Sheldon Jaffee: Not All Estates Are Created Equal in South FL

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When buying or selling in South Florida, trust your most important move to an expert and longtime resident who knows the region well. Sheldon Jaffee’s impressive four-decade track record of experience led him to become a well-known national and global luxury real estate agent. With experience from Boca Raton to Delray, Palm Beach to Miami,…
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Living in Florida: The Hamptons of the South

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The Hamptons and the vacation destinations in Southern Florida have a lot in common — from the wealthy weekenders and high-end retail to the booming real estate markets. While a growing number of people are purchasing estates in both areas, when it comes to more permanent migration, the journeys lead almost exclusively southward. What is…
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Sheinkopf Speaks: The Progressive Conundrum

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It’s a sure sign they got clubbed the day before when you get the email telling you how good they did, how bad the world is, how the other guys are really criminals, and that you should give the email sender your credit card so the battle they didn’t win but want you to believe…
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Suozzi suggests Democratic Socialists form their own Party

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U.S. Rep Tom Suozzi (D-Long Island/Queens) called on far-left socialists to form their own party so that the Democratic Party can stop caving to their demands and go back to their center-left roots of helping people while supporting capitalism. Suozzi made his remarks during a zoom press call yesterday where he announced he will decide…
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Sheinkopf Speaks: A Political Consultants’ Life & Times

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Serious political consultants just finished the last road trip of the season. Eleven months like club-fighters, traveling from city to city to fight in small venues, clubs, sometimes for crumbs and when lucky, for gold. It feels good to stretch your legs, feels better to know you won’t be sitting in that middle seat, that…
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Master Craftsman: Joe Badilla, Painter

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Fascination is a funny thing–it’s not as all-consuming as an obsession but more so than an interest. It’s like a faint ringing in the distance, in the back of our minds, beckoning us to pursue it and answer the call. Joe Badilla, founder of Bridgehampton-based Badilla Painters, Inc., answered. Emigrating from Costa Rica to the…
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Hedges Index: Finding Home-Loving 4s

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The East End real estate and residential building markets have seen a considerable boom in 2020, with many summer visitors choosing to stay indefinitely and others looking to buy, rent or build–anything they can do to stay in this slice of paradise long-term. As the real estate market enters the fourth quarter of 2020, we…
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