shopping for house Ft. Myers

[Chasemmc]

Trying to find house near Naples/ Cape Coral area $500k with dock for my 56 Flush Deck. Anyone know of anything?

 

[dottieshusband]

Trying to find house near Naples/ Cape Coral area $500k with dock for my 56 Flush Deck. Anyone know of anything?

According to my Mortgage Banker daughter... that ship has sailed without you!

 

[wpc691]

Not saying you can’t find it, but these days, that’s pretty close to a knockdown in that area. You’re competing against folks who are only interested in putting a million-something dollar house on the lot...once it’s empty. You might find what you’re looking for in Punta Gorda, but it will be a small 70’s house on an undesirable lot, and probably below BFE. Desirable houses on nice lots are selling over list price if they even make it to market. And I assume you’re not interested in your dock being an hour from Boca Grande and the Gulf.

 

[Retired1]

According to my Mortgage Banker daughter... that ship has sailed without you!

Truth. If you had a smaller boat, then MAYBE you could find a condo for that price. Maybe.

 

[zigzag930]

I live in Punta Gorda. I seriously doubt you'll find anything in that price range on the water, especially if you need deep draft or no bridges. Figure 600K as a good starting point for a house that will need updating.

Good luck and if I hear of anything, I'll let you know. Better have cash in hand and be ready to buy site unseen. That's the SW Florida market right now.

 

[Dan Mapes]

We live in N. Ft. Myers and we can't even find a house with a pool at that price point. They all go pending as soon as they hit the market.

 

[JuiceClark]

My house in Fort Myers has gone from about 1.3MM to 1.75MM in just the last few months. It's pretty crazy - there's just nothing left for sale. Realtors are cold-calling people just to ask if they'd consider selling for a high price.

We're in the middle of a mass migration. It's a real horror show for those of us who remember FL's golden days - in the 1980s.

 

[wpc691]

My house in Fort Myers has gone from about 1.3MM to 1.75MM in just the last few months. It's pretty crazy - there's just nothing left for sale. Realtors are cold-calling people just to ask if they'd consider selling for a high price.

We're in the middle of a mass migration. It's a real horror show for those of us who remember FL's golden days - in the 1980s.

We get 3 to 5 cold calls a week from as far away as Sarasota. We have over 100’ of deep water, no bridge sea wall, so I think that pops up in everybody’s filter. I don’t want to know what the house is worth, because I can’t imagine packing up again. We also get 1 or 2 calls a month from California, and we sold that house 10 yrs ago.

 

[Passages]

I'm in Fort Lauderdale and get appeals from agents saying the have no inventory and cash buyers looking for all sorts of properties.
Kind of nuts considering FLL is building like crazy right now.

Florida is bursting at the seams.

 

[Boatsb]

We need to get environmentally conscious.

All the pollution from these new people is going to destroy our environment. We already have too many people polluting out state.

 

[VieEnRose]

We need to get environmentally conscious.

All the pollution from these new people is going to destroy our environment. We already have too many people polluting out state.

I think we're way past that point

 

[JuiceClark]

We need to get environmentally conscious.

All the pollution from these new people is going to destroy our environment. We already have too many people polluting out state.

The invasion won't get to destroy my area - the ecology is already laid waste by dumping from Lake O.

I chuckle at the local gov't preaching about using a little Milorganite on your flower bed when a few million gallons of super-phosphate sugar water gets dumped down our river every hour. There's literally almost no ecosystem left around Sanibel....once the richest grounds for everything from clams to tarpon on this Earth.
The seemingly endless snook and rolling tarpon in my canal have been gone for 5 years...replaced by catfish and brown water.

Paid-off bureaucrats need to be found and hung...but all new newbies think it was always this way.

 

[rwaldrop13]

The invasion won't get to destroy my area - the ecology is already laid waste by dumping from Lake O.

I chuckle at the local gov't preaching about using a little Milorganite on your flower bed when a few million gallons of super-phosphate sugar water gets dumped down our river every hour. There's literally almost no ecosystem left around Sanibel....once the richest grounds for everything from clams to tarpon on this Earth.
The seemingly endless snook and rolling tarpon in my canal have been gone for 5 years...replaced by catfish and brown water.

Paid-off bureaucrats need to be found and hung...but all new newbies think it was always this way.

You are so accurate in this post it's scary, and why even though we may keep a home base in Ft Myers area, once we start cruising will be going elsewhere. I remember as a kid coming to Ft Myers Beach, and finding starfish on the sandbar at low tide... Try doing that now, 45 years later - Ain't happening.

 

[Retired1]

The invasion won't get to destroy my area - the ecology is already laid waste by dumping from Lake O.I chuckle at the local gov't preaching about using a little Milorganite on your flower bed when a few million gallons of super-phosphate sugar water gets dumped down our river every hour. There's literally almost no ecosystem left around Sanibel....once the richest grounds for everything from clams to tarpon on this Earth.The seemingly endless snook and rolling tarpon in my canal have been gone for 5 years...replaced by catfish and brown water.Paid-off bureaucrats need to be found and hung...but all new newbies think it was always this way.

Amen brother! People are literally dying from bacteria getting into cuts on their feet on the beaches, for years now, but the Chambers of Commerce, Realtors, and the media are totally “shhhhhhh! Move on down, the water is fine”.

 

[Dan Mapes]

It isn't all Lake O's fault. Hardly.

https://nbc-2.com/news/environment/...rtilizer-in-an-effort-to-reduce-algae-blooms/

BTW We had some serious algae issues after IRMA. Things settled down this year. Run off from fertilizers on lawns and septics is probably worse on everything than Lake O..

 

[Retired1]

It isn't all Lake O's fault. Hardly. https://nbc-2.com/news/environment/...rtilizer-in-an-effort-to-reduce-algae-blooms/BTW We had some serious algae issues after IRMA. Things settled down this year. Run off from fertilizers on lawns and septics is probably worse on everything than Lake O..

Wrong. The algae blooms have been back for over a month now. It’s all over the Weat Palm Beach TV stations, Congressman Brian Mast amd the Governor have visited it. They’ve curtailed releases with the hopes it will go away. It’s huge, and getting bigger by the day since we’ve had no measurable rainfall in weeks.

 

[Dan Mapes]

These algae blooms are all over the place and nothing new. Here is a shot of Sylvan Beach NY back in August of 2004. When things were bad the year after Irma, it was because of all of the run off from Irma. Ft Myers had blooms all over the place in canals and back waters that do not receive much if at all from Okeechobee. We saw hardly anything last year in Ft. Myers.

 

[Retired1]

you just aren’t getting it.

 

[Retired1]

There was literally were giant signs along the river saying Avoid Contact With The Water.

 

[JuiceClark]

These algae blooms are all over the place and nothing new. Here is a shot of Sylvan Beach NY back in August of 2004. When things were bad the year after Irma, it was because of all of the run off from Irma. Ft Myers had blooms all over the place in canals and back waters that do not receive much if at all from Okeechobee. We saw hardly anything last year in Ft. Myers.

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The ENTIRE problem is from Lake O. We never had any of these problems and the ecosystem was thriving right until the big dumps began...just before the Bridges project began. Tarpon and snook packed my canal right until that point. The clam beds were healthy, lots of grass beds. Now everything is dead. Vast areas of grass beds are mud holes. The area is decimated.

Even worse, now we have red tide 12 months a year from all the sugar phosphates feed offshore algae...even in February.

Here it comes again - at the Sanibel Lighthouse: