Bonita Springs Florida Central

…another Mailbox in Bonita Springs

Come on! What else would I use for a title? I spotted this mailbox in Bonita Shores. If you don’t know where Bonita Shores of Bonita Springs is, it’s that small part of Bonita Springs on the Southwest corner of Vanderbilt Beach Road and Bonita Beach Road. Besides the neighborhood of Barefoot Beach, Bonita Shores is the only part of Bonita Springs that is technically in Collier County. Real estate in Bonita Springs with a Collier County tax.

Continue: The Lure of Bonita Shores - Bonita Springs, Florida

Yeah, this is part of my mailbox series. 

Read also: Seeing Red on Bonita Beach 

Is there a way for Active Rain to stop Clemintine by blocking her IP? 

Is she spamming anyone but me with her Ocala Mansion dot com essay contest? 

Instead of blogging about it she's loaded up my blog comments and I'm over it. 

Clemintine, you're pishing me off. 

Knock it off.

You're an author, not a real estate agent. 

• Hire a REALTOR*.  If you have one, and the house is listed, you're due for a price reduction just like he/she has been asking you to do.
• Price your real estate to sell and it will sell, period.  It's really that simple.
  
• You aren't going to get what you paid for it if you bought it after 2003.
• Read the Active Rain real estate blogs to learn why your home hasn't sold and then implement what you learn.

If you're looking for something to post about or you're new to blogging and would like to finally take the first step to post something.  Join in the "Mailbox Series".  I've started a mailbox series on my blog www.LifeInBonitaSprings.com.  If you're interested in joining in and sharing unique or unusual mailboxes in your city, Here's a few ideas for you:

• Photograph a mailbox
• Post the photo of your mailbox 
• Write about the location of the box, where to find it, city, state, street name.
  
• Tag your post "Mailbox Series"
•  You are welcome to add your link to the comments section of this blog. To share your mailbox.
• If you're a first time poster, you're welcome to share that, too, so we can all come give you comments. 

And so it was born, the mailbox series.

Bonita Beach in Bonita Springs is one of those places where there’s a great bunch of mail boxes. Today, I drove to the beach and parked down by Big Hickory, just across the street from the marina and grill. I dragged my poor little dog the length of Hickory Blvd. and admired mailboxes.  Continue reading: The Mailbox Series.

Tenant Beware - Landlord Beware

Yes, Virginia, scammers can take advantage of tenants and home owners in Southwest Florida and the Bonita Springs real estate market is ripe for the picking.

Although you and I don’t think with criminal minds there are other people that do. The real estate market has brought on swift and confusing changes. There are vacant homes, foreclosures, short sales and rentals galore. Bonita Springs, Florida has always been the land of absentee owners. We have even more now with the excessive inventory on the market. The market conditions breed all sorts of scams.

Nation wide rental scams are starting to pop up which homeowners, tenants and consumers need to be aware of. It hadn’t really occurred to me how easy it would be to take advantage of someone looking for a home to rent until now. There are even scammers that rent homes with the intent to show and rent the home to other tenants. They get the security, first, last or whatever monies they can get and then they leave town. In some circumstances they have written dozens of leases to dozens of tenants and skip town with a boat load of cash.

Sometimes the scammers just act as though they work on behalf of the home owner, as the homeowner is out of town, out of the country, ill, hospitalized, etc. The victim pays the money and the person who rented them the home disappears. They later learn the house or apartment was not for rent. Of course, their wallets are lighter when they find out.

What can you do to protect yourself if you are a tenant looking for a home or condominium to rent in the Bonita Springs area? There are a few ways to check to make sure the person who says they own the property actually owns the property.  Continue Reading

Yes, this is an actual lock box in Bonita Springs, Florida.  No, it isn't on one of my listings. 

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