Along the Gulf Coast

We arrived home safe and sound from our week vacation along the Gulf Coast. There is no changes after two years. Fort Walton and Panama City always have tourists around the area because there are shopping malls nearby, restaurants and bars are open for business. In fact, most of the high rise hotels are fully booked. The pictures here are rental houses along the Gulf Coast. It was like a ghost town really but, these properties are facing the Gulf of Mexico with awesome view of the beach. Not so many tourists came here because the locations of these rental properties are located further from the shopping districts. On the other hand, if you want peace and quiet, this is truly the best place to unwind.
The house above is not a rental property. This house is really beautiful and huge but, it is located in a remote place but, along the beach highway.Most houses and rental properties here are made of stilts. If there are hurricanes, the water surge can reach this area.Here is another huge house along the beach. As I have said, this neighborhood is away from the shopping districts and all they have is a nice beach view and the beautiful yard full of trees.

Back to Florida

Finally, the seller accepted our offer. We found a condo in the neighborhood that we like. I really wanted to live in a house but, we have no luck of finding the house that we like. For now, we will settle in a condo with amazing HOA which is a good thing about this place. The tax is also great! If we can find a house in a year, we plan to rent this place and make this as investment. Anyway, the picture below is the newly painted wall in the house.
The realtor suggested to repaint the whole house using neutral colors and fixed the things which are negative from the buyers view. When we look at the houses and condos in Florida, some properties were sold "as is". There are so many fixer-upper and foreclosure that is why, the property looks bad. Well, we are thankful that the condo we bid was clean especially the bathroom.
The house of my father-in-law will be in the market soon. The next owner will be happy with this property. Huge backyard, two car garage with Florida room, huge living room, three bedrooms and two bathrooms. The master's bedroom has a huge walk-in closet and a fireplace. Anyway, I am just so excited to move back to Orlando.