chrisgriffith on November 10th, 2010

Snow Birds support local Bonita Springs and Southwest Florida businesses.

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chrisgriffith on September 1st, 2009

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Home Crisis Investigation www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Healthcare Protests Geitner Claims The Housing Crisis is Over   If you don’t see the video above CLICK HERE

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chrisgriffith on July 22nd, 2009

Photo Courtesy Jeff Turner The Never Ending Guessing Game The public has gotten fed up watching professional economists stab and miss repeatedly with their predictions over the last few years. If I got a dollar for every time I heard a nationally recognized, and one would assume, college education economist declare the bottom was here, [...]

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chrisgriffith on June 22nd, 2009

What You Can’t See When Shopping For Real Estate This flower is really pretty.  It’s in a little gated community in Bonita Springs, Florida.  There are twenty two homes on the street, of which four are currently in distress and may be foreclosed upon. When you drive down the street you would never know or [...]

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chrisgriffith on June 3rd, 2009

Sellers of real estate becoming angry at buyers because the real estate market is in a slump.

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chrisgriffith on May 28th, 2009

What the Numbers Aren’t Saying See that dark orange spot at the bottom left corner of Florida?  That’s Lee County Florida and that is where Bonita Springs, Estero, Fort Myers, Cape Coral, Sanibel, Lehigh Acres, Alva and a few other cities are located. What the numbers aren’t telling you is that two large areas are [...]

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chrisgriffith on November 5th, 2008

The Bonita Springs Real Estate Market’s Slow & Steady Recovery After showing property in Gateway, Fort Myers last weekend, I passed Germain Arena in Estero while driving down the interstate.  There was an RV show that was in progress and they had filled the lot with campers and RV’s.  They were parked everywhere.  As I [...]

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chrisgriffith on July 13th, 2008

Are There Things To Do Besides Eat, Shop and Build? It doesn’t take much looking around to see that things around the Community of Bonita Springs aren’t quite the same as they use to be. At the risk of sounding like a codger with a “back in the day” story I will tell you this. [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 25th, 2008

Muvico vs. Regal What if they both lose? Years ago, long before I became a spinster, I raised my kids in Bonita Springs, Florida. I recall the day The Prado shopping center was built and the day the new movie theater came to town. Regal Cinema opened it’s doors and most Friday and Saturday night [...]

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