IS really Tampa the Top City in US for investing?

[Jorge Vazquez]

Are is your experience with Tampa? 

[Michael Haynes]

Trying to be funny Jim...I could have bought a house on Bayshore Blvd. in S. Tampa 35 years ago. My girlfriend just asked me why I did not? Because the water in Tampa Bay was full of sewage and it smelled awful on the Bayshore, all day long. It took ten years for Citizens to voluteer to clean up the trash and start planting seagrass, which they continue to do. They forced the City to stop dumping sewer water in the River and even now on hot days it smells awful under the bridge at Platt Street across from the Convention Center. When the smell started to subside for most of the days and I had two duplexes up the street on W. Santiago St. I looked again at the price of houses on Bayshore. At that time you could have been paying $3000 a Month for Property Taxes...I was three blocks up from the Bayshore and I left it at that. Would have, could have, should have, but, look at the situation for older, fixed income residents now. The question is, how much longer can they afford to pay the Property Tax and Home Owners Insurance in S. Tampa? I am 73 and I just sold my last house in Tampa for Cash and moved to the peace and quiet of a gated Townhome in Valrico.