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What started as a hobby for Keith Gamble is now a risky, exciting, full-time job: buying properties at the monthly foreclosure sale and flipping them. Gamble, and others like him, are a new generation of property flippers who buy at low prices at a foreclosure auction, clean up a property and sell it for a …
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Nevada leads the nation in foreclosures. In Las Vegas, banks are repossessing record numbers of homes. But the flip side is that for some low-income buyers, home ownership is finally within reach. Lady Luck has smiled on David Krueger, a waiter at the glitzy Mirage Hotel who earns $13 an hour, plus tips. That’s about …
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Cape Marco, an upscale, world-class beachfront community with 683 luxury residential apartments, is enhanced by 30 acres of manicured tropical gardens and gushing water fountains at the southernmost tip of Marco Island. This site showcases some of Southwest Florida’s most spectacular and picturesque views of the Gulf of Mexico, Caxambas Pass, Marco Island’s famous crescent …
You’ve been away from Polk County for a while, but you still own property here. You may have missed a tax payment or two, and a couple of times your check was returned saying the taxes were already paid, but for the most part you never heard from anyone that there were problems . So …
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From Englewood to Anna Maria, changing demographics over the past decade have transformed the Southwest Florida coastline, as thousands of permanent residents fled the beach for a variety of reasons and were replaced by hordes of vacationers. According to the latest figures from last year’s census, coastal communities from northern Manatee to south Sarasota County …
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Rainy days are a bane for Adrian and Beatriz Sanchez, a Miami couple embroiled in a lengthy legal battle with their condominium association over a leaky roof. When a storm hits, the couple must cut off the electricity in half of their two-bedroom loft, bring out buckets to catch the droplets, and mop up pools …
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