Posted on Tuesday, 11th May 2010 by Laura Hernandez
Yet the rather plain-looking pavilion on Manatee Public Beach, with its casual restaurant and kitschy souvenir shop, may be Anna Maria Island’s most popular gathering spot. Locals and visitors love the laid-back ambience, the low-priced food, the free evening concerts that motivate many of them to dance, and especially the friendly staff.
“It’s the personal touch,” said Bradenton resident Frank Riecker.
Posted on Tuesday, 11th May 2010 by Jeremy Lee
Although the actual foreclosure rate still trended up, average front-end American foreclosure activity dropped nationwide in April 2010.
But, did this signal a real improvement, or just another tread reached on an upstairs ladder?
At least one data tracking firm believes that it’s another false spring, with unemployment and loan modifications simply serving to delay the inevitable return to pre-HAMP days.
But, again, the April 2010 rate of default servings did fall 9% from March, and 2% year on year too. I
Posted on Monday, 10th May 2010 by Laura Hernandez
A statewide union representing hundreds of Capital Region carpenters has been taken over by the national union in the wake of heavy investment losses in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=930571&category=BUSINESS#ixzz0noOk8DHX
Posted on Saturday, 8th May 2010 by Jeremy Lee
As the prospect of simply walking away from the foreclosure battle begins to seem attractive to some, others who jumped that way are finding that the taxation authorities can be less than friendly afterwards.
This adds another dimension to an already confusing Rubik’s Cube – Federal and State laws have long regarded cancelled debt as income, for the simple reason that borrowers who take advances for current spending may end up being better off even when they never settled these.
By way of example, consider the case of an un-named Colorado borrower whose husband died, and left her unable to keep on paying for the house she built. Her
Posted on Saturday, 8th May 2010 by Laura Hernandez
Dover has spent a year trying to find out what happened. Was his mother’s body removed after the burial? Or was the man’s tomb just placed right on top of her?
The Bradenton man is now suing a funeral home looking for some answers. It is the latest controversy for a Sarasota cemetery with such poor record-keeping that new burials were suspended this year.
Dover is not the only one with a story of finding a stranger’s grave on top of a relative’s remains in Galilee and Oaklands/Woodlawn cemeteries, two historic African-American graveyards reserved during the segregation era for the predominantly black residents of Newtown.
But he is the first to take the issue to a courtroom, where he formally accuses Chandler’s Funeral Chapel of inflicting emotional distress and interfering with a corpse.
According to Dover’s lawsuit, his mother, Mary Lane, was buried in 1988 an unmarked tomb like many others in Galilee Cemetery.
Posted on Friday, 7th May 2010 by Gregory Moore
Balconies are considered a luxurious addition to your home or apartment, and they often add value to your property. Unfortunately, improperly built balconies may present more of a danger than a luxury, especially since balconies are usually above the first floor of your home.
There may be a number of things that an individual glosses over when building a balcony, but it just takes one negligent action during construction to have a structurally unsound balcony. When you build a balcony onto your home, you should consider a number of things.
First and foremost, hiring an experienced contractor to build your balcony is essential.