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Category: Port St. Joe
December 1, 2007
Two Weeks in Review – Nov. 17 – 30
Not being content with having crashed this site once, when I finally got it back up and running on the 18th I tried the upgrade once again only to crash it so irretrievably that some of the best tech minds at GoDaddy couldn’t figure out what I’d done. I finally ...
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 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 ...
October 23, 2007
Florida House Proposes Changes for Property Tax Relief
One of the contributing factors stagnating our market is the incredible increase in property taxes in the past few years exacerbated by the inequity in taxes between homestead and non-homestead properties. With the vast majority of our properties having absentee owners, this is a major concern here. When people are ...
October 21, 2007
Week In Review – Oct. 13 – 20, 2007
Our inventory inched up a bit again this week, reaching 558 active listings in the MLS for Cape San Blas, the C-30 corridor and Indian Pass, with 202 homes (up 3) and 356 lots (up 5). Once again there were two sales, one home and one lot. The home was ...