Real Life & Real Estate in Bonita Springs Florida

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 [...]

Increase the chance of selling your Bonita Springs house faster following a few good guidelines.
5 Tips For Seller’s In A Buyers Market
1. Plan your work and work your plan.
Be prepared to sell your home and price it accordingly. Not the price the neighbor got for theirs last year, not the price [...]

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. [...]

Sex Sells But It Doesn’t Sell Real Estate
Day number two in the hunt for a new Florida home for my buyer brought us to a lovely condo in Estero at West Bay Club. Let’s just say the house hunting was a bust. Literally. There were more than a few paintings, sculptures and works [...]

Selling Bonita Springs Real Estate
Sometimes I get to help people. I mean the good kind of help, as in they’re so overwhelmed and worried that it’s hard for them to make a move. They just want someone to help and someone to trust. To have a listing appointment last more than an [...]

Hi Chris, this is Sally Saleslady and you showed my Bonita Beach condo yesterday. I was just wondering if you had some feedback.

Most buyers and sellers of Bonita Springs real estate don’t know that conversations like this take place. Listing agents will call the agent that showed the property to see if there is [...]

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 [...]

Do You Want a Couple of New Toilets?

“I never thought I would be one of those people.” he said. Frankly, I never thought he would be one of those people, either. We’ve all read about foreclosure and we’ve seen a few stories on TV but may not have the chance to see it [...]

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 [...]

Keep Quiet, Keep to Yourself, Keep Out During Showings
Selling your Bonita Springs home is a business or at least you should approach it that way. The goods and services you offer to buyers, as a Florida home owner is the home itself, your neighborhood amenities and any incentives you would offer to a buyer to [...]

Just Because You Don’t Like it
Doesn’t Mean it’s Not True
Bad news stinks.  Nobody likes to hear it and nobody likes to read it.  It is with great regret that I have to bring bad news to home owners that have decided to sell their home and haven’t come to the realization that they will 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 [...]

Why Your Bonita Springs Home Isn’t Selling … Continued
Has the Bonita Springs real estate market slowed so much that it has rocked home owners and real estate agents to sleep like a baby swaddled in cloth? While showing real estate lately I’ve noticed some pretty sad sights. I wonder if anyone realizes that [...]

Why You Need to Market Your Home with Photos
If this was the view from your Bonita Springs home, you’d better play it up online. THAT is a photo with a hook. Imagine a buyer sitting in their home in the middle of a cold snap or worse, a snow storm and they’re [...]

No Second Chances to Make That First Impression
The Bonita Springs real estate market is fiercely competitive. There are a variety of dynamics at work making it harder than ever to get a home sold and off the market in a fair amount of time. Currently in Bonita Springs the real estate market offers [...]

But you’re a real estate agent and you get to sell your home for free…
Seriously, I was sharing market conditions and my own efforts to sell my personal home in Bonita Springs I had a home owner say that to me at a listing appointment. I then started digging through my mind trying to [...]

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. [...]