Last week I attended the Inman News Real Estate Connect in NYC. I plan to blog on different subjects including the future of real estate, social networking, the general feel for solutions to our serious bank and lending problems, and of course, the best restaurants we ate in. First, it is a cliche but I Love New York! It is a great city and you can get addicted to it. However, I don't plan to trade my Oklahoma City home work $250K for a smaller and older $3 million condo. I love my town because I can afford to travel to places like this. I will in this first blog hit on the fun stuff. My finest dining experience was at Pure Food and Wine. This is a raw food vegetarian restaurant, and it is one of the best dining experiences of my life. If you don't know about the raw food movement please know this is not like Bugs Bunny eating carrots. It is impeccably prepared meal without meat, dairy, and nothing heated over 110 degrees. We had a five course tasting menu that took two hours at the table, completely filled us up, and without drinks was $59 per person! Raw foods are really nutritious and I have ordered three books on the movement. My guilty pleasure was Mama Mia. It was a candy coated jukebox musical of little significance, almost all Abba tunes, incredibly sung, and just a hoot. Sometimes we just need to be amused. I also did two tourists things, I went to the Statue of Liberty which was very moving, and I went to The Top of the Rock at the Rockefeller Building. The top is all glass and the view is breathtaking. I enjoyed them both and I feel very American. In the next few blogs I will be commenting on speakers talking about the origins of the current credit debacle, possible solutions, and why Florida has a ten year supply of condos while Manhattan only has seven months. Stay Tuned. P.S. also more restaurant reviews.

I leave for Fort Myers Florida on Saturday. I will be in a week long class for my commercial real estate designation, CCIM. We anticipate that commercial property for investors sold through me is just about 90 days off for the bulk of it, so I want to finish my education in the next month, so my team will be ready for you. In the meantime, single family homes are doing quite well here. In the next few weeks, I will have at least three lease purchase homes for investors to buy. These come will two years of a lease, a non-refundable deposit if the lessee can't close, and high rents. I also have a few single family homes that have new renters that have not been purchased. if you are interested, contact Orjana at the office next week. I will be answering messages next week on the class breaks and evenings. Email would be the best way to reach me if needed.

I have been working with a new web site provider out of California, as well as a web site building company, also out of California. The first site that is changing is this one. I think that you will find the new site much more appealing, and wasier to navigate. it will have mapping features that will enhance your ability to view the new properties coming this year, and locate them with detail, as well as get more demographic and economic information on the areas. We have an ICG presentation coming at the March 1st meeting. This will include new Edmond and Deer creek neighborhoods, as well as apartment complexes, and the beginning of our commercial oportunities. I will be leaving soon for Fort Myers Florida for another commercial weeklong class that starts on February 3rd. Orjana will be in the office for any information you need that week. At the Inman conference in new York, blogging and social networking where two areas that were given maximum importance to. The new site will be geared this way, and will be a high raking web site. For the price I am paying it should be. We are getting more inquiries from other investors outside of California, and we want our outreach to increase to help add to our database which keeps out builders happy, and allows us to keep the prices down for you. I hope to announce some significant new projects next week, especially one that will be 1.5 miles from the new Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino.