Cape Coral Real Estate

Golfing communities

Golfing communities; Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Bonita Springs and Naples.

Golfing Cape Coral, Fort Myers, Bonita Springs and Naples

There are homes for sale on golf courses in Cape Coral Fort Myers, Naples and Bonita Springs

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Bundled Golf Membership

The majority of golf communities are called “bundled” golf, where membership is bundled together with title to the property. All residents (“front doors”) are members. There is no initiation fee, but there are modest annual club dues of about $1800 – $4000 per year.
Residents pay only a cart fee (or a trail fee if using your own cart). The average number of “front doors” is around 800 in each community. So the plus side of bundled golf is affordability. The down side is that getting tee times can be difficult in prime season.
Title to the property and membership automatically passes to the new owner at closing; some clubs charge a transfer fee ($1000-$1500) to the buyer (or the seller may offer to pay the transfer fee).
Bundled Examples: Legends (Fort Myers), The Landings (Fort Myers), Kelly Greens (Fort Myers), Cedar Hammock (Naples), Forest Glen (Naples), CopperLeaf (Bonita Springs), Royal Tee (Cape Coral), Burnt Store Marina (Punta Gorda).

Equity Golf Membership

Equity membership is an individual ownership in the golf club, separate from ownership of a residence in the community. Depending on the rules and regs, membership might be open to residents only or open to applicants anywhere. Membership is by application and an initiation fee, ranging $40,000 to $250,000. Depending on the community and fees, membership is limited to 225 – 350 members per 18 holes. Annual club dues start around $5000 and can be much higher.
Because people frequently move from one golf community to another in SouthWest Florida, equity initiation fees are usually refundable. Upon resignation, the refund may be (a) percentage of what was paid for initiation, (b) a 100% refund of what was paid or (c) a percentage of the prevailing rate. Refund payouts can vary from immediately to a ratio of 4:1 … meaning for every four new members, one outgoing member is refunded.
In some cases, an equity membership owner can sell the membership independently or the owner can offer the membership as a package with a condo or home for sale.
Some equity clubs also offer an alternative sports membership, which includes tennis, swimming, dining, fitness center and golf limited to the summer months and/or a limited to fixed number of tee times per month. Equity clubs almost always also have a social membership option as well.
In most of the communities that have equity golf clubs, membership is not required. That is, non-golfers also live in the community.
Equity Club Examples: Gulf Harbour (Fort Myers), Miromar (Fort Myers), FiddleSticks (Fort Myers), Pelican Bay (Naples), Bonita Bay (Bonita Springs)

Golf Community Price Ranges in Southwest Florida

Most communities have a mixture of condos, villas, townhomes, and single-family homes. Prices range from $250,000 to the multi-millions.

More About Local Courses

Public Courses: Players pay a greens fee and cart fee. Fees vary during the year, with higher rates in season. Some courses have differing fee schedules for residents versus non-residents. Examples: Coral Oaks (Cape Coral), Tiburon (Ritz-Carlton, Naples), Shell Point (Fort Myers)
Semi-Private Clubs: A semi-private club is one that has members but also allows non-members to play. Some bundled golf clubs are semi-private.
Walking: To keep play moving, most courses require carts. Some courses allow walking anytime, and others allow walking at certain times of the year (summer) and/or certain times of the day (early morning, late afternoon).
Reciprocal Play: Most clubs, bundled and equity, offer reciprocal play privileges with area courses. Typically, reciprocal play is offered only in the off-season or summer months.
Tenant Transfer Fee: For those who offer their condo or home to renters, tenants can assume the full rights and privileges as if they were the owners / members by paying a transfer fee of about $100 for the time period they are in residence. This option is more often available in bundled communities

Dear Joe, We wanted to take this opportunity to thank you once again for making our dream to purchase a waterfront home in Cape Coral come true. From the very beginning, when you were able to quickly identify the exact type of home that we were looking for. Your website's "Client Portal" was extremely useful in this regard. Through to the closing on our home puchase, you consistantly demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the region, the skill and background to answer all of our questions in a timely and efficient manner, and the patience of a saint. In addition, it is clear that your strong and positive relationship with other professionals in the field (mortgage brokers, home inspectors, etc.) greatly streamlined this process. In sum, at all times we enjoyed knowing that we were represented by a terrific buyer's agent who truly had only our best interests in mind. We would gladly recommend you to anyone looking to purchase a home in Cape Coral or the surrounding area.
Franklin and Patricia Kronenberg  
We live in Pennsylvania and found Sunny Spot Realty through a Google search. As Pennsylvania residents using an Exclusive buyers agent in the current market in Lee County FL, was an absolute necessity for us. After identifying several homes in Cape Coral using the very helpful Sunny Spot website, we were contacted by Bernard Jans. He answered all our questions and made us feel comfortable in actually pursuing a dream vacation home. We soon went down to Cape Coral and looked at several properties with Bernard and Lori Jans. The house we ultimately placed an offer on was a foreclosure owned by Freddie Mac. The process with Freddie Mac was somewhat complicated, but, thanks to Lor i, Bernard and Joe, they stayed on top of things, and were often ahead of the issues. They also were very helpful even after the "sale". We greatly appreciate the care and attention to detail we received from this friendly, professional and knowledgeable group in buying our new vacation home in Cape Coral.
Frank and Brenda Kover  
To Joseph Beauvais, Our thanks! We found Joe on the internet and emailed him about buying a home in Cape Coral. We are from Switzerland and Germany and know little about buying a home in the U.S. Joe made us feel comfortable by telling us that buyers usually become friends and are treated as such from the beginning. Further, he said," My future success depends on your happiness and spreading the word." He held our interest above all else and found us this beautiful water front pool home and was very knowledgeable about foreign purchases. He walked us through the entire process with ease. He was there with the inspector and found items that are normally missed. He proceeded to make sure that they were fixed prior to closing. We are very glad we found such a caring and hard working person to help us find our vacation home. Thank you Joe.
Koen and Colleen  
Joe, Hyacinth and I would like to thank you and your associates Lori and Bernhard Jans at Sunny Spot Realty for your valuable assistance and representation on our behalf during our recent retirement home purchase. We, being out of towners and knowing very little about the area, felt we were in good hands through your knowledge of the local area and the real estate ins and outs. Having purchasing properties here in New England without a "buyers agent" I realized how important it is to have one. For the first time I felt someone was looking out for us especially in an area where we were not familiar. You made a sometime difficult and stressful experience much more bearable through your reassurance and knowledge. During and after the the purchase experience we felt as though we were amongst friends who cared for us, unlike that of a typical sellers agent. Thank you all.
Brian and Hyacinth  
Hi Joe, I wanted to take a moment to thank you and Bernhard and Lori Jans for helping Maureen and me purchase our Cape Coral property. As you know, I came in town with a list of 45 or 46 properties I was interested in seeing. I think with a list that size that you may have thought we were just "lookers", but as I told you, we were not wasting 4 days to just look. We came to find that special property. With the gererous help of Bernhard and Lori, we did just that. What can I say about that husband and wife team you have there.....words cannot describe how we feel about those two. Bernhard drove us around for 8 hours a day and we viewed most all of the properties I wanted to see. While he drove, Lori was on the phone making our next appointment. It was fast paced but they kept up. All during the sale process, Lori went above the call of duty staying in touch with our mortgage lender, sellers broker and other agencies as the need arose. I swear, I must have 200 e-mails back and forth with Lori. She was nothing but extremely helpful throughtout the whole process and still today, after the sale, continues to help us being out-of-state owners. Most companies might forget who you are after the sale, but not Bernhard and Lori. I can't wait until we get the chance to get down there this month as we have dinner plans with Bernhard and Lori. I will always consider them as great friends. Anyone thinking of using the services of this team cannot go wrong. I would advise anyone to make the connection with this team and go buy your piece of the sun. Thank You All for your hard work. Much appreciated.
Bill & Maureen Mootrey  
Mr. Beauvais, We have all experienced poor service in our day to day lives and often have thought tos end a letter to management in response, and sometimes we actually have done so. The irony is that in those rare instances when we receive truly outstanding and noteworthy service “above and beyond” we rarely bring that to the attention of management. I would like to bring to your attention the excellent professionalism and service provided to me by Bernhard and Lori Jans of your staff in my recent purchase of a home in Cape Coral. Their knowledge of the market was thorough. Every phone call and email was promptly returned. Every question I had was answered in detail and most impressive tome was if in the very rare occasion they did not know the answer they said so, researched, and got back to me within hours. They were instrumental to me in securing financing in this most difficult time in our economy and provided invaluable suggestions in purchasing property and flood insurance that resulted in significant annual savings to me. Their patience when frustrations set in was contagious. When for any of many reasons I was ready to “give up” I found myself relying on their “stay the course” guidance. They remained on top of significant interstate legal hurdles associated with the seller and purchase contract and guided requisite extensions to enable attorneys and the court to resolve these problems. These and so many more examples of Lori (assistant) and Bernhard’s true professionalism culminated on the morning of closing by noting an error in documentation that neither I or the title company had caught which resulted in a last minute revision to the documents that saved me thousands of dollars in cash at the closing table that same day. I could go on and on but suffice to say the Jans represent your firm with the highest caliber of professionalism and outstanding service. They have indeed “raised the bar” for every real estate agent and firm in the marketplace.
Michael Bottge  
We wanted to commend Joe Beauvais of Sunny Spot Realty of Fort Myers for the wonderful job he did helping us find our new pool home. He tirelessly made himself available during the entire search, purchase and closing process. We viewed many, many homes over a two week period and each day he progressively narrowed down what we were looking for and provided guidance and insight. Despite his always professional demeanor, we managed to make him laugh and we had a great experience viewing the listings. Our search, offer, inspections, and closing was pretty smooth with no issues. We highly recommend Joe Beauvais and Sunny Spot Realty for your realtor of choice if you are looking for a home in Fort Myers or Cape Coral, FL
Barbara & Gary Wurst  
Joe, You did a great job. I would highly recommend you, your company, to anyone I know who is looking to buy in the Southwest Florida area. I would be happy to be used as a testimonial. Feel free to give any of your prospects my name and number and I would be happy to tell them how great it has been working with you all. Thank you again.
Kevin Frazier CFP® | Regional Vice President  
Dear Joe, We cannot thank you enough for all that you did to make our home search a most successful one. Another agency was no where near as helpful! You worked extra hard to make it come together online and over long distance. The house you found for us exceeded our expectations! And we anticipate years of enjoyment and satisfaction from it. We have had nothing but compliments on our new home. You can provide our phone number to a client if desired so we can personally attest to our satisfaction with your work. Thank you again for your tireless attention to detail! Deb & Oleg B. Cape Coral, FL.
Deb & Oleg B.  
My experience with Joe was both enjoyable and very helpful. He worked with me relocating from Seattle Wa to Cape Coral and he helped me every step of the way from finding homes of interest to send me in Seattle to showing me properties here in Florida. He is quite knowledgeable and experienced in his field which is comforting to know when you are finding a new home. I would not hesitate to use his services again.
Christopher Hanny  
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