The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream

by Jason Vuic

Book Overview

Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called "installment land sales industry" hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the Florida dream: a graded home site that would be waiting for them in a planned...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469663333
• ISBN13: 9781469663333
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 9.1"