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2007
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Inspired by Sarah Cooper's post, and Maureen McCabe's New Member MEME, there are seven beautiful women here at Active Rain that have made the past few weeks better for me personally. We all started to get to know each other via our posts here at Active Rain, slowly one by one we have picked ...
01/30/2007
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The legislature passed the Property Insurance Reform Bill and it should be signed by the Governor as early as today. This is great news for Floridians! Below are some of the details of this comprehensive report:Insurance Report Card - requires the Insurance Consumer Advocate to assign a letter...
01/22/2007
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Angler's Cove - Marco Island, Florida Market UpdateSunsets on Marco Island are wonderful this time of year! You could be here enjoying them yourself if you owned here on Marco Island! So here is a great community to think about purchasing in so you too can enjoy the sugar sand beaches of Marc...
01/16/2007
Welcome to Active Rain Week in Review for January 8-14th! Wow this is really tough to pick! Which we probably should break this up at some point. I have a new appreciation for Matt and Caleb and how hard it is to pick featured posts. I had great hopes of doing something fancy, but I was rather...
01/15/2007
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It figures that I will be in Orlando attending the mid-winter meetings of the Florida Association of Realtors the one weekend that there is a lot of fun things to do in Naples and Marco Island! So you are visiting and wondering what to do. Well Naples & Marco Island Florida are full of options...
01/13/2007
A hidden treasure on Marco Island is the Collier County Tax Collector's office! Shhh... I am letting you in on a big secret there are hardly ever any lines here! You can just walk in and be done with your business. Located at 1010 Winterberry Drive is a convenient place where you can do any o...
01/12/2007
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Did your Realtor remind you about filing for your Homestead Exemption? As a Florida resident, you are eligible to declare the first $25,0000 on your new home as exempt for tax purposes, thereby reducing the cost of your ad valorum tax bill. Criteria for exemption are:The home was made your perm...
01/12/2007
Big news -- all that work is almost done! Read all about it from today's papers:Marco News - complete with photosMarco Island Sun Times Completion expected January 15th and the improvements are highly anticipated! This just makes our spectacular beaches even that more wonderful! Some of the c...
01/11/2007
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Marco Island is a boating community and has lots of canals... There are three types of seawalls on these canals: Original Deltona, T-Pile and Replacement Wall. Original Walls Designed by Deltona - these walls are over 30 years old and are normally 10'-12' in depth and 5'8' width and 4"-5" thic...
01/11/2007
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Here are some little know facts about Naples that you might like to know:Naples Pier was built in 1888, when the city was only accessible by waterMore than 95 Golf Courses and has the highest ratio of golf holes per capita in the USA.Marco Island is the largest of the 10,000 IslandsStone Crab se...
01/08/2007