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Michael J. Lombardo, a realtor and private investigator from Cherry Hill, NJ, said he believed [Bob] Kerrey might have made some gains from the debate because of his aggressiveness. He added that [Paul] Tsongas was the "loser" because he had the curse of Bush's campaign last election, being a whimp, and that Tsongas would make a good secretary of commerce. Lombardo was at the Kerrey rally in Concord yesterday, parading with a sign in support of Clinton...
...Real estate appreciation ran at 3% a month, and most listings attracted multiple offers within 72 hours. Today 8,700 homes (median price: $226,500) languish on the market. "In Santa Clara County, it's a sacred thing: property values go up," says San Jose Realtor John Pinto, a Brooklyn native who came to the Valley believing it was the best place in the U.S. to live. He stops to wave at the lone pedestrian he can see through one of his plate-glass windows facing a main street. Though it is rush hour, the boulevard is eerily quiet. "This...
Bennett, who had been robbed several times by other druggies, got tired of running. He bought a furnished five-bedroom house in Tempe, Ariz., for $450,000. When he spotted another house nearby with an indoor swimming pool, he told a realtor, "I've gotta have it." He bought it for his brother and sister to occupy. In all, Bennett and his friends and relatives grabbed five houses in Tempe...
...annually. Salamanca's 6,600 residents, who own their houses but lease the land, point out that hard times have already wiped out half the town's small businesses. Many residents claim they will leave rather than see typical rents leap from $7-a-year to $4,700. Says Realtor Shirley Weast: "What they're proposing is an absolute death sentence...
...enforcement. Conservatives criticized her for leaving the current administration of Art Agnos with a "shortfall" of $140 million in the 1988-89 budget and for catering to minorities, especially the increasingly powerful gay community. "As a supervisor, all she could think of was tax, tax, tax," snaps retired realtor John Barbagelata, who had been her longtime Republican archenemy on the board of supervisors. "And as mayor, she was ambitious, selfish, expedient and hypocritical...