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WHY MOVE TO PALM BEACH COUNTY ???
Dubbed "GOLF CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, Palm Beach County has more than 160 golf courses including many public and semi-private courses, some built by world famous golfers including Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Pete Dye, Tom Fazio and Donald Ross.
Tennis courts in Palm Beach County number over 1100... tennis lessons abound... Chrissy Evert has an academy in Boca Raton. Delray Beach has a world famous Tennis Center.
Water activities include some of the best diving areas with water temperature averaging 70-84 degrees, ideal for scuba divers. Many lakes provide freshwater fishing, such as Lake Ida, Lake Osborne, and Lake Ockeechobee; and don´t overlook the countless canals that meander through the county. You can aim to catch largemouth or sunshine bass, bream, bluegill and catfish, or charger a boat or yacht and get out there on the water and bask in the sunshine. Marinas offer deep sea charters and water taxis for local tours. Take a slow cruise along the intracoastal waterway with gorgeous views of spectacular homes, condominiums and preserves. Take the kids to water parks.
Purchase a waterfront condo, live in a gated golfing community, move to an A-Rated School District, buy a "get-a-way" vacation condo which you can rent out. Find an affordable permanent condo, especially if you are age 55+. Whatever your criteria are, we may be able to find it here in Palm Beach County. C´mon down, LIFE IS GOOD!
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OCEAN BREEZE COUNTRY CLUB, 5800 NW 2nd Avenue, Boca Raton, 33487. Within 280+ plush acres in beautiful east Boca Raton you can play 27 championship Golf holes on a semi-private golf course that provide 3 challenging 18 hole courses which test your skills. Tennis program as well. Inn ? 1 mile to Boca beaches. From I-95 go east on Yamato Road, then north onto NW 2nd Avenue. Course and Clubhouse are on left side. 561-994-0400, Ext. 241
BOCA MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE, 8111 Golf Course Road, Boca Raton 33432. Par 72 18-hole championship course, 6514 yards. Situated on a 210-acre setting of manicured greens, fairways, mature trees and winding lakes. From I-95, go west on Yamato Road, south on St. Andrews Boulevard. Head west on Glades Road past the Florida Turnpike and watch for sign for the course on north side. 561-483-5226.
POLO TRACE, 13481 Polo Trace Drive, Delray Beach 33446. One of south Florida´s premier golf courses with over 7000 challenging yards featuring championship Turf greens, and lush rolling fairways providing the ultimate golf experience. From I-95 or Florida Turnpike to Atlantic Avenue exit. From I-95 head west, from Turnpike head east to Hagen Ranch Road, north to Polo Trace on west side. 561-495-5300.
DEER CREEK, 2801 Deer Creek Country Club Boulevard, Deerfield Beach 33442. A challenging course, Mens par is 71, Ladies par is 73. Doglegs, water holes and tall pines contribute to the challenge. From I-95 head east on Hillsboro Boulevard to golf course on north side. 561-421-5550.
BOCA DUNES, 1400 SW 65th Avenue, Boca Raton FL 33428. Bruce Devlin designed this 18-hole par 72 executive course of 7000 yards. Walk or ride. Lighted Driving Range. From I-95 take Palmetto Park Road west then south on Lyons Road/SW 57th Avenue. 561-451-1600.
BOCA RATON
Named 30th City in the US Among
2006 BEST PLACES TO LIVE
BOCA RATON WAS ALSO #1 FOR FLORIDA
April 23, 2006 - See last paragraphs for Marilyn's quotes!!!
For release SUNDAY, April 23,2006 and thereafter
Real estate deals keep Pataki's earnings up
An AP News Analysis By MARC HUMBERT, AP Political Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) _ Thanks to lucrative real estate deals and the helping hands of well-heeled friends, Republican George Pataki has done remarkably well financially during his tenure as governor.
The latest boost came in October when the governor and his wife Libby sold a one-story, three-bedroom house near Palm Beach, Fla., for $675,000. They had purchased it 17 months earlier for $360,000.
"I was obviously very happy about that," Pataki said Wednesday. "We didn't buy it with the idea of it being an investment, but we knew it was a great investment because while it wasn't the nicest house in the world, it was in a great area and we knew the area was one that was just going to get better and better."
Pataki spokesman David Catalfamo was quoted in 2005 as saying the Patakis bought the Singer Island property as an investment.
In 1994, the year he ousted Democrat Mario Cuomo from the governorship, Pataki had $105,652 in total income for tax purposes. Last year, the Patakis' income was $775,169.
Cuomo also did well financially as governor. Cuomo's income as governor peaked in 1988 at $519,902, when he made $128,600 from paid speeches and sold the family home in Queens for $320,000. In 1993, the year before he lost the governorship, Cuomo made $370,436. In 1982, the year he won the job, Cuomo's income was $79,748.
The details about gubernatorial incomes are available thanks to a tradition _ it is not legally required _ that they and candidates for the office make public their tax returns. In 1978, Republican challenger Perry Duryea balked at doing that and lost badly to Democratic incumbent Hugh Carey.
While the details can be sparse, the returns show Pataki, who is not seeking a fourth term this year but is a potential 2008 GOP presidential candidate, has been very active in real estate from the time he became governor.
In 1995, he and his older brother sold off 21 housing lots carved out of the Pataki family farm in Peekskill. The governor quickly plowed the $240,000 he made on that deal back into a 152-acre farm he bought for $270,000 in Washington County. The Patakis reported $26,000 in losses on rental properties they owned in Saratoga Springs and Peekskill, where Pataki grew up and was once mayor.
In 1997, Pataki sold a little over an acre of land in Peekskill for $90,000. In 1998, the governor sold his Saratoga Springs condominium for about $160,000. He had bought it in 1987 for more than 200,000. In 2002, the Patakis sold a house and 23 acres from the Washington County farm for $199,000, keeping 129 acres there.
And, in late 2002, it came out that Libby Pataki was part of a real estate partnership that in early 2000 was involved in the $5 million purchase of a 1,410-acre orange grove in Florida. Mrs. Pataki had been given a 4 percent interest in the Old Blue LLC group in return for a $40,000 investment. Old Blue was created by a Yale University roommate of the governor, businessman Richard Hayden.
In late 2002, Old Blue and another group sold the land for about $15 million. There were reports, unconfirmed by the Patakis, that they made about $400,000 on the transaction. The Old Blue profits were quickly rolled into an office complex near Atlanta. Through the connection to Hayden, Libby Pataki also has an interest in an Albuquerque, N.M., office complex. In 2005, those office building investments brought in $35,702 for the Patakis.
Early in 2003, the Patakis finalized the $1.2 million purchase of a 377-acre farm on the shore of Lake Champlain just south of Plattsburgh. In 2004, they sold another 94 acres from the Washington County farm for $94,000.
And, in May 2004, the Patakis created a limited liability corporation, Tacoma Lane LLC, and bought the house in Palm Beach Shores, Fla.. It was purchased in October by a financial services executive from Virginia who said he had no connection to Pataki before buying the property.
"My first thought was, why would the governor of New York own a piece of junk like this?" new owner Peter Clarke told The Associated Press.
Clarke said the governor had obviously made "a great investment." Clarke also said that while the house wasn't much, the location near the Atlantic Ocean was wonderful and that he and his family planned to use it as a retirement home.
Marilyn Farber Jacobs, a Palm Beach-area realtor with Lang Realty, told the AP the Patakis' ``profit is in line with similar profits during that time period on other properties'' that sold in the Palm Beach Shores area where the house is located.
Anyone who sold property recently made out well on their investment as long as it remained in good shape and was not in foreclosure,'' said Jacobs, who was not involved with the property sale or purchase.
Marc Humbert has covered New York state politics and government for The Associated Press for more than 25 years. He can be reached via e-mail at: mhumbert(at)ap.org.
"More than $80-billion worth of merchandise flows through Florida´s airports and seaports each year, an enormous volume of global trade facilitate by Florida´s extensive support systems: trade financing, international legal and insurance services, freight forwarding and logistics, and other infrastructure elements."
...Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida