LAmbiance in Pelican Bay Quarterly Fees

LAmbiance – Pelican Bay – Naples, FL – Oh, by gosh, by golly, can you believe that the holidays are almost upon us?  2013 seems to have flown by for me. What about you?

Last Sunday, November 16th, LAmbiance had it welcome back party and toy collection drive.  This even was well attended by LAmbiance residents.  Usually I snap photos at this event; however this time I was too busy talking to neighbors to take any photos!  We all owe a round of thanks to our social committee for organizing this event for us.

Good News! – You’ll be pleased to learn that at our next Board meeting on December 4th at 3:00 PM in the clubhouse, the Board will voting to adopt a change in LAmbiance’s quarterly assessments.  If this change is adopted, our fees will DECREASE!  Here is a breakdown of the proposed decrease…..

Quarterly  Assessments 2014

Association	2013	2014	Reduction
Garden  I	$2064.70	$1870.82	$193.88
Garden  II	$2012.72	$1904.96	$107.76
Coach I	$2398.83	$2243.51	$155.32
Coach II	$2436.00	$2181.51	$254.49

A decrease in our quarterly assessments will certainly be a great way to ring in the New Year!

More Good News! – Speaking of the New Year, LAmbiance plans to redo our roofs in 2014.   Depending on the Board’s discussion with contractors about time lines and pricing, the work might begin in February or April.  As of today, a special assessment is not being anticipated as our reserves should cover the costs of the new roofs.

Even More Good News! – Tomorrow, November 22nd at 8:30 AM the Pelican Bay Board of Directors will be voting to change our media provider from Comcast to Summit Broadband.  There have been two town hall meetings about this change and our mid November Pelican Bay Post has a detailed article about this proposed change. I for one will be THRILLED to see a change.  I believe this Summit Broadband’s plan will help Pelican Bay’s values by trying to keep our community current with technology.

Even Better News! – The market in Pelican Bay has started to change.  I’ll be posting more in-depth details later.  The inventory of low rises has decreased significantly. As of today, there are only 41 low-rise units on the market. Anyone out there remember when we had 129 low-rise units on the market? Prices have started to increase.  Lower quarterly fees, new roofs and hopefully a new media provider will make LAmbiance an even more attractive community to live.  If you have debated about putting your LAmbiance unit on the market, give me a call.  You might be pleasantly surprised to see what your unit is worth in today’s market.

Wherever you are this Thanksgiving, I hope you have a wonderful day surrounded by people who mean the most to you!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Today’s a bit on the chilly side in Naples recently with temperatures in the upper 60’s to low 70’s.  As I type this blog entry, my husband Don has been cleaning our lanai in anticipation of my brother James and his wife Millie’s visit from Chicago land to L’Ambiance for the Thanksgiving holiday.  I can only hope the weather will be as nice on Thanksgiving Day when I have the oven going non-stop!  Will you be cooking for Thanksgiving? 

 

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If you will be here in L’Ambiance for Thanksgiving and don’t want to cook, both Publix and Whole Foods have prepared Thanksgiving dinners you can take home and warm up.  The idea of ordering a prepared fest for my family’s dinner sounds like a great idea. James has his heart (and stomach) set on eating our Mother’s turkey stuffing and our Grandma’s carrot cake on Thanksgiving Day.  I just can not disappoint my baby brother!

 

As some of you may be aware, Construction began on Wednesday, November 12 and will continue through the end of December on the Community Center additional parking.  If you have any questions or concerns about this construction all questions are to be directed to Bill Bowden at 260-8995.

 

At the last L’Ambiance Board meeting on November 20, 2008, the 2009 L’Ambiance budgets for all associations were approved.  Good news!  The quarterly maintenance fees for all associations have actually decreased for 2009.  Now that’s something to be thankful for, isn’t it?

 

Here are the quarterly fees just approved for 2009:

 

Coach I = $1,961.66 /qtr

Coach II = $1,981.63 /qtr

Garden I = $1,811.72 /qtr

Garden II = $1,846.09 /qtr

 

Annual planting and mulching has just been completed around L’Ambiance.  L’Ambiance is looking great.  Thanks again to Molly Moffatt for her great work on our landscape committee.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All waterscapes are working smoothly now.  We are reestablishing a cleaning program with our power washer to clean rocks around the waterscapes.

 

Building painting and roof cleaning is scheduled to take place in 2010.   We have been painting garage doors as needed.   L’Ambiance is also getting bids on cleaning soffits, fascia and gutters for cleaning in 2009.  In 2009 we will also replace the land retaining lumber that wraps around the reserve area at L’Ambiance.  The new retaining boarder will most likely be made of paver brick.  This should give us a better look and enhanced durability.  L’Ambiance is getting better with age.

 

This year’s L’Ambiance holiday Toys for Tot’s party will be held at the L’Ambiance clubhouse on December 7, 2008.  Please BYOB, appetizer and unwrapped to for a girl and boy.  Toys for 7 – 18 year olds are in the greatest need.  Don and I plan to be there and hope to see you!

 

Recently I posted statistics from the Naples Homes Sales Report for 2008 and the Florida Home Sales Report for the 3^rd Quarter of 2008. 

 

What struck me the most about the Naples Homes Sales Report was that the pending sales for October 2008 had 72.62% of all the sales under $300,000.00!  I have also updated our Pelican Bay Blog with some new statistics.

 

FYI – If you haven’t visited Studio 41 (239-597-5011) at the Market Place in Pelican Bay, you may want to take a trip over there and meet Kait, the massage therapist.  I had a massage with Kait last week and I can not wait to go back!  Kait can definitely help ease the stress of the holiday season.

 

My best wishes to you all for a wonderful Thanksgiving!

 

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