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carpetbagger

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15. Hard to say how much, can't be helping.

Reply to RockCreek (Reply #4)

Wed Jan 14, 2026, 07:50 AM

3 hrs ago

There's a depressed real estate market. Part of it is national trends, part insurance/regulatory, part climate, part overcrowding which is making some areas less attractive. adding reduced foreign demand is the topper.

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