New Cypress Gardens owner known for buy and flip

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Robert Harper IV bought 752 acres in North Lakeland for $9.5 million on Dec. 5, 2006. By the end of the day, Harper had sold the property for $13.2 million to the Seminole Tribe of Florida. The quick deal typified how Harper conducts business. But it's those quick flips of property that have people close to Cypress Gardens worried because a Harper company, Land South Holdings of Mulberry, is the new owner of the Winter Haven attraction.

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