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My marketplace is the area from South Fort Myers, through Estero and Bonita Springs, to North Naples. This focus on the area where I live has given gives me invaluable historic and current knowledge. Not only do I use the Multiple Listing System, but I maintain my own real estate database of new home communities. I can give you a competitive advantage in home-buying, whether it’s a resale or a builder’s new home. And, it will cost you nothing extra.
You tell me your needs and preferences and I’ll do the groundwork. That means you’ll avoid frustration and  confusion. You can spend more of your time here in Bonita Springs, Naples, Estero, and Fort Myers, enjoying the many things we have to offer. Working on your own, you could spend weeks looking for the right home, because there are so many attractive communities and such a wide range of homes to choose from.
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On our site you’ll find knowledge and resources necessary for exploring some of the Southwest Florida real estate markets – the ones that I concentrate on. You can learn about other cities along the Gulf coast and what they offer by doing some searches on the web. You may want to investigate Cape Coral, Ft. Myers, and east Naples. Then move north to Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Sarasota and even St. Petersburg. Each city has its own natural beauty and ambience that is so unique to Florida, yet also offers its own special lifestyle that makes Florida such a desirable place to call home.
This exhibition at the Southwest Florida Museum of History contains replicas, but they are nonetheless fascinating. There are 100 or so replicas of objects found in King Tut’s tomb and chambers as well as some items from his mummy, including the golden funerary mask. It will cost you $9.50, but there are discounts for seniors, children, and students. You have until June 20 to see this exhibition, but don’t put it off and then forget it. The museum is at 2031 Jackson Street in Fort Myers. Phone 321-7430 and/or visit swflmuseumofhistory.com.
Groundbreaking on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2010 marked the beginning of a major Everglades restoration project at the Picayune Strand in Collier County. These 55,000 acres, originally destined to be yet another housing development, will be returned to nature as part of a joint effort by the South Florida Water Management District and the Army Corps of Engineers. The project at Picayune Strand is part of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan initiated ten years ago. U. S. Senator Bill Nelson, D-Orlando spoke at the groundbreaking ceremony, saying “Picayune Strand is going to be transformed from a raped and scraped housing development that had been hacked into plats to prime habitat for panthers and other endangered species.”
A $53 million contract was awarded in November to Harry Pepper and Associates to build a pump station, plug 13.5 miles of canals, and remove 95 miles of roads at the failed development in southern Collier County. A hefty portion of the cost will be paid from federal stimulus funds. The total cost of the project to return the Strand to wilderness could be $435 million. (Estimates for repairing the Everglades as a whole run as high as $10 billion.) Over the past thirty years, The Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Department of the Interior have bought land from 17,000 property owners, at a cost of more than $150 million.
Instead of canals draining wetlands, fresh water flowing into downstream estuaries, and roads disrupting natural water flow, the Picayune Strand will become a watershed flowway. It will be decades before all of the positive effects are accomplished, but some improvements will be seen quickly. The Strand is almost surrounded by public land: refuges, preserves, state parks and a research reserve, so it is a critical piece of the Everglades. This project will include removal of exotic plants that crowd out natives and will also restore significant animal and bird habitat. A Fort Myers News Press editorial says that Everglades restoration shows we sometimes have the wisdom to admit our mistakes and make amends.
Pleading with their plants to go from bud to bloom, begging their plants to hold off opening flowers fully until next week, local hobby growers of orchids are anticipating the annual Naples Orchid Show and Sale next Friday (March 19, 2010).
Here is this week's Get Growing garden calendar (beginning Friday, March 12, 2010).
The Salvation Army of Collier County still needs food for Immokalee residents.
Here is this week's (beginning Friday, March 12, 2010) Home Front column.
I have sensitive files (personnel, finance, etc) in my computer. I use a strong password to logon to my computer but worry that someone could view the data when I carry it in a thumb drive if I lose the device.
We keep getting the “blue screen of death” on our computer. We took the computer to a shop and they said everything looked good, no viruses or anything.
Surely magic is involved when a simple switch conjures the powerful mood of Willie Nelson’s “Stardust.” Magic is involved, too, when the addition of night illumination transforms a garden. Lighting is a frequent reader question, too.
Let me try to light up your life — that would be by means of illumination, of course. Starting from the basics, we know lighting is essential. And just as certain rooms in our homes have specific uses, so, too, do the lights we use.
Auctioning off eight licenses to operate Las Vegas-style casinos could produce $2.3 billion in upfront revenue for Florida — more than triple the state’s cut under the next most lucrative proposal, the Legislature’s top economist told a House gambling panel Thursday.
After a performance that put her squarely in risk of being cut from the show, Naples-native Paige Miles managed to make her way into the “American Idol” final dozen.
To report a crime or suspicious activity in your neighborhood, call the Naples Police and Fire Department at 213-4844, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office at 774-4434, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office at (239) 477-1000 or the Marco Island Police Department at 389-5050.
Now the 26-year-old college student and married mother, who claims to be a former Blue Martini waitress, believes she was drugged at the restaurant. Fisher is one of 26 people who have filed reports with the Collier County Sheriff’s Office all with similar accusations
Henry Judy, 53, pastor of Life Point Church on 28340 Trails Edge Blvd., denied the allegations and said a complaint filed with the Lee County Sheriff's Office was made by one of a group of congregants who left the church late last year.
Lenders have taken control of Aqua, a high-end condo in North Naples, and sales are gearing up again. The resort-style development off Wiggins Pass Road is generating interest from buyers with prices at half of what they were in presales a few years ago.
There is not a style of instrumental or vocal music that the blues have not touched. There is a universality about it, and that’s likely one of the reasons the Bonita Springs Blues Festival is heading into its fourth year. Everyone loves the blues. And, at one time or another, everyone has the blues.
The way I see it, there are two stages we reach in life — more and less. The first stage is when we all think we’re experiencing the best days of our lives. We know it all and we’re all too happy to make everyone else aware of it. The second stage would be when you realize that those were, in fact, the best days of your life and you were that happy not because you knew everything but because you knew nothing at all. The bad thing about reaching the second stage is that now you know too much. That’s a big theme of “The Big Chill,” a comedic drama about a group of college friends who reunite 15 years later for a long weekend.
After the embattled Vanderbilt Beach condo said it wanted to bring an end to the private beach controversy, Commissioner Jim Coletta says there's no need to continue with protest planned for Saturday.
Jazz pianist Stuart Shelton has probably become the busiest musician — jazz or otherwise — in Naples, appearing somewhere seven nights per week. With his unparalleled technique and dexterity, inventiveness and sense of swing, he has few equals.
Republican Senatorial candidate Marco Rubio will campaign in Southwest Florida at three events Friday.
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