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Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 9:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
And if they're building an ocean-front home, there it goes.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 9:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Pamy, that was the perfect word for Amber's face. I thought her makeup was just beautiful.

Teachmichigan
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07-22-2001

Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 2:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Frog -- think it was JUST a rumor about the $500k for TAR. I'm trying to find the thread where someone said that absolutely wasn't true, but can't find it at the moment (figures! :-) ). I think they've far exceeded my income this year, b
ut I do think they'd best do some smart investing if they want to "retire in style."

If Rob's dad had already built the house, maybe his idea of "giving" it to them was just a loving family member offering the best wedding present he could think of? My dad and I made every cabinet, cupboard and piece of trim in our new house. I "could have" afforded it, but because it was his gift to me, it's all the more precious! (and if I ever have to move, I'm ripping it them out and taking them with me! LOL)

Rslover
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11-19-2002

Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 5:01 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I also wondered what happened to the "teal" dresses. Those dresses were definitely not teal. Teal is greener. I wore that same color blue (summer wedding) as a bridesmaid and we called it electric blue. We just loved the color.
TealElectric Blue

Ladytex
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09-27-2001

Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 8:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ray and Deana were at Rob and Amber's wedding. Amber was also a bridesmaid at their wedding this week.


http://people.aol.com/people/articles/0,19736,1066041,00.html


Gina8642
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06-01-2001

Thursday, May 26, 2005 - 8:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Colors can look very different on camera than they do in person.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 2:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The color on my TV definately showed the dresses to be closer to teal than electric blue. We did this debate about color in the Trading Spaces thread (when the show was hot) all the time.

Second place for TAR is surprisingly low. Definately not 500k. I have forgotten now.

They live on Perdido Key which is on the pan handle just west of Pensacola close to the Alabama state line.



Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 4:06 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here is what I think, piecing together bits and pieces from interviews with the confusing presentation of the house.

Rob and his father are probably investing in real estate. It is the thing to do right now. They are both focusing on the Florida pan handle where real estate is still affordable.

Rob has said he wants to get back into construction and he does not mean manual labor. They have chosen an area of Florida devastated by Ivan and in need of rebuilding.

CBS wanted their gifts to each other to be spectacular because it creates more drama. In a brainstorming session it was discovered that Rob and Amber intended to live in dad's spec house until they build their own. CBS paid to finish and furnish it for the "gift". I think the Red Sox painting was the brain child of some very smart CBS producer.

Amber was totally confused when she saw the familiar house on the video as Rob presented his gift. To her, that was the plan all along, to live there anyway. Then when the furnishings were revealed she saw that as the real gift and got excited.

It is my guess that the house still belongs to dad and their business plans will proceed as planned.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 5:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Oh kool, thanks Ladyt!

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 7:10 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I found a house in Perdido Bay Country Club that was deeded to Rob's parents by Adam's Homes of Northwest Florida in March. It was built in 2005, has a base area of 2,552 sq. ft. and is appraised at $180,900. They have two other properties in that area, but those homes were built in 1992 and 2000.

Mocha
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08-12-2001

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hmm that's kinda cheap.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 7:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Good work Native. I suspect the home built in 1992 is Rob's parents winter residence. That is probably how Rob and Amber chose that area.

That figure must be acessed value for taxes which would be substantially lower than appraised, yes? That is usually the figure in the records. Apraised value can change quickly and is usually done when it is on the market and not listed in public records.

You can get very cheap homes in Florida especially inland.

The pan handle is not that desireable. It will be, in time, but the main road running parallel to the shore, 98 I think, is trashy and smacks having seen better times.

Native_texan
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08-24-2004

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 7:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yes, that is taxed value.

It took me a whole probably three minutes to find that. I found out what the county was and searched for that county's tax appraisal records and then searched under the name Mariano.

I have found that Dallas County records are the best for people who need know as they have a breakdown of not only square footage, but the number of bedrooms and baths, no. of fireplaces, whether a pool exists, etc., as well as a photo of the front of the home.


Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ladytex, thanks, that's the couple I saw and couldn't recall their names! My memory is slowly leaving me.

Frogichik
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06-11-2002

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 1:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
"Second place for TAR is surprisingly low. Definately not 500k. I have forgotten now."

Fruitbait, your right, the second place finisher only gets $25K. But I heard a "rumor" (and I stress the word rumor) on one of Thefishbowl.com shows that they were guaranteed $500K to be on the show no matter which place they came in, unless it was 1st and they would have gotten the million.

"You can get very cheap homes in Florida especially inland." This is NOT true of "South Florida"! Home prices have absolutely skyrocketed in the last 4 years!!! I live in a home 3/2 that was built in 1962 and similar ones in my area are going for $330k. 3 years ago the house across the street from me sold for $140K. My friend bought a townhouse in 2001 for $92,000.00 that is now worth $173K. Home prices have doubled down here, it's crazy. My next home will definitely be at least 3 counties North, or out of Florida altogether!



Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Port St Lucie is still reasonable but I was referring to Orlando, Gainsville and area's north of the gold coast.

The 500k to Rob and Amber doesn't sound like it could be true, to me. TAR has good ratings.

Frogi, where do you live? I live on Hutchinson Island, half of the year.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 1:46 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
try living in california. my neighborhood went from the high $100k about 10 years ago to $600k now! the house two doors down was bought a month and a half ago for $545k and it's smaller than my house!

Terolyn
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05-06-2004

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 1:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fruit - you can rule out Gainesville
We bought our house in 92 for 65
Appraised in 2001 at $114
Appraised last year for $195
House 4 doors down - similar floor plan - just sold for $255.
Its a sellers market in FL right now.

My sister lives in Bonifay which is in the panhandle. They actually refer to it as "Lower Alabama"

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 1:52 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Landi, CA is totally out of sight and thu the roof nuts. There is nothing else that compares in the US other than maybe Hawaii.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 1:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Terolyn, I think $195,000 is a reasonable price to pay for a house as is $255. It is all relative.

Real Estate is hot many places now but most can still find something affordable inland in Florida.

Houses, in Florida, where I live are now going for 500k and they are small bungalows.

Frogichik
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06-11-2002

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 1:57 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Fruitbait, I live in Ft. Lauderdale and your right, everyone from South Florida if moving to Port St. Lucie! It's the only place to get a new single family home for around $200k. But now Port St. Lucie prices are going up too! A friend of my moved there and when she signed her son up for school he was the 9th child enrolled from South Florida that week.

Wow Landi that's crazy! "They say" that Florida is the new California! That's why I am becoming a realtor and a mortgage broker. In fact I just found out today that I passed the state exam to become a mortgage broker and I am mailing my application to become a realtor next week.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 2:14 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL! Frogi. Oddly the hurricanes drove the prices up. Our house went up about 100k in less than a year! We are staying put though. I am one block from the ocean and waiting until the gold coast hits this miserable town of Ft Pierce before I cash in. It is coming, I can see it.

Juju2bigdog
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10-27-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 2:38 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I live in a smallish town in WA state that is often written up in best places to live, although it rains every day, so I can't really figure out why. Be that as it may, real estate prices here have gone nuts. Realtors are calling it the Santa Barbara of Washington. 1300 sq. ft. bungalow built in the 50's, down the street from me, in a most unexceptional neighborhood just sold for $355,000. Houses selling for $200,000 are tear-downs, shack sold for the lot.

Fruitbat
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08-07-2000

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 2:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
All this talk is making me panic. I want to sell the MA house and buy one in the southwest to be closer to the kids but we are about 2 years away from that now. shit.

There is absolutey NO boom where we sit in New England which makes it all the more nerve wracking because we have to sell this place to buy another.

Alisons
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01-10-2003

Friday, May 27, 2005 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Housing prices are unreal. I live in a 1100 square foot condo in Reston, VA, which I bought in 1993 for $124,500. I am refinancing, and my appraisal just came in today at $369,000. Personally, I think someone would be INSANE to pay that much money for something like this.

I agree that Amber looked ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL at her wedding. She is always good looking, but wow, she really looked fabulous. Good for them, I hope it all works out!