Naples Florida Real Estate: What Are You Getting Out Of This?

That was a question asked by a gentleman who called today asking for alternative accommodations for his mother who was planning on making a visit to Naples, Florida in January.  He started of by wanting to know where other than the Ritz Carlton he might be able to find a place for her to stay because he was not excited about spending $700.00 per night especially if she plans to stay for the week to ten days he's expecting her to stay.  So we discussed alternative accommodations where I gave him the phone numbers of all the hotels that might fit their requirements.  Read more about the post I wrote regarding accommodations in Naples, Florida

Then he asked about rentals.  He stated that they stayed in a place in Pelican Bay last year for a week but couldn't remember the name of it.  My response was, you may have stayed in a place in Pelican Bay for a week but if you did, you or someone else made those arrangements with a private owner because there are no communities that will allow rentals for less than a 30 day period.  Many of those communities are stricter than that to ward off the unwelcome things that occur with lots of people traveling in and out of buildings etc. He gave me a little more information and I was then able to determine the building that he stayed in.  Still, you're probably not going to find a property manager who can rent out a unit for just a week.  There are REALLY strict guidelines and quite frankly, it's simply not worth it to the owner to get caught not adhering to the rental policy.  A colleague of mine has a client who's dealing with their homeowners association for that very thing...NOT PRETTY! 

I gave him a couple of property manager's names and contact information just in case he wanted to give it a shot anyway along with some rental  by owner websites that he might want to check out.  He was a great guy to talk to on the phone.  Great personality, easy going, cheerful...then after all that he says, "what are you getting out of this".  HUH?  he said, "well you're being awfully nice to be doing all of this for nothing".  I joked by telling him that I too lived in Texas for a few years and felt compelled to take care of my own but seriously, sometimes, that's what we do.  We provide a service without expecting anything in return.  Hopefully when that gentleman runs across someone who's thinking about doing something in Naples, he'll be nice enough to drop my name and number and if not...maybe karma will take care of me sometime down the road.

So the answer to "What are you getting out of this"?  So far...a great post for my blog!

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