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2. Swampland in Florida - Wikipedia

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   Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically for any scam that misrepresents what is being sold.

3. Florida land boom of the 1920s - Wikipedia

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   1922 Florida billboard promoting the sale of lots. The Florida land boom of the 1920s was Florida 's first real estate bubble. The economic prosperity of the 1920s coupled with a lack of knowledge about storm frequency and the poor building standards used by boom developers set the conditions for the first real estate bubble in Florida.

4. St. Joe Company - Wikipedia

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   Website. joe .com. The St. Joe Company is a land development company headquartered in Panama City Beach, Florida. Founded in 1936 and until 1966 known as St. Joe Paper Company, the company still operates a forestry division but is primarily engaged in real estate development and asset management. The company's land holdings are concentrated in ...

5. Florida Land Buyers Scammed for More Than $100K - AOL

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   In an update to swindling the gullible with promises of swampland in Florida, Sunshine State residents are being taken for hundreds of thousands of dollars by fraudulent sellers of the state's ...

6. Hamilton Disston - Wikipedia

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   Industrialist, Real estate developer. Hamilton Disston (August 23, 1844 – April 30, 1896) [1] was an industrialist and real-estate developer who purchased 4 million acres (16,000 km²) of Florida land in 1881, an area larger than the state of Connecticut, and reportedly the most land ever purchased by a single person in world history.

7. Now might be the time to move to Florida as inventory levels ...

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   Florida used to be the place for wealthy retirees to move to enjoy the state’s healthy dose of sunshine—and a massive break on taxes. ... the number of homes for sale in Cape Coral and North ...