US education for Brits
Nov 28th 2006, 5:13 pm
#46
Guttural Brumerican
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Re: US education for Brits
Originally Posted by Old William
And guess whats most likely to trash your house in FLA?
Nov 28th 2006, 5:18 pm
#47
Tool
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Re: US education for Brits
Originally Posted by Titchski
An old New Yorker, who smells of piss, driving through your front room in their 78 foot long Cadillac?
Nov 28th 2006, 9:19 pm
#48
Re vera, potas bene.
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Location: Cape Cod MA..Davenport FL
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Re: US education for Brits
Originally Posted by Old William
$157k will barely buy you an uncleared 1/4 acre lot in most of FLA these days.
And as for insurance...when we reinsured our place they question was "what part of Florida?...Well we only insure 1 or 2 counties there now." And neither of them are in the south. Infact a lot of people we know in PBC and Broward are now either completely uninsured or paying premiums for house insurance of over $1500 per month that wont cover flood and wind damage at all. And guess whats most likely to trash your house in FLA?
And as for insurance...when we reinsured our place they question was "what part of Florida?...Well we only insure 1 or 2 counties there now." And neither of them are in the south. Infact a lot of people we know in PBC and Broward are now either completely uninsured or paying premiums for house insurance of over $1500 per month that wont cover flood and wind damage at all. And guess whats most likely to trash your house in FLA?
We are fully covered in FL....but on the Cape we are not covered for wind storms...which is something we have every other week in the fall...and we are paying twice the price of FL....
Nov 28th 2006, 9:25 pm
#49
Re vera, potas bene.
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Re: US education for Brits
Originally Posted by Giantaxe
"A few years ago" is probably the operative phrase here. Tougher to justify financially a house purchase in a lot of FL these days given the much higher prices and the state of the real estate and property insurance markets.
