May 3, 2024

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What you need to know about Florida today

| 12/8/2015

› Florida waste authority offers grants for blighted properties
Local governments in Palm Beach County, Florida, are eligible for $500,000 to assist in the cleanup or beautification of distressed, blighted or otherwise impacted properties in Palm Beach County.

› Influence of churches, once dominant, now waning in the South
Churches are losing their grip on a region where they could long set community standards with a pulpit-pounding sermon or, more subtly, a sideward glance toward someone walking into a liquor store.

› Billionaire Jeff Greene Says Technology Will Kill White-Collar Jobs
Touch-screen ordering at fast food restaurants, robots welding car parts at Tesla factories, apps like Uber taking a bite out of the taxi and limo industry: They’re all good for innovation but perhaps not so great for the workers whose jobs are on the line, according to real estate billionaire Jeff Greene.

› Most common real estate problems new agents face
With a fresh crop of real estate agents entering the market, some Central Florida industry veterans offered their thoughts on the biggest mistakes made by an inexperienced sales force.

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