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Has anyone seen my website? I seem to have misplaced it.

Here's the deal. Investors don't care about affordable housing. Second home owners don't care about affordable housing. People who vacation here cook shrimp, make sandwiches, sit on the beach and go back to their home where there is affordable food, housing, things to do, etc. How many people...

I agree with Shelly on this one. Most of the larger business owners in the resort related service industry will tell you that employment is the absolute number one problem they're concerned with down the road. Not real estate prices or tourism, but finding the employees to clean, landscape...

Sunset of Black Creek The tall bird with the long beak stands beneath the cypress each day. Nearby, the old boathouse sits alone on the bank of the narrow black river, covered in briar and moss, a slow fading rumor of the distant past spread by the soft rythmic whispers of clanking brown tin...

Neighbor Fed Up With Boasting Florida Cottage Hogtown Bayou - Despite no acceptable buying offers in almost a year, bayou front cottage "Crabby Daze" continues to boast of its high ceilings and gourmet kitchen according to neighbor Brenda Watts. Watts says she and other neighbors are fed...

Thanks Shelly, I will work even harder to earn your respect as the area's beacon of thoughtful stupidity.

Local Tailgater Unmoved By "Baby On Board" Sign

Wishes for 2006 A really bad year is behind us, and it's not one many will miss. Aside from both the world's worst natural disaster and our nation's worst manmade disaster, we've seen the pope die, the Dukes of Hazzard made into a movie, and thanks to Hurricane Dennis unearthing Gulf Trace's...

New Year's Resolution Narrowly Defeated by One Vote

County Economic Development Director Says Area College's Leaving Waiters and Waitresses Woefully Overqualified

Bronwyn, Savage and their mother Margo are from Andalusia. Margo was my art teach in elementary school. Very small world.

The 2005 hurricane season has thankfully ended and William Gray, the Nostradamus of hurricane forecasting, is calling for another active season of storms next year, leaving many realtors and property owners wondering what effects the big swirlies will have on the local real estate markets (I...

This is one wickedly funny place.

Restaurants are already starting to shut down for the winter.

Fears Grow Over Snowbird Flu Epidemic!

Not bad Tyler..not bad.

On a trip to Disney World?s Magic Kingdom with some friends a couple of years ago, I made my usual pilgrimage to ?It?s a Small World? ? a smarmy, but iconic ride that reminds me of my trips to the park as a child. As we floated along in our boat watching crudely mechanical children in various...

I moved to South Walton in 2000 because I bascially grew up down here and liked it. In fact, I left a successful career just to do it. It's not "just a beach" to me, it's been my home - an attachment based more on friends, childhood memories, family history and familiarity than simple...

The Last Days of Disco Yes, the market has slowed. Someone turned on the lights. It appears that the insane, real estate party days of the early millennium are fading like Studio 54 into a new era of moderation. Some realtors and short-term investors are seeing giant spiders as their systems...

I guess this was the wrong audience to mention my plan. I hadn't intended to get into a debate on whether or not New Orleans should be rebuilt - though I do have an opinion I express in the next issue of Coastal Homes and Lifestyles. I get it - Aquatic, Joe aren't particularly interested.

Sorry, I refuse to dumb down articles on Oysters Rockefeller for mass consumption.

Below is a long, recent article about Antoine's in New Orleans from the Washington Post. I've been kicking around the idea of trying to pull together an interested group of foodies who may disagree on whether or not Antoine's food lives up to its reputation, but agree that regardless it's still...

There are young professionals, most of whom are realtors. South Walton is a small place, so it will be easy to get to know them. We need more - so welcome.

There doesn't appear to be a boom in small business in South Walton because it's so expensive to get started. Maybe it's selfish, but it would be nice to be able to drive through and get a 4.00 Wendy's every now and then - here's a novel idea, maybe even have a pizza delivered? I hear they do...

Really, what happened to big hooks or harpoons??

I think it would be a good thing. South Walton really changed several years ago. I've run into a lot of people who've only been coming here since the early nineties, and don't really know the way things "used to be." The irony is that most of these people are mourning the loss of what was...

He's definately talking about Blooms. We've eaten there once. Definately one of 30-A's more unusual dining experiences.

We've already been contacted by two people asking if we were interested in selling our place in the FQ - both were NO real estate agents. Probably some good short-term gains possible. Who knows about long-term. Nice rental property should be a good investment, say in the Marigny, FQ, CBD.

They both have elderly parents (who have also lost their homes and still haven't been able to go back an attempt to salvage anything because they're still under some water). They can't find places to house all of them in one place, so they're separated and Marvin is in the postion of having to...

I sent you a private message with the address, Dave. Thanks a lot.

I'm not sure. Each family has a number of relatives living with them. The problem isn't really that they want to be together and can't - it's that he's trying to support his family until he can get back to his job or find one. He wants to return to New Orleans if he can.

May of our friends have given to the Red Cross, etc. but have also felt a little frustrated that they don't know of specific people that they can help who've been displaced by the storm. One of the people we've gotten to know after we bought our home in the French Quarter was a 42 year old...

Re: Bud & Alley's having Katrina fundraiser Labor Day Monday Thanks Dave. Our neighbors from New Orleans have been really moved by all the hospitality everyone here has given.

My four have been taken care of. Thanks though!

Thank You TooFarTampa Thanks to TooFarTampa (Sharon) for helping out with the four I posted about earlier. They are also having to bring their parents over from Pass Christian, MS. THANK YOU!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We have a condo on 30A which we do not rent; however, for something like this we would consider it. We live in Baton Rouge and realize how lucky we are. People from NO will need lots of helping hands. Please...

Thanks so much. I'm going to repost your note under the housing thread at the top.

Carillon Beach Rentals have begun contacting their home owners and many are willing to rent at a reduced rate. Contact Todd or Wendy at 233-7070

I have contacted Rivard, and haven't been called back. Jeanne Dailey of Newman-Dailey is contact their unit owners to compile a list of the those that are willing to help. This a small place, anyone that has contacts with rental companies should call and get them to do the same thing -...

I know of four young women from NO that need a place to rent - for possibly a month. Jefferson Parish - one the larges in NO proper - says that it will be at least a month before citizens can return for clean-up etc. Anyone have a long-term rental type property that they would be willing to...

Re: Housing This morning, due to continue rising water in the City, those people remaining in the City of New Orleans are being told to leave - so the situation is going to get worse before it gets better.

Some of my partners family live in Biloxi and we have friends in Ocean Spring. We haven't been abe to get up with - phones are down and cell phones are useless. We'll just have to keep trying and assume that they will contact us when they can.

Millions of people have had to evacuate areas in south Mississippi and New Orleans and won't be able to return to what's left of their homes for possibly weeks. New Orleans isn't accessible from the east at all and probably won't be for quite sometime - it's continuing to flood and power...

As I understand it, New Orleans has more sites on the National Historic Registry than any city, including Boston. It was European for its first 100 or so years, which is were its love of life, acceptance comes from. The Louisiana Purchase was signed there, Tennessee Williams died in his brass...

Then give to the Red Cross - National Chapter so they can send it where it needs to go. Thanks.

And it's the massiveness of it all. Ivan was horrible, but taking that misery and its multipliers is heartbreaking for me. Here, it seems we've all been so caught up in real estate and appreciation and old vine reds that we're close to losing our souls (I'm counting myself too). Here's a...

I still want to encourage everyone to put some of this real estate money to a good cause - the Red Cross. If you give, let us know so it will encourage more to do so. And thanks, Joe. If he can get out, I'll keep it in mind.

Spoke with a neighbor of ours, Michael, about thirty minutes ago. He's 21, delivers food by bicycle for the Verti Mart, a small deli in the French Quarter. He has no car, rents a small apartment and has no way to leave. He's been in line to get into the Super Dome for over three hours - part...