This month’s topic – Short Sales and the renegotiation of mortgages – is an excellent one for the area in it’s present economic status, with many out of work and unable to make payments.  The options available to homeowners are vast and may help a family in distress to save their home and their sanity.

Featured in this issue were Cynthia Riddell, Attorney with Riddell Law Group, Marianne Lebar, Realtor® with Michael Saunders & Company, Mary Hawk, Firm Principal, Certified Mediator of Porges, Hamlin, Knowles and Prouty, P.A., and Edward F. Brunicardi, Jr. ESQ., Attorney with Brunicardi Law Firm, P.L., photographed by Maria – the day she got back into town.  You know that Maria, always working and working and working.  You’d think she LOVES her job or something….  Oh wait, she does!!

We had the pleasure to work this month with Albert Joerger, Founder and President of the Sarasota Conservation Foundation, Dwight Currie, Associate Director of Museums and Programs, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sharon Petrik, Executive Manager of Serendipity.

Surely you’ve seen the Willis A. Smith Construction signs all over the county.   They were also featured in the 2009 EDC Hall of Fame, a great recognition.

Walking into the showroom over at DaVinci Kitchens is like walking into every cook’s fantasy land with a kitchen of every style and color surrounding and pleasing the senses.  The affable Brit works with industry leader, Alno, who works hard to boast Zero Waste, a process refined over the past 80 years of experience.

Out on the job-site, beachfront Siesta, we met up with the great guys with MyGreenBuildings, Steve Ellis and John Ferrari.  John is also the President of DwellGreen, an amazing new consultation firm whose home inspections are on the fore-front of technology and information.

Featured this month were; Willis A. Smith Construction, David Sessions, LEED AP, President, John Lacivita, LEED A, Vice President, Warren G. Simmonds, Ph.D., LEED AP, Vice President and CMO, and Fred Cavaluzzi, Vice President/Director of Preconstruction, Will Smith, President of DaVinci Kitchens and Alno Sarasota, Rex Jensen, President & CEO of Schroder-Manatee Ranch of the Lakewood Ranch Communities, David Scanlan, President of Phoenix Ink, Steve Ellis, CEO, LEED A, MyGreenBuildings, Casey Colburn, Attorney/Shareholder, LEED AP, Kirk-Pinkerton, P.A..