PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL — In the tumultuous real estate market, it's still possible for people to sell their homes - especially if their next-door neighbors are interested in buying.
Such is the case with Ponte Vedra Beach resident Nochum Kurinsky and his former neighbor, Curtis Long. Kurinsky bought Long's home last fall. The two men said they are both happy with the deal and are glad things worked out as they did.
House Deal Works Well for Rabbi, Neighbor
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FL — In the tumultuous real estate market, it’s still possible for people to sell their homes – especially if their next-door neighbors are interested in buying.
Such is the case with Ponte Vedra Beach resident Nochum Kurinsky and his former neighbor, Curtis Long. Kurinsky bought Long’s home last fall. The two men said they are both happy with the deal and are glad things worked out as they did.
For Kurinsky, who is the rabbi at Chabad at the Beaches, a Jewish community and social services group that operates in his house, the opportunity to buy Long’s home was an opportunity to bring more of his family and friends together. Kurinsky holds services, meetings, even classes at this home on Florida A1A, but also lives there with his wife, children, and whatever family is in town to visit.
“My wife and I both come from large families, so we have a lot of visitors,” Kurinsky said.
These visitors caused an issue two years ago for Long and his family because the people who attend Chabad park along the right-of-way on Florida A1A. That made it difficult for Long and his wife to maneuver into and out of their driveway on the busy road. The two homes share one entrance from A1A that splits to two driveways.
The Municipal Service District got involved, but legally, there was nothing to prevent people from parking on the shoulder of the road.
“We always wanted to resolve the issue amicably,” Kurinsky said. “The location is convenient for us; it worked out well.”
Now that Kurinsky owns both homes, the parking issues have dissipated.
Long, who moved to another part of Ponte Vedra Beach, said things worked out for the best for his family as well.
“I have a 5-year-old son and I wanted to live in Ponte Vedra Beach, but I never intended to stay at a house on A1A,” Long said. Long wanted a house in a neighborhood where his son could play and ride his bike and where he and his wife wouldn’t have to worry about heavy traffic.
Long said he and Kurinsky talked about the potential sale for about a year before it happened. Long said selling to his neighbor took some of the stress out of selling a home.
“The [real estate] market was just starting to turn,” Long said. “I always said that if the opportunity to sell presents itself, I would take it.”
Long sold the house to Kurinsky for about $400,000.
Shlome Seldowitz
I was very happy to see our former Shabbos Chassidus teacher, Rabbi Nachum Kurinsky.
I wish him and his wife Leah phenomenal success beyond their wildest expectations in the outreach efforts.
Knowing Reb Nachum’s great skills in explaining Chassidus and Yiddishkeit, his kehilla is certainly in for many intellectual treats.
Mazal tov to Reb Nachum’s parents: besuros tovos should lead to more besuros tovos, as the Rebbe would say often: “M’chayel el choyel.”
crown heighter
who cares!!! big deal!!!
also a crown heighter!!
dear crown heighter, i hope you read this because you’ve got nerve… who cares?? we all do, and pple like you should especially care, because while us- ‘Crown hieghtsers’ are here sitting comfortably in our ‘community’ with kosher food on every corner and easy access to jewish education and so on- there are pple out there doing the rebbe’s shluchos and succeeding. so yes, thanks to rabbi nochum and to all the other shluchim who keep us going with their success stories, even though it may seem unimportant to the ‘crown heightser’
NOT a crown heightser
Who Cares?!?!?!
A little bit of GOOD news never hurt a soul.
Mushkie S
To them it is a big deal. Keep your negetive comments to yourself. Im glad Chabad Houses are expanding.
cutzpenyak
to “crown heighter” ur 100% right u r a real crown heighter (not the good ones and there are alot of them! but the ones evryone hates) now go back to ur section 8 apt and watch some more cable!
chutzpenyak
i apologize i should not have said a negative thing about Crown Heights its a wonderful place! “kan tziva hashem es habrocha”! its you and ppl like you that give it a bad name!
ch resident NOT crownheightser
such a typical crown heightser………“who cares”??? obviously not you, its all in your title…CROWN HEIGHTSER….u should be ashamed of urself and start caring about good things and be happy for other peoples success!!!!
Kop Doktar
crown heighter wrote:who cares!!! big deal!!!
Well, what DO you care about? What DO you consider a big deal?
I’m sure you care about: Alternste side of the street parking. I’m sure it’s a big deal to you if it was Shmira or Shomrim that helped someone.
But, My Dear Fellow Jew, you should become aware that there is life outside your little box, the size of a dozen blocks. There is an entire world of Chabad Chassidim that live outside CH. Many are shluchim, but some are “just” chassidim.
They care about YOUR cares and big deals like alternate side of the street parking. Not because it concerns their car – it doesn’t. but because it concerns YOU, a fellow Yid. And that makes it a big deal to them.
So, My Brother, as fellow chassidim, true, we build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures. There is little of all that we do which the eye…can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men and women’s burdens and by our efforts we make possible a better world, spiritually or even physically.
Even if you are not able to activley improve the world in a positive way, by acting civily you prevent harm, avoiding frustrating the good efforts of others.
You see, My Esteemed Neighbour, civility is the mark of an accomplished and superb human being, but it is even more than this. It is an end in itself.
Civility had deep roots in the idea of respect for the individual. We are civil to each other because we respect one another’s human aspirations and equal standing in a democratic society. It is basic to being a human being – mentch. We must restore civility to every part of our neighbourhood, whether in private or public activities.
Civility defines our common cause in advancing the greater asperation of Ahavas Yisroel and a Kiddush Hashem for the Rebbe’s shchuna.
And that My Fellow Jew IS a very big deal that we should all care about.
Not a Kurinsky Crown Heights guy
It seems truly sad that a story of a Chabad House expanding brings out such evil in some of us. There must be additional reasons that this story in particular had such an effect.
In Shul on Shabbos we discussed this, in crown Heights, at a Shul near 770 and we came to the conclusion that it is the Shaliach there who brings out this evil writing and not the writers. The Shaliach there must look into his deeds and see who he has harmed in this process. We wished the Kurinsky group lots of Recovary at our Farbrengen on Shabbos P. Korach – Machlokes no more.
Kop Doktar
I am trying to follow the “logic” of Not a Kurinsky Crown Heights guy…
Suppose his comments brings out much evil in me – that I detest the author with pure hatred for no logical purpose.
I then gather a few Anshi Chelem, and after we are semi-intoxicated we decide that the author of the comment who brings out this hate.
Heck, it’s normal for me to hate him with all my passion, because there must be some evil deed or harm that the commentator did.
As such, rather than seeking to rectify my bad midos and sinas yisroel, I point the finger of fault at the other guy and wish him Recovery.
Brilliant madness!
Curiouser and curiouser.