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  2. Condo crisis: Florida condominiums sales slow as sellers ...

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    Total real estate sales were down 8% in August versus a year ago, according to the Marco Island Association of Realtors. Condos are staying on the market 120 days, up 79%, compared to 69 days for ...

  3. List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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    An occupation may become obsolete for a single reason, or for a combination of reasons. Reasons for occupations to become obsolete fall into a number of groups: Cultural/fashion change, for example hoop skirt and crinoline manufacturers were significant employers in the 1850s and 1860s but they declined significantly in later years as fashions ...

  4. Mackle Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Deltona ended up becoming a competitor to the GDC. The reason for their departure was because of a dispute involving the company's chairman, Gardner Cowles. [4] Frank Mackle III joined Deltona in 1966 after he graduated from the University of Notre Dame. [9] Work began on developing Marco Island in 1969. [4]

  5. Marco Island, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Marco Island in the 1960s. Marco Island's history can be traced to 500 CE, when the Calusa people inhabited the island as well as the rest of southwest Florida.A number of Calusa artifacts were discovered on Key Marco (an island then adjacent, and since attached, to Marco Island) in 1896 by anthropologist Frank Hamilton Cushing as part of the Pepper-Hearst Expedition.

  6. Flipping - Wikipedia

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    The property is quickly resold after making few, or only cosmetic, improvements. Illegal property flipping often involves collusion between a real estate appraiser, a mortgage originator and a closing agent. The cooperation of a real estate appraiser is necessary to get a false, artificially inflated appraisal report.

  7. Category:Obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

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    This is a category of jobs that have become obsolete. Subcategories. This category has the following 27 subcategories, out of 27 total. ... Category: Obsolete ...

  8. Real estate business - Wikipedia

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    A real estate transaction is the process whereby rights in a unit of property (or designated real estate) are transferred between two or more parties, e.g., in the case of conveyance, one party being the seller(s) and the other being the buyer(s). It can often be quite complicated due to the complexity of the property rights being transferred ...

  9. Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    The essence of London's plan would have the government impose a legal obsolescence on personal-use items, to stimulate and perpetuate purchasing. However, the phrase was first popularized in 1954 by Brooks Stevens, an American industrial designer. Stevens was due to give a talk at an advertising conference in Minneapolis in 1954. Without giving ...