South Florida real estate?

Check out the stretch from St. Pete Beach to Clearwater Beach. Best beaches in the country, plenty to do, lack of annoying foreigners, city of St. Pete is cool with lots of culture and Tampa is less than half hour away. Atlantic coast sucks and is a tropical traffic jam.

 

I hear Del Boca Vista is nice.

 

100% of building official corruption, in FL, starts at Melbourne and goes all the way to Key West. The incompetence suspicion is also correct because FL allows private provider inspections. Those firms do inspections for profit so corners get cut and structure gets covered without inspections. Oh and its so profitable, a local municipality is only allowed to audit a firm once a year.
After the Surfside fiasco... the legislature & the FBC made sure to put registered design professionals on the front end of responsibility for threshold level inspection as has always been the case with construction above 3 stories.
I could write a book on trade incompetence just based on the past 10 years.

 

You think the chuckleheads that can’t read a print will magically learn how to read a book?

 

It would be filled with pictures.

 

Vero beach isnt south florida, their is a big difference once you get past West Palm Beach, I'm in Ft. Lauderdale now until the 22nd, their is nothing good about South Florida/ Miami

 

I was sorta wondering if Vero was part of the redneck area on the NE side of the state.

Well shit I think the northern half is redneck if memory serves right.

 

https://www.drhorton.com/florida/panama-city/panama-city-beach/caballeros-estates-townhomes-at-hombre

Golf cart ride to the beach. Still reasonably priced. Build quality is better than what you would usually expect from DRHorton.

 

Correct and thankful for it.

 

We bought a place in Ft Myers Beach about a year and a half before hurricane Ian. Hoa, taxes and insurance were all reasonable. It’s all gonna up a little bit but nothing terrible. Half the houses on the island were wiped out and the people got jack shit from their insurance so now it’s a bunch of empty lots. I would never buy a single family home near the water in FL. Modern condo in a concrete building with hurricane shutters and you’re pretty safe though. There are a tons for sale at good deals due to people wanting to sell rather than pay the assessments. Ours payed the whole years mortgage from renting Jan 1 till about Easter the first year. It’s just now coming back to that but it’s been a slow process.

 

This is absolutely a true statement. Midwest folks are looking for a less city-fied, laid back environments to winter. Also don't wan to deal with Atlanta and I-75 traffic.

No, most prefer I-65

 

Panama city is weird. Its an empty ghost town except for spring break.

I spent a few nights there off season and the bar had seating for about 500 but there were like 10 people in there when I had dinner.

The hottest Ive ever been was about 2am in panama city one summer

 

Not totally Florida related, but we found that an apartment is better than a condo in our very desirable town. Especially in the current market. We are paying $3100/mo for a luxury apartment. The equivalent condo is $600-$700k without the same amenities. It would also have a $400ish condo fee. The math doesn’t math. I haven’t specifically looked in the areas you named, but I have looked at other states and cities and the story is pretty much the same. Rents just have not kept pace with property values. Take advantage of it. Plus then you can switch things up easily if you want.

We are traveling in our truck camper at the moment and are in the Vero Beach / Sebastian area. I love it here. Probably not in the summer, but right now it’s awesome.

 

Can't you round em all up and ship em to like GA and shit?

 

Dave...I think there's more than Ga. could hold (or want). The Florida "crackah" is unique to itself.

 

Renting a house/apt at the right dollar amount really isn't a bad deal at all especially if you're not putting kids through a school system

You never own your house in America anyways. You lease the land from the state

I had a HS shop teacher that lived on a houseboat. Dude was a genious

 

Can you explain this to me please.

 

Property tax.

We closed on a new rental on Monday, 10 February. The seller's to date property tax owed was $525. So about 13 bucks a day for that one.

 

We don't pay property tax.

 

Yep, the grand myth that Americans own the land their houses are built on.