Real estate agents on this board are LYING about FL!! (Orlando: property taxes, insurance)

[Christian11]

Folks:

This is a warning from a 10-year Florida resident: REAL ESTATE FOLKS ARE LYING ABOUT FLORIDA TO ATTRACT PEOPLE TO COME AND BUY. You have been warned.

The real estate market in FL is in a slump in terms of large inventory and very low sales and the real estate agents are trying to atract suckers down here.

Please do some research and learn for yourself! Here is my ten cents on FL after 10 years (copied from my other thread):

Since FL is becoming Southern California (and we are begining to see signs of that with skyrocketing violent crime, 42 muders in Orlando this year alone (2006), high home prices, absurd insurance costs, massive traffic jams and road rage, wages that are not keeping up with cost of living), then why stay or move here?

If you are moving or staying here for the "nice weather", yeah, you will enjoy it from Early-Dec to Mid-April. Dec - April is WONDERFUL in Central FL, but the rest of the year sucks. The rest of the year is 90 - 100 degrees every day. Don't believe me, ask around. If you are from like Phoenix or south Texas, yeah, FL weather will feel like home, except it is humid as heck.

Humidity is usually no less than 90% almost every day, so you sweat like an animal. It starts off at 75 degrees around 7:30am and it goes up to the sky from there. Usually the highs are in the 90s, but with the humidity (heat index) is around 101... I have seen it go up to 110 degrees! Nights are not too bad... except the humidity keeps the temp on the upper 80s and low 90's. Oh, don't forget the rain from May - Sept, which is twice a day (usually from 10am - 11am and from 3pm-4pm). That will get annoying too... folks drive at 5 MPH when it rains... you will love it.

Interstate 4 (I-4) will be your best friend! You will spend lots and lots of time stuck in traffic on I-4. Oh and if you get hit by one of our thousands of illegal aliens with no license, no insurance, they will bolt on you, so make sure you get the guy's plate #, if you can. My wife works Personal Injury and it happens all the time. Too often... Americans are dumb and refuse to force the government to enforce Immigration laws. Corporations will love the "guest worker" amnesty. So will the illegals, who steal people's identity, rip-off welfare and overuse our public services. Not to mention the heinous crimes the illegals commit. Anyways...

I know, you say "I prefer that than to deal with the crazy heat than snow 3 months of the year". We will see about that when you begin complaining about the heat every single day and night, sweating and getting angry at people on the streets cause of the heat. Think Orlando hit #1 of America's angriest cities for no reason?

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Believe it not, but Orlando has been voted the US angriest city by Men’s Health Magazine – it’s interesting that four of the top 10 cities are all in Florida, and here’s you, thinking that Florida was full of jolly Disney characters and thrilling theme parks! Oh, the illegal aliens are great too. Nobody speaks English and they sell crack near public schools. It is lovely.

Good luck moving down here Moderator cut: cut I hope you will all enjoy it. I am out of FL March 2007! 10 years in Orlando is long enough, I am tired of it. Had a house, sold a house, rented an apt, worked, gone to Disney (twice), gone to the beach a few times... time 2 go! Thank God we are moving!

Do some serious research and see what the Florida reality is like. Do it BEFORE you move down here. Homes are very expensive, so is insurance, property taxes, and rent is outrageous. Wages are not keeping up with the cost of living. Not even close. My wife got a $3,000 raise last year, but it got sucked up by the rent increase and costs of renter's insurance. Car insurance went up too (no accidents and no tickets in last 6 years - what gives?). If you think it is the sugar-coated Disney and International Drive dream is the reality in Central Florida, you will wake up on day to regret it.

If you like all this crap, Florida, here you come and here I leave! WHOOOOHOOOO!

Chris

[BlueWillowPlate]

Was it really necessary to post your real estate rants in three different threads?
(Or maybe there is more, those are just the ones I've read.)

[Karla with a K]

cil
there are more
I think only the panhandle hasn't been ranted and maybe tampa
but it is early still
Every city has it's "bad" sections find me one that doesn't
would I go to certian parts of Jax at night? no but I know where these areas are so I stay away from them
but do I feel safe enough that I have no problem going for my 4 mile walk at 6:30 am when it is still dark? Yes
Heck there are times I have even left my car unlocked at night and *gasp* it has been there in the mornig
Good Luck in CO chris
I have lived there, its a great place but you are going to run into allot of the same issues but with snow thrown into the mix
there is allot of farmland so you are going to see migrant workers.
life is to short enjoy it while you can

[BlueWillowPlate]

Originally Posted by myfask

cil

Good Luck in CO chris
I have lived there, its a great place but you are going to run into allot of the same issues but with snow thrown into the mix
there is allot of farmland so you are going to see migrant workers.
life is to short enjoy it while you can

Yes.
We came to the Panhandle from Denver, where all of this exact same stuff is happening, just not as accelerated a pace. And yeah, the snow.

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[Floridamex]

Yes, its that Bad, But the job is to sell, If they dont sell they don't get Paid. Just hope the dumb people from NY and CA keep flocking in thinking what a deal it is at least for three to five years. It takes that long to find out who the greater fool is after the new wears off.

[Karla with a K]

hey cil
lol we have both gone from Denver to FL (though I had a stop in NJ)
We are going to Georgis in Feb due to a job transfer did I see in one of your other post that you were looking in GA how funny
Karla

[BlueWillowPlate]

High Five, myfask!
I hope we can stay in Florida, but you never know.

[MyHomeIsInOcala]

None of the available options fit.

[Christian11]

Originally Posted by myfask

cil
there are more
I think only the panhandle hasn't been ranted and maybe tampa
but it is early still
Every city has it's "bad" sections find me one that doesn't
would I go to certian parts of Jax at night? no but I know where these areas are so I stay away from them
but do I feel safe enough that I have no problem going for my 4 mile walk at 6:30 am when it is still dark? Yes
Heck there are times I have even left my car unlocked at night and *gasp* it has been there in the mornig
Good Luck in CO chris
I have lived there, its a great place but you are going to run into allot of the same issues but with snow thrown into the mix
there is allot of farmland so you are going to see migrant workers.
life is to short enjoy it while you can

Migrant workers are not the issue. The issue here is the criminal "migrant workers". Orlando has gone downhill on safety, friendliness, and quality of life. It was gone way up in violent crime, drugs, cost of living, and traffic.

The days of the affordable, clean, safe Orlando are gone. Middle class is being driven out and soon it will be the very rich and the very poor in FL.

Originally Posted by MyHomeIsInOcala

None of the available options fit.

Will have a better poll options next time. What option would fit you?

I guess I should have a "like it, but the cost of living is too high"?

Originally Posted by cil

High Five, myfask!
I hope we can stay in Florida, but you never know.

Why would you say "hope we can stay in Florida"? Are you not able to afford the rising costs?

[Chicken Wing]

42 murders in Orlando?

That's nothing. Come check out near my hood.....Phildelphia. As of 8/9/06, we had 239 murders for the year. And, I live in New Jersey and we have the highest real estate taxes in the whole country, with beaches that aren't as nice, I might add.

The grass is always greener on the other side. If you don't like it there in Florida, fine. Leave.