The Meridian, a new condo in Boca Raton, is just the latest overpriced, over-hyped, real-estate product. Located at the Northwest intersection of Palmetto Park Avenue and A1A, this morbidly pink building tries to mask its frugal pompousness with silly design elements...

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The Bal Harbour Sheraton hotel located just north of Miami Beach, and one of the better hotels of the Sheraton brand is about to be demolished. Replacing it will be a St. Regis condo-hotel.The St. Regis, like the Sheraton, is...

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While in a furniture store -- flipping through a magazine for design ideas for my new home -- I came across an ad for a “soon to be constructed” condo called “Ocean Plaza.” As the building was completed quite a...

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We often think of politicians as hypocrites -- you know Al Gore living in several mansions, and using about twenty times the fuel the rest of us consume. Or maybe celebrities preaching to us about an environmentally conscious lifestyle, as they...

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Briny Breeze.What a nice name for a nice community filled with nice people. Several weeks ago, while driving along South Florida's A1A, I happened upon a 43 acre, 488 unit, community, where the residents greeted me with waves and smiles as...

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There is a community in Boca Raton called, “The Preserve.”This particular group of homes, named after the tree-filled wildlife oasis it single-handedly destroyed, is located between two noisy intersections -- Yamato Road and Military Trail -- and many of those homes are...

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This is a cautionary tale, about a group of Americans just like you and me.It is about "Eden," an upscale, condominium development in Boca Raton, Florida that certainly has not lived up to any notion of paradise.This condo was scheduled...

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Welcome to Real Estate Hell, a place where even good people go.A place with crooked developers, awful neighbors, bad zoning, ugly houses, town bureaucrats and unscrupulous contractors.A deceitful place, that robs its occupants of its hopes and dreams.We once got caught...

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