chrisgriffith on July 11th, 2008

Bonita Springs Best Pico de Gallo Remember when Bonita Springs, Florida was the tomato capital of the world? I do . There was a little real estate craze and a lot of those tomato fields are now golf courses and housing developments. You can still get a fresh mater’ around here if you look for [...]

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chrisgriffith on June 9th, 2008

When Silence is Golden So what happens when you tangle with a Bonitian like me? You get tazered, that’s what. You’d have to personally know me to know that I have joked with a couple of the guys at the office, lunged at them and put the prongs on them and said bzzzt. OK, I [...]

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chrisgriffith on June 6th, 2008

Protect Your Real Estate Bonita Springs Fridays are for mailboxes on this Bonita Springs real estate blog. When I saw this beauty I decided it would be perfect for a storm or building code post. Turns out we had a wind survey claims expert stop in the office this week which gave me an idea [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 31st, 2008

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 adorable, or [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 21st, 2008

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 what it [...]

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chrisgriffith on May 19th, 2008

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 [...]

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chrisgriffith on April 19th, 2008

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 AND IMMEDIATELY through our association with Applied Research [...]

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chrisgriffith on February 21st, 2008

Tips For a Safe, Successful Move A local moving and storage company, Ray the Mover, Inc. sent an email newsletter to me. I’ve included a few excerpts from it below. If you are buying or selling Bonita Springs real estate, you’ll be faced with choosing a mover. Read the good news about AMSA and the [...]

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chrisgriffith on January 9th, 2008

Alternatives to Hiring A Mover in Bonita Springs Well, I’m rounding the bend on closing one of my listings in San Remo at Palmira in Bonita Springs, Florida. I stopped by to help the buyer and their agent do their final walk through. The owners had packed, cleaned and left the home. Their “Pod” was [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 22nd, 2007

  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 [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 19th, 2007

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 [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 10th, 2007

Bonita Springs Homeowner Insurance The Southwest Florida and Bonita Springs area has not gone without insurance growing pains.  A few years ago, after a succession of storms, big insurance dumped us.  Almost every one of us lost our insurance; cancelled on the spot.  Shamefully, our government allowed it to happen.  Our local Bonita springs insurance [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 9th, 2007

Naples Home Expo My third least favorite store to go to besides Best Buy and Ace Hardware…. No offense, I’m just not a shopper.  Having just completed a remodel in my own Bonita Springs home the Home Expo signifies to me only lost weekends and extensive drywall dust, the likes of which I’m still dealing [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 9th, 2007

Honeybaked Ham in Bonita Springs This business has closed! It looks like the Holidays are here!  It hadn’t occurred to me until I received a coupon in the mail that Bonita Springs has its own Honeybaked Ham store.  I swear I live and work in Bonita Springs.  I swear.  Hey, cut me some slack I’m [...]

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chrisgriffith on December 6th, 2007

  Remodeling Your Bonita Springs Home Is the style of your home a little out of fashion?  Not the right time to sell?  Why not remodel your Bonita Springs home.  With inventory at higher levels than in the past it may be more of an effort to sell your home to get the room you [...]

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