Considering buying in Riverstone...Relocating from NY (Naples: transfer, utilities)

[bbtondo]

My DH and I visited Riverstone last week. It is a beautiful community! We felt it is a good value for the money. It is definitely geared towards families. If you have a family, this is the community to live in. We saw basketball hoops on driveways, a nice children's pool area in the clubhouse. The clubhouse also had a game room for kids and indoor basketball courts. When reading the monthly calendar of activities there were many things for kids to do.

We also visited Marbella Isle. Seems like $100,000 more for homes, but west if I75 in a nicer location than Riverstone. Again, a wonderful family community.

I think that anyone with a family would love to live in either of these communities. The demographics for Naples seems to be changing from strictly a retirement community to a nice mix of families and retirees, which is a good thing!


Barb

[bbtondo]

My DH and I visited Riverstone last week. It is a beautiful community! We felt it is a good value for the money. It is definitely geared towards families. If you have a family, this is the community to live in. We saw basketball hoops on driveways, a nice children's pool area in the clubhouse. The clubhouse also had a game room for kids and indoor basketball courts. When reading the monthly calendar of activities there were many things for kids to do.

We also visited Marbella Isles. Another great family community. Yes it's about $100,000 more for homes, but in a nice location west of I75.

It seems that Naples is changing from strictly a retirement community, to more of a mix of families and retirees, which is a good thing!

Barb

[Fl1150]

Originally Posted by bbtondo

My DH and I visited Riverstone last week. It is a beautiful community! We felt it is a good value for the money. It is definitely geared towards families. If you have a family, this is the community to live in. We saw basketball hoops on driveways, a nice children's pool area in the clubhouse. The clubhouse also had a game room for kids and indoor basketball courts. When reading the monthly calendar of activities there were many things for kids to do.

We also visited Marbella Isles. Another great family community. Yes it's about $100,000 more for homes, but in a nice location west of I75.

It seems that Naples is changing from strictly a retirement community, to more of a mix of families and retirees, which is a good thing!

Barb

Yes I'm loving the changing target groups for these homebuilders it brings a different flavor to Naples.

[CH183]

I am designing a pool now and construction will start soon. I am debating whether to do a fence or screen enclosure. Can people who are already living at Riverstone comment on the mosquito, bugs, critter situation at Riverstone? I love the look of no enclosure but I also don't want to be eaten alive.

Thanks.

[markjames68]

Originally Posted by CH183

I am designing a pool now and construction will start soon. I am debating whether to do a fence or screen enclosure. Can people who are already living at Riverstone comment on the mosquito, bugs, critter situation at Riverstone? I love the look of no enclosure but I also don't want to be eaten alive.

Thanks.

You absolutely want a pool cage. Full stop. Bugs aside your pool is cleaner with a lot fewer millipedes, frogs and snakes in your filter.

[movin1]

Originally Posted by markjames68

You absolutely want a pool cage. Full stop. Bugs aside your pool is cleaner with a lot fewer millipedes, frogs and snakes in your filter.

I have to agree. We live on the preserve, so we felt a cage was necessary. We still have some millipedes and frogs in the pool (no snakes, yet) and the little lizards are sneaking in somewhere and driving our dogs crazy. We did see a big black snake in the grass just outside our patio, so I guess without the cage, he would have been free to go anywhere. We see deer out back and just recently there have been black bear sitings.

The cage also serves to filter the sun, it is a lot cooler under the cage and you can spend more time in the pool without getting sunburned. You can walk around barefoot on the pavers, but when you go out the screen door and step on them outside the cage they are 20 degrees hotter (just a guess temperature wise, but you sure can feel the difference).

[mrjohnnyt]

Definitely put in the pool cage.
I'm amazed how much stuff blows up to the top of mine.
A corollary to this is anything loose inside your pool cage eventually goes through the skimmer (dog hair, etc).
So I have a spun polyester hair net over my skimmer bucket (some people use cut up pantyhose instead as a skimmer sock.)

[Tripower455]

+1 on the pool cage! I wouldn't even consider a pool in FL without one.

[Southbound2016]

Hello I've purchased a home with GL Homes at Marbella Isles expecting to close in April 2016. I have not hired an attorney yet I'm wondering if it's necessary? Has anyone that has closed at Riverstone or Marbella Isles hired an attorney for closing if not do you recommend it?

[movin1]

Not sure if they still offer the same deal, but when we closed in Riverstone, they gave us a $5,000 credit for using GL financing.

It was a smooth transaction and we didn't use an attorney.

We have a friend who used someone else for financing and regretted it.