All around fantastic showcase of Naples, FL... Gorgeous homes and supporting local business in the community, what more could you ask for... Look forward to watching more episodes!!
This is super fun. I didn't realize that Naples, Florida was the Beverly Hills of the South. Great series and I cannot wait to see the next home featured.
Sorry, I didn’t watch your whole video, but I moved to Naples around Thanksgiving of 2020 after spending my entire 40 years of my life living in Minnesota. I love it here. I’m a single guy so I just live in a small high rise condo in Pelican Bay. It’s called the Mystique. Like I said, I didn’t watch your whole video. Did you happen to mention the heat during the summer months? It’s not so much the temperatures, but the humidity. Every single day starting in about maybe mid June through the end of October the dew points are 75 plus. It’s sweltering. That’s one of the reasons people who can afford it don’t live here year round. They just go back North during the Summer. I stay here full time though and I actually like it during the Summer. It pretty much turns into a ghost town. There aren’t people driving everywhere. You don’t have to make dinner reservations days or weeks in advance. It just becomes a real sleepy town during the summer. Unfortunately it’s just unbearably hot, but I’ll take the other 7-8 months of beautiful weather any day and I was definitely glad to get out of Minnesota.
While much of SWFL was impacted by the hurricane, Fort Myers had the majority of the extreme damage. Some homes along the coast had a lot of damage. But, inland homes had minimal damage.
This house is in quail creek, which is about 10-15 minutes away from the coastline, so not much danger of the houses in there being decimated unless there is an apocalyptic storm suge. Fort myers and sanibel got most of the news coverage, but make no mistake, the Bonita Springs and Naples coastlines got hit reeeeally hard. Four plus months later im STILL quoting low voltage work for renovations that have the first couple of floors of the home completely gutted from being underwater. These homes ALL have smart home automation systems, rack systems, and lighting control systems that are no longer functioning. Im talking hundreds of thousands of dollars in low voltage repairs alone, per home. The kicker is that most of these homes are self-insured, because the sheer size and location of the homes mean that no insurance companies want to take the risk of insuring them. After this storm, the insurance companies are going to be even more hesitant to insure these properties. Moving forward, this is really going to separate the real rich from the faux rich as far as who can afford to live here, that's for sure.
@@openhousenearme I do not want to live in Florida at any price. seismic and geological changes and history suggest that Florida and likely all coastlines will be under water. Not for me.
