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I may die this weekend. As a matter of fact, this Jeff’s Journal might be a posthumous Jeff’s Journal. Possibly even a collector’s edition. However, don’t get too excited as a column giving my 2 cents is probably only worth 2 cents!
See, I’m in Chicago this weekend. Being a good friend to my childhood friend, Jonny S, I accepted an invite to young Ava’s Bat Mitzvah. I’m from Chicago and have come back several times to visit old friends and catch a White Sox game, but never in January. When I checked the weather, it says -5 degrees with -23 degrees windchill 🥶. I already got Chicago Bulls tickets and the thought of waiting for an Uber after the game scares my earlobes and nose hairs to death. Let alone all the frozen slushy ice on the sidewalk from the blizzard 🥶 the day before! Gloves, galoshes, full face masks, and long underwear are not in my arsenal anymore.
Dressing and surviving this dreadful weather was top of mind this week when I was interviewed by the Palm Beach Post The reporter wanted to know when Palm Beach County really picked up steam as a destination. Was it boiling frog growth or one big turning point event?
See Population graphs 📈 here
5 things came to mind during my 24 years living here and 30 in total visiting. My folks became snowbirds in 1994.
I read recently that Buffalo was the hottest market in the United States this summer because of affordability.
Are they nuts?!?
Unless one enjoys ice fishing, exercise for your arms using ice scraper on the car windshield, let alone high tax rates, Buffalo and Chicago are not long term hot destinations. Summer migration might have been true in Buffalo, but it will freeze up like Niagara Falls after one taste of this winter. If you live to tell about it!
To get out of the bad weather consider searching for a home enjoying the Florida weather…….
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Jeff Lichtenstein, originally from Chicago, got his start in the home furnishings textile business where he traveled over 35 weeks a year selling fabrics. After the family business was sold, Jeff moved to Florida and became a real estate agent. Today he is the owner and broker of Echo Fine Properties, a luxury residential brokerage voted best brokerage of the year. Jeff manages a non-traditional model of real estate that mimics a traditional business model. Echo has 100 agents, an average of one million dollars per transaction and over 500 million in annual sales. Between traveling for work and annual family trips to national parks with his wife and 2 now adult children, Jeff has visited 49 states. He is also one of the few Chicago White Sox fans you’ll ever meet. Some publications he has been quoted in.
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Echo Fine Properties, winner of Best Brokerage of the Palm Beaches in 2020, 2021 and 2022, is located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. We are a family-owned local brokerage that prides itself on having the finest full time luxury real estate agents who know the area backward and forward. Each agent is hand selected to join us for their knowledge of the area including golf club communities, gated communities, equestrian and ranch estates, condominiums, and waterfront and boating estates. Echo is unique in real estate in that our company pays for all marketing, advertising, and all support which is handled in-house. WE PAY, which lets the agent concentrate on our customers. Unlike other firms, agents never have to compromise the marketing budget. Our Home ECHOnomics Guarantee offers an unheard of 57-promises. This website consists of 5 separate MLS feeds, giving 100% accuracy ranging from Miami to Fort Lauderdale to Palm Beach to Martin County.
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