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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Gloucester, Va
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Have you guys been on any fishing forums? I am on a couple good ones up north here but I am looking to get on one for SWFL. I found this one: Florida Fishing & Boating Forum - Reports, Tips, Advice, Chat . Do you know of any better ones? Anyway, though it would be a good idea for us to join a forum just for fishing.
Yeah, well Lee County is 13.9 and that's the "official" count. Season can't come soon enough.
Yep, and those are the September numbers. I have a feeling October numbers will be above 14%. November seems to be cooking a little bit as the birds are arriving in earnest, and things are moving and shaking a bit. But we'll have to wait til early January to see November's numbers. How that translates to the long haul over the season into January/February of '10 will be crucial.
Right now I'm figuring this is likely as good as it's gonna get til this time next year. One week before the Ft Myers boat show. I hear there's lots of boats going to the show, mainly because show mgmt cant sell the slips this year, they're practically giving them away, just so there IS a show.
OTOH, it seems there was a pretty successful show, as far as sales are concerned, in Ft Lauderdale last week. But it's the same story as local R.E. Sales were for pennies on the dollar............
not sure if there is something to this or if it just a scare tactic but...
there was a columnist that was being interviewed and his point of view is that many small businesses are not hiring even though they need to because they feel they cannot afford to pay a payroll tax if they do not supply healthcare benefits. They are more profitable with higher productivity and slower growth. Usually they spark employment by tax incentives as opposed to penalties. I am not sure if the bill they are slapping around this weekend in congress requires employers that hire part time or temp workers to provide benefits or not or pay penalties. If they are not required to than this will be the norm of hiring going forward.
As a general manager of a franchise store whose owner has 4 total locations, I can tell you that is the absolute truth.
The snowbirds are flowing in pretty good right now, but I'm just extending hours to the staff I have rather than hire new.
An 8% payroll hike is UNABSORBABLE.
I have to keep my labor at 16%. If I manage to do that, and keep my other numbers at par, I break even.
To make that number 24% would lock our doors.
I've not yet had a chance to peruse this latest monster to run through the house to say much about it.....
But you don't buy a Cadillac when your house is being foreclosed!!
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