Marilyn Farber Jacobs, Realtor, ePRO - Keller Williams Realty 561-988-0070   email: MarilynFJacobs@gmail.com COMMITMENT • KNOWLEDGABLE • HONESTY INTEGRITY • SKILLED NEGOTIATOR SERVICE EVEN AFTER THE CLOSING selling one house, town home or condo at a time... YARD BY YARD SCROLL DOWN TO BOTTOM FOR POLO DUES AND FEES SCHEDULE note that Marilyn can send you a list of dues and fees from any equity club Call 561-302-3388 or email marilynfjacobs@gmail.com   USTA Florida February 2010 Tennis Notes  BOCA RATON -- The Polo Club is this year's recipient of the Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) 2010 Private Facility of the Year Award. The awards committee judged the club as extraordinary in tennis operations, tennis programming, club amenities, charitable endeavors and support of PTR and the tennis industry. The club has been the past residence of tennis greats Steffi Graf and Chris Evert, and has been host to tennis events such as the Andy Roddick Charity Event, Virginia Slims tour events, pro-celebrity events and ITF-level pro tournaments. Led by Tennis Director Jean Mills, The Polo Club has also been host to the USTA National Girls' 12 Championship for the past 21 years. The national award will be presented at the PTR Awards Banquet on Feb. 14, 2010, at the Crowne Plaza on Hilton Head Island.  http://www.usatennisflorida.usta.com/sitecore/content/Florida/Global/News/News/2010_01/Notes.aspx Watch Video of: both Polo Club golf courses HOT LISTINGS Best Buys... POLO CLUB and OTHER BEST BUYS THIS IS THE BEST TIME EVER TO PURCHASE A PROPERTY IN FLORIDA ! POLO CLUB'S BEST VALUE: WINDSOR PARKE SPACIOUS AND OPEN END UNIT: "Great Bones" with private screened patio 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths, 1800 living sq ft with volume ceilings... spacious, spacious, spacious... Walk down pretty landscaped path with side yard enter into large open, light and bright great room with volume ceilings and see thru screened patio to lush tall palms trees providing privacy and tranquility... don't we all want that?   formal Dining Area off Great Room and Master Bedroom with French Doors to Patio   eat-in-kitchen with pass thru window to Patio and Den/Bedroom/Office with clerestory windows French Doors and closet    Comfortable and Casual Resort Setting Sit on your patio protected for privacy with tall tall palms watch the flowers grow and listen to the calls of the birds Walk a block to the clubhouse, take a swim, enjoy lunch, attend the book club, lectures, star studded shows At an "easy price," you have a perfect lifestyle in a gorgeous, manicured setting Come take a look... Marilyn will be happy to show this lovely home to you (561-302-3388) $275,000 HOA: $1295/quarter POLO CLUB IS AN EQUITY CLUB requiring membership and other fees at closing, and annual dues .... scroll down to bottom of page for fees and dues DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE LOOKING FOR A GREAT GETAWAY IN A TOPNOTCH FULL-SERVICE BUILDING ON LAKE BOCA? PERHAPS YOU... OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW... IS LOOKING FOR A PERMANENT WINTER PROPERTY This Boca Inlet condo features a beautiful Lake Boca view as you relax on your patio chaise... Entertain friends in your 20'x16' great room, Put an office/exercise area/sitting area in your 17'x12' bedroom.  Landscaped views.  Washer and dryer in master bedroom closet.  Several large closets. Master bath has tub/shower combo. Many building amenities Kitchen has wall of pantry closets and exterior door to hallway to easily bring groceries in. GREAT LIFESTYLE for moderate cost.  Call Marilyn at 561-302-3388 for showing $255,000   MORE DETAILS WHITEHALL CONDO IN BOCA NOW UNDER CONTRACT WITH MARILYN'S CLIENTS FABULOUS DIRECT OCEAN VIEW CHARMING and COMFORTABLE VACATION RENTAL OF POLO CLUB POOL HOME ...INCLUDES GOLF! AVAILABLE 6 - 12 MONTHS 6 MONTH MINIMUM FOR RENTAL PERIOD 2 bedrooms + den/3rd bedroom +pool 2-car garage and driveway holds 4 cars PORTOFINO 1-story house          $5500/month Do your friends a favor: Let them know this is a great way to experience the POLO LIFESTYLE! JUST SOLD: Stunning builder's model in non-equity GATED GOLFING COMMUNITY POLO TRACE IN DELRAY BEACH Former Builder's Model - Like New POOL with PRIVACY, tropical plantings    HIGHEST PRICE SALE IN LAST 4 YEARS OF A 1-STORY POLO TRACE HOME  WITH PRIVATE VIEW   Clubhouse has section only for residents and pro shop & restaurant for the public Golf course is public with league play if desired GOLF DIGEST rated POLO TRACE course design a "10 OUT OF 10"! SUN-SENTINEL rated 9th Hole among the "18 Best Holes in So Florida! JUST SOLD: 2/2 Boca condo with GORGEOUS LAKEFRONT VIEW and PRIVATE ENTRANCE in WINDWOOD CANYON SPRINGS NEW HOME SOLD TO BUYERS ON FIRST DAY OUT LOOKING LAKERIDGE GREENS Boynton Beach House SOLD - 3 BEDROOMS COMMUNITY CLUBHOUSE & POOL SOLD: POLO CLUB CATALINA CONDO Under contract in 21 Days SSOLD: VILLA DE CAPRI LAKEFRONT HOUSE Sold same day listed SOLD: VALENCIA FALLS HOME For Highest Price EVER in community SOLD: POR LA MAR CONTEMPORARY HOUSE IN HISTORIC DISTRICT Walk 3 blocks to Ocean and Beach SOLD: DEERFIELD BEACH POINT LOT WITH 60' DOCK SOLD: POLO CLUB CYPRESS ISLE PENTHOUSE Gorgeous Lake View, 2600+ living sq ft   4 Bdrms, 2 ½ ba, 2612 living sq ft, Patio, Master Bdrm with to die for lake views, spacious, 2nd floor Penthouse, private elevator, open, lovely! 16897 ISLE OF PALMS DR, #C, DELRAY BEACH FL • CYPRESS ISLE IN POLO CLUB MLS # R3034154 ============================================================ SOLD: LAKERIDGE GREENS 3/2 HOME Boynton Beach Clubhouse Community FOR SALE: LAKE WORTH 2nd FLOOR CONDO Immaculate - Nicely Furnished MOVE RIGHT IN! $72,500 $242/month HOA 815 living sq ft • washer and dryer in unit • 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths kitchen has window on living room • formal dining area screened-in porch - great place to sit and relax, chat with friends JUST BRING YOUR TOOTHBRUSH AND CLOTHES! SHORT SALE:  LAKES OF BOCA RIO TOWNHOUSE GORGEOUS LAKE VIEW, UPDATED KITCHEN FENCED-IN PRIVATE FRONT PATIO  2-Story Townhouse with Private Patio, Wide Lake View from Balcony, 2 bedrooms, 2 full baths Utility Closet with Washer and Dryer, Eat-in-Kitchen with Sliders to Patio 8083 Boca Rio Road Boca Raton FL • LAKES OF BOCA RIO MLS #r3086686 ABOUT PALM BEACH COUNTY WHY MOVE TO PALM BEACH COUNTY ???   Dubbed "GOLF CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, Palm Beach County has more than 160 golf courses including many public and semi-private courses, some built by world famous golfers including Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Pete Dye, Tom Fazio and Donald Ross.   Tennis courts in Palm Beach County number over 1100... tennis lessons abound... Chrissy Evert has an academy in Boca Raton.  Delray Beach has a world famous Tennis Center.   Water activities include some of the best diving areas with water temperature averaging 70-84 degrees, ideal for scuba divers.  Many lakes provide freshwater fishing, such as Lake Ida, Lake Osborne, and Lake Ockeechobee; and don´t overlook the countless canals that meander through the county.  You can aim to catch largemouth or sunshine bass, bream, bluegill and catfish, or charger a boat or yacht and get out there on the water and bask in the sunshine.  Marinas offer deep sea charters and water taxis for local tours.  Take a slow cruise along the intracoastal waterway with gorgeous views of spectacular homes, condominiums and preserves.  Take the kids to water parks.   Purchase a waterfront condo, live in a gated golfing community, move to an A-Rated School District, buy a "get-a-way" vacation condo which you can rent out.  Find an affordable permanent condo, especially if you are age 55+.  Whatever your criteria are, we may be able to find it here in Palm Beach County.  C´mon down, LIFE IS GOOD!   Marilyn will find you the home OF YOUR DREAMS. PUBLIC GOLF COURSES   OCEAN BREEZE COUNTRY CLUB, 5800 NW 2nd Avenue, Boca Raton, 33487.  Within 280+ plush acres in beautiful east Boca Raton you can play 27 championship Golf holes on a semi-private golf course that provide 3 challenging 18 hole courses which test your skills.  Tennis program as well.  Inn ? 1 mile to Boca beaches.  From I-95 go east on Yamato Road, then north onto NW 2nd Avenue.  Course and Clubhouse are on left side.  561-994-0400, Ext. 241   BOCA MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE, 8111 Golf Course Road, Boca Raton 33432.  Par 72 18-hole championship course, 6514 yards.  Situated on a 210-acre setting of manicured greens, fairways, mature trees and winding lakes.  From I-95, go west on Yamato Road, south on St. Andrews Boulevard.  Head west on Glades Road past the Florida Turnpike and watch for sign for the course on north side.  561-483-5226.    POLO TRACE, 13481 Polo Trace Drive, Delray Beach 33446.  One of south Florida´s premier golf courses with over 7000 challenging yards featuring championship Turf greens, and lush rolling fairways providing the ultimate golf experience.  From I-95 or Florida Turnpike to Atlantic Avenue exit.  From I-95 head west, from Turnpike head east to Hagen Ranch Road, north to Polo Trace on west side. 561-495-5300.   DEER CREEK, 2801 Deer Creek Country Club Boulevard, Deerfield Beach 33442.  A challenging course, Mens par is 71, Ladies par is 73.  Doglegs, water holes and tall pines contribute to the challenge.  From I-95 head east on Hillsboro Boulevard to golf course on north side.  561-421-5550.   BOCA DUNES, 1400 SW 65th Avenue, Boca Raton FL 33428. Bruce Devlin designed this 18-hole par 72 executive course of 7000 yards.  Walk or ride.  Lighted Driving Range.  From I-95 take Palmetto Park Road west then south on Lyons Road/SW 57th Avenue.  561-451-1600.   SOUTHWINDS, 19557 Lyons Road, Boca Raton 33434.  5643 yards, par 70 course.  Driving range, practice putting green and chipping area.  I-95 west on Yamato Road, south on Lyons Road to course on right.  561-483-1305. MONEY MAGAZINE: BOCA RATON Named 30th City in the US Among 2006 BEST PLACES TO LIVE  BOCA RATON WAS ALSO #1 FOR FLORIDA April 23, 2006  - See last paragraphs for Marilyn's quotes!!! For release SUNDAY, April 23,2006  and thereafter Real estate deals keep Pataki's earnings up An AP News Analysis By MARC HUMBERT, AP Political Writer  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ Thanks to lucrative real estate deals and the helping hands of well-heeled friends, Republican George Pataki has done remarkably well financially during his tenure as governor. The latest boost came in October when the governor and his wife Libby sold a one-story, three-bedroom house near Palm Beach, Fla., for $675,000. They had purchased it 17 months earlier for $360,000. "I was obviously very happy about that," Pataki said Wednesday. "We didn't buy it with the idea of it being an investment, but we knew it was a great investment because while it wasn't the nicest house in the world, it was in a great area and we knew the area was one that was just going to get better and better." Pataki spokesman David Catalfamo was quoted in 2005 as saying the Patakis bought the Singer Island property as an investment. In 1994, the year he ousted Democrat Mario Cuomo from the governorship, Pataki had $105,652 in total income for tax purposes. Last year, the Patakis' income was $775,169. Cuomo also did well financially as governor. Cuomo's income as governor peaked in 1988 at $519,902, when he made $128,600 from paid speeches and sold the family home in Queens for $320,000. In 1993, the year before he lost the governorship, Cuomo made $370,436. In 1982, the year he won the job, Cuomo's income was $79,748. The details about gubernatorial incomes are available thanks to a tradition _ it is not legally required _ that they and candidates for the office make public their tax returns. In 1978, Republican challenger Perry Duryea balked at doing that and lost badly to Democratic incumbent Hugh Carey. While the details can be sparse, the returns show Pataki, who is not seeking a fourth term this year but is a potential 2008 GOP presidential candidate, has been very active in real estate from the time he became governor.  In 1995, he and his older brother sold off 21 housing lots carved out of the Pataki family farm in Peekskill. The governor quickly plowed the $240,000 he made on that deal back into a 152-acre farm he bought for $270,000 in Washington County. The Patakis reported $26,000 in losses on rental properties they owned in Saratoga Springs and Peekskill, where Pataki grew up and was once mayor. In 1997, Pataki sold a little over an acre of land in Peekskill for $90,000. In 1998, the governor sold his Saratoga Springs condominium for about $160,000. He had bought it in 1987 for more than 200,000. In 2002, the Patakis sold a house and 23 acres from the Washington County farm for $199,000, keeping 129 acres there. And, in late 2002, it came out that Libby Pataki was part of a real estate partnership that in early 2000 was involved in the $5 million purchase of a 1,410-acre orange grove in Florida. Mrs. Pataki had been given a 4 percent interest in the Old Blue LLC group in return for a $40,000 investment. Old Blue was created by a Yale University roommate of the governor, businessman Richard Hayden. In late 2002, Old Blue and another group sold the land for about $15 million. There were reports, unconfirmed by the Patakis, that they made about $400,000 on the transaction. The Old Blue profits were quickly rolled into an office complex near Atlanta. Through the connection to Hayden, Libby Pataki also has an interest in an Albuquerque, N.M., office complex. In 2005, those office building investments brought in $35,702 for the Patakis. Early in 2003, the Patakis finalized the $1.2 million purchase of a 377-acre farm on the shore of Lake Champlain just south of Plattsburgh. In 2004, they sold another 94 acres from the Washington County farm for $94,000. And, in May 2004, the Patakis created a limited liability corporation, Tacoma Lane LLC, and bought the house in Palm Beach Shores, Fla.. It was purchased in October by a financial services executive from Virginia who said he had no connection to Pataki before buying the property. "My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?" new owner Peter Clarke told The Associated Press. Clarke said the governor had obviously made "a great investment." Clarke also said that while the house wasn't much, the location near the Atlantic Ocean was wonderful and that he and his family planned to use it as a retirement home. Marilyn Farber Jacobs, a Palm Beach-area realtor with Lang Realty, told the AP the Patakis' ``profit is in line with similar profits during that time period on other properties'' that sold in the Palm Beach Shores area where the house is located. Anyone who sold property recently made out well on their investment as long as it remained in good shape and was not in foreclosure,'' said Jacobs, who was not involved with the property sale or purchase. Marc Humbert has covered New York state politics and government for The Associated Press for more than 25 years. He can be reached via e-mail at: mhumbert(at)ap.org.   Compared with other US states, FLORIDA:   Is the nation´s 4th most populous state (Census 2006) Has the 4th largest labor force and 7th lowest unemployment rate (BLS 2006) Has the 4th highest number of business establishments (BLS 2005) Has the 4th largest Gross State Product, making it the 8th largest economy in the western hemisphere and the 19th largest economy in the world (BEA 2006) Ranks 4th in total employment in high-tech industries (AeA Cyberstates 2006) Is the 9th largest producer of exported goods (WISER 2003) Is the 9th largest recipient of Foreign Direct Investment (BEA 2003) "More than $80-billion worth of merchandise flows through Florida´s airports and seaports each year, an enormous volume of global trade facilitate by Florida´s extensive support systems: trade financing, international legal and insurance services, freight forwarding and logistics, and other infrastructure elements."                        ...Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida for SHOW MORE Contact information: Email: MarilynFJacobs@aol.com Phone: 561-988-0070 or (cell) 561-302-3388

The "Gateway"

The entire southeast Florida region is booming. Nearly 6 million people live in densely populated Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach, and in the growing counties of
St. Lucie, Indian River, Martin and Monroe.

Southeast Florida is widely known as the "Gateway to the Americas," and about 80 percent of Fortune 500 companies that do business in Latin America have offices in the region. One reason for business growth is an excellent land, sea and air transport system. Major roadways include I-95, I-75, Florida's north-south Ronald Reagan Turnpike and U.S. 1, which includes the amazing Overseas Highway to Key West.
Rail lines parallel the Atlantic Coast and provide intermodal connections at ports and airports.

Miami International Airport helps further the "Gateway" image. With 30.1 million passengers in 2004, MIA is the only U.S. airport with flights to all Latin American capitals. MIA is undergoing massive capital improvements, with new terminals due to open in 2006 and in 2008. Dozens of small airports and four additional major airports serve the region.

Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International handled 20.8 million passengers in 2004, a jump of 16.1 percent over 2003. The fast growth is due in part to the airport's low $4.25-per-passenger costs, despite a five-year capital program of $465 million. Palm Beach International Airport is also growing fast. With an 8 percent increase in passengers in early 2005 vs. 2004, PBIA is on track for nearly 7 million passengers in 2005.

The region has five seaports, including the Port of Miami, the world's busiest cruise facility, one of the busiest U.S. cargo ports and Florida's largest container port. Port Everglades spans Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood and Dania in Broward County. Florida's deepest port and the state's second-busiest cruise port, Port Everglades is also home to the state's first and largest Foreign Trade Zone, used by over 100 businesses.

The Port of Palm Beach, the fourth busiest container port in Florida, is also a cruise and bulk shipping facility, with $100 million in infrastructure improvements planned. Farther north, the Port of Fort Pierce specializes in shipping fruit and vegetables, particularly Florida citrus, around the globe. The Port of Key West handles about 10 percent of the cruise passengers sailing from Florida's home ports and benefits from larger-capacity cruise ships that stop there. Key West began serving the cruise market in 1969.

Life science hotbed
The region's positive energy helped draw Scripps Research Institute to Palm Beach County, a move that will generate hundreds of support businesses, thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue. In mid-2005, the National Institutes of Health made a $10.4 million grant for the Scripps Research Institute Molecular Screening Center -- the type of investment officials say Scripps will regularly deliver.

Scripps has also already attracted scores of international scientists to the region. Eventually, Scripps' 6,500 jobs should help create another 40,000 supporting jobs, and workers will be ready. Millions of dollars in federal grant money for biotechnology workforce training is in hand for partners including the Workforce Development Board of the Treasure Coast, Workforce Florida, Florida Atlantic University, Indian River Community College and regional biotechnology employers.

Other synergies include the South Florida Bioscience Consortium, formed by business, pharmaceutical and university leaders and researchers to help promote workforce development and industry marketing. Cluster-creation is evolving quickly in the region, which already has about 1,500 bioscience companies of all sizes, including household names such as Boston Scientific. Also busy are regional companies like Nabi Biopharmaceuticals -- Nabi in 2005 opened a new $20 million, 12,000-square-foot plant in Boca Raton to manufacture vaccines.

Regional economic development leaders are taking a cooperative approach to woo new cutting-edge investment. Miami-Dade's Beacon Council partnered with economic developers at the Broward Alliance and the Palm Beach County Business Development Board to position the region as a high-tech and bio-med center. Another established initiative is the InternetCoast, with members from Palm Beach to Miami working to create a global science and tech hub.