Tuesday Tours Ep. 02

Tuesday Tours Ep. 02: Luxury Home in Bay Harbor Neighborhood Virual Tour.

Tuesday Tours Ep. 02: Luxury Home in Bay Harbor Neighborhood Virual Tour Transcription.

Rochelle L.:
Hello friends, welcome to Tuesday Tours. Today we're on Harbor Island in pristine waterfront, Boca Raton. Highlight of Harbor Island of course, for all of our friends familiar with Boca Raton, is the fact that the homes are on a barrier island fronting direct Intracoastal frontage. We'll get a load of that in a little while.

Rochelle L.:
First, the basic facts. 7212 NE 8th on Harbor Island is a brand new construction offering by Gold Coast Homes. It is approximately 7000 square feet under AC, 8000 square feet total, with five bedrooms, seven and a half baths, and all the current features that you would expect in new construction. Come on in. Let's have a look.

Rochelle L.:
We're entering the gracious formal living room and everything is exactly as it should be. We have our designer features, including this amazing book-matched porcelain slab fireplace. How beautiful is this? We have an electric fireplace, notice the flames are blue today. And in the ceiling, we have LED cove lighting that changes colors depending on your mood or whatever you happen to be doing that day. Also, we have some beautiful LED lighting, speakers throughout, and even 5/8" drywall.

Rochelle L.:
But you know what I'm most excited about? The view, which is calling my name. Florida is all about bringing the inside out and the outside in. Our weather is beautiful and people want to have a dedicated outdoor living space. We call this a loggia. Behind me, you'll see a full summer kitchen with gas grill, sink, and refrigerator. Our flooring is subway laid blanco marble. We have floor to ceiling glass for the sliders and windows, which is Miami Dade impact missile-rated for hurricane impact resistance. The ceiling is handsome and hand laid.

Rochelle L.:
Now, what backyard would be complete without a beautiful sparkling pool? This particular pool comes complete with glass mosaic inserts and a waterfall. But really, in this house, the piece de resistance is our water frontage. We have a full 85 feet of direct Intracoastal water frontage. What could be better than that?

Speaker 1:
(singing)

Rochelle L.:
Just off this loggia is a fantastic open concept kitchen and family room. I mean, this is the area where we all tend to congregate anyway, so in most of our new construction today, we are finding a wide open kitchen with large islands open to a family room. This particular kitchen has not one but two major islands made out of granite. In addition, we have a gorgeous Thermador appliance package, including two 36" fridge freezer combo, of course double ovens, and a delicious gas range with a water filler. All the cabinetry of course is custom done. You will never want to leave the kitchen.

Rochelle L.:
Everybody's looking for a master that's fit for a king or queen. In this case, we do not disappoint. I present to you, the closets. We have a gracious his and hers closet set up. What we're finding is that a little more time and attention is spent on the his side. Usually there's a darker color, and it's a little more warm in terms of tones and finishes, things are scaled back a bit. Whereas in the hers closet, sparkle and bedazzle is de rigueur. So we have a beautiful granite top in a beautiful white and gray finish, and a sparkly chandelier, with plenty of storage for all of the clothing that would likely come with today's queen.

Rochelle L.:
For today's luxury buyer, the master bath is a very important aspect of the master suite. Soaking tubs are very common in this market, and generally speaking, if they're under a window with a beautiful view of the Intracoastal, even better. In this case, the builder thought ahead and behind our crown molding, he's added pockets for window coverings. Of course, we have plenty of drawers and some beautiful quartz countertops, and this is the hers side. The his bath, like the his closet, generally is going to be warmer tones both in terms of the cabinetry, the mirror, and the choice of stone throughout.

Rochelle L.:
The master suite opens up, it's all wood flooring and it's positively huge, with views out every single window. This is really a sweet master suite. Am I so clever? The LED lighting and the sound system continues throughout. I can just imagine, probably you'd want to put the bed here, a giant TV there. Then of course we have the morning bar. Why would you ever leave this room? I don't know. Maybe because you want to go back to the kitchen. That's what I'm thinking.

Rochelle L.:
Just this way, we have an entire second story loggia, private to the master suite, complete with fireplace. Yeah, I said it. Another fireplace. This area features more hand laid wood ceiling with LED lights and continuation of the sound system, in addition to a panoramic view of the Intracoastal Waterway. This is large enough to set up an entire living room of furniture. Couch goes here, table here. Of course, I'd want to take a look at the view from here. This is what a luxury home is all about.

Speaker 1:
(singing)

Rochelle L.:
If sitting outside and taking in the view at some point gets old for you, I don't know, or you just get hot, it does get hot here in the summertime, perhaps you'd like to spend a little time in your own home theater with seating for six, reinforced soundproofed walls, and a world-class audio visual system, you will not be disappointed in the experience.

Rochelle L.:
I'm Rochelle Lecavalier, thank you for joining us for Tuesday Tours. Now get out of my way, I'm watching a movie.

Tuesday Tours Ep.01

Tuesday Tours Ep.01 - Facebook Live Property Tour: The Margaritaville Luxury House in Boca Raton

Tuesday Tours Ep.01 - Facebook Live Property Tour: The Margaritaville Luxury House in Boca Raton Transcription.

Rochelle L.:
Hello friend. Today on Tuesday tours we are in the waterfront community of Harbor East. I have a brand new listing coming to market that I am super excited about. This place is going to be like being on vacation every single day. Wait until you check out with me 681 Northeast Harbor drive. Hello friend. Welcome to Tuesday Tours. We're greeted by an accent wall covered in gorgeous reclaimed wood from the hills of North Carolina. We have a lodge style chandelier and gracious travertine flooring that's also really wear resistant and stands up to just about anything you can dish out. That takes us in from the dining room through to the kitchen. This kitchen is the perfect size. You can entertain, but it's not overwhelming. We have a full suite of LG appliances. There's plenty of space here if you're going to entertain to entertain to lay out some food. It's open to the fabulous, gracious family area.

Rochelle L.:
What vacation house would be complete without an amazing outdoor living area. This is a Polynesian inspired pool area with multiple water valves. We have 90 feet along the waterfront as well as boat dockage, a white sandy beach and even a large grassy area if you happen to have some pets or children who want to run around. The backyard has tons of mature tropical landscaping. This is really the very best of Florida living. While vacationing is a lot of fun, there is a place for adulting as well. This house will offer you some peace of mind. It has been impeccably well-maintained and it offers several of the features that us as grownups know are very important. We have full house impact protection, that's hurricane windows and doors. We have a metal roof that will withstand our brutal Florida monsoon season, a full security system.

Rochelle L.:
I think I saved the best for last for you guys, my total friend the viewers. Up this set of bamboo stairs is the pièce de résistance in this house. Wait until you see what the family room has in store for you. This main space is 21 feet by 29 feet and on the floor plan we're calling it a family room, but really this is like your very own club. We have a full Tiki bar complete with a grass thatch roof. This area is a boater's paradise. In fact, we're just one turn off of the Intracoastal and about 10 minutes to the Boca Inlet and onto the open seas.

Thanks so much for watching my video and hope you enjoyed it. Right over here there’s a button that says subscribe pretty self-explanatory, hit that button, subscribe and just next door there’s a bell click that as well and you will be notified each and every time I upload a new video. We have the series Tuesday tours, we have the polka 360 and all sorts of market reports and other useful information for you about the Boca Raton luxury real estate markets. If you have a few minutes, I hope you’ll stick around and check out a couple more of my videos. After all I make them for you.

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Tuesday Tours Ep.0

Tuesday Tours Ep.0 - Facebook Live Property Tour: Luxury Foreclosure

Tuesday Tours Ep.0 - Facebook Live Property Tour: Luxury Foreclosure Transcription.

Rochelle: Today is Tuesday Tours on Facebook and we are headed out. Today we are on foot. Oh my god, okay. Hi everybody!
Introduction: Welcome to Tuesday Tours.
Rochelle: Rochelle Lecavalier, it turns out for today's Tuesday tours, we started Tuesday tours with the lens cap on. So, if you're taking notes at home like R&D, don't do that. That's really funny. Okay so, hello and welcome, we are today in Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club going for Tuesday tours. I am super pumped, because today the Tuesday tour happens to be on my street and we're gonna walk there.

So, let's take a walk, I guess. Right like we don't have to get in the car. How often do you get to do that? Never, I think never pretty much is the deal. So, it's nice and cool out and I don't have to get in my car. That's pretty stellar, you have to admit it. No? So, anyway we're walking down the street on Queen Palm Road and I don't know what else to say.

So, we're gonna take a look at, today's Tuesday Tour is actually a foreclosure. If you want to just go up here and can you go backward, like this. Hi everybody! Okay so, we're working out the bugs and today's Tuesday Tour is a really rare commodity in the luxury market in general. In recent years in Boca Raton, there haven't been too many foreclosures coming on the market.
Today we are gonna take a look at a foreclosure and a luxury foreclosure. So, this is 2280 Queen Palm Road, it is owned by US bank and it has been just very freshly put on the market this week. It is a six-bedroom, five-bathroom house. We have five thousand six hundred eighty square feet under AC. It is as you can see, total Mediterranean style.

I totally can't remember the code. I really can't remember; I'm drawing a huge huge blank. So, I'm gonna pull up my calendar really quick and get it. So, do you have your calendar?

Haley: I should.

Rochelle: I have it in the notes in my calendar section. So, it's also really rare in a luxury property that it would be on a combination lock box. That's super rare in the luxury market. Generally speaking, an agent has to accompany all showings and do a proper demonstration of a property, because it's owned by a bank and the agent is a foreclosure specialist, it's maybe less of a luxurious experience. We can put it that way.
So, 2280 Queen Palm Road, Mediterranean style house in Royal Palm yacht and Country Club. We do have six bedrooms and five baths, it is five thousand six hundred and eighty square feet under AC. It was built in 2003. So, some of the exterior features include, major vines. We have this very Mediterranean look out here and the gates and the courtyard, with a fountain. It's actually pretty clean.

So, you know our exterior is not tragic. We do have travertine marble on the entry. So, we are on Queen Palm Road. Sort of some dead grass and you've got the Mediterranean look, three-car garage and barrel tile roof. It's a little gray out today. Do have hurricane impact windows. Are we good to go?

Haley: Good to go!

Rochelle: Woohoo! We're good to go! Hi Haley.

Haley: Hello!

Rochelle: So, here's Haley. Miss awesome, opening the door. So, we have your Travertine floors. So, as we make our way through for Tuesday tours, we will notice a few interesting caveats about this house. You have the columns; I like to refer to these as columns of doom. Because in the mind of a buyer these are usually a bit of a chill killer, this is not a popular style today.

Then if you take a look at the top, we have some gold-ness and then as you make your way down, you'll see this is all faux paint. Which you know 2003, yeah, I don't know it was really super in style at that time. This is a very specific look that somebody obviously really liked, so that is what they did.

So, we see the Chandelier, same kind of idea, ceiling you know inside with like faux painting. I’m not hating this mantle actually; I can really deal with this mantle a lot. But you see on the flanking sides with the mantle, you have more of this like just faux-ness. Even down on the switch plate you have, it got painted. So, this you know, that's not too bad. It's paint, but when you get into the Venetian plaster, the columns.

Some of those sorts of things, that's going to be a bigger investment for a buyer who's going to have to sort of De-Tuscanize, as we say, in the space. So, if we make our way into the family room and kitchen areas, you'll see more fan velocity and a wonderful painting. This is not the best way to show a property, especially a luxury property. I would highly recommend if you were considering selling a luxury property, that you do your very best to get it as neutral as possible to appeal to a wider pool of the buyers.

In this case, it's a foreclosure house and so they haven't taken that time to you know neutralize the place. Even just you know a nice a neutral color of paint and some nice white contrasting trim, would brighten this place right up. If we take a peek at the outside, if I can open the door which I can, yay!
You'll see the pool is in need of a good cleaning, and you do have this really dated look with the big stones out here. But the space is really nice, I mean in terms of the depth. It’s not bad, you have the eureka palms here, which take up a lot of space and you can really hack those back. This is a standard size lot, it’s 0.26 acres which in Royal Palm is a standard size lot.

So, you have this whole sitting area over here that you could set some patio furniture up on. You can also remove these pavers and put some grass in, if you have little ones or pets. Now in the loggia area, we have again the columns of doom. So, as a buyer most people would either square them off, get a more fresh and current shape or somehow otherwise camouflage them.

These are not desirable to today’s buyer. They do have a nice touch which is the stained wood ceiling, which many buyers in this market find very appealing. Over covered sort of patio living area, loggia space like this is really important in Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club. People spend a lot of time outdoors and they want a nice place where they can have a seat.

It does also rain here a lot, without warning. So, it's nice to have a coverage space to get out of the Sun to get out of the weather and enjoy that outdoor time. There are speakers out here and you can probably upgrade those and do quite well with the space. It is all hurricane impact windows. Which speaks to the era. As we make our way back inside, you can notice that the Mediterranean theme with the travertine floors are throughout the home.

In the early 2000’s, this was really a hot look. I now successfully stage homes and sort of, to use my phrase again ‘De-Tuscanize’ them. These sorts of floors can blend into the background and interestingly enough come off as quite neutral. In this particular space, everything else is sort of mirroring with it to create a very Mediterranean atmosphere. I think that if the kitchen would be finished in a white and off-white of vanilla, you could really get into some very neutral and current looking kitchen space.

So, we do have a delicious Thermador range. It does not appear to have been heavily cooked on, not shocked. We do have the griddle in the middle and the gas. As well as KitchenAid fridge, probably original from the era. It's a little stinky, that's not unusual in a foreclosure house. So, the house has been vacant for some period of time, as I mentioned it is a foreclosure property. It is owned by US bank. This house is listed at two million, eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

Is it a good price? I ask you my Facebook friends, what do you think of the price? Let me know in the comments. Meanwhile, I'll tell you what I think. Of course, don't I always? So, here is the dining room. This room is very golden. We have more Venetian plaster; we have a lot more gold. All around, this is like gold all over the place. So, that is not current, but it is easily recoverable.

So, this is just paint. As long as the architecture works, the paint can make all of the clouds disappear. Get it, clouds? Did you see them? So, as we make our way back from the entry area, you see there’s an entry elevator on the right. Then we go to the fabulous master suite. Fair warning, the Mediterranean-ness continues. Here we have the master bath, complete with a stained-glass window with lavender and purple flowers.

Who doesn't love stained glass? Well, actually, I do not know state bus and neither do today's buyers. But it's here all the same. So, this probably a pretty easy fix for a buyer to take this space and make it their own. The wallpaper has to go, stain glass has to go. But if you notice the room is nice and wide, you have plenty of room where you could pull this out and put a more current freestanding tub.

You still have the stall shower, double vanities, separate closet. All of those are things that buyers want. The bones as they say, are good. As we make our way to the master suite, we have his and hers closets. This is key, so for many homes that are from a previous build era, there are certain key features that the house must have otherwise it is dead in the water. In this case we have a his-and-hers closet with built-ins, so we don't have that problem.

If it's a single closet, if it's you know a really cramped space. If the master bath isn't big enough, if there's not a separate water closet, it dramatically brings down the value of the house in the minds of a buyer and ultimately, it's gonna sell for less money. Which means that's gonna be a great deal, in this case I'm not sure.

So, it’s a very Mediterranean-style, the house was built in 2003. It is over 5,500 square feet with six bedrooms and five baths, that's all fantastic. It does have a first-floor master suite. There's another plus. However, a buyer would have to come in and really do some heavy lifting in terms of cosmetic improvements. The bones are good, so it's not a teardown, it's not a tragedy, it doesn't need anything structural.

But things like this? Our gold column, our faux painting, I mean there's a lot of Venetian plaster in this house and that's not a good thing today. So, there is a lot of work to be done. So, the asking price of $2,800,000, is it fair? Well at the moment, there happen to be 29 interior bought homes for sale, that's quite a lot.

In terms of homes that are very very similar to this one, I'm talking say number of bedrooms, same amount of square footage, plus or minus a year or two on the build year. There are five homes on market right now, all listed right between two and three-quarter million and three million dollars. So, at 2.8 million dollars, you've got some competition on this one. It is a foreclosure property, so perhaps someone could make an offer and come away with a big win. I'd be curious what you think. Most of my Facebook friends live in the neighborhood. Hi guys! So, let me know in the comments. What do you think this one's going to go for?
House two doors down, 2244 Queen Palm, just sold for 2.9 million. Same size, same number of bedrooms, same building era and it was completely renovated. Let me know your thoughts!
For now, I'm gonna sign off from Tuesday tours. Bye!