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Home Front
Briefs and news of note
Apartments, townhouses come to neotraditional suburb
West Park Village in Westchase will feature interwoven lifestyles of city and suburbia: Folks can live above their offices, mingle in green spaces or enjoy top-flight retail shopping.
Sweaters for penguins? Believe it
Well, you've all heard of carrying coals to Newcastle, right? This week we have a Reader's Exchange version of that activity. It sounds a little weird, but we have received a request from a reader for 100 percent wool yarn, not wool blend, to make sweaters for penguins.
Scott Shimberg named Builder of the Year
Builders Association of Greater Tampa bestowed the honor this week.
Fight boredom with tropical flair
If you find the usual bushes uninspiring, try sprinkling a few easy-to-grow perennials among them for a true Florida flavor.
National Archives' fees rise, but more information to be available
Adam Sanner's Civil War pension file reads like Peyton Place Meets Appalachia. To say the least, Adam got around. So did the women in his life. All these sordid details came to light when he died, leaving his second wife, Lucinda, to squabble with Lucy, his paramour, over Sanner's pension. If the situation weren't complicated enough, Lucinda was previously married to Adam's brother, and Lucy had been married to his nephew. Imagine a mountain version of Dallas or Dynasty.
St. Petersburg Times real estate classified ads:
Other recent real estate stories:
Lower your taxes with homestead exemption
A nation of homeowners
How good is your escrow coverage?
Don't ask
To have and to hold a mortgage of their own
A testament to hope (Jan. 23, 1999)
Program can help with down payment, closing costs
From hope to homeowner (Jan. 9, 1999)
Woman's untidiness leads to legal wrangle
Commission add-ons (Jan. 2, 1999)
Children are not to be seen here either
Other real estate links (from Yahoo!):
Cost of Living calculator: compares the cost of living in any two cities. Also includes links to Salary Calculator and Moving Calculator among other tools. From the folks at HomeFair.Com.
Best Places to Live 1997: From Money magazine.
MoveQuest: maps, financing tools, price data, logistical tips.
TenantNet: a resource for residential tenants' rights.
FAQs for Home Buyers and Owners: From the America Society of Home Inspectors.
Home Buyer and Renter Consumer Information: From the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Home Buying Tips: from the U.S. Government General Services Administration.
R-Net: Real Estate and the Net: links and tips for the busy. Of interest to investors, brokers and consumers. Accepts factual ads.
Real Estate Library: collection of informative articles about buying and selling real estate.
Realtor.com: includes info on buying and selling real estate, allows you to browse property ads in the U.S. and locate realtors.
Regional real estate links:
Florida Home Builders - features Florida developers with Web sites.
Florida Living Network - listing of real estate companies and Realtors in Florida.
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