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Category: Cape San Blas
November 18, 2007
Code Enforcement to Start Enforcing Trash Ordinance?
Gulf County has had a trash ordinance since 2005 but you’d never know it driving down Cape San Blas Road on any given summer afternoon. Apparently the new code enforcement officer is going to have a go at enforcing it by issuing fines, which would be nice, but the cynic ...
November 17, 2007
Week In Review – Nov. 10 – 17
Off to a late start this morning – I’ve been doing a system upgrade this week and haven’t been able to access the site since Tuesday (that’s tech talk for “I screwed up something really bad on Tuesday and have been wrestling with it ever since and it took me ...
November 10, 2007
Week in Review Nov. 3 – 9
Grab a cuppa coffee and settle right in for our Saturday morning week in review of real estate happenings in the Cape San Blas market. About the only noteworthy event this week was the arrival of autumn and with it cool, dry weather. The humidity has been down in the ...
November 6, 2007
Street Sign Update
The CCA received an email from the Code Enforcement Officer on additional missing street signs located in the Cape San Blas to Indian Pass area. They will replace the County signs, but it is up to the individual property owners to replace private signs. Following is the list they have ...
November 6, 2007
The Lures of Apalach
I spent the past weekend in Apalach with my husband and friends welcoming the arrival of Autumn and, of course, the annual seafood festival. The weather for the event was the best I’ve ever seen and they had a great turnout. If you’ve never been to Apalachicola or it’s just ...
November 3, 2007
Week In Review – Oct. 27 – Nov. 2, 2007
Time once again for our Saturday morning week in review of what’s been happening (or not) in the world of Cape San Blas real estate. The weather has cooled a bit this week, pleasant as can be; let’s see if our market is following suit. We end the week with ...
November 1, 2007
Shut Up and Pay Your Taxes
We may pay obscenely high taxes for the privilege of owning property in Gulf County but don’t go thinking you’re entitled to any services in return. That’s the reality of living in a county without at-large voting; we’re held hostage to the whims of five commissioners each protecting and only ...
November 1, 2007
State Approves Yet Another Property Insurance Hiike
Apparently our friends in Tallahassee think Florida taxpayers wallets are like Mary Poppins’ bag in that from them a never ending stream of money can be extracted. This time it’s insurance – even though most of us hadn’t yet stopped reeling from the last increase earlier this year – and ...
October 30, 2007
What’s Up With All Those C-30 Survey Crews?
If you’ve driven along C-30 between the Cape and Simmons Bayou lately, you’ve no doubt noticed the inordinate number of survey crews lining the sides of the road. I’ve had a number of e-mails and calls from folks wondering what’s going on so I decided to check it out. Turns ...
October 28, 2007
Hospital Moving Closer to Becoming Reality
Driving 130 miles round trip from the Cape to Panama City hospitals for health care is scheduled to become a thing of the past by Spring of 2009. If you haven’t driven past the community college on Hwy. 98 recently, you’ll be surprised the next time you do as huge ...
October 27, 2007
Week In Review – Oct. 21 – 26, 2007
Time once again for our Saturday week in review of real estate activity in the Cape San Blas market. Fairly quiet week, with the greatest activity being new listings and price changes. Only one sold and one new pending. Our total tally at week’s end of active listings is 568, ...
October 25, 2007
The Rules Are Apparently Different For Some People
Dealing with all the regulatory agencies that control any type of human activity on the beaches, especially construction, is a daunting gauntlet of government red tape. Right now hundreds of property owners are facing the possibility of the State of Florida deciding on a whim that with the stroke of ...