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To: energyplay who wrote (64638)	6/5/2005 9:12:00 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 74559

energyplay, I'm some 80 plus miles from Naples and I'm told by the local concrete company that there is no shortage here now. This time last year, before the hurricanes, they had a two month waiting list. I've had two small pours done in the last year and I have never seen such strange behavior from a concrete plant. They demand a cashier's check in advance ect. and have all sorts of requirements. There are still help wanted ads in the local papers but as for the more urgent "side of the road" and storefront type ad you are just not seeing them now as much. Of course this is slow season in South Florida (and the best time of the year here as far as I'm concerned). The hurricane recovery is still going on. I noticed that a few of the ads in today's paper are for restaruants (KFC) and other businesses that have just now reopened. There are a bunch of antique shops in the downtown that do a big Saturday business to retirees from over on the coast. One guy I know says things are much slower now than last year, that folks are "closer" with their money. He has a store in Sarasota too and says its even worse over there. Another peculiar thing: For years now it seems that about every third house has a realtors sign in the front yard. And as I've bought a couple of houses here I keep up with these things and I know that many of these signs were related to fairly recent listings. The hurricanes blew all the signs away, of course, and now even a year later I bet there are not even a third as many signs around as a year ago. A few places that I KNOW are for sale don't even have a sign. Strange. Slagle