Low priced homes in Florida (Jacksonville, Tallahassee: for sale, condos, income)

[stuckinfl]

Mobile Homes & Manufactured Homes are cheaper...but you may have to evacuate if a Hurricaine comes...NOT a good option...
Also stay away from coastal communities as some homeowners & condo owners are paying astronomical rates for home / hazard insurance...if they are able to get insurance at all.

[GSpeed]

Any thoughts/comments regarding Summerfield Fl., Orange Blossom Hills sub-division?

[MrTudo]

Port Charlotte.

Several Publix, Winn Dixie , Sweet Bay stores, a few speciality markets.

2 Hospitals in Port Charlotte and another , Charlotte Regional just over the bridge in Punta Gorda.

Real estate is roughly 20-25% less than Sarasota to the North and Lee Cnty to the South without the riff raff of Lee Cnty.

An excellent choice for retirement.

[ddlove01]

Where is Summerfield? To get some kind of idea, go to zillow.com.
It usually comes back with something less than desirable to what you want to actually sell for, but it's a good tool to figure out market price (In my opinion)

Originally Posted by GSpeed

Hello. Any information on what the market price would be now for the following home in Summerfield Fl.,

1457 Sq ft.
.83 acre
3 bedrooms
2 bathrooms
pool
1 car garage
built in 2003

Any and all comments are appreciated. Thank you.

[GSpeed]

ddlove01, thanks for your reply.That is a helpful site.

[PGLady]

My husband and I just retired and moved to Punta Gorda. It isn't "cheap" but then I don't know what price range you consider cheap. Depends where you are moving from. We paid $207,000 for a new home, from the builder, reduced $42,000 because they have lots of new homes that need to be moved. One thing you have to watch is buying a cheaper older home that is not up to current hurricane resistant building codes. The insurance on those homes is going to be higher. You save insurance costs on hip roofs over pitched due to wind resistance, etc. Check with the insurance companies to see the year of construction that will put you in a current building code home. We got a good rate through Bonded Builders Insurance. They used to only sell to builders but now sell residential policies and gave us the best quote. There are other changes to get used to when moving from one state to another, but in all...we love it here.

[INTERNETTE]

$207.000 is an amazing price. YOUR VERY LUCKY to get a great deal.

[Jammie]

Originally Posted by kwflconch

I would try areas along SR-27 in cities such as Sebring and Lake Placid. the median house price there is like $64,000 I saw on Zillow.com

Zillow is either behind a few years on that or just inaccurate. The cost of housing in Sebring is very high for what they have for employment and other things. The last time I checked, the cheapest condo was in the area of 80,000. And like I said, that was the cheapest one and it was quite small. They have a couple of houses built back in the 40s for a bit less then that, but the better ones are also very expensive there.

[tallrick]

Like I said, no part of Florida is currently 3 times median income. Bottom line-all overpriced.

[wacahootaman]

This sounds like a good deal.

Bell is a small farming community NW of Gainesville

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