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The number of vacant homes in Broward and Palm Beach counties nearly doubled during the past decade, as the devastating housing collapse led to record foreclosures.

"Now they're a way of life," said Bill Richardson, a real estate broker for 25 years and president of the Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches. "Virtually every community has a vacant home or two or five or 10."

"Once a home looks abandoned, it brings down an entire neighborhood," said David Dweck, a Broward real estate agent and founder of the Boca Real Estate Investment Club.

In Fort Lauderdale's Poinciana Park neighborhood, one in five homes was vacant in 2010; a decade earlier, only 11 percent were empty.

Oh it's waaaay more than doubled, doubled would be wishful thinking.

10 years ago, there was one or two houses vacant in every neighborhood. Now it's two or three on every street block segment. So if a block has four streets, that would be like 4 to 8 houses that are vacant on that block. It was never that bad that I remember, maybe for a short while in the 80's RE lows.

Trout -I think you commented on a post a month ago,referring to myself buying a sfh in Fort Lauderdale. I think i going to rent another year an wait and see. Are you still following RE in South Fla.?