News about properties and real estate
Property-tax certificates sell fast on Internet [Central Florida] More than $14 million worth of unpaid property taxes — the most ever for Lake County — were sold off Friday to investors from across the country. Lake County Tax Collector Bob McKee auctioned off tax certificates for nearly 6,000 properties that did not make the April …
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An $8 Million Dollar Mess When 94-year-old Theresa Campora Donlon died of natural causes on June 24, 2006, little could she have known that her multimillion-dollar estate would stir up so much drama and whodunit intrigue. The wide-ranging case touches on allegations of theft, homicide and a deathbed revelation. Although the estate remains in judicial …
State: Renters, too, face mortgage fallout To a family from the concrete canyons of the Bronx, it seemed ideal: a spacious Tampa home with a big back yard for the kids. And it was available for rent with immediate occupancy. Two months ago, Nikki DuFore and her husband paid the owner $3,000 and settled into …
Hallandale condo worker got hush money, cops say [South Florida] Three of the men accused of bilking $1.4 million from Hallandale Beach condominium owners paid a building employee $86,000 to keep quiet about the fraud, according to police. One place allegedly used as a payoff site: the parking lot of a Miami-Dade Wal-Mart. Valerie Davis, …
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