Word: condos
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...ballot measure passed in 2002 as well as a Children's Trust fund for Miami-Dade County, both of which raised the kind of pro-kid taxes that Florida retirees traditionally scorn. When the legislature last year crafted what many called an inadequate pre-K plan, thousands of elderly "condo commandos," like the Greater Aventura Citizens Association (GACA) in South Florida, deluged Tallahassee with phone calls and e-mails to help win changes like lower teacher-student ratios. At this spring's legislative session, says GACA director Ginger Grossman, they have lobbied for more improvements, backed by the clout...
When Frances Sisk, an artist in Naples, Fla., decided to upgrade her three-bedroom condo, she asked Abbie Sladick, a CAPS-trained remodeler, to design interior spaces that would meet future needs. The result was so subtle that her guests rarely realize that the condo is wheelchair accessible. "They have no idea," says Sisk. "They come in the door and say, 'Oh, I feel like I'm in Paris or New York...
...Charles early Sunday morning. Brake squeals and sirens interrupted the usual three a.m. sounds of vomiting fratguys and awkward “goodnights”... After several pundits floated her name as a potential Supreme Court nominee, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan ditched her new $1.4 million Cambridge condo last weekend for a pre-election trip to the nation’s capital, suspiciously close to the Rehnquist estate. Antonin Scalia is already having wet dreams...
...plan is for Alison, 30, and her husband Stephen to purchase a condo that one day John and Bobbi will move into in exchange for their home. There will be no mortgages (if the kids still have one when the trade takes place, they have to pay it off), and because the values of the two properties are not equal, John will gift the difference, using up to $1 million of his lifetime gift exemption. "Whether you sell or gift," says Sestina, "you want to unload this appreciable asset from your estate before you die to reduce your estate taxes...
...read Mehta's book, by chance, a few weeks ago in Rio de Janeiro, where 700 favelas, or officially designated slums, spread across the hillsides and seem ready to mud-slide down and swallow up the Sheraton hotel and the condo blocks beneath them. According to one Brazilian friend, 400,000 people arrive at the city's bus station every year, seeking a new life, only to find that all the jobs and houses?and lives?have been taken up by others like themselves. They can survive only by joining the underworld, and a child is seen as irresponsible...