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As deadline looms, Lee eyes Weeks property [South Florida] County is interested, but can’t make promises, in a last-minute deal for land that includes one of the few boat ramps on eastern Estero Bay Lee County and state officials are looking hard at Weeks Fish Camp, and the historic home of one of the area’s …
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Condos can’t post names of people late paying fees, attorneys say [South Florida] It’s a common problem. When your neighbors don’t pay their maintenance and assessments for months at a time, the rest of you pick up the tab. If you don’t, the grass doesn’t get cut, roads don’t get maintained and the pool doesn’t …
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Divorcing in a down market Here is a divorce clause you probably would not have seen during the real estate boom: “Either party may unilaterally demand a 10 percent drop in the acceptable selling price and listing price every 60 days.” It is something that a Sarasota couple parting ways agreed to in January. Stacked-up …
More than 5,600 new homes still sit unsold in the Orlando area The number of individuals and families moving into new homes in Orlando-area subdivisions plunged 26 percent during the second quarter, and home builders continued to slam on the brakes. Starts, or new homes getting under way in the region, fell more than 41 …
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Distressing development [South Florida] he implosion of New York-based Boymelgreen Developers has reached Miami Beach. Deposits are being returned at its 66-unit Vitri project on South Beach. Contract holders are upset about getting back their deposits of the developer’s project north of downtown with only 1 percent interest after two years. And brokers are threatening …
Towering Rage From his office on the 12th floor of the Las Olas Centre, Don Hall’s view stretches across the New River to take in regal yachts, fine mansions, and open skies. Hall says he likes open spaces. He even owned a ranch in Wyoming once, which explains his office’s Western décor. Yet blocking that …