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Is It Enough To Offer Asking Price in Today’s Housing Market?

If you’re planning to buy a home this season, you’re probably thinking about what you’ll need to do to get your offer accepted. In previous years, it was common for buyers to try and determine how much less than the asking price they could offer to still get the home. The buyer and seller would then negotiate and typically agree on a revised price that was somewhere between the buyer’s bid and the home’s initial asking price. In today’s real estate market, buyers shouldn’t shop for a home with the same expectations. Things Are Different Today Today’s housing market is anything but...

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Review: FGO’s ‘Fellow Travelers’ a powerful yet intimate McCarthy-era tale

FGO’s “Fellow Travelers” – the tale of two men pursuing a deep relationship in repressive Washington, D.C. — isn’t more accessible simply because it is performed in English, but because these 20th Century characters are coping with conflicts we can recognize and relate to.

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50 flies ‘landing on sushi cutting board’: Phat Boy Sushi in Coral Springs, Matchbox in Sunrise among five eateries temporarily ordered shut

Misbehaving critters partied until they dropped last week, landing on pizza cutting boards, bottles of alcohol – even dying in containers of pepper sauce – at five South Florida restaurants ordered shut by state inspectors last week.

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South Florida singer Allegra Miles’ run on American Idol ends

Allegra Miles, a 19-year-old singer from West Palm Beach, Florida, won’t be continuing on ABC’s “American Idol.” Miles made it through 13 episodes of this season, but failed to get enough votes from the public, despite overwhelmingly positive reception from the show’s judges.

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Myths About Today’s Housing Market [INFOGRAPHIC]

Some Highlights If you’re planning to buy or sell a home today, it’s important to be aware of common misconceptions. Whether it’s timing your purchase as a buyer based on home prices and mortgage rates or knowing what to upgrade or repair before listing your house as a seller, it takes a professional to guide you through those decisions. Let’s connect so you have an expert to help separate fact from fiction in today’s housing market. Content previously posted on Keeping Current Matters

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‘Like the Copacabana meets ‘Goodfellas’’: Fort Lauderdale’s Anthony’s Runway 84 to shut down in May for $3 million transformation

Restaurateur Anthony Bruno will shut down his Anthony’s Runway 84 restaurant on May 12 in a $3 million transformation to turn the 40-year-old Italian eatery from an old-school dining room with airplane motifs into a sleek supper club.

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Why This Housing Market Is Not a Bubble Ready To Pop

Homeownership has become a major element in achieving the American Dream. A recent report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) finds that over 86% of buyers agree homeownership is still the American Dream. Prior to the 1950s, less than half of the country owned their own home. However, after World War II, many returning veterans used the benefits afforded by the GI Bill to purchase a home. Since then, the percentage of homeowners throughout the country has increased to the current rate of 65.5%. That strong desire for homeownership has kept home values appreciating ever since....

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