feel like winter is coming

consider a house in sunny Florida

 as always, I look around some in the real estate market
ok, a lot, I look around a lot

here are a few local gems for sale in our part of the swamp

here is the general area, ignore the red circle around Punta Gorda

we live in Englewood on the upper left and my parent's live in Estero, lower right

Englewood is an off the highway, a quiet place with an old downtown
 many half filled subdivisions to the east
(you can see the kayaking  potential here)

Fort Myers is a city and I love the houses in the old downtown section

the following houses are in order from the lowest priced first

$18,000 in Fort Myers just sold

$19,000 in Port Charlotte

$19,000 in Fort Myers, this one is not from the downtown section though

$24,000 in Fort Myers, this one is

$24,000 in Punta Gorda

this is a large house on our side of the Peace river in an old part of town

2 blocks from the river and the whole river front is a park there, it's nice

$28,000 near Beth

nice neighborhood near the bay

$30,000 in Fort Myers

I have a fetish for fireplaces in old houses

$36,300 in East Englewood, near us

$40,000 in North Fort Myers

$45,000 Englewood, 2 miles to the beach

$54,000 Fort Myers

I have a pool fetish too

this was my favorite one that got me checking out that old downtown neighborhood

in Fort Myers, just missed it, it sold for $40,000 I think

I get nothing out of this but the sheer (not shear, thanks Susan)

pleasure of looking at these great old houses

and marveling how affordable they are now

and thinking how nice it would be to see my friends this winter......