Orlando people question

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

If you were to buy Lakefront property around Orlando (within 45 - 60 mins from down town), what lake would you buy on and why?

Also....what lakes should one avoid buying property on, i.e., what lakes really suck for wakeskating....

cheers.

JAM · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 604 City: nOtown

do u want to live next to a major highway that will run you right in to town? you could live 20min away and find good lakes.

uidzero · Kickflip Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 3839 City: Casselberry

Lake Howell, Lake of the Woods, Anywhere on the Winter Park chain ($$$).

gporter · Posted: Nov 17, 2008 4:10 pm Post subject:

uidzero, You know it.

cheapskate · Backside 180 Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 1424 City: Baytown

jonnyUTAH, check out south melbourne beach. less than an hour away from O-Town and 2 mins. from the Inlet Smash

bromfutter · Posted: Nov 17, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject:

melbourne beach > an hour drive to d.t. orlando.

JAM · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 604 City: nOtown

south melbourne is 90 min if you drive fast from otown.

cheapskate · Backside 180 Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 1424 City: Baytown

mel. bch > than d town

90 mins???????

bromfutter · Posted: Nov 17, 2008 4:36 pm Post subject:

jonnyUTAH, st. johns river. because rivers > lakes.

JAM · Backside 180 Joined: 18 Sep 2006 Posts: 604 City: nOtown

2 min from sebastian inlet is where ive spent many a days at spanish house. From there its 86miles to narcoossee. Which is still 15 miles from dt otown. Melbourne is probably an hr away, but if your planning to spend a lot of time dt that is just to far of a drive

OTT Productions · Posted: Nov 17, 2008 6:53 pm Post subject:

jonnyUTAH, You want a lake that no one rides on! That way you got the water to your self!!!

bromfutter · Posted: Nov 17, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject:

OTT Productions, lol, but a lake in orlando that no one rides on is probably a lake you cant ride on. Smash

gporter · Posted: Nov 17, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

bromfutter, nobody rides on my lake...

except me. Smash

mergeleft3 · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 673 City: Orlando

There are a lot of small lakes that you can ride on out in Clermont and thats not a bad drive.

freerider4 · Backside 180 Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 2462

I definitely second the clermont/minneola area with the rolling grassy meadows and the nice lakes around it adds for a beautiful scenario.

519 · Pop Shuvit Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 244 City: Toronto

Team house???????

jonnyUTAH · Backside 180 Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 1951

Maybe.... It's a buyer's market, and there are plenty of foreclosures.

http://www.zillow.com is the greatest thing for searching property. Think Google Maps plus public tax records. You can see houses for Sale and when you Zoom in, you can see how much each Neighbour bought so you know if you are over-paying for the area and have a better idea of what the comps will be like.

In general, there are plenty of places in Florida where you can get a 3 bedroom house on a lake for under $350,000

mojo · Posted: Nov 18, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject:

buy a house in winter haven. i think there is something like 25 lakes there. lake ned is small, fairly private, but i dont know about finding a house on it.