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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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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 …
Like a piñata, bursting condo bubble will spill forth goodies [South Florida] Even Cassandra must have thought once or twice about pie in the sky. As Miami’s unofficial prophet of doom during a condo bubble that is no longer in dispute, I wrote column after column counseling caution rather than unbridled euphoria but claiming that …
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More mobile homes are not being insured More than half of Florida’s 800,000 mobile homes are no longer covered by homeowners insurance — another sign of the state’s soaring insurance costs. The number of insured Florida mobile homes dropped from more than 500,000 in 2004 to less than 400,000 last year, according to the state …
Con artist or beaten spouse? [Tampa Bay Area] She blames her ex. It’s an act, her victims in a housing scam say. Who is Synthia Ippolito? Is she, as prosecutors allege, a cunning con who bought the homes of 20 people under false pretenses, forcing victims to spend tens of thousands of dollars to buy …
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