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Pages in category "Unincorporated communities in Polk County, Florida" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Swampland in Florida is a figure of speech referring to real estate scams in which a seller misrepresents unusable swampland as developable property. These types of unseen property scams became widely known in the United States in the 20th century, and the phrase is often used metaphorically for any scam that misrepresents what is being sold.
Lake Henry, a lake that borders on the northeast side of Winter Haven, Florida, has a surface area of 848-acre (3,430,000 m 2). The southwest corner of the lake is inside the Winter Haven City limits. All of the south side of the lake is bordered by mobile home parks and housing developments.
Tamra Ransom thought she was one step closer to her American Dream when she purchased her home in Polk county, Florida in May 2023. But less than a year later, she had already listed her property ...
Leonard and Jack Rosen began their business career as street vendors in Baltimore. [4] They used the earnings of their original business and high-interest loans advanced by Chicago financier Jay Pritzker to set up a real estate development company selling yet-to-be developed plots of land in northwest Florida Everglades to prospective homeowners from the Northeast and Midwest.
In October 1955, the company's name was changed to Indian Lake Estates, Inc. and it purchased a large tract of undeveloped land on the shores of Lake Walk-in-Water, about 19 miles southeast of Lake Wales. [3] The company purchased the 12-square-mile tract for $222,000, or roughly $35 per acre. [3] [4]
The remaining 100 acres (0.4 km 2) are undeveloped and include a manmade lake of 15 acres, around which the community is developed and connects to the 7,500 acre Lake Weohyakapka. The apartments are a mix of efficiency and one-bedroom units, and all are on ground level. Units are leased on an annual basis and the rental rate includes water ...
John Hall, who lost his reelection bid to Neil Combee in 2020, has filed to run for the Polk County Commission next year in District 5.