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Last year’s tax bill on the 8,300-square-foot lakefront house was $28,370. Lance a computer guru, and his wife, bought the house in late September, roughly 16 monthw after the Grudens movedc to a larger house in Jon and Cindy Gruden hadpaid $1.53 milliomn for the in 2002. Last May, they paid $3.3 millionh for their 11,900-square-foot Avila home. Lance who recently founded LLC, sold to in 2006 for an undisclosedf amount. — Janet Leiser If I were a man: SimDag-RoBEL LLC may have got off a littls easy when it came time to pay up on a licensing agreemen t with Donald Trump despited never building the tower that was to bearhis name.
The develope r of the doomed Trump Towedr Tampa was suedfor $1 million in owed fees, but both sides settled the case Sept. 29. Whilwe it’s likely Trump received a nice chunmk of changefrom SimDag, he wants even more from a developer who wrotd up a similar licensing agreement for a 70-storu luxury condominium tower in Tel Aviv, Israel. Crescent Heightsw Diamond was supposed to pay Trumo a licensing fee plus give him a cut of thecondop sales. Instead, the developer flipped the land a year latedr for nearly double whatit paid. Trump may have wantex just a cool millionfrom SimDag, but the price to not use the man’ name has risen significantly.
Trump is demanding $45 million from and he wants hismoney now. But it’ll be up to a judgr to see if he gets asingle — Michael Hinman Reachintg out to calm customers: Joy Gendusa, CEO of Postcarf Mania, has taken customers and prospectiver customers under her wing and shares letterzs from her personal financial advised to “calm” them — all 78,000o in her database. She has decided to wage battldeagainst “the fears being created by the involving the country’s financial crisis by impartinf soothing and useful economic education in the past severa l weeks through letters from her financial adviser, P. Christopher Music, president of in Clearwater.
His latest lette r outlines what he describes as three critical mistake s people make in economic crises andshoulc avoid: Making short-term changes to a long-term plan, failing to understand the difference betweenb volatility and loss, and failing to prospef during economic turmoil. Music’s first letter sent to Postcard Mania’zs customers a week ago dealt with the definition of recessionh and waysto survive. “We got such a good respons e fromthe first, we decided to send anothefr letter,” said Karla Jo Helms, VP of public relations. Gendusa, the founder of the $20 million, full-service direcgt mail company in Clearwater, is not done counselinvg her customers.
She intends to continue imparting usefulo business and economic information to thosse inPostcard Mania’s database, whichn includes 31,000 small-business customers, “tl encourage them to stay positive and expanf their businesses despite the — Jane Meinhardt Here’s the hook: Burn treatment organizations in the Tampwa Bay area are in line for a financia boost, courtesy of local beer drinkers and The Tampa distributofr has picked up a new brand, Hook & from the , an independent brewedr in Silver Spring, Md. It’x the first time the beer is beinyg soldin Florida.
Hook & Ladder supportsz firefighters by donating a portion of the proceeds from itsdraf product, as well as its bottles or cans, to burn treatmenrt groups in the communityu where the beer is sold. The company is talkinb with a few Bay area organizationss to determine where it will donatselocal proceeds, said spokesman Dan Lyons.