Real Life & Real Estate in Bonita Springs Florida

A Fort Myers Beach Day Trip | Pier, Parks & Playgrounds
A super easy day trip, afternoon trip or just a trip for breakfast or lunch can be made to Fort Myers Beach from Bonita Springs.  Fort Myers Beach is accessible from only two main points.  The south end via Bonita Beach Road through Bonita Springs [...]

Student Housing in Estero Florida | FGCU College Housing
Bonita Springs Student Housing
With the recent price adjustments of Bonita Springs real estate and Estero Florida homes and condos, the cost savings of housing your kid, plus appreciation, may make college town real estate a fairly wise investment to consider. Condominium complexes with excessive inventory, price [...]

Bonita Beach Trollee – Bonita Beach Trolley - Bonita Springs
No matter how you spell it, the Trollee in Bonita Springs is a great resource for visitors and locals alike.  The Lee County transportation department offers this great service to the Bonita Beach, Fort Myers Beach and Estero Island areas.  My family stumbled onto the Bonita Springs Trollee [...]

Bonita Springs Short Sale Checklist
Chris Griffith is a licensed Bonita Springs real estate agent and not a tax attorney, real estate attorney or C.P.A. Anyone that is faced with foreclosure or a short sale should seek the advice of a real estate attorney and tax professional. This article is provided only as a [...]

If you’re facing foreclosure or thinking of a short sale in Bonita Springs and run across a way to salvage your home “that may be good to be true”, it just may be too good to be true.
Unfortunately, desperate times bring out the worst in scam artists who will try to prey on the desperate [...]

Bonita Springs Real Estate Rental Tips
The Bonita Springs rental market is alive and thriving in Southwest Florida. A large inventory of both condominiums and single family homes in Bonita Springs and Estero Florida are available in a variety of neighborhoods. There are a few things to consider, if you are a tenant, when renting [...]

The Year in Review - And a Christmas Story 
The year 2007 brought me more of the unexpected than I could have imagined.  If you were to have told me last year at this time how many new people I would know from all over North America I wouldn’t have believed it.  Because of my blogging and internet [...]

Spanish Wells Golf & Country Club - Marbella at Spanish Wells
Have you visited Spanish Wells Golf and Country Club lately? Enjoy the best that Bonita Springs has to offer at Spanish Wells, in the heart of Southwest Florida. Spanish Wells offers a 600 acre community with 27 holes of golf. The recently [...]

   Veterinary Animal Hospital For Bonita’s Best Residents
Today I drove the shopping center called the Centre at Bonita Springs.  It’s where the Publix grocery and Kmart is at Bonita Beach Road and US 41.  I passed White Sands Animal Clinic.  There was a truck backed up to the door, Dr. Mason’s truck.  Sunday morning was spent [...]

Every Vote Counts Bonita Springs!
For crying out loud, people fought and died for you to be able to vote, the least you can do is register and drop your ballot in the box.  There is a push both city wide in Bonita Springs and county wide, Lee County, to get record numbers of voters to [...]

Bonita Springs Seafood Restaurant | Seafood Market
A few days ago I had an opportunity to take Ayu out for dinner again.  We ended up at Rodes in Bonita Springs, Florida on Bonita Beach Road.  It was the perfect opportunity to visit a seafood restaurant and let “A” experience some of our local catches.  If you’re [...]

Copperleaf at the Brooks
Finally, the newly renovated Copperleaf Clubhouse is complete, open for business and absolutely beautiful. There were actually over 170 people served last night for the very first dinner.  The entire club was buzzing with excitement, as each Copperleaf member toured all the beautiful new rooms.  If you haven’t had an opportunity to see [...]

  Computer Repair in Bonita Springs, Florida 
Ok, I’m back in action.  Thanks to Platinum Coast Technology of Bonita Springs, again. (again and again) 
My laptop ended up getting gunky after Comcast installed some junk on it - booo!  It wasn’t cooperating, freezing up, programs wouldn’t open.  All sorts of bad stuff was just slowly getting worse.
Although I [...]

It’s named Lansdowne Street but located on the Trail
Bonita Springs has a new restaurateur that has thrown their hat in the ring.  Just last week Lansdowne Street opened its doors for business.  The owner, Michael Maurer, is a die hard Boston fan and the pub shows it.
Yesterday, I finally had a chance to stop into [...]

Brilliant. The very secret you need to know to sell your Bonita Springs Home or Bonita Springs Real Estate has been put into a video by The Real Estate Zebra. In case anyone really is in denial about how appraisals work in Bonita Springs or Boise, this is it. Zebra has [...]

Mobile Post Office in Bonita Springs - Estero Area 
Look what I stumbled upon today.  While cutting through the parking lot at the Coconut Point Mall (between Sports Authority and the Trek Store).  This little beauty was sitting there just as cute as can be!  If you’re not 100% familiar with the area, The Coconut Point [...]

How to Trap a Possum in Bonita Springs
Part Deaux
As you man recall, Lumberjack the Bonita Springs Animal Trapper carried off Hector the Possum to greener pastures, just a few weeks ago.  It was a Havahart trap, so don’t get upset.  I love critters, just not under my house. 
Well now, the saga continues.  I have heard strange [...]

Cancer, Cosmetics and Frozen Peas 
Today I stopped into Ulta in Estero Florida at the Coconut Point Mall.  It’s a make up, accessory, beauty product store. I’m not really sure how it’s classified.  I just know they have isles and isles of make up by literally dozens and dozens of different manufacturers. 
I’m not a huge make [...]

Pottery as Art | Mexican Pottery
During the last couple of weeks I’ve watched the inventory get placed at a new business on Old US 41 in Bonita Springs.  The building was once the Jacob’s Interlock Paving of Bonita Springs building and The Village Haus a while back.  Since it’s been empty for a spell the [...]

Palmetto Dunes at Pelican Sound | Estero Florida
Palmetto Dunes condominiums live like a single family home.  Enjoy ample living space with three bedrooms plus a den and two baths plus a two car garage combined with the easy of “lock it and leave” condominium lifestyle.  This particular Palmetto Dunes home comes with designer furnishings with [...]