Mel's Musings

OH CANADA...EH!

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 at 7:01am. 191 Views, 1 Comments.

If the past month's activity on our website at www.previewnaples.com is any indication, the coming season is going to be excellent for greater Naples Real Estate!

The activity on our website with regard to people opting in for more information about communities and property has recently been dominated by Canadians. Certainly one can understand because the Canadian dollar is again almost at par with the American dollar, plus the fact that greater Naples Real Estate is at prices not seen in years. Those two facts make it just too tempting to resist, especialy for those Canadians who have been coming to Naples for years and have been renting while holding off making a purchase.

What I also find interesting is that a great majority that I have talked with looked…

COST OF BUYING, HOLDING AND SELLING NAPLES REAL ESTATE

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 1:57pm. 355 Views, 3 Comments.

Often we are asked about the different costs related to buying, holding and selling real estate in the greater Naples area. The costs associated with purchasing property will vary within each county in the State of Florida. For example, the cost of purchasing property in the Naples area (Collier County) will be different than purchasing in Bonita Springs, Estero Ft. Myers (Lee County).

The largest single expense for buying a home in the Naples area is title insurance.

Paying the cost of title insurance becomes the responsibility of the buyer and will insure the buyer against loss, if it is subsequently discovered that there was a defect in the title. If the buyer is getting a mortgage, the lender will require the buyer to purchase title insurance. If the…

ALL IN THE FAMILY

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 at 10:23am. 329 Views, 1 Comments.

The other day I read a wonderful article in the Naples Daily News titled Still In The Family. It was about the history of the Naples Zoo, formerly called Caribbean Gardens, and how far it had come since the early days of when Dr. Henry Nehrling, one of Florida's premier botanists, founded Caribbean Gardens in 1919 as a botanical garden. In 1954   margarine magnet, Julius Fleishman, began the rescue and expansion of the gardens and in 1969 animals were first introduced by the current zoo Director David Tetzlaff's parents, "Jungle Larry" and "Safari Jane" Tetzlaff. That was actually the beginning of the zoo as we know it today and when you look at how far it has come from those humble beginnings, it is truly amazing.

I am a member of the zoo and one of the…