About a five-minute walk from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in south Orange County is a town-home community that has seen its share of hard times.
Not that long ago, Whisper Lakes was collecting only about two-thirds of the association dues its owners were supposed to pay to keep the place running. Town homes that had sold for $175,000 at the peak of the homebuying frenzy five and six years ago were going for $40,000. Shrubbery was dying, and owners complained that the buildings’ quarter-century-old, hunter-green paint scheme resembled that of military barracks.
via Townhomes in Orlando: Whisper Lakes townhomes in Orlando renovated – OrlandoSentinel.com.