July Main Monthly Meeting
Networking at the Jacksonville Suns Game!
Jacksonville Baseball Grounds
301 A. Philip Randolph Blvd.
Jacksonville, FL
July 2, 2009
6:00 pm to ???

One of the BEST things about talking Real Estate is that you can do it ANYWHERE! Let's take a break from the usual and just sit back, relax and enjoy America's favorite past time...BASEBALL! Come join us for our July Main Meeting as we enjoy the summer and network with each other.
ALL YOU CAN EAT hot dogs, hamburgers, popcorn and soda for 75 minutes. It starts at 6:00, so take advantage of this. We have reserved a small area for JaxREIA. After you have finished eating, enjoy the baseball game or talk away! Did we mention it Thirsty Thursdays? That means $1 beers all night long!
Bring everyone you know!
Only $17 a person
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All Day Seminar with Gust Sarris
July 11, 2009
9:00 am to 5:00 pm
How to Benefit from Government Bailout Money
JaxREIA Offices
103 Century 21 Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32216

Topics Covered:
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Status of our Economy
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Bailouts – Can you benefit?
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Foreclosures
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Short Sales
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R.E.O. – How to buy for pennies on the dollar
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Obama’s Plan – Money for you
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Protecting our Wealth
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Restructuring our debt – Making the system work for you
Gust Sarris is an entrepreneur, Business Consultant, Attorney and Real Estate Investor. He has been involved in real estate all of his adult life also having a real estate, mortgage brokers, insurance, securities and title agents license. Sarris has 11 years of post high school education, having a Bachelor of Science, M.B.A. and Jurist Doctorate degrees. He is currently managing partner of Affinity Law Firm – a business concentric law practice.
$39 for Members
$69 for Non Members
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JaxREIA continues to provide you with excellent educational classes and networking.
Our weekly Quick Start Classes are at the JaxREIA Office located in the NEFBA BUILDING, 103 Century 21 Drive, off Atlantic Blvd. Please join us Tuesday, for QS 11: "'Using Technology to Save you Money and Time in Your RE Business" with Gregg Cohen. Networking begins at 6:30 pm and the class starts at 7 pm.
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Business Briefs
Real estate investment strategist will speak
JaxREIA to sponsor Andy Heller real estate workshops
National speaker Albert Aiello to address tax strategies
National Speaker, Albert Aiello
Foreclosures: Renter Rights Pose Investor Issues
RealtyTrac Inc., an online data tracker, is capitalizing on its database of foreclosure properties to give tenants advance notice of potential problems with their rental properties. The Irvine, CA-based firm just created RealtyTrac Rental Alerts, a subscription service that promises to warn tenants about pending foreclosure actions on specific properties.
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Using Social Media to Market Apartments
Social media--how people perceive your brand and what they say about it--is more important than ever before. Although social media started as simple conversations between individuals, it has evolved to conversations about companies and emerged as a significant driver of new business.
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Renters not immune to foreclosure
Jondalynne Chan thought she did everything right.
When she moved to Jacksonville from North Carolina, she researched good neighborhoods and checked out her landlord on the local court database.
But just a few months after she signed the lease in August, she was served with court papers: The mortgage company was filing a foreclosure action, saying the landlord was five months behind on payments.
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New homes being built smaller
The American dream is shrinking. For the first time in at least a decade, builders are substantially reducing the size of new houses.
"We're trending toward smaller homes," says Gopal Ahluwalia, director of research for the National Association of Home Builders. He says growth in the average size of new single-family homes, which went from 1,750 square feet in 1978 to 2,479 in 2007, is starting to reverse.
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Why home values may take decades to recover
Rick Wallick moved into a new, three-bedroom $200,000 home in Maricopa, Ariz., in October 2005. Today, the home is worth $80,000
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Little Orphan Fannie
In the past several days, before the U.S. Treasury Department acted to seize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, several people asked me if I thought it was a good idea for the government to "nationalize" the two mortgage giants.
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A Housing Blue Light Special
ABC News’s Bianna Golodryga reports: This morning's S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index, a widely watched gauge of U.S. home prices, reveals that prices continued to drop in May, erasing four years of gains. While continued declines...
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Home Slump Harder to Reverse Than Usual: Harvard
Record foreclosures and limited access to credit will make it harder than usual for the U.S. housing market to rebound from this slump, the worst at least since World War Two...
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U.S. Home Prices Fall Fastest in at Least 8 Years
U.S. home prices tumbled in April at the fastest rate since a widely-followed index was begun in 2000 with all 20 metropolitan areas posting annual declines for the first time.
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