Homes in Cedar Creek of Bonita Springs Cedar Creek is located in the heart of Bonita Springs, Florida where US 41 (Tamiami Trail) and Spring Creek intersect. The community was built by US Home. Cedar Creek is a gated, intimate community of less than 300 single family homes. The community of Cedar Creek is built [...]
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Pitfalls of Buying Student Housing Bonita Springs real estate and Estero Real estate has recently become more affordable. If you didn’t know it, there is a college in South Fort Myers FGCU – Florida Gulf Coast University. A couple of times per year parents of students that are enrolled or future students start looking for [...]
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Maybe Credit Isn’t Always The Issue Setting off to purchase a new home is usually a daunting task and it’s mostly due to the learning curve. Chances are a buyer hasn’t dealt with the process in some time and quite often their last real estate purchase was made in another state. How they did it [...]
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Uneventful But at Least Not Disappointing Real Estate So I shocked myself by getting this real estate market report out earlier than my foot dragging self. The fact of the matter is that market reports are time consuming. On top of that I like them to be somewhat entertaining if I can help it. I [...]
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How Compound Interest Works First time home buyers, if you don’t see the video below, click here: Compound Interest.
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Home Security: Locks, Stock and Barrels Last week I was in store (the movie theater) and overheard a conversation from the next isle (stall). One woman said to another, “Hey, it’s great that the condo has been cleaned, but what I want to know is how she actually got into my condo to clean it.” [...]
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Bonita Springs & Estero Real Estate Numbers (psst. if you don’t see the Love Shack video up above click here) Here you go, your bona fide, 100% authentic Bonita Springs real estate market report with a side of Estero real estate market report. I’m only about two weeks late. Better late than never, right? So [...]
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What if We’re Not Going to Hell in a Hand Basket? On the heals of my column about how many mortgages are actually being given to buyers of Southwest Florida real estate. This is across the board: Bonita Springs, Estero, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, Lehigh, Cape Coral, North Fort Myers. Read also: Will Banks [...]
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Real Estate Has No Short Term Fixes Some people who decide to sell their Bonita Springs home find out the value that they had in mind isn’t really the reality of their current situation. Well, I guess a fair number of them find that out, not just some of them. There is a photo snapshot [...]
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First Time Home Buyers Circle Your Wagons As you know, AmeriDream and other Down Payment Assistance (DPA) programs were eliminated October 1, 2008 due to the passage of H.R. 3221. You are probably asking yourself how Congress could eliminate these programs that are so critical to the stabilization of home prices and our economy. We [...]
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Naples Florida Golf Homes in Audubon Audubon is an exceptional 770-acre private gated community located West of US 41 in Naples, Florida. It is merely a few miles south of Bonita Beach Road. If you’ve shopped the country club communities in Bonita Springs you might want to take a look at what Audubon has to [...]
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Beating a dead horse usually involves a dead horse, a striking object of some type, a person who is delivering the beating and an observer that is probably in denial about what is happening. Feel free to pick your character in this act. Sometimes I wonder if everyone has just grown used to the sounds [...]
Are You Sure Buyers Actually Get In Your Home? Sometimes it really isn’t that difficult to figure out why a home isn’t selling. I stumbled onto a big reason why some homes don’t sell this past weekend. There wasn’t a whole bunch of hocus pocus involved or even a comparative market analysis. All the home has to [...]
Fire up the video below so you’ll have some back ground music. If you don’t see the video box below the link to the tune is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCbOEZ8c8dM Welcome home to Bonita Springs, snowbirds. We’ve noticed that you’ve returned. My own parents will be back in two weeks. Brace yourself, Waffle House, Pappy is gonna [...]
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I’ve watched these rabbits for months. I don’t know how they got there or if they’re just left over from Easter. I think they’re cute looking over the driveway. They must be cheaper than a surveillance camera. Meet Millie, Jeff and Stach
Armadillos Stink, Both Figuratively and Literally My house seems to attract them. Actually, my house didn’t but my crappy lawn service did. Since they didn’t take care of the insect issues with the grass, the armadillos entered my yard and took advantage of the buffet. They then decided that my crawlspace and under my porch [...]
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Verifying Fees and Call Before You Dig One of the larger concerns buyers have when purchasing a Bonita Springs home or condo is what the true, bottom line cost of ownership is going to be to them. Since Southwest Florida real estate buyers come from all over the country and world for that matter, a [...]
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Hunter’s Ridge Golf & Country Club What a treat to be able to live in Hunter’s Ridge in Bonita Springs, Florida. Hunter’s Ridge Golf and Country Club community features a Gordon Lewis designed, 18 hole championship golf course which is the crown jewel of the community. The community of began construction in the late 80′s. [...]
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This week has been a little hectic. For all the whiners who think southwest Florida is doomed rest assured that Bonita Springs real estate is, in fact, selling. There’s been enough activity to get me buried a little behind. Yeah, I heard the recent foreclosure reports about Fort Myers and Cape Coral. Sure the news [...]
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The Vernazza Floor Plan If you have been researching condos for sale in Rapallo, take a look at the Vernazza model. The Vernazza is the smallest floor plan model available in the carriage homes at Rapallo at Coconut Point of Estero, Florida. The Vernazza offers 1,966 square foot of living. Gracious living area, as far [...]
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Someone got a little bored in the garage today. It turns out that a houseguest closed the garage door with the dog on the wrong side of it. I had an early morning meeting at Keller Williams and wasn’t home to notice that 7 lbs. of attitude went missing. Al eventually noticed it was a [...]
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
As-Is with The Right To Inspect | Bonita Springs Real Estate Sometimes homes in Bonita Springs are sold “As-Is”. What is an “As-Is” sale? Well, it’s kind of what it sounds like. Typically the purchase offer is written on an “As-Is” language specific contract which also gives the buyer the right to have the home [...]
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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 [...]
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Paradise Village Gulf Access Homes Paradise Village is a unique gated enclave of only 40 single family detached homes. There are no condominiums or multi-family residences in Paradise Village. Located in Bonita Springs, Florida on West Terry Street, Paradise Village boasts a unique feature exclusive only to Paradise Village. Every home site has gulf access [...]
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Jasmine North & Jasmine South Towers | West Bay Club Jasmine Bay at West Bay Club offers two luxury, resort tower buildings, the south tower and the north tower. Each building at Jasmine Bay offers floors with a variety of floor plans and offerings on each floor. Square footages at Jasmine Bay are from 1,750 [...]
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West Bay Club of Estero, Florida One of the gems of Southwest Florida is located in Estero, Florida. West of US 41/Tamiami Trail, West Bay Club is in good company of only a few communities, such as Pelican Sound, Pelican Landing and Bonita Bay that can claim that distinction. West Bay Club is unique in [...]
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Serrano | Bonita Springs Homes & Condos Serrano of Bonita Springs is located on West Terry Street approximately 1 mile east of US 41 (Tamiami Trail). Serrano is an intimated gated community that will have less than 100 residences when it is completed. It is located near Brendan Cove, Paradise Village and Bonita Fairways Golf [...]
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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The Ridge at Pelican Landing The Ridge at Pelican Landing is a quiet enclave of less than 40 single family, custom homes located in Pelican Landing in Bonita Springs, Florida. These fine, custom homes are each uniquely designed and vary in style and architecture. Residences in The Ridge at Pelican Landing offer large lots with [...]
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Heron Point Single Family Homes Heron Point at Pelican Landing is located near Pelican Landing’s Tennis Center on the north side of Pelican Landing. Heron Point is a quiet enclave of less than 25 homes located in Pelican Landing in Bonita Springs, Florida. Residences at Heron Point offer views of preserves, golf or sweeping, long [...]
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