Word: fla
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...because race is completely irrelevant as to whether someone should be the next President! Sure there are some bigots who will vote solely based on race, but to imply that for many Americans the economy and race are issues of comparable weight is simply insulting. Zachary Nass, Merritt Island, Fla...
...Tripper. Discovery Cruise Line is offering free day cruises to Grand Bahama Island from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for military personnel who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan. Register online, and the company will send an email entitling service members to the complimentary cruise. The offer's good until...
...buyers are finding the current "buyer's market" increasingly frustrating. Realtors say wait times for deals to close have gone up, and more and more buyers are walking away, even when they find prices attractive. "Banks are a mess," says Dawn Connelly, a real estate investor in Palm City, Fla., who, despite dozens of offers, has bought only six houses in the past year. "They take months and months to accept an offer and aren't typically willing to make deals...
...signs the real estate market may be turning. In September, home sales across the country rose 1.4% from their level a year ago, which is the first annual increase in that measure since November 2005. In some areas of the country, where prices have fallen dramatically, like Fort Myers, Fla., and Sacramento, Calif., sales are up much more than that. But nationwide, the pace of purchases are still 25% below where they were three years ago. And the number of homes on the market waiting to be sold, 4.3 million, is still up 1.3 million from three years...
Nicholae Blanchard, an agent in Cape Coral, Fla., says she has been waiting for a year for a bank to approve one deal. In all, she has completed 10 short sales on behalf of buyers or sellers this year, but she says things have been getting slower lately. She's had only one deal approved in the past two weeks - and that was for a vacant lot. Two other deals were rejected. Blanchard says banks and investors are dragging their feet to see how the government bailout will benefit them. "The bank negotiators told me they are doing fewer short...