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Old 07-01-2008, 02:17 PM   #1
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Now's the time to buy in Orlando, Florida!

Live bombs haunt Orlando neighborhood - CNN.com

"What am I going to do with this? Nobody wants to touch this neighborhood. I'm stuck."

"You can't even give this place away right now. I've tried to re-finance. ... I can't do anything," Lamb said.

All you LBYMers, now's your chance at a half-million dollar home in Florida at a rock bottom price!
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Old 07-01-2008, 03:32 PM   #2
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i would have felt that way about orlando without the bombs.

if anything, i think finally orlando might have just become interesting.
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I wonder if living in that neighborhood is as dangerous as driving on I4? I liked Orlando when the population was 75,000. The bombs were still fresh then.
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If you were buying it as your final home for retirement and didn't care about resale value, it would be a good deal.

You could throw bomb hunting parties in your back yard. It would be a real blast!
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I spent a summer in Orlando as a guest of Uncle Sam's and his yacht club (aka, U.S. Navy Bootcamp).

It was enough.
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If you were buying it as your final home for retirement and didn't care about resale value, it would be a good deal.

You could throw bomb hunting parties in your back yard. It would be a real blast!
And if my portfolio is running low, I can always do some square dancing right on the red flags. I still wouldn't simply because the neighborhood may become abandoned, and then I really will need to dance on the red flags.
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