Wetlands Studies, Special Assessments on Vacant Land At the time of publication, most of the properties in San Carlos Estates have assessments for the new infrastructure. If your mission is to figure out if a property has a special assessment for the new road paving, water and sewer you can check the Lee County Tax [...]
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And Sometimes Real Estate Buyers Back Out There you are minding your own bees wax. You’ve tended your real estate, preparing it for sale the way a dutiful seller should, shining it sparkling clean, pricing it right, listing it for sale and before you know it, an offer comes in. The bantering counter offers go [...]
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The Aftermath – After the Warranty Expires The last couple of home or condos that I’ve sold have all had one thing in common. They’ve been fairly new, not lived in or barely lived in and nearly every defect that showed up during the home inspection was defective from the day the property received its [...]
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A Brief but Passionate Affair This was almost the mailbox to a first time home buyer in the Bonita Springs-Estero area. Some houses just have a few issues that pop up that push them outside of budgeted repairs or even insurance guidelines or lately, mortgage guidelines. Anything can pop up during the home inspection. That’s [...]
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The Second Run of Investors “But I thought it was a buyer’s market” … That’s what the last buyer said to me that had put in a half dozen offers on homes and lost the contract on every single bid. It is, in fact, a buyers market but there are also a lot of buyers [...]
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HOA Fees Gone Wild Last weekend I had several emails from readers with questions on disclosure or rather a seller’s failure to disclose defects or issues that materially affect the property they purchased. It’s really hard to specifically answer some of the questions because I really don’t have access to all of the information involved [...]
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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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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 [...]
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