e-themes.info

Well Hurricane Ike is supposed to pass in the next couple days. Originally it was supposed to do a direct hit on the Keys and pretty much destroy everything, but now its forecast to go into Cuba, and come out a much weaker storm. If it follows, and that is a big IF , the present hurricane track it will be on land for hundreds of miles, before it arcs back up to hit us.

Of course it could suddenly shift north and destroy us all but there is not much to do about that.

In prep of the hurricane we went fishing yesterday, it was really nice out but we did not catch a lot of fish.

The tourist where evacuated from the Keys yesterday, so even if the hurricane doesn’t hit everyone in tourism related businesses is losing a lot of money. I would think this might even suck more for a lot of people in Key West because many are partyers and they live paycheck to paycheck.

You can post any comments or questions to the comments section

You can post any comments or questions to the comments section

You can post any comments or questions to the comments section

You can post any comments or questions to the comments section

from keysnews

Key West city commissioners on Wednesday will discuss Mayor Morgan McPherson’s proposal to help first-time home-buyers come up with a down payment. If approved, loans of up to $25,000 would come from the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Money in that fund comes from developers who do not include a prescribed percentage of affordable units in their development plans. One such contribution came from the Galleon Resort as part of a code enforcement settlement that centered on the allowable number of rental units at the waterfront resort and marina.

I know isn’t probably that exciting a subject for anyone who does not  live here, but as someone who is renting a place here in Key West, real estate is always on our mind…

Even with Prices dropping in Key West it still seems when you compare salaries to home prices , the prices are still nuts

Now the mayor wants to loan people money for a “down payment”, the whole point of a down payment is to make sure people make their payments. If they are loaned a down payment and things get tough what incentive do they have to stay in the place they bought?

Plus if you have trouble saving 25k, should you really be buying a place in Key West, where some of the cheapest places on the island are almost 200k.

I got two emails that two of themes had been accepted, pretty sweet.

Now if only google would read and follow my robots.txt file and get all the extra demo pages out of the index, so my actual post could get some traffic.

Writing stuff is somehow more interesting when you know someone might actually read it.

I have submitted a bunch of new wordpress themes and also theme updates, but apparently they have temporarily stopped accepting them.

Hopefully they get back up shortly

You can post any comments or questions to the comments section

You can post any comments or questions to the comments section