This season's trend, thus far.......... (Cape Coral, Fort Myers: appliances, new home, buy)

[JBMallory]

Originally Posted by TannerBoyle

So...you sold one?

LOL

A little dodge, chrysler, jeep outfit in LaBelle

dirt parking lot, converted 50s gas station building, etc

[TannerBoyle]

Originally Posted by JBMallory

LOL

A little dodge, chrysler, jeep outfit in LaBelle

dirt parking lot, converted 50s gas station building, etc

Ain't nothing wrong with that, baby.

The days of easy money in this country are over. Maybe for good.

The only way anyone's gonna make it these days is if they roll up their sleeves and get into the trenches.

Thanks, Dubya. Wherever you are.....

[TANaples]

The Ft. Myers/Naples area has probably been the hardest hit in the entire state because it is so heavily dependent on tourist/retiree/snowbird economy. We have our condo rented for season and just received their payment for the entire season, BUT we contracted with them last year and they have been renting this development for years and just plain wanted to come back to the same development. Damn, why can't they just BUY? We are ready to sell for about $100,000 with a LOSS of $70,000. It is the HOA fees that are scaring buyers away because the board keeps raising them to make up for all the people not paying; foreclosures, short sales, etc.

I have to start liqudating so I can LEAVE here.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by JBMallory

LOL

A little dodge, chrysler, jeep outfit in LaBelle

dirt parking lot, converted 50s gas station building, etc

That's great. My husband fixes cars in lots just like that.

We've been thinking outside the box for quite awhile now. You have to if you want to get ahead, and right now, just hang on.

So, it looks like things are picking up again. For the life of me, I can't figure out what happened in September. Maybe backlash from the Cash for Clunkers program?

[tjstrain]

it's still gonna get worse according to the housing experts. Their now saying the more higher priced, middle class homes will be going up for foreclosure now. Those who had some cash stashed away and had been paying their mortgages monthly are now running out of money. I looked at one the other day, 2500 sq ft, 12 feet ceilings, pool, three car garage beautiful kitchen, 20 inch tiles and a killer master bath. Bank owned, for sale for $234,900.00. I was gonna bid $230,000 but decided to wait. Then I found out that a friend of the realtor bid full price. Not sure if it sold yet. Great gated neighborhood in Estero with nice amenities. It's the beginning of the higher priced homes going up. Was selling for around $600,000 in 2005.

[Big House]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

Thanks, Big House. You're a great guy.

Thanks for coming to my rescue. I guess you could tell that I was getting a little shook up.

You know, I'm pulling for you! You're a great person too, and I think you will be a great agent in Tennesee! I may stop in on one of my drives down or back from Florida and meet you. I like to check different places out as much as I can. I'm sure you will be as good a representative in TN as someone we both know down here!

And, don't feel bad! Everything goes in cycles. It is never as bad as it seems (although when your down it seems like it will last forever), and it is never as good as it seems ( and you wish it would last longer). You guys are working hard, so I trust you will do well.

[fwi]

Originally Posted by TannerBoyle

Thanks, Dubya. Wherever you are.....

No, you should thank 40+ years of left wing politics, as well as the current occupant of the white house, (who has never held a real job in his life) who is doing his best to apply the lessons he learned from the radical marxist pig preachers he listened to for over 25 years, who is doing everything he can to drive the economy further down into the ground, along with the entire senate gang of course.........not to mention the willing media accomplices!!!

[TannerBoyle]

Originally Posted by fwi

No, you should thank 40+ years of left wing politics, as well as the current occupant of the white house, (who has never held a real job in his life) who is doing his best to apply the lessons he learned from the radical marxist pig preachers he listened to for over 25 years, who is doing everything he can to drive the economy further down into the ground, along with the entire senate gang of course.........not to mention the willing media accomplices!!!

Typical Republican blow-jobbery.

Now...try not to have the typical Right-wing knee-jerk reaction of automatically assuming that since I'm in any way critical of Dubya, then that automatically makes me a liberal, or a Democrat.

Anyways....pass the buck all you want, but it seems to me like every time we've had a Republican in the White House in my own lifetime, before we knew it we were in for hard, hard times economically.

Dubya ran the country into the ground. Plain and simple.

[mrcoolmrcool28]

Originally Posted by TannerBoyle

Typical Republican blow-jobbery.

Now...try not to have the typical Right-wing knee-jerk reaction of automatically assuming that since I'm in any way critical of Dubya, then that automatically makes me a liberal, or a Democrat.

Anyways....pass the buck all you want, but it seems to me like every time we've had a Republican in the White House in my own lifetime, before we knew it we were in for hard, hard times economically.

Dubya ran the country into the ground. Plain and simple.

With the exception of the period after 9/11 and the last 4 months of his term, the economy boomed for 8 years under George W Bush. It's a fact!! Plain and simple.

[JBMallory]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

That's great. My husband fixes cars in lots just like that.

We've been thinking outside the box for quite awhile now. You have to if you want to get ahead, and right now, just hang on.

So, it looks like things are picking up again. For the life of me, I can't figure out what happened in September. Maybe backlash from the Cash for Clunkers program?

took thousands of customers for the months surrounding the program out of the playing field