Where to stay in Anguilla

If you are thinking of going to Anguilla , remember that I and The Anguilla Top Team can help you with all of your real estate needs. Visit our website for one of the most fantastic views on the island from the pool patio!  It will give you an idea of one of the beautiful and luxurious properties we have for sale and which can be yours forever.

If renting a villa for a week or two or three is your idea of heaven, you’re in luck. Imagine yourself on your private deck overlooking the turquoise water, sailboats in the distance, the scent of tropical flowers wafting along on a soft breeze! This can be you! You can live in paradise, in a beautiful semi-tropical setting and enjoy a private and luxurious life! The seclusion of your private retreat is up to you.

Anguilla creates hotels from the most pampering to the quaint and homey, as well as making available a huge variety of apartments, condominiums, inns and guest houses. All you need decide is which of these to rent!

A good place to start looking is for rental options available on Anguilla.  Just click here then click on “where to stay.” As you click on the individual accommodation websites, you will be entranced with the places offered. It is so easy to imagine yourself in this beautiful setting! You may want to stay! If so, remember that I and The Anguilla Top Team can help you realize that dream. The Anguilla Top Team can help you with all of your real estate needs and if you want the perfect villa just e-mail us for details. 

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Years ago, when one of the members of The Orlando Avenue Top Team first moved to the Orlando area, she plopped her dog in the car, went for a drive, parked in a parking lot, took her dog for a walk around the Orange County Convention Center and thought how lucky she was to live in a great place where people wanted to come and visit. Now, in 2006, The Orange County Convention Center is one of the largest convention centers in the country. 

At this point in time over a million and a half guests and attendees come to Orlando through the convention center. Many of them enjoy the quality of life Central Florida offers and buy a residence or a vacation home here. Teri Isner and The Orlando Avenue Top Team are real estate professionals with knowledge and wisdom and can help you with all of your real estate needs.

The OCCC is so large that it has 8 food courts! It has a total of 7 million square feet and well over 2 million square feet of exhibition space. Many exhibits are often going on at the same time.

The convention center is located on International Drive. It is surrounded by restaurants of every price, attractions and shops, and hotels from the budget-priced to the luxurious. Right across the street from the convention center is one of the famed Peabody Hotels. Recently it has acquired a new a front entrance and a new atrium and will undergo future expansion. 

Other new hotels are also underway for- or have made plans to- enter this area. These include a new Hilton Hotel and the new Rosen Shingle Creek Resort and Golf Club, featuring a par 72 golf course, 9 restaurants, and 1500 luxury guests rooms and scheduled to open in fall of this year. (for more information see the official site of the Orange County Convention Center)

How to travel to Anguilla in the Eastern Caribbean so you can have a really great time.

Anguilla is located in the Eastern Caribbean and, if you’re going to go there, you have to get there! Anguilla by air is one hour east of Puerto Rico and seven minutes north of Dutch St. Maarten and by public sea transportation- which means ferry – Anguilla is 20 minutes north of French St. Martin.

Anguilla Wallblake Airport is compact and looks like the stage set of a movie classic. The designation for the airport is AXA. American Airlines flies its American Eagle into Anguilla (to check the flights that American Airlines offers). Other options are the regional carriers LIAT (for flights on LIAT Airlines available here) which flies between the islands and Caribbean Star which also runs between islands. (Flights on Caribbean Star available here)

Our special poetic greeting for the 4th of July from Orlando Florida

My country, tis of thee,
Marching bands, floats,
Children waving flags,
Red, white and blue,
Banners of liberty.

Hot dogs, beaches, barbeques,
Marshmallows, watermelon,
Fun! Let freedom ring,
America.

Fireworks, red, white
And blue, passion bursting
In air, crowds, proud of our
Sweet land of liberty.

What’s new downtown Orlando Florida?

This is the start of a blog for Teri Isner and the Orlando Avenue Top Team. We are real estate professionals and we can help you with all of your real estate needs. My name is Teri Isner and I’m the Team Leader of the Orlando Avenue Top Team. This blog represents a group effort but, mostly, it’s mine!

First of all you should know that all of us at the Orlando Avenue Top Team are in synch when we say that Orlando is a great place to live. It is simply wonderful to be in an area where so many people come to have a good time. We can share this enjoyment any day and so we consider ourselves very lucky to be here. Furthermore, some of us come from another climate – I come from way up north – so we think we are especially fortunate to live where there’s wonderful weather.

The Greater Orlando Area is very big. You can drive about an hour each way and you’re still in what’s considered Orlando . Other large cities such as Houston and Las Vegas are like that too.

Orlando consists of several counties – Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Lake and Volusia. I-4 runs through Orlando and 417 loops around. Some of us at the Orlando Avenue Top Team prefer taking 417 even though it has tolls because usually traffic moves along fast.

The center of Orlando is the City of Orlando itself. I thought this blog should start right in the center, downtown, in the city. Sometimes it’s called the Metro area. Among other attractions it has tall office buildings, the historic Church Street Station, beautiful Lake Eola, The Orlando Science Center, the Orlando Art Museum and, of course, the arena where the basketball team The Orlando Magic play. The city has something for everyone and business in the city is booming.

Recently, huge investments have been made in the city. According to a related article in the Orlando Business Journal, 41 projects are either proposed for downtown or are already under construction and they have a value of over $1.5 billion.

This project calls for a 150-room Hampton Inn & Suites, a 13-story condo tower and a 15-story office tower. The proposal also calls for up to 15,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space. Construction is slated to begin this year and the project is valued at $100 million.

Mt Everest Expedition addition to Disney’s Animal Kingdomin Orlando Florida is coming soon.

As one whose idea of a fun ride is the carousel, perhaps I am not the one to tell you that the new Animal Kingdom ride, Expedition Everest, is set to open this Friday…but I will. The new ride is described as a ‘family thrill ride’ and combines some tricks and turns from favorite coasters Space Mountain and Big Thunder Railroad while adding the special Disney Imagineering magic of its own.

The Expedition Everest coaster features a runaway train spiraling, dropping 80 feet, and running backwards through the dark, all the while escaping a mythical creature guarding the mountains. Everest, tall and stately and snow-covered, looms large in the Animal Kingdom and there’s a new mountain village of Serka Zong, looking appropriately aged and weather distressed.

In a related thought…the new entrance to Walt Disney World is scheduled to open April 4th. This is a four-lane divided boulevard called the Western Way. It will let you all come through Florida’s Turnpike without having to go on I-4. This road will connect with the roads that are close to Disney’s Animal Kingdom…and the roller coaster! Have fun!

The Florida Film Festival and other great activities here in the Orlando Florida area.

Welcome to spring! We’re a few days behind on the date – spring began March 20th – but a few days ahead of daylight savings time! We get an extra hour of daylight starting April 2nd. We spring ahead. Remember to turn clocks forward the night before. We’ll have more time to enjoy our beautiful Orlando Florida spring weather!

The Florida Film Festival showcases independent and foreign films and has been an annual spring event for the past 15 years. Films, forums and special events are at three locations; The Enzian Theater in Maitland, the Regal Winter Park Village 20 in Winter Park, and the Best Western Mount Vernon Inn, also in Winter Park. I myself have never been to this event but friends tell me it is a wonderful experience for people who love film, filled with film makers, students and people like you and me who love movies. The festival runs through April 2nd and more information can be found at FloridaFilmFestival dot com. Next year I think I’ll go!

Usually I see movies at the AMC Pleasure Island 24 at Disney World. Movies all day long, comfortable seating, good popcorn! What more could a movie lover want!

Which reminds me – if you want to know what’s happening at clubs or at restaurants or with music, a good website to use to check it out is OrlandoCityBeat dot com. They are always up to date and feature lots of pictures and downloads. Enjoy the start of spring!

Sharing some of the many ideas from Keller Williams Family Reunion

What has been happening in the 2005 Orlando real estate market.

I want to let you know that 2005 was a really terrific year for real estate investments around the Orlando area. Realtors sold 29,995 existing homes – that’s just under 30,000 houses – and, with that number, 2005 became the 13th consecutive year there was an increase in existing houses sold.

Here’s another number: there was 8.4 billion dollars in home sales in this area in 2005! And another number: there was a 15% increase in annual sales from two years ago to this.

From the wisdom and knowledge I’ve gathered in this business over the years, the Florida housing market seems extremely healthy. I’m thankful to tell you! And why not? Every week statistics show us that 1,275 people are moving into the Orlando area. This figure is projected to continue for the next ten years, so now is a great time to be part of the real estate market.

Interest rates look like they’ll stabilize at around 7%. Home prices are more stable, too. In 2004, there was a shortage of homes which produced a ‘buying frenzy’ and raised up prices of homes. Now, though, more houses are being built and there’s been an increase in existing homes for sale. This increase in inventory is serving to stabilize prices.

The Orlando area is really coming into its own and I’m glad that I’m a part of it!

More later,
Teri

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