has a dead or dangerous tree it is the property owner’s responsibility to have it removed.  Talk to your neighbor if you are concerned about their [...]

Keeping track of our Executives

If you are interested in how the government spends all our money, but not interested enough to go get the reports then I’ve found the perfect website for you!
www.MyFloridaCFO.com
Florida’s Chief Financial Officer maintains a website called www.myfloridacfo.com.  The theme is “transparency” – meaning that they are trying to let us SEE what our money is [...]

Gainesville schools make Newsweek’s “Top of the Class” List

Newsweek’s report lists schools in the top 6 percent across the US. Several Alachua County schools made the list.

Eastside High School ranked #5 in Florida and #20 across the US!
Buchholz High School ranked #86 in the US.
Gainesville High ranked #377 in the US.

Here is a link to the full report: http://www.newsweek.com/id/201160
The report ranks schools [...]

We’re making a great place to work

Yes, we did just recently open our own real estate firm called Seide Realty. Most people we meet agree that it was a good idea to start our company when we did, glad you think so too!
Our Reasons
I’ve always worked for a broker or owner and have always had my ideas distorted when the owner/broker [...]