"Tropical Chic" -My Latest Waterfront Listing...Super Deal at $960,000!!

Tropical Chic 

Ahhh God I Love the Keys!!  There is just something about the ambience down here that makes our little chain so damn appealing.
The Water, The Breezes, the people, the lack of time and disdain for watches. I can't put my finger on it ...just an inescapable essence that permeates the place.  From Duval to Ocean Reef and all Ports O' Call between.
It's no wonder why so may heavy hitters have been beckoned to our shiny shores, hypnotized by the Siren's call of an eternal 5 O'clock Somewhere.
Hemingway heard it....Zane Grey wrote about it, Jimmy  Buffett sang about it.  Hell, even Jay Z and Beyonce delight in our Oasis.

Well now you have a great opportunity to grab your own slice of our Key Lime Pie.
Check out the details on my latest waterfront listing:

4 North Drive, Key Largo

List Price $ 960,000

2 Bedrooms + Studio  / 3 Bathrooms

Description:
Tropical Chic!
Everything you could want in a Florida Keys Home! Wide Water Views, Exceptional Finishes, Superb Dockage, and Caribbean Elegance.  Come home to comfortable living spaces accentuated with Stone-worked bathrooms and a Granite and stainless Kitchen. Kick back and relax or Entertain, this turnkey 2 bedroom plus Studio home is perfectly suited for both. World Class Fishing and Diving are mere minutes from your custom built Dock.  A quick drive from the Mainland but an entire World Away!!

* Wide Water Views

* Ample Deep Water Dockage and Electrical Hookups

* Updated Throughout

* Impact Glass

* Gourmet Kitchen with Granite and Stainless

* Boathouse

*Offered Partially Furnished

*Gated Entry with Pavers and 2-Car Garage

* Minutes From Your Dock to World Class Fishing and Diving

* Barefoot Elegance

VISIT THE VIRTUAL TOUR HERE!!!

  Put the experience and expertise of The Conchquistador to work for you! For more information on the outstanding real estate opportunities that exist in the Keys, call me at 305.439.7730 or email me at
 DropAnchor@TheRealEstateConch.com.

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Another Keys Estate Pops for $2 Million....Seeing A Trend Here!

Two Million has become the magic number in the Upper Keys lately when it comes to estate sized parcels!  As you will note in several of my previous entries, we have had a recent run on lovely waterfront estates as of late, and they all seem to hover right around  the $2 Million mark.

Add to that, the recent sale of an Islamorada Hotel at that same range and we are really seeing a benchmark number.   The interesting factor is that we are noticing an interesting mix of Buyers.  International and Domestic.

This latest Sale, listed by and sold by, my friends Joy Martin and Joel Young respectively is another of those breath taking...I want it now..I could live here forever...When can I become a squatter until the Sheriff physically removes me, kind of locations!!!!

Over 4 Acres of  Private Bayfront. Stunning vistas and lovely Sunsets that signify all that is great about our unique oasis.  A Separate super cool boathouse and custom cut boat slip, Chickee, and dock are some of the extras that await.

4-Acre Estate

The existing home is in need of updates, but hey, you have 4 Frigging Acres for just $2 Mill.  Build Xanadu if you want to!  Put this very same package in Miami and you have a $15 Mill price tag. Trust me I know.  I spent 15 years selling in Coral Gables and Coconut Grove.

I keep evangelizing because it is so very true, The Keys are an awesome place to put your money and more and more wise buyers, both foreign and domestic are heeding the call. 

So, Pony up your $2 Mill and let me help you grab your own slice of paradise!!
$2 Mill too steep?? How about navigable waterfront homes in the upper $200s and even 300s?? In the Keys, we have something for everyone!

Work with an agent who KNOWS the numbers.  Put the experience and expertise of The Conchquistador to work for you! For more information on the outstanding real estate opportunities that exist in the Keys, call me at 305.439.7730 or email me at DropAnchor@TheRealEstateConch.com.

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Come On Down to Wahoo's in Islamorada on Fridays...I Now Sponsor Their Friday Night Radio Show. Keep On Conchquering!

In my never ending quest to be King of all things Keys, (Not too full of myself am I??), I am proud to announce that in addition to sponsoring the Zane Grey Lounge Radio Show on Wednesdays, I will be sponsoring the Friday Night Radio Show at Wahoo's!!  Friday evenings from 6-7PM in Wahoo's in Islamorada at Whale Harbor Marina.

This is really cool and a hell of a lot of fun.  For me, it marks a special milestone as I used to listen to the original Friday Night "Countdown to Weekend Show from Whale Harbor" when I was a teenaged buccaneer in the 80s.  I used to enthrall at listing to Ron Harrison and his crusty group of half crocked charter captains talking fishing and all things Keys as only true locals can. My kind of show!!

Now, here we are, too many years later, and I am psyched to sponsor Captain Bill Kelly and the gang as they continue the tradition.  There's fun fish tales, community happenings, drink and appetizer specials and if you're lucky, an occasional guest appearance from yours truly, talking real estate.

So, if you are heading down to our oasis on a Friday, stop on by, say hello and have some fun (and grab some Conch...the best in the Keys!!)  If you can't join us, but need to get your Keys vibe on, tune in world wide on IHeart radio at Sun103.1. 

Work with an Agent who knows the Keys past and is Shaping its future.  Put the experience and expertise of The Conchquistador to work for you! For more information on the outstanding real estate opportunities that exist in the Keys, call me at 305.439.7730 or email me at DropAnchor@TheRealEstateConch.com.
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Local Artist Makes Second Keys Lighthouse Swim!!

Man, this is fantastic!!!
Local Artist Larry "Lighthouse" Herlth has once again made an outstanding effort in swimming to yet another of our famed lighthouses and back.  Larry does incredible metal work recreating these over century old iron beauties and these swims are helping to make light, pun intended, to their deteriorating condition.
Here is a great write up from the Free Press:

Artist completes second lighthouse swim

BY STEVE GIBBS Free Press Staff
sgibbs@keysnews.com

MARATHON -- "Lighthouse" Larry Herlth has done it again.

Alligator Reef Lighthouse

The 52-year-old artist and lifelong Florida Keys resident swam at times through jellyfish and against a strong current last Saturday to make it to Sombrero Key Lighthouse and back to shore in just under seven hours.
For the second month in a row the Islamorada resident has completed an ocean lighthouse swim in order to throw light on the need to save the deteriorating iconic structures. Herlth swam around Alligator Reef Light off Islamorada in August and says he will swim around another lighthouse in a month.
"Oh, man, what a day," he said as he emerged from the water at Sombrero Beach Park, from where he embarked on his swim six hours and 57 minutes earlier. "There were lots of blue jellyfish as well as clear globs containing what looked like red hairs. I'd burn if I touched them."
During the 9.2-mile swim, Herlth consumed three peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, two gallons of water and a gallon of Gatorade.
"I'll see how much weight I lost," he said after the swim. "I easily burned 10,000 calories. It felt every bit of 10 miles."
Herlth said the current was brutal.

Sombrero Key  Lighthouse

"I was using 80 percent of my power grid and making little headway," he said. "I can swim comfortably at two miles an hour, but I was probably doing half of that."
Herlth took four hours and three minutes to make the lighthouse against the current.
The Fighting Manatees swim club, which provides support for the Islamorada Founders Park Pool, swam tag-team style with Herlth to keep him company.
"We swim in 20-minute increments," said Manatees member Rob Dixon. Dwayne King escorted Herlth and the swimmers aboard his 25-foot SeaVee, the Lone Wolf.
Eliza Colmes, Tom Strobel, Katy LeVasseur and Beth Kaminstein, also Fighting Manatees, swam along.
Herlth hopes his effort, month-by-month, will spur the community and government agencies to step up and help save these structures, whether through a citizen-government effort, by having a club or group buy them and take over their maintenance, or having private individuals purchase lighthouses for their own use.
"I swim my butt off to raise awareness for these lighthouses with the hopes that the public will phone, email, fax, tweet and write our representatives in Washington and Tallahassee to get behind this," he said.
Herlth says he will next swim the Sand Key Lighthouse off Key West in about four weeks.
"It's in extremely bad shape," he said. "But, like the planned Carysfort Light swim, those will be one-way swims since they are at least seven miles from shore."