Posted on 05/08/2006 7:56:34 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
complete with indoor/outdoor swimming pool?
Autumn Nurton, 24, stands in front of the flooded house that she hopes to buy at a great price in New Orleans, Thursday, April 27, 2006. Although vast swaths of this hurricane-battered city are still without electricity and basic services, residential real estate sales are at a fever pitch, a shining spot in an otherwise struggling economy. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)
Ray Nagin must be apoplectic. She doesn't look chocolate.
Many criminals went to Texas, which bumped up sales I am sure.
psst... "a river runs through it" ;-)
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gotta make a livin' i'm a louweeziana man
I notice the time stamp on FR is a few minutes fast. I am posting this at 7:58pm.
You're right. It is fast.
My computer's clock, which is linked to the Atomic Clock, says 9:59 pm central.
They gutted the house and completely restored it inside and out (owner had ins, renter was living there, lost her dog and birds). It looks beautiful now. It's an older home, probably not like the one in the story.
I haven't heard what became of the youngish girl who was at work when it happened as I felt really bad for her. She probably wouldn't have wanted to move back in there because she didn't have renter's ins and lost everything.
They put all the smoke damaged furnishings on the curb to be picked up and taken to the dump. I fished through it and found two really cute, homemade plantstands that I scrubbed and paid a neighbor to paint for me, probably more than the things were worth. I had sanded, filled a bunch of holes, scrubbed and started the base coat. I had already restored an old chest and was burned out on painting and too many other things going and she was out of work. I looked at the birdcage sitting there and felt really sad.
I can't imagine paying that kind of money for a house that needed complete redoing unless I liked the location and had the money which I don't.
I may kick myself later, but I think I'll pass on this investment opportunity.
Suckers!
But.. But.. ;-)
Flash, This just in...
Water Now Safe in Part of Lower Ninth Ward ^
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628986/posts
You have got to be kidding me.
I guess that means I left work 5 minutes early today. I used FR time and even changed the computers clock.
Jury is still out what those neighborhoods are going to turn into.
Many of those areas of N.O. were hellholes and I don't see thats going to change now or in the near future.
Businesses continue to move out of that area, not in.
I sure as hell hope that the feds are not rebuilding public housing projects BELOW sea level.
But, knowing the feds, they are doing exactly that.
Apparently, a significant number of upper middle class families from New Orleans have relocated in Oxford, Mississippi.
The housing market in Oxford is booming.
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