Monthly Archives: February 2017

Sherwin Williams just opened up a new store on Orange Avenue in downtown Orlando and they will be having a one day grand opening sale on March 11, 2017 where all paint will be 40% off. I found the store to be clean and stocked for every type of paint project.  They also had a […]

Home-improvement chain Orchard Supply Hardware just opened their doors to Dr Phillips residents.  This store is located in the Bayhill Shopping Center between Interstate 4 and Turkey Lake Road, just north of Sand Lake Road. That is next to the PGA Tour Superstore in a former Kmart building. Orchard Supply Hardware is a chain owned by Lowe’s […]

  Price *The median price of all existing homes combined sold in January 2017 — $199,000 — is a 10.6 percent increase from the $180,000 median price recorded in January 2016, and is 4.6 percent below the December 2016 median price of $208,500. *The median price for “normal” existing homes sold in January is $205,000, […]

NEW YORK – Feb. 10, 2017 – Bed bugs can make a home inhospitable – and they can be expensive to remove as well. Orkin, a nationwide pest control services company, says its revenue from bed bug treatments are up more than 10 percent over last year, so the problem is growing. “We have more […]

WASHINGTON – Feb. 6, 2017 – Eight states lost population between 2015 and 2016, and 12 others recorded their lowest population increase of the decade, as economic woes and lower birth rates hit some states harder than others. Connecticut, Illinois, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming lost population. The last time so […]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Jan. 27, 2017 — In 2016, Florida’s economy outperformed the nation in part because of better job creation, according to several economists who spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of about 500 Realtors® at the 2017 Florida Real Estate Trends event Thursday during Florida Realtors Mid-Winter Business Meetings. National Association of Realtors (NAR) Chief […]