Tax plan: Big savings, major cuts The Legislature is preparing to cut the average property-tax bill 7 percent this year, and then ask voters next year if they want to save far more by supersizing homeowner tax exemptions, under a plan Republican leaders released late Friday after weeks of secret talks. Total cost to local …
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Avalon Homes CEO never planned to hurt anyone
Avalon Homes CEO never planned to hurt anyone In his first public comments, the attorney for a former home builder who is accused of defrauding several North Port families said Joseph Pufta never planned to hurt anyone and was himself a victim of the downturn in the real estate market. “It was a business slowdown …
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Seniors can get caught in a tax trap
Seniors can get caught in a tax trap After Kimrey Newlin retired two years ago, he and his wife moved closer to their grandkids, leaving the $1.2 million Key Biscayne house they had lived in for 27 years for a $545,000 home in the Falls. Now they’re 10 blocks from the kids, and a hand-painted …
New law alters condo landscape [South Florida]
New law alters condo landscape [South Florida] The husband-and-wife real estate team of Norm and Janice Holloway sells more Venice condominiums than just about anybody. But when the couple settled into their own waterfront abode at Pointe Whitecap in Venice nearly six years ago, Norm promised Janice that he would never sell it out from …
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Property-tax certificates sell fast on Internet [Central Florida]
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
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 …