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NABOR idea worth a try for us, and our neighbors
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Homeowners' insurance rates have gone sky high, and then some.
Slowly yet surely they have become part of the affordable housing and overall real estate sales pictures.
They have a strange linkage with the weather. While high rates are caused by hurricanes and other bad weather, premiums also are like the weather in this respect: Everybody talks about them but nobody does anything about them.
We even endured a political season where some of the candidates seeking our votes were the same officials who had failed to act and thus worsened this problem.
Now we see a private-sector effort. Members of the Naples Area Board of Realtors are reaching out to other business organizations and concerned citizens to bring down the cost of insuring our biggest investments. The NABOR coalition wants to be ready to work with our area's new legislative delegation to Tallahassee.
We applaud their efforts and wish them well. Their success will be to everyone's benefit. We trust the coalition will let the public know how it can pitch in to help.
If a similar grass-roots effort led to rate reductions in Monroe County and the Florida Keys, it might work here for Collier. Maybe a regional approach for all Southwest Florida is in order?
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The next meeting is at the Chamber of Commerce building this Thursday at 5:00pm---more and more people are attending--I was told to come a little early to get seats--bring a copy of your new bill and your old one. We ALL need to speak as one on this....
#1 Posted by mandypup on November 13, 2006 at 9:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
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Reporting? What's the message? Nothing happens unless the realtors get their backs up?
If a letter to the editor said this little, I doubt it would ever make Jeff's cut.
Unless it was about gas prices.
#2 Posted by elnuestros on November 13, 2006 at noon (Suggest removal)
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