Flooring is easy to change

Would be great to see a video for buying options for first time home buyers!

Excellent video!!

Great comparison of the two Lisa! Very helpful

Great video! I love your content

You need to mention villas. Live like a house, own property and building like a house, ease of maintenance of condo.

how is wild blue hot? its dead and they've had to give incentives on lots and prices to sell. there's so many spec homes by stock because no one is buying

condos are cheaper if you want to get your foot in the door , in real estate

Thoughts about Mattamy Homes?

Life under corrupt Republican rule!! DeSantis and Florida Republicans on the take from insurance lobby & developers as the people get screwed. Florida is a collapse in progress. 💯

So sorry I ever moved here. Houses poorly built. Golf courses seem to be the only thing the developers are concerned with. At the moment, I am watching vultures swooping down and circling my house..... They let the pond drain out so....dead fish, stench and vultures.

There is a nice breeze to help with the heat. There are a lot of areas that aren’t that affected by the hurricanes in Sarasota county. We would like to move there next year BUT the high cost of living there is a big problem. I just read that a large insurance company is raising premiums by 700 dollars. As a retiree that’s devastating. I do enjoy your videos, lots of good information.

They are moving to Sarasota because they want to be with you.

One of the biggest issues facing my area in southwest Florida is insurance, high rents, and LOW WAGES AND LOW PAYING JOBS! Wagesbhave remained stagnant and low consistently in line with wages found in Mississippi or alabama, However the costs herebare out of control. Costs in Florida are set by the fact that every 5 years a new generation of retired wealthy northerners move here and have asset pools and net worths of 1 to 3 million dollars. The working Floridians that make 30 to 50k per year simply cannot compete in the economic market. So what's happening is the ones with money setting the prices in florida are disconnected from the working class. FLORIDAS ECONOMY is like when welathybpeople from Europe move to significantly poorer countries and make it worse for those people. They will drive the workers out of here and then it will be nothi g but contract labor from international companies that will use visa workers. We will end up being g the new UAE, extremely wealthy people staying there seasonally and the restbof the population works 80 hours per week to rent a bedroom and hear gunshots

Pretty sure nobody is moving to sarasota....

I would love to live in Sarasota! Imagine waking up and finding you living room flooded with 4 foot deep water and a pontoon in your front yard. So exciting.

Real estate agents are a plague in Florida.

For the hellish 9 mo of heat indicies over 100, for the endless storms, boomer maga rage, balding silver goatee dudes cutting you off in their F350s, for the incurious philistine politics, book banning, religious hatred, for the over crowding, awful traffic…

Not anymore.

Florida would be near the bottom of my list of states to move to.

Your FUNNY not here

No way I'd live in Florida. Too expensive with property taxes and car/home insurance, crazy bad drivers, over crowded and hot/humid weather. And there's always "Florida Man" ...which is a real thing. You can have it.

I’ll be there next year during Hurricane season. Can’t wait to see one!

You are attractive. Available?

from CT. - moved here because my kids moved here. Am a resident, but also kept our CT home which we will likely sell in the near future. Never thought I would like FL, but wanted to be near my kids, especially because they both just got married. We live in Lakewood Ranch and we were pleasantly surprised and love both Lakewood and Sarasota

Are you a liar? 10,000 people every year? Your population is only about 50,000 total. So last year it was 40,000? The year before was 30,000? Come on lady!

You better make certain you love intense heat and humidity for most of the year. It was not for me.

How is the recovery going in areas like Siesta, Lido and St. Armands? We had really hoped to visit this Spring, but were told it will be some time before these areas are ready for visitors again.

Ok ; No way only 10,000 people a year are moving to that area. Your area is very crowded. The one thing that I have always admire about Sarasota was that your downtown started with a clean slate. Your neighbors like Tampa and St petersburg have that ( after thought) feel. They don't feel unified because they were started decades ago and have simply been adding on pieces to older designs. Also helps that Sarasota is the only downtown that doesn't have a massive high way going right through it.

We will be relocating to SRQ in about two years when I retire. What scares me most about moving here is the amount of people that have done so before us. We vacation on the barrier islands every February and its alarming how bad traffic has become in the last 20 years. This is the biggest fear we have. What used to take 15 minutes now takes upwards of an hour. Getting off the Islands is practically impossible now most times. The secret is out and that may make us look elsewhere.

Try 95% of all of them. If you want something done right in Florida you better either have a connection or do it yourself, otherwise I guarantee you will be disappointed.

Went into a Dr Horton model and it had all kinds of issues!! I was thinking how do you not fix these things in a model home?!! Just crappy building...

This is a Seller’s agent talking. Look for a local Buyer’s agent that knows where it flooded over the past 4 years.

Taylor Morrison is without a doubt the best Builder

Florida just like California is Over.

Sellers do not control the market, and neither do the buyers. The builders do. And the builders are over building and offering discounts and mortgage rates that regular sellers cannot compete with. After these two hurricanes, there is going to be a mass exodus, not by choice, but by force. People in all parts of Florida including Sarasota did not have flood insurance or any insurance at all. They had a paid for house worth four times what they originally bought it for. But they can't afford to fix it because they weren't millionaires when they bought in, and they aren't millionaires now. When the hospitality labor force cannot afford to live, this is going to directly affect Florida's tourism and have a trickle effect across the entire Florida housing market. This is different than 2008 and it actually is worse.

No crash here, but I think lower middle class housing will be subject to national market trends, in pricing. As you know, upper end sales, usually see alot more cash involved, so this is kind of a micro- isolated area, that is bucking the Fl.and national markets.

Canton GA, your dollar goes farther, better quality of life, Allatoona Lake, Woodstock, Alpharetta, Milton, Roswell, these towns 30 minutes outside Atlanta, great places to live!

Be prepared make a follow up to this video by November 1st. Another storm is brewing.

Sarasota is "OVER DEVELOPED," and that is why I left. It got "way too crowded, and too expensive." Too many cars on the road. Imagine Fruitville Road looking like I-95 going through CT in the morning; bumper to bumper traffic headed towards downtown. That was UNHEARD of when I moved there in 2011. It was just awful, and probably still is, all that traffic.

Pack your bags....

Why should I give a damned!! You choose to live by the ocean!! What the hell did you expect!!!

Gotta wait for months for a doctor appointment, going to the grocery store is a rat race now. Boomers crowding the roads driving from no place important to someplace stupid . 4th generation Florida man since 1958. Go away.

Lisa knows her market. unless you you’ve that knowledge base, you really would not have same insights

I used to like Sarasota..now its overdeveloped and too expensive

5 hurricanes in 2 years is a game changer for any barrier Island real estate or waterfront homes. Even homes built up off the ground got trashed with pools popping etc.. And it's not one area which compounds the problem as these hurricanes have had a dramatic effect from Naples to the Big Bend of Florida and there is no evidence that this trend is stopping any time soon.

Good update! At this rate I might just have to accept my 5 months of winter 😟 and not move. Dirt cheap living here in the Northeast.

Wait until the flooded homes hit the market, selling for land value. Let’s talk about the average selling price after this.

We're at a breaking point, that only millionaires will be able to buy.

If you’re not a millionaire you can’t afford Sarasota. Half a million for a new home and 400k for a house built in ‘75 is ridiculous