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Flood Insurance Blues!
    Hi, Folks! They did it again - Congress Kicked the Can down the road once more, this time it was FLOOD INSURANCE!! "What's THAT?" you say? Doesn't it just apply to places like Houston, or New Orleans or Florida where they have massive hurricanes and such? Well, HELL NO!!! It's actually required wherever a home is in the 100 Year Flood Plain! "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?" you ask? The 100 Year Flood Plain is ANYWHERE that the Army Corps of Engineers has determined that is likely to flood once every 100 years - and that could be just anywhere!
When I started by Real Estate Career in Conroe, Texas many moons ago (and I mean MUCHO!) I worked for East Texas Land Company, and we sold tracks of land, some of which was in the Flood Plain, and some in the Flood Way (that's even WORSE!!!). Down the street and around the corner from our office was a fairly large new subdivison that had been built near the river, and built on the OLD riverbed. We has a hellacious hurricane that totall saturated the area, and almost ALL of those homes where totally or partially under water - so ... more

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