Press Releases,Waterside,Waterside Place Thursday - January 5, 2023 Lakewood Ranch was recognized as the best-selling, master-planned multi-generational community in the country for the fifth year in a row by RCLCO and John Burns, two independent real estate consulting firms. The Ranch saw 1,846 new home sales in 2022. Although sales were down from a record-breaking 2021, Lakewood Ranch Continue Reading
Ian Hit, First-Floor Condos Flooded: Who Pays?
By Richard DeBoest II - 12 December 2022 - Sarasota Herald Tribune Staff Reporter A community association doesn’t have flood insurance and every first-floor unit had flood damage. Also: Do storms temporarily change Fla. law requirements? SARASOTA, Fla. – Question: I live on the bottom floor of a condominium building. My unit was flooded by Hurricane Ian. The association did not carry flood Continue Reading
First the Hurricane – Now Construction Scams
By Derek Gilliam - Staff Writer - Sarasota Heard Tribune - 7 November 2022 Hurricane Ian victims are laser-focused on recovery, making some of them easy marks for scammers offering quick help. And scammers know that. SARASOTA, Fla. – Kathryn Schweitzer worked recently in the yard in front of her small, yellow house in a North Port neighborhood where mildewing furniture, drywall and other Continue Reading
Denied FEMA Assistance? Start an Appeal
By Earle Kimel, Sarasota Heard Tribune - 10-31-2022 A denial is not the last word, according to FEMA. “People see that first paragraph, throw it away and think that’s the end,” says FEMA spokeswoman Renee Bafalis. SARASOTA, Fla. – Applicants who receive a denial letter after applying for Hurricane Ian relief from the Federal Emergency Management Agency should not take that as the government’s Continue Reading
HURRICANE IAN AFTERMATH
1. In the aftermath of Hurricane Ian – many Snowbirds and recent Northern transplants – will decide the Sunshine / Hurricane State is not for them – and will decide to sell their Florida homes – short term result – more listings – decreased demand – lower prices 2. The number insurance companies willing to offer homeowner insurance in the Sunshine State will continue its rapid decline – Continue Reading
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