The story behind the Pink Flamingos

 

The pink plastic flamingo, planted into the ground by two metal legs, is meeting its demise. The Massachusetts manufacturer that produces the flamboyant product is closing its doors on November 1st.

If you want to buy a bird go to ebay. The retro plastic bird no longer shows up in flocks but in Celebration, Florida, a pink flamingo in the garden stands as a symbol of a person in need of prayer. As such a memorial, the pink plastic flamingo lives.

Orlando Florida | Visit the 2006 Orlando Street of Dreams

This year the 2006 Street of Dreams is being held at Bella Collina, a private lakefront golf and equestrian community developed by Ginn Clubs and Resorts in Monteverde in Lake County.

Eight homes are being built for this project ranging in size from 10,815 square feet to 19,288 square feet. Prices go up to $6.7 million.

These homes are all palatial in style and include such amenities as: a built-in television in the shower, a 2-story wine room, a home theater with retractable walls, and a 2-story dining room.

All of the homes on the Street of Dreams are being built on lots facing Lake Sienna. Some of the homes have already been sold. Some are still for sale. All homes come furnished and accessorized.

Street of Dreams homes are available for your viewing pleasure Wednesdays through Sundays, October 14-November 26th, except for Thanksgiving day. Prices range from $11 to $15.

Date(s): 10/14/2006, 10/15/2006, 10/18/2006, 10/19/2006, 10/20/2006, 10/21/2006, 10/22/2006, 10/25/2006, 10/26/2006, 10/27/2006, 10/28/2006, 10/29/2006, 11/1/2006, 11/2/2006, 11/3/2006, 11/4/2006, 11/5/2006, 11/8/2006, 11/9/2006, 11/10/2006, 11/11/2006, 11/12/2006, 11/15/2006, 11/16/2006, 11/17/2006, 11/18/2006, 11/19/2006, 11/22/2006, 11/23/2006, 11/24/2006, 11/25/2006, 11/26/2006
Time: Wednesdays – Sundays, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

If this is the lifestyle you have been waiting for call Teri Isner today for information on luxury properties for sale in Florida and the Caribbean.

Home for sale at 804 Hacienda new never lived in and waiting for a new family!

This is a 4-bedroom , 2-bath single family house that’s 1955 square feet, located in a small, gated community off John Young Parkway, convenient to shopping and highways. This home backs up to a community lake.

Town Homes Near Millenia Mall photos and floor plans available

Millenium Parc is located between Millenia Blvd. and John Young Parkway, convenient to I-4 and close by both the City and the attractions.

Millenium Park offers three town home plans ranging in size from 1573 square feet to 1857 square feet and from $288,490 to $320,490. Each plan is both upstairs and downstairs living. Each home comes with a one-car garage and both a patio and a balcony.

These Centex homes are in a wonderful location – close by the beautiful Millenia Mall with its upscale stores, designer boutiques, and delicious restaurants.

Amenities include tile flooring in kitchen, baths and hall, Silestone level 1 natural quartz countertops and community pool. Millenium Parc is a community for full-time and vacation-time owners.

For more information on Millenium Parc and other communities, call Teri Isner, 407-467-5155, Team Leader of The Orlando Avenue Top Team, real estate agents specializing in the Orlando area. 

Halloween Activities celebrated in Celebration Florida

Streams of cars parade along the streets to see the decorative attractions. On Halloween itself the town is jammed with residents and tourists alike trick or treating, often in elaborate costumes. Halloween goes on well into the night and residents provide trick or treaters with lots of candy!

Downtown Disney Vault 28 opening in Anaheim

Walt Disney’s Vault 28 to Sell High End Disney Apparel October 11th, is the opening of Vault 28, a high-end apparel store from the Walt Disney Co.

Unfortunately for those of us near Downtown Disney, Orlando the opening is in Downtown Disney, Anaheim…but… The Vault 28 name refers to the year of Mickey’s cartoon debut in Steamboat Willie, 1928. Tee-shirts are expected to be trendy in style and reflect clasic, rather than movie, characters.

The store will carry two new Disney brands, Kingdom Couture and DV28, as well as merchandise from hip designers. For more on the store Vault 28.

Traffic Website Brings Lots of Information

One of us on The Orlando Avenue Top Team was tooling around the website of the Orlando Sentinel and noticed a headline saying that traffic was tied up on I-4.

The team member clicked on the headline, expecting to find an article giving reason or reasons for the tie-up. Instead, she was led to an interesting website. The Orlando Avenue Top Team, real estate agents specializing in the Orlando area, shares this now with you. Click here and put in your zipcode. What comes up is a list of popular local routes. Click on one of them and you get an update on traffic delays. You also get the weather.

On the particular day of the website find, the weather was 70 degrees with isolated thunderstorms expected. Nothing unusual for this time of year. Valuable links on this website include all kinds of transportation information – There are updates on construction on the Turnpike, links to LYNX, Orlando International, SunPass and Amtrak to name a few. For information on real estate call Teri Isner, Team Leader of the Orlando Avenue Top Team, 407-467-5155.   If you are looking for a less congested place to live this travel site will help.  If it is real estate you need to find we can take you places!

Books on Architecture and design for homes in the Caribbean

The Anguilla Top Team can offer you lots on Anguilla. Some have ocean views, some are on the golf course. These lots are of different sizes and on different parts of beautiful Anguilla.

If you are dreaming of building a home on Anguilla, here is a webpage of reading recommended by a woman named Mary Ann who did just that. The site is very helpful and will be a good resource. Book after book on architecture, design, tropical landscaping and living in the Caribbean is named and with a synopsis of and a bit on usefulness given on each.

Southwest Airlines is #1 at OIA

Southwest Airlines has grown from 12 flights a day to 7 cities in 1996 to become the largest individual carrier at Orlando International Airport ten years later. Southwest (NYSE: LUV) now has 93 nonstop flights daily to nearly 30 cities as well as direct or connecting flights to 26 more cities. Of the 31,000 people employed by Southwest, 1600 of them are based in Orlando including 718 flight attendants and 471 pilots. Orlando is Southwest’s busiest airport in Florida and its ninth busiest overall. The busiest airport for Southwest  in terms of flights is Las Vegas.

The Orlando Business Journal ranks airlines by the number of passengers getting on or off a carrier’s plane in 2005. At OIA, Delta Airlines came in second and American Airlines was ranked third. The top 25 carriers can be found in this article. 

 

Many new home communities, including the neighborhoods of Lake Nona, have as their focus the proximity to OIA. Check out the website of the real estate specialists at The Orlando Avenue Top Team, for an overview and/or speak to Team Leader Teri Isner at 407-467-5155.

If you are interested in joining Keller Williams here is a special invitation from Teri Isner

SPECIAL INVITATION:  Please let them know Teri Isner invited you from her blog!!  We are tracking our successes and if you intend to go let me know there will be something special there for you, but I must have your name in advance!

Keller Williams Realty At-The-Lakes In Kissimmee/St. Cloud cordially invites
you to a brief career event that can change your Real Estate career.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2006
QUALITY INN – 2050 US 192 KISSIMMEE
(see Directions below)
9:30 – 10:30 (Light Breakfast) (or)
3:00 – 4:00 (Coffee, Soft Drinks, Snacks)

Among the Special Topics:

PROFIT-SHARING /RESIDUAL INCOME-FOR-LIFE :

If you walk away right now from what you are doing, what would you have to
show for it for the rest of your life? Our Agents are Partners with us as
Owners and can build an equity interest in our company and share in the
monthly profits of the Owners (over-and-above commissions) under a
profit-sharing plan which started in 1987. Over $125,000 has been
distributed to Agents in our office so far this year.

COMMISSION SPLITS TO 100%:

Agents work to a true 100% Commission annually with no Desk Fees and no
Agent Transaction Fees.

TRAINING & SUPPORT:

A state-of-the-art free training program for new and experienced Agents,
including Mentoring. (A Calendar of local training provided at the meeting).

SECURITY FOR YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES.

Imagine a Real Estate career offering you the potential to Vest-For-Life
after three years and have a life-time of on-going earnings (passive,
residual income) to show for your years of hard work! Add a
non-competing Broker; a fair system of referrals; voluntary "floor time"
for leads; commissions paid at the closing table, a powerful WebSite for
you individually linked to our national www.kw.com website, and more.
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TAKE AN HOUR TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE. Please join us on Thursday Oct. 26th.
If you would like to attend, please hit REPLY or simply show up and invite
a fellow Associate. If you wish more information, feel free to contact our
Team Leader Louis De Jesus at 407-962-4242 x 120.

DIRECTIONS: From downtown Kissimmee, go South on Hwy 192 (2050 E. Irlo
Bronson Hwy). The Quality Inn is on the right across from Denny’s and The
Waffle House south of Boggy Creek Road and just before Simpson Road. If
lost, call the hotel at 407-846-4545. THANK YOU!