It was a good crowd ? plenty of serious buyers with homes in the region. We had visits from a number of leads first generated at the Miami show, and expect to be closing on a good percentage of those in the weeks ahead.

It's about 14,000 cubic feet. That's my number. We've got plenty. We're good.

Our buyers want the urban feeling and they want everything at their doorstep. Their homes are a retreat and they do a lot of socializing in the neighborhood.

Buyers who had been on the fence in recent months have gotten serious.

This resemblance became clear in the Bush the father's visits to the region.... He wound up being impressed by the royal and military regimes and envied them for staying decades in their positions and embezzling the nation's money with no supervision.

I'm part of the party, getting the crowd fired up, singing songs, pouring drinks, whatever it takes to get them to have a good time. When I walk into the meet-and-greet, someone's always going to have a story, a sad story or a happy story.