71.   About the only cost property owners face is the expense of negotiating a lease, said Alexander Gellman, head of Apex.

72.   According to the city, Ms. Brandel was one of two people who filed formal objections among the hundreds of property owners in the new district.

73.   Access to Carolina and Kure Beaches remained restricted to residents and property owners, who also faced curfews.

74.   Above ground, some property owners said they simply did not know the conditions of their buildings.

75.   Across the country, it increasingly has fallen on property owners and merchants to deal with these problems.

76.   Additionally, he noted, banks have become more willing to hold off on the process if property owners can demonstrate hardship.

77.   After less than a decade, Minneapolis reverted to its earlier means of financing parks -- a citywide charge on every property owner to be used for parks.

78.   Bunker has also become the largest property owner in Anchorage, Alaska, this person said.

79.   Business and home owners say many of the new laws appear to be reasonable, but some measures are criticized for putting an unnecessary financial burden on property owners.

80.   But advocates for coastal property owners called the report a thinly disguised effort to use federal insurance regulations to force people off the beach.