Charlotte Katz Representing Buyers In Southwest Florida
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On our site you'll find knowledge and resources necessary for exploring some of the Southwest Florida real estate markets – the ones that I concentrate on. |
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| You can learn about other cities along the Gulf coast and what they offer by doing some searches on the web. You may want to investigate Cape Coral, Ft. Myers, and east Naples. Then move north to Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Sarasota and even St. Petersburg. | ||
| Each city has its own natural beauty and ambience that is so unique to Florida, yet also offers its own special lifestyle that makes Florida such a desirable place to call home. |  |
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PHOTOS Year later, developer still owes fees to those displaced from Bonita trailer park
One year after the derelict Glade Haven trailer park in Bonita Springs closed to make way for a 200-unit residential development, owner and developer Eagle Bay LLC is struggling just to remove the remaining trailers and RVs. Eagle Bay LLC owes money to... Continue reading
Steven Beardsley: Homeless series was about real people, real struggles
A man named Mike Heath recently visited me at the Naples office of the Daily News. Heath had just read the latest story in the Faces of the Downturn series, a project photographer Greg Kahn and I worked on for the past year, and he wanted to talk about it. That day’s story, about a homeless couple who panhandled along the road, upset him, he told me. Heath and his family were homeless, he said, and they never panhandled.
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Faces of the Downturn: Foreclosure crisis creates heartache, opportunity
(Last in a series) The housing downturn created work and opportunity for some entrepreneurs. At foreclosure auctions, bank-owned properties are bought and resold for a profit. In an area that outpaces the nation in mortgage defaults and lost properties, these once-quiet auctions have evolved into money-makers.
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Faces of the Downturn: Jobless and homeless, what’s a family to do?
(Third in a series) Jennifer Audette and Chad Perillard ended up jobless and homeless, so they and their children, 3 and 6, had to move in with relatives. As they failed to find jobs in Naples, tensions ran high inside the Marco Island house they all shared, so the parents and kids moved into an East Naples motel and panhandled.
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Faces of the Downturn: Families lose homes, struggle where to go
(Second in a series) Best friends Vicky Heinel and Denise Brunal-Hicks are trying to rebuild their lives after the landlord and tenant became like family _ only to see their home and guest house foreclosed on. Like many families in Southwest Florida, the ones they stitched together were at the mercy of an unforgiving economy.
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