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You might want to ask these young girls, and their manager, who found out all too sadly the limits of Trumps integrity:USA Freedom Girls Sue Trump Campaign for Stiffing Them :“All they wanted was to hawk some merchandise and money for airfare, but the lawyer for three patriotic girls say all they got was broken promises.”The pre-teen dance troupe that briefly became a national sensation after they performed for Donald Trump are suing the self-proclaimed billionaire’s presidential campaign for stiffing them.The USA Freedom Kids went viral after performing at Trump’s Jan. 13 rally in Pensacola, Florida. Dressed in bedazzled American flag costumes, the three pre-teen girls performed “Freedom’s Call,” an upbeat reimagining of a World War I propaganda song. “Cowardice! Are you serious? / Apologies for freedom, I can’t handle this,” the song begins.The USA Freedom Kids said in a newly filed lawsuit the Trump campaign broke verbal agreements for performances at two events and refused to pay even a $2,500 stipend for the group’s travel expenses.“We are not able to pay the girls or cover travel,” Stephanie Scruggs, a regional field director wrote Jeff Popick, USA Freedom Kids founder and father to one of the girls in a Jan. 5 email presented as evidence in the suit. “However we have coordinated with the event space to allow the girls to set up a table and pre-sell their album, shirts, ect if this is helpful to you.” (The Trump campaign did not return a Daily Beast request for comment.)Popick agreed, reasoning that the group could net more than $2,500 in merchandise sales, but the rally was “chaos,” Popick told The Daily Beast.There was no merchandise table, and it wouldn’t have mattered if there was one: Security didn’t allow the girls to bring any of their merchandise into the Pensacola Bay Center. They left it outside in the parking lot, where all of it—the T-shirts, the CDs, the patriotic posters—was stolen while the girls performed their act, Popick says.The USA Freedom Kids were not deterred though. Sure, they’d lost their swag, but footage of their performance was going viral, racking up millions of views online and parodies on late-night television.Popick asked the campaign about future gigs and was offered one when Trump announced he was going to skip a debate to host his own rally in late January.The only problem was that this event was in Iowa, not their home state of Florida.“They had said, well Iowa’s a pretty long distance for us to travel,” Marc Shapiro, the lawyer representing the Freedom Kids, told The Daily Beast. “There’s plane flights up there, and hotels and so forth, would you give us a stipend so that we can travel up there and perform. The Trump campaign said no, you would have to pay your own way.”The group coughed up the funds and took a red-eye flight to Chicago’s O’Hare airport, where Popick got the bad news: the USA Freedom Kids weren’t needed at the rally after all.“It was a long, overnight odyssey. They were exhausted, but excited to perform,” he said. “We flew non-stop to Chicago, and then had to drive another 5½ hours to Des Moines. It wasn’t until after we were already in the vehicle about an hour or two into it that we had to break the news to the girls.”The Trump campaign said they’d save seats for the scorned performers, on the condition that none of the girls spoke to the media, Popick said. Even this proved difficult, as the girls were still wearing their impossible-to-miss sequined flag dresses, and the Trump campaign had placed their reserved seats directly next to the media enclosure.The gag order came as a final injury to the group who, barred from selling merchandise or performing, had at least counted on getting some exposure from the rally. Instead, they were going home, with no hint of booking future rallies.“This is what he had emphasized: the exposure from this rally in particular,” Popick said. The girls were slated to perform multiple songs, which he felt was crucial to reforming their image as more than just a pro-Trump musical troup.After nine months of haggling with Trump staffers, the group sued the campaign in Sarasota County, Florida, for as much as $15,000 in damages.“This is not an opportunistic thing where we’re suing Donald Trump,” Popick said. “We’re not suing for emotional distress and all that other stuff that people do when they trump up—no pun intended—when they trump up a lawsuit. That’s not what this is. This is tangible dollars I spent under false pretenses.”Even little girls, who were asking for mere pocket change from Trump. Can you imagine what it must be like for the 3,500 construction contractors with unresolved lawsuits against him, some of whom who haven’t been paid for 10 years or more?THIS is how Trump became a “Billionaire”, not by being good at honest business; “Other People’s Money”; what most people consider a crime.

Is there an Amazon distribution center coming to the Sarasota area? Where will it be built?Amazon is currently constructing a 120,000 SF facility in Venice, FL in central Sarasota County. The facilty they are building will be a satellite distribution facilty similar to the one currently in Palmetto where packages are sent from the main facilty in Ruskin to be loaded on to delivery truck for local deliveries. The new Venice distribution center will be at the intersction of I-75 and Jacaranda Blvd.https://www.bradenton.com/news/local/article239367233.html

It can vary widely from city to city and county to county. I live in Sarasota county; in order to get a certificate of occupancy (CoO), the homes I’m in charge of building are required to have:Clean, potable running water.drywall, HVAC, plumbing, framing, roofing and concrete inspections also need to pass at various phases of the build. In fact, you cannot schedule an inspection too far ahead of your current progress and you also can’t if an inspection fails and an issue needs to be corrected and re-inspected.In my city, you also need positive water flow across the front of the property. Ya know those culvert pipes that run underneath your driveway? Those are to maintain positive water-flow across the width of the property.You need inspection-passed, FPL-verified electricity service; if the home is new, call them and acquire a meter location if your builder hasn’t. Do not let them have you choose. If you choose wrong, you can be paying up to $500 more for what’s called “extended service”.It sounds like common sense, but, you also need a functional waste removal system in place (Either septic or tied into the city sewer system). And if you have a septic tank; you’ll need to have rain gutters installed on your home anywhere within 10’ of the drain-field (That high spot in your yard that’s SUPER green grass).Finally, you, the homebuyer, have to walk the property upon completion for an initial walkthrough; this will be where you point out any small issues that you’d like corrected. About a week after your initial walkthrough; you should get a final walkthrough to ensure the corrections were made. Once you sign off on the home being up to your standards it will be sent to your realtor/builder for Closing. By your initial walkthrough; inspections should be complete and you’ll have your certificate of occupancy.If you’re building the home yourself; Please, do yourself a world of favors and find a qualified superintendent to manage the phases of your construction.