Real Life & Real Estate in Bonita Springs Florida

WWMPD? - What Would Marlin Perkins Do?
Grown men have been driven to madness by a one ounce bird. There is a street in a little community in Bonita Springs, Florida with twenty two homes. Some of the homes have Styrofoam faux flower boxes on the front of them. These cottages are just [...]

The Bonita Springs Mailbox of the Week
With any luck nobody held their breath for this. As expected another fish mailbox. Bonita Springs definitely has their share of mailboxes in the form of fishes, that’s for sure. I thought I’d get a golf theme mailbox in Bonita Golf & Country Club but [...]

Spring Run - Another Happy Golfer Finds a Home
Has hell finally frozen over in Bonita Springs, Florida? My Gardenia model in Spring Run at the Brooks has sold! That one was like lugging a 100 pound bag of bricks up a mountain. This little Bonita Springs condo was just a collateral damage of the [...]

Gee, a special thanks goes out to Matt Rathbun for throwing me under the meme bus. For those who don’t know, a meme is a way to share more about yourself on the web in a “tag, you’re it” kind of fashion. For people like me it gives the Jackals something to pick [...]

No Fish Mailboxes to Fry in Spring Creek
A few days ago, after I checked on a listing I have in Eldorado Acres I cruised up Spring Creek to hunt for mail boxes on the Fish Streets. If you don’t know what the Fish Streets are: When you head up Coconut Road toward the [...]

Enjoy your Memorial Day weekend and don’t forget those who have served our country. If you don’t see the video viewer below CLICK HERE for the video. This is a calendar of current and future Memorial Day observations.

Muvico vs. Regal What if they both lose?
Years ago, long before I became a spinster, I raised my kids in Bonita Springs, Florida. I recall the day The Prado shopping center was built and the day the new movie theater came to town. Regal Cinema opened it’s doors and most Friday and Saturday [...]

The Plan of Riverside in Bonita Springs, Fl
Here you have it, ladies and gentlemen, the mailbox of the week in lovely downtown Bonita Springs, Florida. I stumbled onto it driving through an area called “The Plan of Riverside” in the legal description. The “legals” if you will. You find the Plan of Riverside [...]

Bonita Springs Lawn Abuse
These homes are located in Bonita Springs, Florida. I’ll spare one of the home owners the indignity of mentioning which of the Bonita Springs communities it is located in. For months I’ve watched in horror and amazement as the exterior of the house on the left has “evolved” to [...]

Not Every Day is Sunny In Bonita Springs
Even Mini-Me said, “Isn’t this the strangest day in May, it’s so gray”. We do get those gray days here every once in a while. I came back with, “Funny you should mention that, I took a picture of a Poinciana tree and the sky was so gray, [...]

Storm Preparedness In Bonita Springs
Storm season in Bonita Springs is just around the corner. By storm season, I mean the “H” word [Hurricane]. It’s kind of like the “F” word but windier. On special occasions, you may hear a combination use of both of those words.

The fact of the matter is if you [...]

Bonita Springs Home Selling 101
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” is never more true than when purchasing a Bonita Springs home.
No one needs to remind sellers that today’s market is a challenging one. In fact, there are on average more than 11 months of inventory on the market at any given time.
So it [...]

Somewhere Between The Wardman Marriott & The National Zoo
This mailbox is not in Bonita Springs. I’ve taken a fabulous trip away to Washington DC. I was offered an awesome opportunity to be on a forum/panel on social networking and blogging in the real estate marketplace. I was incredibly flattered to be able [...]

Do Trades Have to Appraise?
The story was stumbled across in a Google news alert. I follow Google alerts for the term “Bonita Springs” and “Bonita Springs real estate“. The story is a “trading places” sort of article about a property owner in Bonita Springs that would like to purchase real estate in [...]

Helpful Bonita Springs Phone Numbers

Utility
Phone Number(s)

Cable TV
Comcast

Time Warner Cable
(239) 992-8823 or (239) 432-9277
(239) 574-2020

Chamber of Commerce
Bonita Springs
Estero
(239) 992-2943
(239) 948-7990

Drivers License
Department of Motor Vehicles
(239) 278-7190

Electric
Florida Power & Light
To report an outage
(239) 334-7754
(800) 226-3545
(800) 468-8243

Fire Department of Bonita Springs
(239) 992-3320

Hospitals
Healthpark Hospital
Lee Memorial Hospital
Naples Community Hospital
(239) 433-7799
(239) 332-1111
(239) [...]

Bonita Beach Parking Pass
If you’re going to be living in the Bonita Springs area for a while and you’ll, no doubt, be hitting Bonita Beach. You might want to invest in a parking sticker. The average “donation” at the public access is nearly the same for a one time visit as it is [...]

Doing the Paperwork Correctly
For the third time in as many weeks I called a Bonita Springs management company to obtain buyer application paperwork. Calling for these documents is a frequent occurrence. Every time an agent gets a new listing they need to verify the fees for buyers. These fees are then usually [...]

The Naples Lemon House
The last few Friday’s I’ve run photos of mailboxes for the “mailbox series” on my blog. Occasionally I’ll go out for a drive or just take a turn down a street to see if I can find a candidate for a post. While driving through the Vanderbilt and the [...]

No matter how flat a pancake is it still has two sides
Sometimes people are just a victim of circumstance, they get sick, they get hurt, they lose their job, you name it. Sometimes people just lose their home and it wasn’t their greed or narcissism that caused it. Hey, I don’t agree 100% [...]

The Tag Team Wrecking Crew

For those of you who don’t know I have a couple of kids. I’m a mom, too. They are actually twins. When I do things I always go big. I’m also efficient so I figured having a litter was an effective way to cut “down time” and carrying costs. I wasn’t [...]