• December 01, 2016

• Location: The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art
• Address: 445 North Park Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789
• Time: 6:15 p.m.– 8 p.m.
• Admission: Free
• Phone: 407-645-5311
• Event Website

Description: Kick off the holiday season in Winter Park at the Morse Museum as it lights up the Tiffany windows in Central Park and presents the Bach Festival Choir and Brass Ensemble in concert. This December is the 38^th annual celebration of Christmas in the Park, an event started by Hugh and Jeannette McKean, the Morse Museum’s benefactors, in 1979 as a way to share a part of their rare Tiffany collection with the public in an informal setting.

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You may have pondered the thought of becoming a landlord at some point in your life but you have no idea what all it might entail.  Below are a list of things to think about before becoming a landlord that will get you started in the right direction.

1. First of all, you need to think about your finances. Are you financially stable enough to become a landlord?  Are you able to take the big financial risk that being a landlord requires?  All of the financial questions should come in to play first because if you don’t have the money to be a landlord you don’t want to get involved with it in the first place.
2. Another question or thing you might want to think about before becoming a landlord is what kind of property you would like to own. Make sure you know what your goal is when thinking about owning real estate and becoming a landlord before you get into it and you will likely find that you enjoy the position.  If you don’t do your part to think about such things you may find you have bitten off more than you can chew and you may end up with too big of a property to manage.
3. Yet another thing to think about before becoming a landlord is tenants and how to find out which ones you want and which ones you don’t.  You need to have a thorough screening process in mind and use it to the best of your ability.  You don’t want to have tenants that become a headache right from the start.  You can hire a tenant screening company to take care of these types of matters for you if you feel you cannot adequately do it yourself.  Make sure that you get any potential tenants to sign a lease and sign all the appropriate paperwork to cover yourself in case you ever need to start the eviction process.
4. You need to find out what all is required of you to be a landlord and all the responsibilities that are associated with it before you even consider becoming a landlord. Landlords have a lot to deal with such as repairs and dealing with tenants.  If you go into it with your eyes closed you may find that you have gotten into something you don’t really like that much.

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Some Highlights:

• The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently released their latest Existing Home Sales Report.
• First-time homebuyers made up 33% of all sales in October.
• Homes are selling quickly with 43% of homes on the market for less than a month.
• A limited supply continues to drive up prices for the 56^th consecutive month.

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You deserve professional real estate service! You obtain the best results with Teri Isner plus you benefit from her marketing skills, experience and ability to network with other REALTORS®. Your job gets done pleasantly and efficiently.  You are able to make important decisions easily with fast, accurate information from Teri. The Orlando Avenue Top Team handles the details and follow-up that are important to the success of your transaction.

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by The KCM Crew

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You deserve professional real estate service! You obtain the best results with Teri Isner plus you benefit from her marketing skills, experience and ability to network with other REALTORS®. Your job gets done pleasantly and efficiently.  You are able to make important decisions easily with fast, accurate information from Teri. The Orlando Avenue Top Team handles the details and follow-up that are important to the success of your transaction.

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When: Starts Nov. 25. Sundays, 2 p.m. and Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m. & 12 p.m. Continues through Jan. 8, 2017

Price: $12-$18

Location: 1151 Tower Boulevard
Lake Wales, Florida 33853-3470

Celebrate the holiday season with festive events at Bok Tower Gardens, including the Holiday Home Tour at Pinewood Estate, special carillon concerts, winter garden tours, poinsettia displays, and much more!

Volunteer garden guides lead visitors on an hour-long winter walking tour, sharing information about the winter flora and fauna.

See links below for information about the Winter Walking Tour and other holiday events happening at Bok Tower Gardens.

Bok Tower Gardens

Winter Walking Tour

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You deserve professional real estate service! You obtain the best results with Teri Isner plus you benefit from her marketing skills, experience and ability to network with other REALTORS®. Your job gets done pleasantly and efficiently.  You are able to make important decisions easily with fast, accurate information from Teri. The Orlando Avenue Top Team handles the details and follow-up that are important to the success of your transaction.

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Although buying a new home may be a happy time in your life, if you do not do your due diligence in a few areas of home buying you may find yourself a bit frightened by the outcome.  Below is a list of a few frightening home buying regrets you should try to avoid at all costs.

1. One of the number one regrets of folks who are in the market for a new home is putting off house hunting until the last minute.  If your family has already gotten too big for your current house you may cause yourself undue stress by not starting your new home search as quickly as possible.  Also if you have already sold your home but you still haven’t quite found the home of your dreams you may be in for a bit of stress trying to move out quickly at the last minute.
2. Another frightening home buying regret to avoid is not paying attention to the schools that border your new home. Even if you don’t have children yet you need to pay attention to the school systems in your new area before you purchase.   You may not think you are going to live in the new home long enough for it to affect your future children but you just never know where life may take you and you don’t want to end up sending your children to a less than stellar school system.
3. Buying too much of a house for your budget is another big issue that can become very frightening to you and your loved ones. The first month in a new home is typically pretty peaceful but once the mortgage bill comes around and its more than you can handle, it isn’t so pretty anymore.  Figure out your budget before you go house hunting and do your best not to go beyond that budget and you should be fine.
4. If there are things in the house you plan to buy that you do not like the looks of, do not figure you will just fix them once you move in, make a few demands of the seller and see what you can get before you have to throw a ton of money on top of the purchase price to make repairs. You don’t know what the seller might be willing to do unless you ask.

Now that you have a few ideas on home buying regrets to avoid, you will be able to make the best and right decision on buying a home for your family.

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You deserve professional real estate service! You obtain the best results with Teri Isner plus you benefit from her marketing skills, experience and ability to network with other REALTORS®. Your job gets done pleasantly and efficiently.  You are able to make important decisions easily with fast, accurate information from Teri. The Orlando Avenue Top Team handles the details and follow-up that are important to the success of your transaction.

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Some Highlights:

• The National Association of REALTORS® surveyed their members for the release of their Confidence Index.
• The REALTORS® Confidence Index is a key indicator of housing market strength based on a monthly survey sent to over 50,000 real estate practitioners. Practitioners are asked about their expectations for home sales, prices and market conditions.
• Homes sold in 60 days or less in 42 out of 50 states, and Washington D.C.
• Homes sold in 30 days or less in 17 states.

by The KCM Crew

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November 18, 2016 – January 01, 2017

• Location: Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
• Address: 6000 West Osceola Parkway, Kissimmee, FL 34746
• Time: Hours Vary
• Admission: Adult Online Advance Purchase: $28.99, Child Online Advance Purchase: $14.99; Senior Online Advance Purchase: $26.99, Adult: $29.99; Child: 16.99, Senior: $28.99
• Phone: 407-586-4423
• Event Website
• Buy Tickets

Description: Explore ICE at Gaylord Palms annual ice attraction. This year watch Charlie Brown discover the meaning of Christmas through the interactive hand-carved ice sculptures and displays. Stare in wonder at the award-winning attraction carved by a team of 40 skilled artisans using 2 million pounds of ice.

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The bathroom is one place that you need to be able to get away to and feel relaxed.  If your bathroom is unorganized you may feel anything but relaxed upon entering it.  Below are a few tips and ideas for organizing your bathroom so that it might be a room in which you enjoy visiting as well as being a room in which everything is easy to find.

1. One way to organize your bathroom in your home is to take everything out of the cabinets and drawers and start from scratch. If you are like most folks, you have a lot of products that get half used and then shoved back into a drawer or a cabinet in the chance that you might use it again someday.  Most of the time however someday never comes and you end up with more and more junk cluttering your bathroom making it a very unorganized space.  Once you get everything out of the cabinets, go through it all and throw out anything you haven’t used in the last week.  Then replace the items you do use into the cabinets and drawers in an organized fashion.
2. Another way to organize your bathroom is make more storage by using such things as baskets and drawer organizers. An easy drawer organizer to use for your toothpaste and brushes is the same thing you use for your kitchen utensils.  You will be surprised at how easy it is to get little things organized by just using this one simple tool.
3. You can always organize your bathroom by simply changing all of the towels to one color.  This doesn’t really organize but it does make your bathroom feel more “zen” so to speak.  All white is a great color for towels and wash cloths because it can make your bathroom feel more like a spa and in turn make it become a more relaxing room to spend time in.
4. Organizing your shower is another way to get things situated in your bathroom as well.  A good way to do this is by buying a shower caddy that hangs from the side of the shower wall.  Be sure to get one that is large enough to hold all of your shampoos and soaps etc, without being in your way while you are getting a shower.

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Teri Isner is the team leader of Orlando Avenue Top Team and has been a Realtor for over 24 years. Teri has distinguished herself as a leader in the Orlando FL real estate market. Teri assists buyers looking for Orlando FL real estate for sale and aggressively markets Orlando FL homes for sale.

You deserve professional real estate service! You obtain the best results with Teri Isner plus you benefit from her marketing skills, experience and ability to network with other REALTORS®. Your job gets done pleasantly and efficiently.  You are able to make important decisions easily with fast, accurate information from Teri. The Orlando Avenue Top Team handles the details and follow-up that are important to the success of your transaction.

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Access Teri’s one-stop Orlando FL home search website.

Teri Isner is the team leader of Orlando Avenue Top Team and has been a Realtor for over 24 years. Teri has distinguished herself as a leader in the Orlando FL real estate market. Teri assists buyers looking for Orlando FL real estate for sale and aggressively markets Orlando FL homes for sale.

You deserve professional real estate service! You obtain the best results with Teri Isner plus you benefit from her marketing skills, experience and ability to network with other REALTORS®. Your job gets done pleasantly and efficiently.  You are able to make important decisions easily with fast, accurate information from Teri. The Orlando Avenue Top Team handles the details and follow-up that are important to the success of your transaction.

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