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You can get this magnificent water front home in Gables Estates, by the bay.
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Those big ticket properties are selling fast, I guess many people from Blue States with a lot of money are coming down. Little do they know in case of hurricane they need to evacuate and repairs will be major, even if they pay over $30K a year in insurance they will have a tough time getting their money. But they'll get to enjoy it for a few years.Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.Comment
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Fred that really is nice thank you for letting us know about that great deal. But is their any like older trailers in that hood? Does not have to be real new like within 20yrs. or so? Can I chain up my pit bulls in the yard in that county they don't bark a real lot? Can we have fires in the yard at night? Can we have clothes lines in the yard? Oh were restoring a couple of older Harleys see if its o.k. to work on them in the driveway if yah would please?
One last thing uh the hood? Is it safe? None of them furin speakin peoples jabbering that damn furin talk that sheet drives me nuts. Thanks Fred I will call yah later and see what yah found.Comment
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hahaha....when my son was starting his business he did a few houses there and he showed me pictures, one had a pool table on a hanging floor above the family room, some crazy shit like that. Some rich well known black artist was building it. You havent seen the mansions on the private islands on the bay, holy crap, my mother's cousin was a caretaker on one so they told us to go see it once, they had a separate 2/2 apartment away from the main building, on the dining room was a very large raggedy old painting of the Last Supper, about 500 years old, they paid over a million for it. seven bedrooms, five bathrooms, two kitchens wine cellar, marble deck on the back leading to the dock, all marble inside, it was sickening. And it was just a young couple with two kids. They inherited the fortune and business.Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.Comment
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Just reading about Sam Waltons wife if I got that name right from Wally World. He left her they estimate $100 BILLION in his will. Real nice woman said no one person could spend that much money in a lifetime.
She started a local medical college with free first year tuition for smart students who could not afford schooling. She built a huge art studio in her home town with a small population. Mega million $$ paintings and they said she was nuts. She said why should just the big cities get to see these paintings?
She soon passed one million visitors. Quite a woman. Oh she gave control of Wally World to her entire family she wanted nothing to do with it. I guess 100 billion $$ inheritance is enough?
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If I had that kind of money I would not spend it on such a ridiculous house. I would rather float around and live all over the place. Maybe buy a decked out Prevost and spend a few months here and there and pull up stakes and move on. Or I would live on piece of property the size of a small county with a 5000 ft grass runway and a modest hanger home.Comment
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Your wish is my command. On FD38 (brother lives there) right on a taxiway with a 5,000 foot paved runway, pilot controlled lights and VASI.
Twwo houses away from my Brother: https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...?from=srp_next
He is not rich, just bought at the right time, paid about $80K for the lot and built for about $150K when the neighborhood was starting up, he now sits on a few Million Dollars. I remember flying there when they had a grass strip and helping him out with the foundations.Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.Comment
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Fred I had the same thing happen as your brother did. Bought here 25 yrs. ago for around $50,000 now home and lot next door to me going for $350 to over $400 hundred grand. Then me in my little swamp shack which I keep clean and neat.
But insurance for them? You need how much? Nope so sorry we will give you $100 grand that's it take it or leave it. They have no choice period so they suck up the rest if a storm hits.
The Villages complex just west of me? Its folding up why? Insurance their just walking out of their homes it went from one of the largest developments in America to serious serious problems.
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Insurance is a major problem. I bought my house back in 1985 for $91K, it's close to $1M now, the house I own where my younger son lives I bought for $160K during the crash to turn it into a rental, wife had other plans..Mike was starting just, just had a baby so Mike kept it, he turned it into a large 3/2 with garage and pool on a corner lot, all new plumbing (of course) new electric, everything new and it's worth about $850. Still under our names with a life state deed, my daughter's house my mom paid $73K in 1994, I inherited, again was going to turn it into a rental but.....Kristi is getting married and she needs a place so we put in about $100K in updating her brother did the plumbing and storm windows and it's now worth around $500K, also under our names with a life state deed to her (before she got married)....and then we also have the Sanibel house, it's already gone up $200K in two years but I stole that property off the seller, she couldn't pay for it it was her father's and it was after the hurricane and nobody was buying in the island so I did my thing. Pay Cash close in two weeks, take it or I walk.... they took it. None of those have insurance but they are all well protected against storms. The Sanibel place may get flooded in the garage so before a storm comes I need to move tools up to the house and somehow move the golf cart out of the island.
The other place that's growing now is Ave Maria, just south of Inmokalee, east of Ft Myers, it was originally built around a catholic university there but it's now attracting people and prices are not bad. I have a relative in NC who's thinking about buying there to be closer to her sons.Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.Comment
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I'd rather have a double-wide on one hundred wooded acres, but that's just me.Comment
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Yeah, he pays quite a bit on Homeowner's Association and his real estate taxes are about $15K a year. A big hit came when the association decided to pave the runway...for the benefit of a very few owners who had fancy birds. You take the good with the bad. He kept our plane, I'm not flying anymore and all he does is fly to Sun and Fun once a year and maybe around the lake every other week.Sometimes I wish I had a Harry Potter's wand and make people go up into smoke.Comment
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Fred the sad thing is for all of us me included is were not packing our bank accounts were keeping up with the worthless American dollar. I make fun with the wheelbarrow filled with cash on the way to the store to buy necessities but guess what? Its here buddy. Quick trip to Wally World yesterday left with about 5 small bags of crap. $150 something bucks. WTF over. Light bulbs tube of grease some dog food and $$ up.
The vanishing American dollar buy now it will be twice as much tomorrow..
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