FORT MYERS BEACHSometimes I forget that the grass is not greener the other side of the street.My wife and I moved to Florida in 1990 with one job and a place to rent. We left behind the cold beauty of North Shore MA and its then challenged economy. We started living in Key West, where it seemed t...

05/31/2007

The English" is" coming! The English Pub in Fort Myers Beach

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Times have certainly changed since that sentence was uttered by Paul Revere warning of a massive English Envasion. Today in that tropical paradise called Fort Myers Beach another man is invading South West Florida, but this time Mr Bennet is welcomed with opened arms with the highly anticipitated...

05/30/2007

Fort Myers Beach For Investors: The time is ripe: waterfront homes

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We know that the boom in South West Florida, Lee County was in August 2005. Since then prices have been drastically adjusted from an average of $330,000 in 2005 to $260,000 last quarter 2007 and this quarter has seen a jump in average selling prices from $260,000 to over $280,000. My poi...

05/30/2007

Lovers Key is a Moveable Feast

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Good Ol' Papa Hemingway will forgive me using the title of one his books which took place in Paris in the roaring twenties. Lovers Key does not have anything to do with Paris but for the fact that once you have seen it you want to come back. It has been over six months since I went to explore t...

05/23/2007