Joseph Sgarlata

Orlando Condo Hotel Specialist

Hi, I’m Joseph Sgarlata.

I am the Orlando/Central Florida Condo Hotel Specialist for Condo Hotel Center. I’d be delighted to offer you my expertise and any property information you need to evaluate any of the nearly two dozen condo hotel properties available through us in this dynamic area. You can see a list of Orlando condo hotels here.

My Background
By way of experience, I'm a long time real estate investor, having purchased my first rental property back in 1984.

Over the last 23 years I've purchased and sold many millions of dollars of real estate, every conceivable way imaginable, including seller financing, discount mortgages, lease options, 1031 tax-free exchanges, and now, using pre-construction reservations (my favorite).

I have a Masters Degree from George Washington University in Investments and Finance. I'm a retired CPA and Certified Financial Planner, (retired before I reached 50 - which was a goal of mine).

I've owned my own businesses, with as many as 123 employees (the reason for my gray hairs), and helped small business owners generate over $100 million in sales over the years.

A New Approach to Real Estate
Eventually I decided to turn my real estate investing activities into a second career, as a Real Estate agent, but that came later in life, as my friends and colleagues, knowing of my real estate acumen, asked for my help. But I knew that I didn’t have the temperament for the traditional ways of assisting buyers and sellers, driving around town all day, holding open houses, etc.

And I didn’t want to limit my services to clients by the old way of doing things. After all, this is the age of the Internet, and if you can invest in companies located around the world, I thought, you should be able to buy real estate around the world.

But how?

That’s when I discovered Condo Hotel Center, a Florida-based company that is part of a new breed of Realtor, the Internet broker. The company was selling condo hotels located all over the globe to buyers from all over the world via the web.

With its emphasis on simply providing the best, most comprehensive information to its buyers (no pushy salesmanship), I knew I liked their non-traditional approach to real estate brokerage.

The Appeal of Condo Hotels
Why sell condo hotels as opposed to traditional residential or commercial real estate? I liked the idea that condo hotels are a relatively new way of owning residential assets.

They let the "little guy" like me, and perhaps you, buy a one-, two- or three-bedroom condo in an area we want to vacation in anyway and have someone else deal with the hassles of maintaining it and renting it out when we aren't there. That's why I own three condo hotel units of my own.

With 70+ million baby boomers, and many trillions of dollars freeing up in their pension and retirement plans, I figured others may want to do with their retirement funds what I’m doing with mine. And sure enough, they do! After all, who wouldn't like the idea of getting tax benefits, a luxurious second home, and appreciation potential all rolled into one!

Here I am with my wife Elizabeth, our daughter Adrianna, and our son Matthew at the Miss America pageant where Adrianna was a finalist for the Miss America Quality of Life award.

My Approach
I consider my perspective as fairly entrepreneurial and investment oriented. My orientation isn't sales as much as consulting, since that is what CPA's and CFP's do. I'm very sensitive to the needs of professionals, the self employed, and sales executives, having walked a mile in all of their shoes.

I'll be much more blunt with you in offering my opinion of your decisions, again, because my clients used to pay me for my advice. I'll even send you off into another part of the country when I feel there is a better opportunity outside of my sales territory based on your goals and objectives.

I can't tell you how often I end up talking prospects OUT of doing something rather than into doing something. So if you want a straight shooter, "just the facts," give me a try, no matter what your objectives are, or where you are thinking of investing.

Let's Talk
Call me first - not after - you make any final decisions. I promise to work on your behalf to help you locate, select and secure the absolute best property to fit your vacation home/investment needs and desires.

Contact me today, Joseph Sgarlata, at:

Joseph@CondoHotelCenter.com

843-213-3181

703-472-4460 (cell)

I'm proud to say that my daughter, Adrianna Sgarlata (front row, 4th from left), is Miss Virginia 2006. This picture was taken at The Venetian in Las Vegas just before the Miss America Pageant.