Tonight, the ball will drop on 2008. For many working families in Lake County that Waterford crystal ball can’t drop fast enough, and just maybe it will hit hard enough to shatter all of the bad memories. As everyone in Lake County looks toward 2009, there seems to be a renewed hope for a better [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Lady Lake Officials Just Don’t Understand
$17,492 in impact fees and $2,046 in permit fees will be required if you want to build an “affordable” 1,500 square foot home in Lady Lake, Florida, starting this spring. A basic home this size with a small lot should cost $120,000, at worst, but with these fees the cost escalates to well over $140,000. [...]
Hope
With the recent dismal news on unemployment, foreclosures, and Wall Street, it is very easy to lose hope for a better day, and hope is the one thing keeping many of our fellow citizens hanging on right now. Hope is a word that is bantered around frequently, but what does it really mean? One dictionary [...]
Lake County Should Reduce Property Assessments
According to the most recent S&P/Case-Shiller home price index, housing values in 20 metropolitan areas have decline 17.4% from the prior year. Based on the Orlando MSA, housing values in Central Florida have dropped between 25%-30%. These indexes take into account distressed and foreclosed property and reflect a real view of the market. Citizens throughout [...]
LAKE COUNTY UNEMPLOYMENT JUMPS TO 8.0%
***********BREAKING NEWS************ Unemployment numbers just released by the Florida Research and Economic Database show Lake County’s unemployment rate shot up .5% in November to 8.0%. Lake County’s unemployment is the highest in the three-county region, with Orange County at 7.1% and Sumter County at 5.1%. The report lists 10,893 Lake County residents as unemployed, and [...]
