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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
"Florida has long beckoned retirees seeking to spend their golden years in the sun, but, for many, the American dream of owning a home there was financially impossible. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called 'installment land sales industry' appeared out of nowhere to hawk billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. As Jason Vuic recounts in this raucous history, these communities allowed generations of northerners to move to Florida cheaply, but at a price: high-pressure sales tactics begat fraud; poor urban planning begat sprawl; developers cleared forests, drained wetlands, and built thousands of miles of roads in grid-like subdivisions, which, fifty years later, played an inordinate role in the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The swamp peddlers -- $10 down, $10 a month! -- The land giants -- Into the cattle chute -- The last paradise -- The first-mortgage frauds -- Generally defective communities -- Foreclosure Tours R' Us -- The last of the best of Florida. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Real estate business -- Corrupt practices -- Florida.
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Real estate business -- Corrupt practices. |
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Florida. |
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Real estate business. |
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Mortgage loans -- Corrupt practices -- Florida.
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Mortgage loans. |
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Fraud -- Florida.
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Corruption. |
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Real estate development -- Florida -- History.
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Real estate development. |
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History. |
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Retirees -- Housing -- Florida.
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Retirees -- Housing. |
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Retirees. |
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Fraud. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vuic, Jason, 1972- Swamp peddlers. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021] (DLC) 2020051337 |
| ISBN |
9781469663173 (electronic book) |
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1469663171 (electronic book) |
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9781469663166 (electronic book) |
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1469663163 (electronic book) |
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9781469663159 |
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1469663155 |
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9781469663333 |
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1469663333 |
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