[hayburner]

Toby - why are the housing prices going up so dramatically? Is it because so many who had fancy houses on the coast have/want to move inland? Trent Lott comes to mind - imagine he has plenty of money.

Two recently widowed guys from our senior mobile home community recently paid their own way to Missippi, Lacedale and Ocean Springs, and played Santa at the schools. K through 4th grade. They had collected money from us for toys, arranged through the First United Methodist Church of Lucedale. They were truly inspired by their reception, reported it as incredibly heartwarming.

The devastation is almost unbelievable.

[gulfcoast6]

It is making a big profit, they can sell, folks are looking, then they can move up to the country, building cost has increased 15 to 20 percent. The same is happening in NO, the houses for sale did not get water, no damage amount to much. BUT! condo's getting ready to boom, multi story, one starts at 400,000 a condo to 1 million and they sill sell.

Emril (cooking show) had about half of his house destroyed but we hear he is build back, a lot of celebs live here, no way near what land cost in CA.