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Wait-and-see attitude may be best on refinancing Question: My wife and I bought a second home two years ago. Because of its condition, it didn’t qualify for a conventional mortgage. We have a two-year balloon loan at 5.6 percent interest that comes due in April 2006. We will owe the entire principal in April unless …
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Tiny Briny Breezes draws brawny $500 million offer – OrlandoSentinel.com: State News A secret suitor was offering to buy the entire municipality for $500 million — more than $1 million per mobile home. Over shuffleboard courts, pinochle tables and whittling benches, word of the fabulous price soon spread. ” ‘A million is a million’ and …
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Finding the Next Phoenix Want to turn some heads at your next cocktail party? Tell people that buying real estate in Texas is a better bet in the short term than investing in California. It might sound bizarre, but it’s what some real estate gurus are telling their investors. To get a feel for which …
Green Cay Village lowers the price of success When Michele Robinson, a single mother, steps inside her new Boynton Beach area townhouse next fall, she can thank an unlikely alliance: two vegetable farmers who sold their prime land below market value with the stipulation that affordable housing be built on it; a pair of developers …
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Gosman estate goes on market It was a day of all things Palm Beach. There were the luxury cars — Lamborghinis, Maseratis, Ferraris, three Carrera GT Porsches, a rare Mercedes-Benz CLX DTM shipped from Germany for the event, the 1956 Silver Wraith Rolls Royce used in the 1981 movie Arthur starring Dudley Moore and a …
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Bradenton Florida Mainstreet Apartments going condo Mainstreet Apartments were sold last month to Tarragon Realty Investors for $38 million, and last week residents were informed that the community is going condo. Though the signs still say Mainstreet, residents of the newly named 210 Watermark may soon find themselves looking for a new place to live …
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