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Two units suddenly for sale in Trump Tower Tampa

By KRIS HUNDLEY
Published March 21, 2005

If you were asleep at the wheel when Trump Tower Tampa was announced in January and missed reserving a luxury condo in the high-rise The Donald plans to build, this is your lucky day.

John Mudd, a Largo real estate agent, is advertising on his Web log that two units in the riverfront project, which was reportedly fully reserved, are now available.

A 15th floor junior penthouse is being put on the market by one of Trump's local development partners (Mudd declines to say which one). The 4,500-square-foot unit is priced at $3.1-million.

Another unit, this one on the 39th floor of the 52-story project, has a $1.9-million price tag. The person who held the reservation on the unit apparently had second thoughts. To put a hold on either unit, plan on putting down a 10 percent, refundable deposit.

Reservations are expected to go to contract within a couple of weeks, Mudd says. Then buyers will have to commit 20 percent of the purchase price in a nonrefundable deposit.

Mudd said he already has one client from England holding a reservation in Tampa's Trump project. But this individual intends to flip the property as soon as the project is built. "He'll consider all reasonable offers," said Mudd, who said his client will pay $1.2-million for the unit. "The buyer will be able to close right after he does."

If Mudd's aggressive marketing of his two latest Trump listings work, the buyer also might have celebrity neighbors. On the hunt for takers, he has sent e-mails to everyone from Nicole Richie (of The Simple Life) and Nikki Hilton (sister of Paris) to Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit.

"Of course, some of these people may have already reserved a unit in the condo building," Mudd says. "But if they haven't, I don't see why they wouldn't want to own in America's hottest luxury waterfront condo to be built."

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