New Port Richey, Florida Real Estate Blog: May 2010

PFC Ehren Murburg's Family needs your Help this Memorial Day Weekend

I am asking everyone who reads this to re-blog, copy/paste or contact their local representative to put pressure on the U.S. Army.  This is a local hot topic that needs to go National & viral so it never happens again.

When sons & daughters, brothers & sisters, enter the military, everybody knows it is a possibility that they will pay the ultimate price in service of their country.  When it happens the family deserves to know how it happened.  Sometimes when a soldier dies in theater it is not possible to determine exactly what happened.  But PFC Ehren Murburg died during training to become a Green Beret at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.

MyFox13 in Tampa has been putting pressure on the military doing an investigative piece.  

The military had the audacity to attribute his death to a snake bite during a training exercise.  Tragic, but accidents happen right?  However there is a lack of photographic evidence of the snakebite on his hand. SOP for an autopsy, right?  But there are actually pictures of the snake, and pics of its death. WTF? SERIOUSLY?

a snake bite would not have disabled PFC Ehren Murburg so quickly that he could not activate his Emergency GPS distress beacon.   There are many unanswered questions.

After this was brought to light, the cause of death was CHANGED to UNDETERMINED! Seriously?

His families US Representative Congressman C.W. Bill Young is pushing hard, but could use some help getting to the truth

Was this a Tragic Accident? Was it a cover up?  Was it CYA for failures higher up the chain?  Presently nobody knows, but from currently available reports, the original and now edited death record does not pass the smell test.  The family of a patriot deserves better.  They deserve the truth.

Please rally support for this cause in the spirit of this Memorial Day Weekend.

PFC Ehren Murburg's Family needs your Help this Memorial Day Weekend

 

There is a new sheriff in town, and he is using Absorption Rate Pricing

 

Did you know that the National Association of Realtors found that ~80% of home buyers begin their home search online.  Well as a result of that I have leveraged my online exposure alot.  Obviously I have a Blog, which you are currently reading.

 

 

And than there is this little known website callled Point2Agent or the consumer face of it Point2Homes.  Now it is not so much the site I like, but what it does.  It is called syndication & virtual tours.  For just $20/month  every listing I add to this site gets syndicated to many other sites.  How many other sites you may ask?

on top of all that added exposure they automatically generate a virtual tour, both branded and unbranded that I can use here, on my websites, in the MLS.....

Great little site for only $20/month.  Some agents are wasting $50 per virtual tour.  So here it is

 

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West Pasco Board of Realtors annual School Drive begins May 19th @ 11:45

Our Affiliate Committee, in conjunction with Big Brothers Big Sisters, is starting their annual School Drive.  Listed below are the items students need. If you would like to donate any of these items, please bring them with you to our General Membership Luncheon on Wednesday, May 19^th at 11:45am. There are drop off boxes in the back hall. The drive will continue throughout the Summer.

Pasco County

 School Supply Wish List

 

STUDENT NEEDS

 

• Backpacks – Girls, Boys, Teens -(no Trapper Keepers or wheeled backpacks, please)
• Loose leaf wide ruled notebook paper
• Loose leaf college ruled notebook paper
• 1-Subject spiral notebooks (wide ruled & College Ruled)
• Two-pocket folders with clasps
• 5” blunt Fiskars scissors
• No. 2 yellow pencils (made in USA)
• Crayons, Markers, Colored Pencils
• Expo Dry Erase markers (not fine tip)
• Plastic pencil box
• One Mesh/Nylon zipper pencil pouch
• Glue sticks
• Yellow highlighters
• 12 inch shatter-resistant plastic ruler standard/metric

 On the wish lists of local schools:

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  • Boxes of tissues
  • Sandwich-sized and gallon-sized Ziploc bags
  • Baby wipes
  • Waterless hand sanitizer
  • Brown and/or while paper lunch bags
  • Paper towel rolls
  • 6” and 9” paper plates
  • Headphones with adapters
  • Post it Notes (approx. 1 3/8 x 1 7/8 in. in size)

 *wish list items go directly to the teacher to use in their classrooms as needed.

TJ Maxx comes to Gulfview Square Mall in Port Richey, Florida

It is scheduled to Open May 20th 2010.

It is located in the front of the Mall adjacent to Best Buy, in the location formerly occupied by Bed, Bath & Beyond.

It is good to see a major retailer opening up, instead of closing down, these days.  And I wish them luck.  And I will probably be in there opening weekend

Don't run this Red Light at the Wal-Mart in Port Richey

while there is no real reason to run a red they now have made the intersection of Ridge & US-19 the last place to run a red light in Port Richey.

 

While the State of Florida is in the midst of passing legislation regarding camera enforcement, it looks like Port Richey has jumped the gun