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If you happen to be in Fort Myers looking for a home to buy google 2551 Barcelona Ave and you'll find several websites like the one shown below and the 35 photos of our home.
Call any one of these realtors for a showing appointment
2551 Barcelona Avenue
Fort Myers, FL 33905
239-935-7789
terrydonovan1@yahoo.com
Here Are The Home Details:
1. 1,800 square feet concrete
2. 3 bedrooms and 2 baths
3. professionally converted garage to a 4th bedroom,
a family room, or an office
4. 0.33 acres and fenced yard
5. 16' by 29' all steel carport
6. 11' by 24' shed with A/C
The Appraisal
About This Website
In this website, you'll find dozens of photos
of the home inside and out, the property, and just about everything you'll need to decide if
it is what you are looking for. This home and
all the special features, including the six foot tall 360 degree privacy fence, provides Total Privacy and Home Security. So, if you have
any children, pets, or anything else that will need a secure area, our fenced yard will keep all of you completely Safe and Sound.
Plenty of Beautiful and Healthy Palm Trees
The .332 Acre Neighborhood Parcel
The $7,000.00 Master Bedroom Furniture From Levitz
might be included in the sale at the right house price
The High Quality King Bed Suite
The large 48-inch Sony flat screen TV stays. All you have
to do is call your favorite TV service and they will hook up
your selected programming for you.
Superior Craftmanship and Comfort
One For Each Side Of The Bed
Six Drawers Of Top Value
The Living Room and Kitchen
The stove is in brand new condition
The brand new and very popular kitchen faucet
Overhead cabinets and a see through snack bar so anybody in the kitchen can also watch the TV.
Or a late night movie when the kids are sleeping...
Our Professional House Photos
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The $184.72 Price Per Square Foot Is Lower Than These 34 Homes And We Have Seen Dozens More To Compare!
Just Click This PDF To See It All:
The New Quantum Fiber Phone
System Has Now Been Installed
Hurricane Shutters
Each of the hurricane shutters are labeled like the 8-2 (window #8, shutter #2) example shown below in large easy to read letters and they are positioned on the house windows as shown on the PDF photo below on the right. The effort in this section will make securing the doors and windows alot easier in case a hurricane or very serious storm appears as they often do.
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This Home Would Make A Great Rental!
You could earn $2,383 to $2,712 a month!
The Neighborhood
The property is located in a very nice upscale neighborhood with friendly neighbors and homes that are not all jammed up together like many in the Shores. The front yard is 232 feet wide measured side to side.
The huge front yard goes from here at the corner of the black fence...
To here...
It's a big yard, but for a small fee our neighbor, Corey, who lives across the street, will take professional care of it for only $60.00 and he does a fine job.
The neighbors from across the street have plenty of space between their houses and they are all very friendly.
Additional Property Information
Homeowner's Insurance
Real Estate Taxes
Property Survey
Residential Realtor Report
Air Conditioner
The Palm Trees
Below is the diagram of the house we are selling
The patio and back yard
Plenty of Privacy!
While most outdoor roofing projects are supported by 4x4 posts, this roof uses pressure-treated 6x6 supports encased
in 36 inches of high strength concrete
making it ultra strong.
The white 6-foot high fence is perfect for a jacuzzi. With it, you'll have 360 degrees of 100% privacy.
The new fence as of January 2024
The pressure-treated 6 foot fence, including that
of the neighbor's, wraps all around our property.
With the 6-foot tall pressure treated fence that we had
professionally installed, you'll have the most privacy
and security. And it's great for little kids that like to explore, and dogs that like to snoop around. And, we had our fence installed an inch above the ground so it will add years of dependable and dry service.
The fence shown below runs the entire width of the property and belongs to the neighbor behind us. Also shown in this photo is the convenient place behind the shed where we store the ladders and the hurricane panels
for fast and easy access.
The Goodman 3.5 Ton Air Conditioner
The Goodman Air Conditioner is about nine years
old and it has always been dependable. We have it inspected and given maintenance periodically to ensure its good operation. The following photos
were taken during the last home inspection and routine maintenance 4/4/2024 and we have agreed
to a thorough air quality improvement procedure costing $2,850 as detailed below in the following photos. As of October 2024, we have three further paid-in-full procedures to claim as needed so the buyer of this home can feel assured that their entire family including very young children and
any older adults will breath purified clean air.
The FDA Approved Whole Home Ultravation System
On April 5th, 2024 Catalyst Air Conditioning sent technicians to install their FDA Approved Whole Home Ultravation System. These techs spent over three hours cleaning and sanitizing all the A/C components in this home at a big cost of $2,850.00. Four techs working together is an amazing maintenance tune up. "Cudos" for Catalyst A/C Company for all their hard professional work.
The Catalyst Air Quality Package
The Catalyst A/C Maintenance Visits
More Interior House Photos
From the outside, and any big wind, the door opens
"out" instead of the usual "in" and its held tight against the door frame so you don't have to worry about it getting blown inside the house and making
a big mess. This type of door hanging is called a "Hurricane Hang" and it's the way doors are hung
in the best Florida houses.
Bedroom # Two - The Office
We use this bedroom as our office, as you will see in the photos below.
Bedroom # Three - The Spare Bedroom
The Special Features
The Two New Toilets
We don't think it's appropriate to sell our house with the old toilets left inside. So, we have two of the new "Best Seller" toilets shown below saved for the buyer of this home. They are still in their original shipping boxes shown below and located in the family room.
Here is the Home Depot Description
Secondary Electricity Supply
You'll have plenty of power when you need it
This house has a portable generator for times when the electrical system is down, usually because of a repair being made or a big rain storm. It has been used for only three hours since we bought it. We keep it in the shed
with the power cord for convenience.
Below are the locations of the two exterior generator outlets and their associated inside wall outlets. With these two devices, you'll never have any extension cords covering your inside floors to trip on.
The rear patio area box and inside electric receptacle
The back door area same setup
The 110 electric supply in the rear covered patio area
Emergency Hurricane Shutters
Don't buy a house without solid hurricane protection. This house has hurricane shutters
for every door and window. Most are steel but
we have used the clear polycarbonate hurricane shutters for one window on each side of the house so you can see everything that goes on outside all around the house during a rain
storm or, hopefully not a hurricane.
Luckily, in the many years that we have lived here, we have never taken a direct hit by any hurricane, but we believe in being prepared -- and we are well prepared!
This PDF shows the complete shutter layout
The Multi-Purpose Custom Shed
The shed is 24 feet long by 11 feet wide and it is 264 square feet. We bought the basic shed shell and went to work turning it into what you'll see below. It's insulated on every wall and ceiling and has a new air conditioner that we bought in 2023.
The shed floor frame, which is the same type as the one shown below, has the structural supports that are spaced only 12 inchesapart and not the standard shed 24 inches which greatly increases its load bearing strength. You could park a sports car inside with no trouble at all.
After all of the many upgrades that we made, and including the electrical and separate panel, the sheet rock walls, the custom work benches, electric outlets, the vinyl flooring, the concrete entrance slab, the exterior and interior lights, the extra structural footings, the new paint, and wall to ceiling high quality insulation, the cost was about $18,000.00 for the shed. And on 4.2.2024 we added the two flower boxes on each side of the concrete entrance walkway. The buyer of this home will get to plant all the flowers they like.
We did not want all of the equipment, tools, misc. clothing and 35 years of personal belongings to clutter up the house so we bought the shed and hired a custom carpenter and electrician to make the place highly functional with great storage .
The Interior Custom Shed Photos
You'll have plenty of room for storage
The shed has double doors on one end and a ramp for accessing lawn care equipment. This photo below shows our jumbo wood hurricane shutters for the shed.
The New Family Room
The photos below show the remodeled garage which has been converted into a livable space and is no longer used as a garage. This great addition is the reason we added the carport.
The two custom built pantries will give you ample space to store all you food items, canned goods, boxed items, medical supplies, and everything else that would usually take up the needed space in your kitchen. It was all custom built and even after all these years we have never seen a bug anywhere in this converted garage space unless we left the back door open. We are bug free!
With the ceiling vent heat and air conditioning, the ceiling lights and fan, the professionally installed carpet, the tightly secured garage door, the window shades and curtains, this room is a 100% livable space and any good appraisal should state it as such.
We have left the garage door tracks in place just in case a buyer might like to have a functional garage door for some reason. Our neighbor across the street, Corey, converted his garage to a livable space and he would be happy to discuss it.
The Health Rider Soft Track Treadmill can stay at no additional cost because it is a high quality treadmill and as such it is very heavy and would require two very strong men to move. But, it will be your choice, you can keep it or we will have it moved out.
You Can Buy A Fun And Useful Garage Door Screen
The following photo shows a combo rigid and screen garage door. This is why we left the garage door in place because many Floridians enjoy pulling the screen door down on nice days creating a very large indoor/outdoor screen room for family get togethers and also keeping the bugs out. A garage door screen is an excellent addition to our nicely remodeled garage. Below you can see the rigid garage
door rolled up on the tracks. There are many sizes and styles that can be purchased at
either the Home Depot or Lowes.
The refrigerator can be easily moved out to the shed making this converted garage into a nicely heated, air conditioned, carpeted, concrete walls for sound proofing and creating a great fourth bedroom for a multi-purpose family room.
The top-quality washer and dryer combo and sink
The insulation used to cover the garage door: We secured the door tight so even in a high wind it won't rattle so this room can be used as a fourth bedroom.
The exterior garage door is shown below with the steel hurricane panels in place. They have been painted with the same color paint we used on the house. The four windows also have steel hurricane covers but we have left them off so we can see the outside while we are exercising on the tread mill.
The 16' x 29' 464 Square Feet Carport
The survey, the building permit, the 36-inch thick concrete sides, all the steel, the side high powered light with an inside the house switch, and the labor cost was about $8,000. When Hurricane Ian blasted through this area, the carport withstood it perfectly.
The 16' x 29' 464 Square Feet Carport is made of high strength tubular steel set in 3,500 psi 36" deep concrete and it is very strong and wind resistant.
Super Bright Carport Flood Light
This extremely bright carport flood light turns on in the bedroom near the guest bathroom and lights up the entire area inside and all around the carport. The little box on the wall under the window has two convenient electric outlets for your favorite extension cords.
That's about it folks! We hope this website got you interested in our property. We have spent most of our retirement working to make this house a home to be happy and proud of and I'm sure that you'll feel the same way as the new homeowner.
Sincerely,
Terry and Agustin Donovan
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