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.

Holiday Shopping Could Affect Your Credit Score

If you are buying real estate in the next 6 months and you want to get a loan you should watch this video because you can hurt your credit scores if you aren’t careful.

Noche De Gala

Last Saturday evening the Sebastian Ferraro Foundation hosted Noche de Gala, an annual fundraiser to help bring a children’s hospital to Gainesville, FL. The theme of Noche de Gala 2009 was Venetian Masquerade ball, and the event blew away my expectations. This is a description of the evening, if you can get tickets next year I would absolutely recommend attending.

Progress in Longleaf

Our customers contracted with Robinshore to build this house in Longleaf, off Archer Road in Gainesville FL.  It is coming along quickly now, this video shows tile on the floors, cabinets, and counters have all been installed!

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Your Private Nature Preserve

Video of an 82 acre retreat between Gainesville and Jacksonville in North Florida. The property has 2 miles of 8′ fencing to keep in the fallow deer, red deer, & black buck antelope. The white tail deer still come and go as they please, because they can easily jump an 8′ fence! 2 Ponds, stream, and equipment.

Another Condo on Biven’s Lake

This is an adorable 3/2 condo tucked away off South 13th Street, only 1 mile to Shands Hospital and the VA, 2.8 miles to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium.  The sellers are asking $159,775.

Bivens South Condo
Many people don’t know about the condos on Bivens Lake. They are about a mile or so south of UF / [...]

Fireworks in Alachua

The 4th of July celebration was a blast (he, he)!  I would recommend heading there next year, especially if Gainesville starts a tradition of no fireworks.
Corner of 235-A and Peggy Road

Slightly edited to remove the boring wait time between explosions.
235-A was a trap
One my way to the fairgrounds I found a large group parking near [...]

Warm Greetings at the Corner Store

A short video of downtown Haile Plantation, and an overview of what it’s like to be here.

Sticks and, uh, concrete

We have been video taping a house being built for one of our out-of-town customers.
Watch the Progress
We are posting videos of the house as it goes up onto Youtube, but to make finding them easier we started a blog for the project!
Watch the videos as step-by-step the home comes together:

Fun restaruant: O!O Tapas & Tinis

We stopped here for lunch recently and were impressed with the quality of the food and presentation.
The mood is relaxing and classy, and there is a cool round bar in the middle of the restaurant.  It must be intended for serving the little appetizers and martinis that the place is named for.

O!O Tapas & Tinis
2725 [...]