Matthew Maschler:
Welcome to the Real Estate Finder podcast. I’m Matthew Mascher, real estate broker with the signature real estate companies in the beautiful state of Florida. And with me, the co-host of the Real Estate Finder podcast,
Staci Garcia:
Stacy Garcia.
Matthew Maschler:
Hi, Stacy, how are you?
Staci Garcia:
I’m really tired, <laugh> really
Matthew Maschler:
Tired. And also in the studio we have Joe Glanzer.
Jill Glanzer:
Hi everybody. Jill Glanzer with Real Estate Finder.
Matthew Maschler:
So first thing I wanna say, Jill and Stacy is thank you for covering for me last week while I was away. I hope, uh, I hope everybody, uh, enjoyed the show that, uh, Stacy and Jill did without me when I was on my, on my wrestling cruise. And, uh, and I’m back and I am, uh, ready to go. And while I was away, unbelievable. I came home to, what, three new listings?
Jill Glanzer:
Yep. Three new listings, two from Stacey, one from me.
Matthew Maschler:
All right. So, um, we don’t usually talk about our listings on the show, but Stacy, why don’t you, uh, talk about each of your, uh, two new listings.
Staci Garcia:
Okay. So I spent the weekend, um, in Parkland, and I just wanna say about Parkland because I know a lot of people have heard, you know, crazy stuff about Parkland and nobody really ever talks about the good things about Parklands. And I think
Matthew Maschler:
I always talk about good things about Parkland.
Staci Garcia:
No, I mean, like in the media, right? Like, Parkland’s pretty much known for a school shooting. It’s not really known for anything else, but,
Matthew Maschler:
But that was a long time ago. I mean,
Staci Garcia:
It sticks that long ago. Yeah, it does stick, right? Right. I think it does. And, and as I drive into Parkland, I realize why people live in Parkland. Parkland’s gorgeous, quiet. It’s beautiful. It’s absolutely beautiful. So there’s a lot of property there where people have more land than in Boca. Yep. And, um, having, um, five acres is not unheard of here. It’s almost unheard of, but there it’s not. So, um, my listing is in a community of only 42 homes where it’s the largest house in the entire community and it’s in the best lot and everybody knows it. So all of the people that came to my open house live in the community, Uhhuh <affirmative>. And, and so that this area is the, it’s called the Estates of Land. The landings Estates and the landings goes all the way around the landing this estate. So all the people from the walked over to most of the people that came to my open house walked over. It’s a six four bathroom thousand plus square foot, and it’s 90. The, um, the view is unbelievable. And it stares at a bridge and it’s beautiful. And the tennis playground, pickleball basketball, it’s over the bridge far enough away where you can see it, but you don’t really hear it and close enough away that if your kids were there, you could sit there and watch them, but you’re at home, which is pretty cool. So I had, um, two open houses over the weekend for that. And it was nonstop people, which reminded me of 2021 <laugh>. It was, cause I sat outside,
Matthew Maschler:
It was nonstop. Like, like the, the, the covid years. The 2020 and 21. Yeah.
Staci Garcia:
Wow. Yeah, I mean, the only difference is I put out masks and I put out, um, you know, uh, water and I put out, uh, Clorox wipes, the same thing that I did. But, and I left the front and it was such a beautiful weekend. I left the front door open. I sat out back and people came in, went as they as they wanted to. And most of the people that came actually I saw walking over from the backyard, you know, cause I was sitting in the back, uh, at the pool. So, um, the house needs a little bit of love and everyone there knows it. So it was, you know, it hit the market on Saturday. And after two days of open houses, I have five, um, five offers.
Matthew Maschler:
You have five offers. You have five offers already?
Staci Garcia:
Yep. I have five offers. I’m expecting one more today.
Matthew Maschler:
So I was gonna ask you if we should put that, you know, we, we advertise sometimes in the, uh, Broward edition of the, uh, newspaper, the actual print, uh, old fashioned newspaper on, uh, on the Sunday real estate section. So I was gonna ask you if you wanted to put this one in, in this, uh, this newspaper. Yeah, but I,
Staci Garcia:
I just, well, you know what? You never know when you’re getting an offer how it’s gonna be. And I know what my seller wants and I know the offers are coming in at, you know, Jill likes to say, and it’s my favorite thing, that the market will speak and tell you what your house is worth. So I, I lined up all my offers and they, the market is very, you know, it’s, it’s not a coincidence, but every offer is very close to the other offer, right? Mm-hmm. Um, and in 2021, the difference was the offers were coming in at full price, right? Or, or sometimes higher. Right? So now the offers are coming in at a level that’s not full price. And that’s really the main difference. And so my, my seller’s gonna have a, um, you know, a session with me today talking about the market and how, um, all the offer, it’s not a coincidence that the offers are all in the same range, basically. Um, so, and it does it, listen, there is no rush to sell. I could continue to do the same exact thing. It’s a pleasure to sit there in Parkland and there at the park. I’m looking kids
Matthew Maschler:
Playing. I’m, yeah, I’m looking at this at the pictures. The house is beautiful. How big did you say the lot was?
Staci Garcia:
Uh, it’s, I don’t even know now. It’s um, cause I’m so burnt out, it’s like, I wanna say it’s over 14,000 square feet. Maybe it’s a under, under a half acre.
Matthew Maschler:
It’s not a, it’s not the five acre lot you were saying.
Staci Garcia:
No, no. Five acre lots are just around the corner though. You know? So, and when I’m comparing the prices and doing the comps, the, um, houses that, that I, you know, that are so close to it have land. This one doesn’t have the land, but it has this perfect lot. So, um, and it really is the perfect lot. It’s just, it’s far enough away from everything, but close enough to everything. So, um, and it’s in a cul-de-sac with only one house, and then one house on the edge of the cul-de-sac. It’s like its own, it’s like its own driveway, even though it’s just a little circle. Um,
Matthew Maschler:
I love being in the cul-de-sac. Like I’m, I’m the beginning of my street. I’m not in the cul-de-sac. Correct. That’s one of the things that like, uh, that like my house is missing.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. The only thing the only people are going down the, into the cul-de-sac is, is this house and one other house and anyone who’s lost, you know what I mean? Right. So, um, and this house is pretty much well known cause everyone can see it from, they can see the back of the house from the park. So they all can, and it’s like the house people stare at Uhhuh. So it’s got a beautiful back. So back every single room in the back of the house has open sliders that nest into the next one and open all the way so that every single room opens and has an open wall of windows. So that on a nice day, which was seriously this weekend, you could open every single door and you’re, all the rooms are open to the back and I’m there in a screen in enclosure. So it’s not bugging at all. So it’s really, really nice. Um, and the ceilings are super high. So, uh, I’m, I’m guessing the house will sell by, you know, hopefully by the weekend, but, or go under contract. Um, and, and then I had another open house in Boca. Um, so
Matthew Maschler:
This is listening two.
Staci Garcia:
Listening two is a five bedroom plus an office. So listing one was a six, listening, two is five bedroom office. Whoa. And it’s a, yeah, it’s a big, big house. Not as big as Parkland. Um, as far as the space goes on the footprint on the ground, because it’s on a lake with no pool. But the Lakeview is stunning. And the pool is right across the street in the amenities area, which is literally across the street. So like, if you had guests, they could park across the street and no, you know, there’s no issue. It’s like having your own guest parking plus a sand bath, a sand valley book court, um, tennis, basketball, a park, barbecue area, and the pool. So all of that is right across the street from your house. You wouldn’t really want a pool. So,
Jill Glanzer:
Um, why maintain it Right when you could just go there. Right,
Staci Garcia:
Right. Why take a, why take care of it on a smaller level when you can do it on a big level right across the street. So that house is enormous and very close to in a grade school district in Boca. And, and I don’t wanna like rape, but it’s also right next door to my son’s school. And it’s, um, a private charter school that’s free. It’s called Slam Boca. So you could walk there, you could have a family of conceivably up to eight kids, <laugh> and be completely comfortable, even though it’s a five, it’s a 5.1, but there’s a shower downstairs. So, um, uh, that house also, I showed it last night and it sunset at 5 45. It’s absolutely gorgeous. Cause it’s not a long view facing West house is facing east. And, um, and these are big houses, you know, for big families. Um, and then, um, so that’s what I did all weekend. And Jill, tell me about your listing.
Jill Glanzer:
So I wanna ask Stacy one more
Matthew Maschler:
Question. No, yeah. Let’s say on these, these two for a minute.
Jill Glanzer:
Yeah. Stacy, is it true that both of these homes are the biggest models in the neighborhoods?
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. Isn’t that crazy? That
Jill Glanzer:
Is so cool. Yeah,
Matthew Maschler:
Because we were doing our marketing meeting the other day and I’m, and sometimes, you know, you with copy and paste, I’m like, wait a minute. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, this one says it’s the biggest lot in the neighborhood. This one says it’s the biggest lot in the neighborhood. <laugh>. And, um, yeah. And, and the, the sellers are related. So it’s like, wait, wait. Right. Both,
Jill Glanzer:
Both, both people got the biggest home model.
Matthew Maschler:
Both the same description,
Jill Glanzer:
The community and the original owners. Both of them.
Staci Garcia:
Yes. The um, the Parkland ones, they, it’s funny cause he said if you have any questions about the house, go into the office closet and there’s a banker’s and open it up and just look through the files. Um, everything should be in there. I was like, okay, cool. <laugh>, I went into the office, open the, the banker’s box, open up the file and there’s the original drawings of before the house was there of how they wanted the house to be, to be on the property. You know, they keep moving. Same. It’s all written out. So it was pretty cool. And, and then there was a huge sheets, papers for architects, you know, and then where they wanted to put the trees and, and you can, you know, a lot of people asked me, cause this house has no fence in yard and it definitely has a yard.
Um, but the people had no, no animals or children. They had grandchildren. But it was like the kids were inside the, um, screening pool uhhuh. They asked me, where would the fence go? Which is always a awesome question. Um, like how much does the setback from the lake? And I usually look at the other houses that’s surrounding the house and say, well, let’s look at the other houses around the lake and see how far back their fences are. That’s as far as I know, you know, right now to go. But when I was looking at the paper, all of the drawings have the, the lines for where, where the property line would be. You know? So not that I’m a surveyor, cause I’m not, but it does show you based on other, um, landmarks on the prop, on the, the whole property area where the fence would go if you did wanna put in a fence.
Matthew Maschler:
And you do have, but you do have to be careful because sometimes, uh, the zoning and, and the, and the, and absolutely water things change. So there, there aren’t, there are neighborhoods where the existing fences are okay. But, um, right.
Staci Garcia:
Definitely
Matthew Maschler:
The, the issue is fences go too, too close to the water. And then the lake and water district doesn’t have access. So yet you just have to double
Staci Garcia:
Check. And this, this area also has this house, that house in <inaudible> has, um, definitely space on the side to make a yard on the side. You’d never need blocks. The view. That’s the, um, yeah. So you can have, you could, the fence, if was a fence, you could, the, the house need never need to, you know, you could use that, that area instead or a playground, you know, or play anything like that. But it’s like literally right across the lake. So there’s a humongous playground, so I’m not sure you’d wanna do that.
Matthew Maschler:
And um, and for those of you who don’t know Parkland, Parkland is, uh, west and south of Boca Raton. So if you’re, if you’re in Boton like, uh, 4 41 and go south, it’s, uh, it borders, uh, Bo Raton. It’s, uh, it’s, it’s a very, it’s very large. It’s west of Coconut Creek. Um, but it’s, it’s western. Um, it was part of the, you know, part of, uh, unincorporated Broward County. The way, uh, the way Bo Raton, the west part of Boca Raton is, uh, unincorporated Palm Beach County. But, but, um,
Staci Garcia:
I’ll tell you something, Connie, about Parkland. Yep. It’s nine miles. The Parkland House is nine miles from my house.
Matthew Maschler:
From your house. And how crazy. You’re right by the Mall Central.
Staci Garcia:
I’m right by town Center mall. And when I, when I, um, go on my phone before I, like if I was gonna GPS it in the beginning, that house is only nine miles away from me. It feels like, it feels like it could be like 30 miles away from me. So, but not because traffic or anything, just cause it seems like you take, you go west, so it’s a, and west of,
Matthew Maschler:
So it’s a six bedroom, 4,000 square foot house that in Boca Raton would be 2 million, 3 million. But cause it’s in park, it’s 1,000,002. So 1,000,002, nine miles from the town center mall for a six bedroom, 4,000 square foot house. That is no wonder why you’re having such people come to the open house. So, um,
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. It also has additional benefits that, you know, the original owner put in that most houses don’t have. It has air, air conditioned vents in every single closet, which means, and also the, yeah, imagine put an air conditioner vent in your clothes closet. No. To keep your clothes cool. I can’t imagine. And fresh, yeah, three air conditioner, um, zones, three air conditioner units and it also air condition your clothes and your closet and your food.
Matthew Maschler:
That’s
Staci Garcia:
Cool. Yeah. And that, I mean, and there’s so much more that is different than most, but I will say the shower is a steam shower. So it goes all the way up to the ceiling and it’s basically like airtight. And there’s three hot water heaters, which most wow house
Jill Glanzer:
Would never happen. That is a lot of hot water heaters. They must always have hot water.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know
Jill Glanzer:
If I’ve ever heard of that.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah, the pools heated. The spas heated, but also there’s a steam shower. So in the steam shower that has glass and it goes straight up to the ceiling, it has three shower heads. Like, oh, somebody came in and they asked me why would they put three shower heads? Like this is not, this is in the nineties, not now, where people make on purpose, you know, multiple, they put in the showers with different, uh, various, various heads in different places. Um, so they were like, why would they put three shower heads in the shower in the master? They’re in the primary suite. And I was like, because it’s a, it’s actually a steam shower, so the steam is coming out, you know what I mean? I like,
Matthew Maschler:
I like multiple shower heads cause I like to get sprays and body, body spray, all kinds of stuff. It’s so awesome if I’m in a big mess. Yeah. If it’s a big house and big, got a big mass shower and it’s only got the one shower head, it’s a total waste, waste of space.
Staci Garcia:
<laugh>. Yeah. So it’s pretty cool. And then I, I went into the, I was climbing over the bathtub to open the blinds and I was standing in the bathtub and I was like, wow. The view is, it’s unbelievable just from the bathtub, you know, like I could, I was standing in the bathtub thinking I could take this view. You were just sitting in the bathtub looking out mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, so, so I got, um, an estimate from b t Impact Window Company, shout out, which we work
Matthew Maschler:
With. Shout, shout out to John, shout at BT Windows. Yeah.
Staci Garcia:
John’s my favorite guy ever. And there are 50 windows in this house and
Matthew Maschler:
50 50 50
Staci Garcia:
Windows.
Jill Glanzer:
Lots of light <laugh>.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah. So he, John is awesome. And he provided to estimate and to any person that’s gonna buy the house, they’ll give a discount to, um, for if they use ct, if they wanna replace the accordion shuts with impact windows. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>. Um, I have the estimate and I was, I I offered it to people as they were, um, checking out the house. Some of them right away would do the work if they wanted to. Others think accordion chatters are perfectly fine and they wouldn’t need to do anything. Um, it’s just a preference. So, but John, um, is also doing the estimate at my West listing. So in case anyone wants to do the same thing over there, full accordion shutters already. But if you wanna have a lot of people wanna see outside during, you know, bad weather, if you want your impact windows for sound or, or any other reason, John’s gonna have theca tomorrow.
Matthew Maschler:
Oh, that, that is amazing.
Staci Garcia:
Yep. He’s a bomb. So, um, and he loves working with you guys. You know, everybody in the team. Um, so yeah, those are, those are my listings. So I, I anticipate that it’s, it’s not easy for a big family to find a home, you know? Um, it really isn’t. Cuz they have to retrofit it to, let’s say if they have more than four kids, they have to retrofit it. This the house in Boca, you go upstairs, there’s four bedrooms on the left and a master primary owner suite on the right. Um, four bedrooms is just not, it’s like a, a house up north. It’s not a house that you would find in Boca. Um, and like, I can’t imagine having, I mean, I have three boys, but I can’t imagine having four bedrooms full of kids on the left and then my, my owner suite on the, on the right. And then there’s still another bedroom with a shower downstairs if you wanted. It’s the office currently and if you wanted, if you needed it, you know. Yeah. Um, so, um, so yeah, I’m, I’m hoping they, you know, it’s not, it’s not, it’s not a buyer’s market right now. Well, it’s kinda a buyer’s market right now, but it’s, it’s, it’s neither here nor there. Right. So it’s not a seller’s market where you ask for highest and best after open houses, but I feel like I’m getting highest and best right now for
Jill Glanzer:
Maybe in that little market you’re in. It is. Because again, there’s not a lot of big houses. Well
Staci Garcia:
That’s hundred percent. Every, every person that walked in has said, we walked over, we knew you were, I could have put the open house sign in the back, <laugh>, you know what I mean, along the lake because that’s where people were coming from. They were walking over and
Jill Glanzer:
Um, there’s not a lot of big houses for a million dollars <laugh>.
Staci Garcia:
Right? No, absolutely. A
Jill Glanzer:
Million. I mean, I’m gonna explain my listing next and it’s like insane how different the price is.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah, I know. I did tell people that we’re living in Parkland that walked over. They’re all really, really nice. And I’m not saying Boca people aren’t nice. I lived here since 1986 and I found my beautiful, awesome friends. So the people there are just genuinely really sweet. And they’re not competitive and they’re not, they’re all friendly to each other. They’re all neighbors and they all wanna know what’s gonna happen with this house. Maybe I could live in it, you know. Um, so I think that it’ll go based on the people who attended. And also some people came in back and measured, they brought their contractors and they brought, see what they think about the house. Um, and I’m still showing it today. So I think it’ll be someone that lives in Parkland and lives in the landing and we’ll just be switching
Jill Glanzer:
Houses up, upgrading for, to a bigger house. Yeah.
Staci Garcia:
Yeah.
Jill Glanzer:
That’s great, Stacy. Well good luck with both of those.
Staci Garcia:
Thank you.
Jill Glanzer:
Yeah. So I’m gonna talk about my listing now, Matt. All right. What’s
Matthew Maschler:
It’s, is it in Boca?
Jill Glanzer:
It’s in Bo it’s actually in Delray Beach. Delray Beach over, just over the line off of Lions Road in Boca in the, in, in the very famous seven Bridges community, which is GL Homes and GL Holmes had, has several communities. They’re very popular, they’re great
Matthew Maschler:
Builder. Let me just clarify, it was built by GL Homes,
Jill Glanzer:
It was built by GL Homes. Right. Okay. And they were all built in 2018 in this particular community. Um, seven Bridges is the second community that GL Homes built in Delray Beach. The first one being the Bridges. I mean, they built all, I mean, they built, they built many before, but they
Matthew Maschler:
Built, they built bunch of C
Jill Glanzer:
Communities, but as part of the Bridge’s collection. Right, right,
Matthew Maschler:
Right. You know, geo has different, geo tends to have different brands and um, so if they do canyons, canyons are canyons are similar. Yep. Graystone,
Jill Glanzer:
Which is Valencia.
Matthew Maschler:
Right. So, uh, Graystone was a less expensive product than Canyons, but Ca Canyons has Canyon Springs and Canyon Trails. So they use a lot of Canyons neighborhoods, Graystone neighborhoods. Valencia is their 55 and over product. So they’ve used that name a lot, but they’ve built tons of other communities
Jill Glanzer:
Neighborhood there. There’s tons of stuff still in, in, in Delray that they’ve built in other communities. Correct.
Matthew Maschler:
And if, if you really want to understand the market in Florida, you have to see what GLS building. And when GL decided to build the bridges, right, they made the choice not to use the Canyon or the Graystone brand, not to use the Valencia brand. They, they, they wanted to build, uh, a bigger, nicer product. So they came up with the bridges and then after that was Seven Bridges and they have That was Boca Bridges, correct? Yep. So this one, this one is in the Seven Bridges, which I think is the best of the three.
Jill Glanzer:
Yep. This is in Seven Bridges. This is a beautiful community with about 701 homes. Living square feet ranges anywhere from 2,400 to over 8,000. And um, there’s seven beautiful bridges in the community that’s hence the name Seven Bridges. Yeah. There’s actually seven bridges in the community. That’s why they call it that. And um, it has a beautiful clubhouse. So it’s basically like living in the country club without golf. Right. So it’s got tennis, a beautiful clubhouse.
Matthew Maschler:
Indoor basketball
Jill Glanzer:
Court. Yeah, indoor basketball court. Um, I think they just built pickleball courts as well. They have a, a restaurant called Prime seven that is a steakhouse. They also have a bistro type, um, b out pole bar. So they have amazing amenities. And so you could basically live there for about a thousand a month for the hoa and no equity. You’re living in a community that has almost everything that a club would have. This new listing is 4,700 living square feet. It’s a five bedroom plus it has a beautiful club room, which you could turn into a theater or just make it a club room. Um, it’s right at the entry there. And, um, lots of space, really pretty porcelain. 24 by 24 floors when you first walk in. So it’s a really nice entry and that grand entry that everybody’s looking for. And then you could see a view of the lake. And the lake view is a long lake view. I was super impressed by that because that’s it, it’s, it’s hard to get that right Matt. So like a long lake view is really nice because you’re just viewing a long lake from your house. You’re not just seeing across the street, across the lake.
Matthew Maschler:
You know, my office, me and Jill, uh, Jill and I, um, we, we sold a lot in the Bridges and Seven Bridges when it was new construction, cuz it was in our little area of the world that we were selling in Stone Creek Ranch and the Oaks and the country clubs. So, um, you know, when people were buying in the bridges and, and, and Seven Bridges, you know, we, you know, we looked at these law premiums and, and I tried to, you know, make sure that my buyers understood that, uh, for resale value, those long lake views, those lake views, those oversight lots, whatever premium they were gonna pay, uh, they, they would get that back in multiples when they resold. Because when you try to resell, uh, a house with, with no backyard backs to the turnpike versus uh, big, big water view, um, the, the prices, I think the prices that she, uh, sets for the premiums for those lots are bargained compared to what, what people get, um, what people, um, pay for the, um, in in resale.
Jill Glanzer:
Correct. So, yeah, so this house is really great and one of the best things about it is it doesn’t have a pool <laugh>, so you don’t have to pay the maintenance. Right. You can see that beautiful long leg view and if you wanna put in a pool, there’s certainly room for it. But you have that gorgeous clubhouse where you can meet all of your friends and your kids can play in that pool and then you don’t have to maintain a pool at home. So that’s what makes this house really stand out. Also, when you first walk in, it’s just, again, that beautiful entry, beautiful floors, everything’s white. There’s um, really pretty light fixtures throughout the home. Very attractive. And the kitchen is really nice. It’s got, um, all white cabinets, gas stove, anything you would ever want in a home really.
Matthew Maschler:
And, uh, yeah. That’s, that’s great. So two of the three, um, houses that we just listed, um, don’t have pools.
Jill Glanzer:
Correct? Yeah, that
Matthew Maschler:
Is, uh,
Jill Glanzer:
And some people do not want a pool. You think, oh, I live in, I live in South Florida, I want a pool. You know, pools are great. I have a pool. But what I noticed is as my kids got older, they’re no longer swimming in it. No one is swimming in it. And yes, it’s nice to have it, it feels good for resale, but you have to maintain it. It costs a lot of money a month to maintain <laugh> and you have to resurface the pool, retile it. So it’s another thing that you have to maintains. And it’s not always a plus.
Matthew Maschler:
It’s, it’s an expense. Yeah. It’s, uh, it’s surprising. You know, I never seem, when I have people that don’t want a pool, I never can seem to find, uh, a house for them. So now that we have one without a pool, I want to really make sure that, uh, that people know that, uh, that we uh, that we have it.
Jill Glanzer:
And what’s funny is normally in sales, right? We don’t wanna announce that there’s not something of something a negative. Right. A negative, but it’s really not a negative because again, right. Buyer people are searching for homes without a pool so they don’t have to maintain them, especially if they travel a lot. Right. And if they go away for the winter, they don’t wanna have to maintain that pool. Even though Florida’s warm all year round, it’s still an expense.
Matthew Maschler:
I remodeled my pool in 2017 and I don’t think my kids have ever been in it
Staci Garcia:
<laugh>.
Matthew Maschler:
And when I, and when I remodeled it, I think it, I think somehow we, um, made it a little more shallow. Cause cuz I know I didn’t get taller, but I feel very tall in the pool now. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and you know, David, in the last three years, he’s grown so much. So, um, you know, we, so he is played like the water polo, the little ba had the basketball hoop in the shallow section. But, um, I think he’s gonna be very surprised the first time he, the next time he goes into the pool, just how tall he is. Um, like he’s not gonna remember he’s gonna be, cuz he’s
Jill Glanzer:
Like, what’s going on here?
Matthew Maschler:
He’s an inch, he’s a half an inch taller than me at this point. So he is gonna get in that pool and really, uh, really, he’s really in for surprise.
Jill Glanzer:
Yeah, you had that, you have that beautiful slide. Do people still use that?
Matthew Maschler:
Oh, I love the slide. Yeah, it’s uh, $5 for one ride, $10 for an hour.
Staci Garcia:
<laugh>. Oh, nice. Wait, my slides
Jill Glanzer:
<laugh>. That’s funny. That’s funny. So yeah, so seven Bridges. I mean, again, this listing is really great. Um, it’s priced well. It has a huge loft upstairs, which is really like a second living area. Um, all wood floors upstairs and carpets in the bedroom, which if you wanted to change that, you could. And the master suite is massive, um, with a beautiful luxury master bath. So downstairs you have one bedroom, a club room, and then you have your formal living room, family room, kitchen. And then upstairs you have the master suite with the luxurious master bath walk-in closets, and then three other bedrooms with three full bathrooms. So it’s got the space that any family would need six full bathrooms in the house.
Staci Garcia:
Wow, that’s a lot of bathrooms.
Jill Glanzer:
Yeah. Two bathrooms down too. Yep. Five bedrooms, six bathrooms, plus Clubroom and Loft. 4,700 square feet priced at 2 million, six 50. So see Stacy for in Boca Yeah. On a lot that’s not big, but in a very premier community with a clubhouse, you’re paying 2.6 million for a 4,700 square foot house. And you could go out to Parkland, you know, to a house that needs some love, but it’s in a different type of community. Further way further west in a different, not in, not with the Delray Boca address for a million too. Right. But yes, you have to put money into it, but still
Staci Garcia:
It’s just, yeah, there’s a lot of, uh, of lot. Look, but when you go over people ask me like what are the amenities in different areas? The Seven Bridges have, it’s like a playground for adults and children.
Matthew Maschler:
Right. Seven Bridges lifestyle is pretty, pretty amazing. It is. And it’s convenient to the turnpike on the exit on Atlantic, um, and the turnpike, and you have Delray marketplace over there. You have Plaza Delray with a, uh, restaurant called Warren. Um, they just opened up the new bagel store bagels with, with Deli. Um, so you got bagels right next to Dunk Donuts. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, um, and then, and Warren and the Sicilian oven, and then Delray Marketplace with the movie theater and the pub’s right there and the Tesla chargers. So it’s a great location. Um, and it’s a, and the onsite amenities are great and, um, and it has a very social, um, mailbox system instead of every house having their own mailbox. It’s a central mailbox location, so it’s great. You can come and meet your neighbors and Yeah. Have a cigar and
Jill Glanzer:
Yeah. If you don’t meet your neighbors in the clubhouse, you can meet them over mail
Staci Garcia:
At the, at the We meet in mailbox. Let’s have a cigar. Yeah. And some whiskey just hang out. Like, I’m jealous. Tell
Matthew Maschler:
Like, so like, one of the reason we have, we have a little dog at home. He’s 10, 10 years old at this point. Little nugget. And um, you know, it’s just one of the things I liked about the idea of getting a dog is, you know, go, you know, if you wanna stretch your legs, you want something to do, you throw a leach on the dog and go for a walk. So it’s, it’s nice. You can, you can put, put the leach on the dog and take a walk and go over to the mill mail center and uh, get, get your mail and bring it back home.
Jill Glanzer:
Yeah. I wanted to, can we talk a little bit about different clubhouses? Because I feel like the clubhouse is Seven Bridges is exceptional. Yeah. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and then when you go to other clubhouses in other communities, further west or older communities, more established communities, they still have that beautiful clubhouse. It might just not be as active. Like I think Seven Bridges is a pretty active clubhouse. Like, you know, they’ve got seven Bridges activities.
Matthew Maschler:
Seven Bridges is a resort. Yes. A beautiful pool, poolside service with a bar with the restaurants, uh, gym classes, wonderful gymnasium, fitness features, aerobics classes, massage, massage, uh, therapists. It’s a living in Seven Bridges is living in a full resort. That’s, that’s what I liked about the Bridge Seven Bridges over, um, the original, the Bridges, um, the Bridge’s Clubhouse is nice, but there’s something special about the Seven Bridges, um, uh, clubhouse and, and, and I have to admit, I don’t know the Boca Bridges one as
Jill Glanzer:
Well and the, and the restaurant in in Seven is good, right? Yeah. Have you been?
Matthew Maschler:
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, they’ve, they’ve, they’ve changed operators over, over time, but it’s, it’s, it’s fantastic and, and you can rent it out for parties and stuff and, and they have social events. So it’s really like, it’s really more than any other community really is, uh, a country club alternative. Yeah. Uh, you know, the Oaks really redid their amenities, uh, to compete their pool and tennis and, and restaurant is also first grade. Um, and like I said, I, I need to check out Boca Bridges. I, I haven’t done that. I think I went through all of my leads and sales and sold as much as I could in the Bridges in Seven Bridges. And I just didn’t have anything left in the tank when our broken bridges opened up. Plus it sold so quickly, um, it, it all got gobbled up, uh, by,
Staci Garcia:
Uh, I think the people that come down from up north and they wonder how am I gonna meet people as an adult, right? How am I gonna meet friends, new friends, make new friends, and how are my children gonna meet friends when everybody’s on a phone and they don’t really play outside anymore? At those communities where everybody meets at the pool, Uhhuh, <affirmative>, um, that’s like an instant. It’s like going to the bar, but it’s going to the pool with your children and you get to meet everybody because they’re not staying home, um, at their backyards in their own pool necessarily. If they have little kids, they don’t have a mommy group yet. You could definitely meet your mommy group and your kids can meet instant friends at the pool. Cause it’s not just a pool, you know? So that’s like a, for me it’s, if I was moving down here and there are so many people moving down from other states right now, um, it’s an instant way to meet people and not feel isolated.
Like you left all your friends up north or wherever, um, and your kids are not gonna have any friends until school starts or until they get to be school age. Everybody wants to go to the pool because it’s not just a pool and everybody wants to go sit at the pool because they wanna meet. I think I would want to meet people that are around the corner that way. If you’re gonna have a play date, and I sound like a really lame mom, but it makes it so much easier. <laugh>, it makes it so much easier if they’re in the neighborhood, you know,
Jill Glanzer:
So much easier then you’re not a taxi. Yes.
Staci Garcia:
I mean, my, my sons are now 16, 18, 19 and I don’t think about it, but this, they, they started before social media. Um, and their, their friends were the nextdoor neighbors and on the street I came home from showing, uh, from the open house on Saturday and my sons were outside playing football on the street and I almost crashed because I couldn’t believe it <laugh>. Cause they never go outside anymore. And so I think that like a neighborhood where everybody’s at the pool, it’s old school, right? Everybody, um, everybody grew up playing out at, at the local neighborhood swim clubs and up north in the, I wanna say in the seventies and now then they went into their own backyards when they got their own pools and then they got onto the phones and now they’re back at the swim clubs, which is kind of like what I was calling of the amenities of Seven Bridges.
It’s like a swim club in your own neighborhood. So even if you have your own pool, you wanna go there cause everybody else is there. That’s what my kids would say. I don’t wanna stay home and there’s no one here when I can go over there when there’s 20 kids. You know? So it’s definitely a draw for people that are looking for a way to meet people when they move in instantly. You could have, if you wanted, you could have a whole network of people to be friends with, um, and not worry so much that you’re gonna be on your own trying to find your kids’ friends, trying to find your own, you know, tribe around here.
Jill Glanzer:
Yeah, definitely. No, I, I think it’s a great alternative for people coming from a community up north where they had all their friends and then they come down here. Right. They’re able to meet people. It’s like built in community.
Staci Garcia:
Exactly.
Jill Glanzer:
Yeah. And without paying equity to join a club mm-hmm. <affirmative> or paying high membership fees. I mean the, the membership, you know, the HOA dues are about like right under 1100 a month now, and the amenities are incredible. So it’s a, it’s a really great listing. If anyone out there wants to see it, give us a call in the office at (561) 208-3334 and we’ll set up a private tour.
Staci Garcia:
Cool.
Matthew Maschler:
All right. So thank you for joining us on the Real Estate Finder podcast. I’m Matthew ler and if you’re interested in any of these three or any house in Florida, find us on real estate finder.com. Or you can reach Stacy directly@nohoaboca.com
Jill Glanzer:
<laugh>. Yes. And you can also call Jill Glanzer at the office at 5 6 1 2 0 8 3 3 3 4 or jill@realestatefinder.com.
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