June 27 (Source: By Mark Puente, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.) – Dina Sierra Smith and Mitzi Gill rode the real estate wave in 2005 to more than $40 million in deals on 38 Tampa Bay area mansions.But since the housing market crashed, the agents for Smith & Associates Real Estate in Tampa closed only three deals in 2009. They never expected the housing downturn to last so long after the bust.
“It weeded out the weak,” Gill said.
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