For those of you that use the portion of Lake Underhill between Waterford Chase and Alafaya Trail, you may want to consider an alternative route to and from work this week.

Repaving begins today, Monday November 23rd, so I suspect traffic along this cut-thru used by many from Avalon Park and areas off of East Colonial may be even a bigger nightmare than usual.

CYPRESS SPRINGS COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE!

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21^ST, 2009
8:00am – 3:00pm

Cypress Springs is located on the Northeast corner of Dean Road & Curry Ford Road.

 Food lovers… this Saturday, head on over to Waterford Lakes Town Center for Taste of Orlando! Advanced tickets are available until Friday at the Simon Mangagement office for $10 ($12 day of event). The first 100 people to buy advanced tickets will receive a FREE slice of pizza from Pizzaria Validano.

This just in from the Associated Press:

Monday, November 16, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla.  —  The Army Corps of Engineers will be returning to an Orlando middle school to search for World War II explosives that might be buried there.

The federal agency will inspect part of the Odyssey Middle School campus where 15 portable classrooms are being removed because of declining enrollment. Corps officials hadn’t been able to search that area with metal detectors and other bomb finding technology before.

More than 400 pounds of World War II-era bombs and munitions were unearthed from the grounds around the middle school over the winter holidays last year. Part of the school grounds had been used by the Army in the 1940s to train bombardiers for combat.

Munitions have also been found in backyards and construction sites.

The new search is scheduled to begin in December.

Robb & Stucky is located in Orlando, across from the Mall at Millenia.
Phone:  407-682-3700 ext. 250
Email:  orlandomillenia@robbstucky.net

Bring a blanket or lawn chairs and head over to Avalon Park’s Town Square to see Monsters vs. Aliens this Friday, November 13th at 6:00 pm.

News from SliderZ Adventure Center:  SliderZ is going Turkey!

During the month of November, we will be having a raffle for a FREE turkey to be given away November 20th.  In order to enter the raffle, simply attend an Open Play session from now until November 19th.  Each time you bring your child to SliderZ for one of our Open Play sessions (Tuesday & Thursday – 10am-12pm; Wednesday – 3-5pm & 6-8pm) you will automatically be entered into our raffle, where someone will win a 20lb turkey!  The more you come to an Open Play, the more chances you have of winning!!  Bring the kids, have fun, and win a turkey!!

The winner will be notified via phone or e-mail on Friday, November 20, 2009.

Calling all Veterans! Have your car washed for free at Bill’s Car Wash this Wednesday. Bill’s is located in East Orlando just east of the Alafaya Library on East Colonial.

Good news for Orlando homebuyers! The tax credit of $8000 has been extended to 1st time homebuyers until April 30th. 

A $6500 credit to current homeowners who are looking to buy and have lived in their residence for 5 consecutive years.

Click on the link below to see how the tax credit affects you:
Tax Credit Details (for written contracts by April 30th 2010)

The graph above shows the sales price of 32828 single family homes by square footage from this year’s 3rd quarter sales period compared to the same period last year. Home values have dropped about 20%. We are still in a buyer’s market and will be for the remainder of 2009.

For a free Comparative Market Analysis of your Waterford Lakes/Avalon Park area home by email, please send your request to:

FREE CMA

Dawn Pratt, REALTOR®
Keller Williams Advantage II Realty