Brookings Institution Reports: Cape Coral Has the Worst Economy in the Nation (Fort Myers: rentals, mortgage)

[KasperFile]

Your misconstruing what a “people bias opinions or rumors” are and what a “published facts” is. I could see if people come here and post their bias opinions or rumors to try pumping the markets down but a fact is a fact and unless you try disputing with solid evidence to the contrary’ their real and not made up. If a paper or news station publicizes something it needs to first go through a editors and legal departments to checks the truth of the peace before making public.

[BritPop]

Originally Posted by KasperFile

Your misconstruing what a “people bias opinions or rumors” are and what a “published facts” is. I could see if people come here and post their bias opinions or rumors to try pumping the markets up or down but a fact is a fact and unless you try disputing with solid evidence to the contrary’ their real. If a paper or news station publicizes something it needs to first go through a editors and legal departments to checks the truth of the peace before making public.

99% of "information" posted on here is opinion, not fact.

***MOD CUT*** is very good at quoting opinion and representing it as fact.

So are ***MOD CUT***.

[faithfulFrank]

Folks, please discuss issues, not each other.

I do agree that all posters need to do a better job at presenting the whole truth, and not cut and paste to make a point. We have had some recent posts where the title has not accurately reflected the whole article it was referring to. That sensationalism does no one any good, and just provokes disputes.

Those disputes tend to make a thread go from an intelligent debate and discussion to stone throwing. That just hurts the forum.

Frank

[BritPop]

I'm happy to do as you suggest Frank but it's hard to stay on topic and not get personal when there appears to be a secondary agenda within various posts.

It hasn't been difficult for me to detect the antagonists but the responses to these posts can perhaps get a little out there, for which I apologise

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by faithfulFrank

Folks, please discuss issues, not each other.

I do agree that all posters need to do a better job at presenting the whole truth, and not cut and paste to make a point. We have had some recent posts where the title has not accurately reflected the whole article it was referring to. That sensationalism does no one any good, and just provokes disputes.

Those disputes tend to make a thread go from an intelligent debate and discussion to stone throwing. That just hurts the forum.

Frank

Woot, there it is!

[Taratova]

Fact is many people are getting a bargain when buying a home in Cape Coral . Taxes on the homes are down as well. Most of the baby boomers will be retiring bringing their money with them. They don't need a job but will buy goods and services which will help out the economy as time goes on. It will recover. The word will get out as more people buy bringing more buyers into the Cape.

[BritPop]

Oh yes

[yoko]

" The utility rates are rising to help the city pay off loans on $400 million worth of utility plants and to expand the system. The city was counting on new residents to pay for the projects, but since population growth has all but stopped, the cost is being spread among the existing customers.


One project calls for $2 million for landscaping around the new water plant on Kismet Parkway.

Councilman Bill Deile said he doesn’t want to lower the utility rates by shifting them to the property taxes collected by the city.





July/21/2010
Cape Coral utility rate hike may be reduced | news-press.com | The News-Press









Since Cape Coral's economy is based on growth and NO growth is existing, one can imagine what is ahead..."the worst economy in the nation", continued .

[chaotix]

Originally Posted by Taratova

Fact is many people are getting a bargain when buying a home in Cape Coral . Taxes on the homes are down as well. Most of the baby boomers will be retiring bringing their money with them. They don't need a job but will buy goods and services which will help out the economy as time goes on. It will recover. The word will get out as more people buy bringing more buyers into the Cape.

This is a FACT!

Check out the map as to where Americans are moving, you have to wait a bit for map to upload, then click on Lee County

Map: Where Americans Are Moving - Forbes.com

[chaotix]

Originally Posted by yoko

Since Cape Coral's economy is based on growth and NO growth is existing, one can imagine what is ahead..."the worst economy in the nation", continued .

Your Brookings Institute Report says otherwise:

What's noteworthy here is that the South dominated by accounting for 54 percent of all new homes sold in this time period. Economic news from our area? The Brookings Institute released its latest Metro Monitor report for the first quarter, reporting: "Recent signs of improvement are showing in economies around the country, but most notably in the south (the hardest hit of the housing bust)." Housing appears to have halted the free fall and employment has begun to grow in areas in the South. Cape Coral/Fort Myers and unincorporated Lee County was ranked top in the 100 metropolitan areas surveyed in first quarter of 2010 in job growth change.

In other words, job growth in Lee County improved by 1.1 percent between the fourth quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010. Most major metropolitan areas suffered continued decreases in job growth during the same period. In fact, we moved from worst-performing to best-performing in job growth.

This report provides further indication that my "first in, first out" theory may have credibility, after all. While Southwest Florida was the first and hardest hit in the housing bust, it appears that we could be the first to recover. At any rate, it seems very clear that there is no place to go but up.The sun seems to be rising again in the South and all these statistics indicate that Florida could be on the rebound: Our job market is improving, our population is still growing and demand for new homes is starting to increase.

Commercial Connection: Land sales robust in Southwest Florida | news-press.com | The News-Press