Everybody Reads This

First Things First…

From of us at ECHO Fine Properties…. We wish you and your family a wonderful and safe Labor Day Weekend. For you NY Mets fans, I’m happy as the rare South Florida White Sox fan, to give you my 31-105 Stinky Sox to play this weekend. My Smelly Sox look like they will beat your modern era worst team ever 1962 Mets for the worst team of all-time. If you can’t beat the Stinky Sox, then you shouldn’t be in the playoffs. Now on to Jeff’s Journal…

The drive to Lake Wales is about an hour and half from my home. Our daughter, Jade, spent three weeks during the summer at Circle F Dude Ranch for five consecutive years. Jade loved receiving care packages, and I showed I cared by sending them to her so she wouldn’t get bored.

Each week, I’d run over to Barnes and Noble and pick out some goodies. Archie comics, board games, and once a group card game that looked like great fun.

Well, the fun ended for me when the camp called and said they had to take away the card game. I asked why, and they said that “Never Have I Ever”, was for adults. I had no idea what I sent and was horrified imagining 10 girls sitting around the cabin playing that game. Dad caused quite the ruckus! Better stick to board games like Operation, Sorry or Candyland.

Board games are fun for both kids and adults. They are visual and people just don’t get bored right away. So, we decided to do our version of a Real Estate Candyland board….

See Real Estate Candy Land

When we came out with our Buyers Guide, called “Nobody Reads This.”, which is 151 separate items within 18 chapters and 9,215 words. I had some concern that nobody might read it, hence the title. However, it’s essential reading when you want to purchase a home. To make life easier though, we came up with a separate companion Buyers Guide which we named (you guessed it), “Everybody Reads This.”

“Everybody Reads This”, goes over essential costs to purchase a home that one needs to be aware of, key statistical trends, vital website links and a Candy Land flow chart. The Candy Land flow chart goes over all 18 chapters of Nobody Reads this and presents the buying process from start to finish. Since Hasbro says Candy Land is for ages 3 and up, I don’t think any of our adult purchasers will have any problems getting through it. There are sharks, turtles, Shrinks, dogs, crabs, golfers, Benjamin Franklin, school buses flamingos, dolphins and more and all sorts of fun easter eggs and phrases.

So, it’s now your turn to take the spin on our board game. I promise you won’t be bored!

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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 80 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.

Author of business & leadership book How Making a Sandwich Can Change Your World – The Amazing Success of the PB&J Strategy – Available to Buy Now!

Feel free to ask him a question directly at [email protected] including a complementary valuation of your home.

Posted in Open House Blog, Real Estate Tips on August 30, 2024 at 9:36 am.

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