TRINITY AREA
Vol. 10, Issue 4, April 2014
Neighborhood News & Lifestyles
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The Premier “Shop Local” Community Magazine Directly Mailed To 18,000 Homes In Trinity & Surrounding Areas This Independent Community News, Business & Dining Guide Is Directly Mailed Once Each Month To: Aristida, Champion’s Club, Chelsea Place, Country Place, Ellington Estates North, Ellington Place, Fairway Springs, Fox Hollow, Foxwood, Greenbrook Estates, Heritage Lake, Heritage Springs, Hills Of San José, Hunter’s Ridge, Hunting Creek, Longleaf, Magnolia Estates, Nature’s Hideaway, Oak Ridge, Riverbend, Riverchase, River Crossing, River Oaks, Riverside Estates, Riverside Village, Riverside Villas, Seven Springs Golf & Country Club, Southern Oaks, Spring Lake, The Sabals, Thousand Oaks, Timber Greens, Trinity, Trinity East, Trinity Oaks, Trinity West, Veterans Village, Woodbend, Woodgate, Wyndgate & Wyndtree
“Because Every Heart Matters”
Real estate broker Keith Gordon is the co-owner of Florida’s largest discount real estate brokerage firm, ADDvantage Real Estate Services. Their website is GetMoreOffers.com. Keith and his partner, Erin Knorr, started ADDvantage in 2005 with the intention of building a “customer first” discount real estate brokerage. ADDvantage has grown to over 500 listings statewide with sales over $140 million in the past 12 months alone. With 475 homes sold last year, like many industry leaders, ADDvantage Real Estate and broker, Keith Gordon, are mavericks. Keith says, “Our business has grown 400% in the last two years, supported by a highly-trained team of listing administrators and customer
support staff, social media experts and proprietary software including advanced showing and offer technology.” Their system is 100% electronic which saves customers time and the planet, trees. “Our model is rather complex and a lot of work to manage because we are maintaining many listings, dealing with hundreds of agents a week, and we are busy.” ADDvantage lists homes in almost every MLS in Florida
and sellers control 100% of the listing process. Unlike traditional agents, sellers choose how much commission to offer buyers’ agents ranging from 14%, as well as setting their own price. The uniqueness of the service is allowing the seller to control all aspects, while still giving them comprehensive marketing exposure. Sellers have an See “GetMoreOffers” on page 54
INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Win RAYS Tickets!...................3 Community News/Calendar..4-5 DDM Accounting Services..10-11 Allpro Tree & Landscaping..14-15 Wollinka, Wollinka and Doddridge....................18-19 Ichiban Sushi....................22-23 St. Francis Sleep, Allergy & Lung Institute......................27 PLACE Summer Camps.....28-29 OrthoPraxis Counseling, Inc..32-33 Ragazzi’s................................34 Crispers............................38-39 Kauffman Tire..................42-43 Trinity Jewelers....................46 Classified................................58
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Discount Real Estate Listing, Zillow’s Flawed “Zestimates” and the Flood Insurance Crisis
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Steady and strong! That is how your heartbeat should be. Where do you turn, though, when something is wrong? Chances are, your family physician already knows the best place to send you. Joyce Gruver, of Floral City, Florida, is certainly happy that her doctors knew the best place for her heart. Joyce had been feeling exhausted, was short of breath and had a cough; she knew something was wrong but never felt like it was her heart. “I just thought I was getting old,” she said, but wisely went to her family physician who sent her to Citrus Memorial Hospital for an EKG.
After viewing her results, the cardiologist referred her to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point in Hudson, which is well-known by physicians throughout Florida and beyond for its stellar programs including the nationally acclaimed Heart Institute and the Arrhythmia Center of Florida. Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point was recognized in US News and World Report as one of the “Top 50 Hospitals in the Nation” for heart and heart surgery. I met Joyce and her husband Jim, a Veteran, at Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point, where they had come for a followup visit to the Arrhythmia Center of Florida. It was here that See “Arrhythmia” on page 50.
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By Kim Thomas