Bonita Springs Real Estate | Bonita Springs Lifestyle Report

First Time Home Buyers
The excitement of first time home buyers is enviable and amazing to watch. Most real estate agents have the opportunity to show and sell real estate to buyers who are looking for a vacation home, a second home or a permanent home in Bonita Springs, Florida. For seasoned buyers, the permanent [...]

Dead Fish Mailbox | Old Bonita Springs
You were all holding your breath for the mailbox du jour, I just know it. Special thanx to a humongous issue with Quick Books and my extension looming in the not so distant future for getting me slightly derailed from the important things; blogging about mailboxes. I [...]

Come Any Closer & I’ll Jump!
This is a thankless job.  There are times when it is fun to sell real estate and there are times when it would be more fun to have my fingers crushed in a door.  There are things that real estate agents do that is such hard work.  Well, some of [...]

Banks Still Can’t Sell Real Estate
There probably isn’t any way to fully illustrate the pain and suffering that is involved with a transaction that involves a bank or lending institution. I’m not sure that I can even come up with a comparable or an analogy to demonstrate how unorganized, inefficient and ridiculous the [...]

A Tale of Pricing Riverfront Gulf Access Homes
Sometimes when homes don’t sell as fast as expected the homeowner becomes frustrated. The current state of the Bonita Springs real estate market has brought sales to some home sellers while other homes remain unsold. The only thing that is obvious about the current real estate [...]

Busy Busy Busy - The June Market Report Publishes July 9, ‘08
Sometimes the day in the life of a Bonita Springs real estate agent is just a marathon. When I hear the alarm in the morning I feel like a pony busting through the gate at the Belmont. Today was no different than [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

It’s Just an Offer, Not an Insult
Sometimes a buyer’s offer isn’t received so well. Seller’s may still have in their mind that their home is not only worth what they paid for it, but even more. If it’s been said once, it’s been said a million times. A home has to appraise [...]

A Community Development District (CDD) is a local, special purpose government authorized by Chapter 190 of the Florida Statutes as amended and is an alternative method for managing and financing infrastructure required to support community development. Real Estate in Lee County, which includes the cities of Bonita Springs, Estero and Fort Myers may be [...]

Florida Gulf Coast Home Inspections

FREE HURRICANE WIND MITIGATION INSPECTION
Legislation enacted by the State of Florida requires insurance companies to discount premiums based on certain construction characteristic that make your home resistant to damage by wind. We can now provide this inspection to the homeowner FREE [...]

Excess Inventory | Bank Owned | Short Sale | Auction
Last week I attended a real estate auction at Harborside Convention Center in downtown Fort Myers. There were slightlys over 50 homes on the auction block at this particular auction. Auctions are becoming more and more common with the new real estate market Southwest [...]

Foreclosure Real Estate Isn’t Always The Best Deal
Sunday evening I met a buyer to look at a foreclosure home listing just North of Bonita Springs, Florida. The foreclosure real estate market in parts of Bonita Springs, Estero and South Fort Myers moves swiftly so we drove to look at the home right away. What seemed [...]

The Illusion of Foreign Buyer’s in the Bonita Springs Real Estate Market
The headlines make for great copy - “The British Are Coming”, “International Buyers Flock to Florida”, “Foreign Buyers Scoop up Florida Real Estate”. There has been enough coverage of the alleged foreign invasion to actually convince the public that it is largely true. [...]

How to Buy Real Estate in the Changing Market
Several years ago, when the City of Bonita Springs was about half of its size The Brooks of Bonita Springs was just being built. I recall taking a couple into Copperleaf at The Brooks to look at new construction coach homes being built by Pulte. Before we [...]

 
FEMA -Flood Zone Map
If you’re thinking of buying Bonita Springs real estate and you’re interested in finding out which communities are or are not in a flood zone, you can find the zones on the FEMA website. FEMA has an interactive map where you can search for flood zones by address or even by [...]

Deed Restrictions | Homeowner Association Rules & Regulations | HOA Guidelines
For many buyers of real estate it is important to know and ask questions about restrictions that will effect owners, tenants and guest living in homes within a home owner association. First, Restrictive Covenants are created for protection of owners not to punish. [...]

Which is Worse Being a Chic or a Real Estate Agent?
Saturday open houses with a bright blue sky are usually a bust, but today I actually had more than a few visitors. I ran out of flyers, as a matter of fact. Traffic was good in spite of the picture perfect weather I [...]