[Dianna Vesta]

I agree that we’ll see a lot of activity. It sucks on one hand; the stress, emotional turmoil and grief over loss. It reminds you of how important “things” are and what your priorities really are. That’s the emotional part of it. If you’re smart you have insurance but if you couldn’t afford it the government will step in to a degree. Unfortunately with every big picture there are fragments that aren’t as attractive.

Nature has a way of renewing itself and this, IMO is a classic example. When disaster passes we forget about everything it brought into our lives, the economy and business. Look at Andrew and even though it took years to rebuild South Florida became stronger.

Property values were already climbing like crazy. I can’t even believe the increase in my land, way out here in one year but I have never lost money on real estate. I’m just really surprised at the how MUCH it increased. Now with hurricanes no doubt you’ll see a shit load of investors from all over the world looking to buy Florida Real Estate. It’s already happening out here. People are mislead in thinking that they’ve lost value and traumatized by the hurricane they may be looking to get out, sell everything and fuck rebuilding. Investors know this.

On one end of the spectrum there are more jobs and on the other there are too many people out of work.

It’s going to effect us for a long time but in the long run we’ll do great as a result.

DV