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Friends Are Now Partners With New Hampton Bays Business Venture

Publication: The Southampton Press
By Jean-Paul Salamanca   Apr 6, 2011 10:56 AM
Benny Torres, owner of Fiesta Auto Insurance in Hampton Bays.
Benny Torres, owner of Fiesta Auto Insurance in Hampton Bays.
If there is one thing that Benny Torres recognizes, it is how to spot a need for services.

A Puerto Rican with 15 years of experience in the insurance business, Mr. Torres said he began observing how Hispanics were in need of legal services—specifically, from lawyers who speak Spanish—when he served as an insurance representative with the Civil Service Employees Association during the 1990s.

“I was always helping the Hispanic community in different areas, so I began to recognize the need,” he said, “which is why, eventually, I decided that in order to help them more effectively, I had to branch out on my own.”

Seeking a new venture, Mr. Torres decided in October to open a branch of Fiesta Auto Insurance—a national chain with 74 locations across the United States—close to his... more

Can you buy a house if you are not lega?
By Babyboo (21), Hampton Bays on Apr 6, 11 5:32 PM
you can, well, my girlfriend wasn't legal, but she had obtained a social security card through a loophole in the system (it has since been closed) anyway, she bought a house without a greencard, she ended up getting denied entry into the country later on, and we had to sell the house, she could not afford to make payments on it from outside the country. To make a long story short, if you are not legal, don't buy a house, unless you can maintain it under circumstances of deportation.
By TMundo (2), East on Apr 9, 11 12:16 PM
Well, that didn't take long, now did it?

FYI, at least twenty-nine percent of Hispanic/Latino immigrants ARE legal.

Please don't dumb down the forum.
By Mr. Z (3080), North Sea on Apr 6, 11 5:42 PM
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By Brittanicus (1), Indianapolis on Apr 6, 11 6:21 PM
Don't delete the negative comments, I like arguing with ignorant people on the internet, I try and talk some sense into them. I'm white btw, but I dislike racism of any kind.
By TMundo (2), East on Apr 9, 11 12:18 PM

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