Realtors in Florida

[Zee09]

I saw a house yesterday that I really liked but like many I could deal with the HOA but didn't like the $3000 a year CDD....

The price was fair however. It was in Winter Garden and as low as possible risk factors. The HOA was simply trash and cable and only $50 a month.. Real nice 3 car garage.

I may take a look at the area in mid April. I do have a good agent in the area.

 

[SC Maintenance]

Do you follow Nick Gerli? He posts a bunch on X. He is also the founder of the Reventure App.

He is over the top sensational, but posts a lot of data, especially about Florida. I think he lives in Tampa.

I read it in passing. I have no real interest in owning a home in Florida. I have enough drama in my life already.

 

[Zee09]

No I don't follow him..

 

[Zee09]

Was watching my buddy Renzo in Ocala showing a property in Beverly hills Florida today. He is slick. The house had this horrendous wall paper in the kitchen and he spun it well. Called it unique to the area and bragged it up...

Right on YT he will tell you what to offer. One video he was showing a $750k house and said the builder was very hungry and offer $675k
and let them pay the closing costs.

I never hear women realtors talk like that.

 

[alarmguy]

Realtors, attorneys, and medicine all have controlled trade groups that create barrier to entry. Whether it is the schools, number of graduates allowed, the limitations on representation, or the need to use a specific service, it affects some part of the cost/vakue/supply/demand dynamic.

Point about realtors is as I said, there are some very astute real estate people, that do great. But because the barrier is pretty low a lot of folks can get the license and mls access and pretend to know something. That doesn’t make them experts, or provide a quality service. That’s why there’s a bigger distribution of satisfaction, and folks have issues with realtors in some cases.

I’ve seen both sides, so I don’t know what you’re talking about a minority. Much of it isn’t hard, but it isn’t my preferred activity. Just like blood and bodies.

I could’ve worded that better.
By minority, I meant you have a tiny sampling of a very small circle based on a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of real estate transactions done every year in the United States.
I’m not defending the industry because in any service industry there is the same type of comments and yet people choose those services.
If the majority felt that way they would not use the services.

No further comment from me needed because we already know the industry is alive and well I am just trying to clarify my statement.

It’s all media hype and social hype and the negative comments come from a minority of people. If it wasn’t so then who was the fool for using them. You don’t have to answer that because like I said, the industry is alive and well.

In any industry, there is good and bad, including doctors in your own community and in social media it’s the armchair commentators that paint a picture larger than it is in reality

 

[Zee09]

My favorite central Florida realtor Alexis Diaz....she has a sense of humor too. A YT comment to me. I had to crop them.

 

[Zee09]

Who is ready to move. @walterjay
Lovely home and a smooth delivery by the realtor. This is the first time I have watched a video from him...

Not a bad looking dump...seriously I like the style. How about you?

 

[SC Maintenance]

Who is ready to move. @walterjay
Lovely home and a smooth delivery by the realtor. This is the first time I have watched a video from him...

Not a bad looking dump...seriously I like the style. How about you?

I spent 20 seconds paging through so....

They took the black / white clean look and made it ornate. So no, I don't like that at all. To each their own.

The 3 car garage and pool right up to the water is cool.

What are the specs? Square footage and listing $?

 

[Zee09]

I spent 20 seconds paging through so....

They took the black / white clean look and made it ornate. So no, I don't like that at all. To each their own.

The 3 car garage and pool right up to the water is cool.

What are the specs? Square footage and listing $?

I don't know..I'll be calling him collect later today ...I could do without the water myself.

 

[SC Maintenance]

I don't know..I'll be calling him collect later today ...I could do without the water myself.

Yes, I am used to alligators being in those ponds. Unlike most people I am not paranoid about gators - I leave them alone, they leave me alone. But I also don't need to adjoin their habitat either.

 

[Zee09]

Yes, I am used to alligators being in those ponds. Unlike most people I am not paranoid about gators - I leave them alone, they leave me alone. But I also don't need to adjoin their habitat either.

To me I had gators too but my concern is flooding and expensive insurance

 

[Zee09]

I owned the front entrance to a development called Sweet Water Trails in Bunnell . I had 3 ponds they call lakes on 11 acres... I liked watching the gator on my trips there. Some lots were 40 acres in that development...nice.

 

[SC Maintenance]

To me I had gators too but my concern is flooding and expensive insurance

Does it matter if your on a pond? I thought it was all about flood zone - unless that pond defines the flood zone.

 

[alarmguy]

Yes, I am used to alligators being in those ponds. Unlike most people I am not paranoid about gators - I leave them alone, they leave me alone. But I also don't need to adjoin their habitat either.

Yes!
We have a number of them in the ponds here just over the coastal SC state line in NC
What surprised me here, like me, I think they are cool and so do many in my community.
There is one guy always photographing them. We have so many ponds I never know which one he is photographing, he told me but I still haven't found it. We back the woods and dont have a pond. But others tell me of the gators routines.

Two days ago, he posted this one. I would say that turtle is in trouble. *LOL*

I took the photo below. This one was in a different community. My wife and I sometimes drive around looking for them. He was in the middle when we arrived, so I got out of my truck and he came over and cruised right by me, a few feet from the shore. I suspect he was wondering if I was going to toss him something to eat. He was very calm. I also have a video.

 

[Zee09]

Does it matter if your on a pond? I thought it was all about flood zone - unless that pond defines the flood zone.

The house mapping was nowhere near the pond. And what I'm saying is I don't like ocean front, river front, or canal front properties.

I don't need to be on the water

 

[walterjay]

Sorry Jim. Not to my liking. Guess I won't be moving into that one.

 

[Zee09]

Sorry Jim. Not to my liking. Guess I won't be moving into that one.

I guess it will be @AutoMechanic then

 

[walterjay]

I guess it will be @AutoMechanic then

My thoughts exactly

 

[Zee09]

My thoughts exactly

If I bought it I'd have to lay around in my silk bathrobe with all kinds of lotions and my Versace loafers..

I'm just not that kind of dude.

 

[walterjay]

The house seems harsh and uninviting. Kitchen is not at all to my liking. Would not want to live on the water down there. Insurance would be outrageous.