Hi everyone. This is your Tampa Bay real estate agent Lance Mohr. In this video
is for you if you're looking at moving to Tampa or
if you live in Tampa and you just don't know the city's the areas or the
lifestyles because that's what I'm going to talk about in this video the most
important decision you can make for you and your family is where you're going to
live the home doesn't really matter because if you don't like your home
you're not going to want to live in the area so you need to pick the area to
live in first make sure you like that have a comfort level with it then go
about finding your home the reason why I wanted to do this video is because I
remember back in 2006 my wife and I moved here from Dallas Texas and I went
into my office there's hundreds of agents and I thought it was going to be
real easy just to get together with a few agents tell him what I want what
kind of home I want what kind of subdivision what kind of area I like to
live in and they could just direct me point me to a few areas and I would be
good to go it wasn't that easy it was very hard because a lot of the agents
just didn't understand I guess the different areas or maybe
they weren't used to working with people on real locations and ivory located
myself many times that I've worked with hundreds and hundreds of people
relocating so I want to make this as easy as possible for you and helping you
pick the area first like I said you have to like the area for a lot of people
this is going to be the most challenging and time-consuming but the most
important decision you can make so let's go over the different areas and I'll
explain the areas and the lifestyles to you okay so let's go through all the
different areas and let me tell you a little bit about him I'm on my website
right now and the reason why I'm using this map on my website is because it's
an older Google's map in the newer Google's and
bigs Maps just are not good for this stuff right here you can't see all the
highways and everything so I wanted to use something that would really be easy
for everyone to see and I'm gonna go through this fast if you have any
questions let me know but I it is gonna probably be a little long because I just
want to do you justice if you're taking the time to look at this right now so
we're gonna start off and really if you break break a couple things down and
just look at them you're gonna get into probably 50% of the areas if not more or
older more mature areas and 50% or newer of course the newer areas so I don't
need to repeat it in every area are gonna have a lot more community features
once you start getting into homes built in the 90s that's when the volume
builders took over that's when they started putting in HOAs and doing pools
and tennis courts and all different types of amenities some communities are
just more amenity rich than others so let's just start off we'll start off
self and I'm again I'm gonna go real quick okay so and I have with all these
on my YouTube channel and if you click these links right here they're all
clickable with the home searches and everything you can watch a more
elaborate video if you will all right so let's start off in Sun City Center Sun
City Center is a great area if you want to 55 and older community that's what
they're about they basically say if you can't find something to do everyday in
Sun City Center you're either not alive or you're not trying because there is a
gazillion things to do in Sun City Center it's a little older area started
being built in the 60s through the 70s the 80s the 90s they're actually still
building some new single-family homes and Sun City Center right now so and
then there's some other other 55 and older areas in over here and white mama
and my mom is just a newer development it's just now starting to take off with
communities so we'll go north Apollo Beach or Palm Beach if you want to live
on the water or mirror the water Palm Beach is a great choice because it's not
nearly as expensive for water for Holmes's South Tampa in st. Petersburg
it was basically an old I guess fishing or you know water community and then all
the Sun in the boom of the early 2000s they started exploding with a lot of big
subdivisions in these mansions out there they're doing one of the largest
developments in all of the United States right now I think it is the largest it's
called water set it's a gorgeous community right next to
the i-75 but it's a really good choice if you like the water river view yes you
see the dot where the dot is in river view right here this is north river view
this is primarily older built in the 80s and 90s all the new development the new
homes are taking place in south river view right here again new hose means a
lot of community a lot of amenities and when you see a lot of these newer homes
you're going to be seen a lot more kids you're going to see a lot of kids in
homes built where they have community pools and different amenities because
that's where the children tend to hang out then you will in some other older
areas so a lot a lot a lot of new development going on in Riverview new
homes you get a lot of bang for your buck certainly more bang for your buck
and some of the other newer areas like New Tampa Wesley Chapel certainly a heck
of a lot more than West chase so you have a lot of bang for your buck there
fish Hawk is actually in Olivia I just put fish hawk because no one knows Lydia
everybody just knows fish hawk it's actually a master plan community they
started counting fish hawk when it was built in the early 2000s the main part
of fish hawk is if you have a family you need to move to fish hawk because it's
such a family-friendly community it is gorgeous they have a community schools
there they're all a rated they have miles and miles of walking trails they
have a center stage area with a couple little restaurant ice cream shops where
they do music and in festivals every Saturday and Sunday of course it just
depends that to the main area there's that's the original then you have phase
2 phase 3 phase four phase five so you know if
that looks interesting and you're looking at buying a home there just let
me know we could talk but it's a really nice area branded as an older area
branding was primarily built in the 70s and 80s though there are some new
developments and newer developments in Brandon as well for this whole corridor
right here Smart's Riverview Apollo Beach FishHawk Valrico Seffner all these
areas Brandon is the nucleus it has all the shoppings all the restaurants the
movie theaters has just just dozens and dozens and dozens of restaurants and
shops and everything you can imagine in Brandon so a lot of times when people
live in FishHawk if they're going out to dinner or shop and they're going to
brand and you live in Riverview there's restaurants in Riverview but everything
is in Brandon so anyhow it's a it's a nice area can tends to be pretty
congested I mean there's some areas that aren't very nice whatsoever and and and
there's some areas that are you could go to my website that I'm showing this on
Tampa to enjoy and you know there's crime reports and everything else that
you could look up this stuff with but Valerie Coe is I don't want to say it's
an upscale Brandon but overall it might be a little bit more expensive than
Brandon and it is out there a little ways so if you're in Mallory go it does
get pretty congested getting over to the 75 but like Brandon pretty much
developed in the 70s and 80s I mean some in the 90s as well but overall that's
when I just develop Channelside was it is a nice area if you sort of like the
the lofts in and I don't want to I guess I shouldn't say the yuppie type of
lifestyle but I guess that's what it would be they originally started pretty
much everything in Channelside is newer in the 2000 it really started as a place
where they're gonna put the lofts and the condos and then do all the boutiques
and restaurants below that never happened but there's it their change in
this whole place right now is in the process and the works and the talks of
getting redeveloped so they're going to be putting all that stuff in there but
if you really like that type of lifestyle and you're right in the
downtown area channel site is a good place South Tampa is the nucleus that's
where homes were built in the teens in the 40s that they're doing a lot of tear
downs and building there because it's the nucleus of the city it's just north
of MacDill Air Force Base one thing I'll say about FishHawk if you do live in
FishHawk they have actually a commute a bus that will take you to McNeil and if
you live in these other areas Riverview Apollo Beach if you drive north and 75
where my mouse is right here it'll take you on a toll way that will go through
downtown Tampa into South PAMP and drop you on Gandy right above McGill so
anyhow this is the nucleus right here of course it gets pretty congested because
the streets are smaller etc if you go north the Carrollwood Carroll was an
older area primarily built in the 70s and 80s but upscale you have to figure
when most homes are built in the 70s and 80s most of them were smaller people
didn't require big homes they were three bedrooms two bathrooms three bedrooms
one bathroom and they were and they were smaller like 1,300 1115 16 1700 square
feet and that's what temple terraces but not Cara what's a temple terrace were
University of South Florida and where this dot is is where the VA hospital is
our smaller older homes where Carroll wood has more back then they were
considered almost mansions because they were 2,000 2,500 3,000 square feet which
were huge back then a very nice area of course you're not having the community
pools there is the Golf & Country Club right there but Carroll wood is a very
nice area it's right on Dale Mabry which it runs north to south which has
everything right there they have all the restaurants the automobile dealers
everything comedy clubs everything you can want right on Dale Mabry and you can
see it's right next to the airport which is very convenient north of Carroll wood
is north Dale so like Carroll woods a little brother
say little brother because it's built about the same time period but just not
as big a homes overall so not as nice as Carol would
would be you go over to the west and Citrus Park Citrus Park is where the
mall is so you again you have homes built primarily in the 80s in Citrus
Park there are some homes built in the 90s and it's it's convenient again if
you citrus park is convenient to the airport yet this is a toll way where my
mouse is it's veterans it is a toll way to expressway but your
it'll drop you in to South Tampa to the airport it's very convenient some some
communities in there a lot of a lot of real small communities in there again
it's an older area not West chase West Chase has a lot of money
West Chase is really really nice it's a great area it's very pricey not pricey
like South Tampa because South Campus the nucleus but West Chase has a lot of
young well-off professionals a lot of executives people who want to get to the
need to get to the airport a little sooner that want a really nice newer
community not not all the communities are really amenity rich but they all
have access to the pool and the tennis courts and playgrounds and stuff but a
very nice area convenient to South Tampa convenient to the airport
very nice Odessa if you want a rural area but you want to be in the city of
deaths as a place to go someone says hey I have about if I have 400,000 or I have
four million dollars and want to buy a home and more of a rural area and you
can see they have a ton of lakes but Odessa is going to be the place there's
not a lot of grocery stores there's not a lot of there's no strip centers
there's you know not a lot of gas stations it's more of a rural area it
horse ranches etc a lot of mansions etc load says what Lutz is real interesting
because Lutz part of Lutz is in Pasco County Pasco County has a little lower
property taxes about 1.6 percent most of its in Hillsborough County Hillsborough
County's property taxes as an average of about
point one percent Oh some of Lutz is newer built in the 2000s and in the late
90s some of Lutz is older it's rural area and built in the 80s in the 70 so
Lutz is really really diverse on what you're gonna get very convenient on dale
mabry because you have all the stores shops everything is on dale mabry right
here and then you go north of Lutz to Land O'Lakes Land O'Lakes is primarily a
newer area most Land O'Lakes is where my mouse is you could see on the 54 a lot
of new developments right here so if a lot of times people will work in and
sell Tampa and they'll want a newer community they'll go to Land O'Lakes and
even some areas like Ivy Lakes right where my mouse is in Odessa right here
there's a big massive development right here called Bexley and you know it's a
big big development right there and the other part of Land O'Lakes is off the 54
which is a little older-looking there's a lot of new development north I'm sorry
dock the 41 North off the 41 right here but the south part is a little bit older
and then what a lot of development going on in Wesley Chapel a lot of new homes
and then you go over to let me just talk about before I get into Wesley Chapel
talk about new Tampa this is pretty much two more communities so new Tampa is
called new Tampa is primarily built in the 90s and the 2000s are still building
there right now but it's almost landlocked but new Tampa is very well
off a lot of money in New Tampa not as expensive as west chase but very
well-to-do very good area a lot of new homes a lot of diversity as far as just
everything a lot of golf courses and right below the this red dot right here
is flatwood Park so if you like off-road bike riding on road bike riding
rollerblading walky miles and miles and miles of trails really close to USF and
the VA hospital and then the Wesley Chapel started hospice like new campus a
little brother because if you couldn't afford to live in New Tampa then you
bought a smaller cheaper home in Wesley Chapel but not
anymore Wesley Chapel is one of the fastest growing communities in the
entire nation there they're very well-off very they're starting to get
really pricey because everything is moving into New Tampa they have the
Wiregrass shops at where grass mall that went in
several years ago they just opened this the Cypress Creek outlet malls which is
going to be supposed to be one of the biggest malls in all of Florida you know
Raymond James Stadium is corporate headquarters is moving in there hotels
are moving in there the ice ring is there everybody wants to
be in Wesley Chapel right now they're doing they're gonna be doing a whole
Sports Complex they're looking at bringing a major
league team like a double-a major league team in there there's all kinds of raw
land for development for years and years and years to come so very very nice area
I mean Florida Hospital is in there and just getting bigger and bigger and
bigger the first the first Crystal lagoon in the entire United States
Epperson ranch just went in Wesley Chapel actually there's another one
actually going into my momma down here so that's going to be the second one as
of right now they're just breaking ground so here's this is an overview if
you have any questions whatsoever and you're looking at moving here I don't do
rentals so I can't really help you there but if you're looking at buying a home
or if you just have questions if you have rental questions give me a call as
well but if you have any questions about the area worked with hundreds and
hundreds of people who are relocating and relocating myself I know what you
guys are going through I've been there done that many times which is why I
decided to do this so just let me know what questions you have and I hope to
hear from you and I have a lot of really good helpful videos this video series
this is just one of my eight on buying a home and it's really for people who were
you know looking because when I was in Dallas Texas that's all I did was
corporate real low in personal relocations and people didn't have a lot
of time I need to have show people how to be very efficient how
to fight in the home of their dreams and how to have a really fun and good
experience through the whole process so if I can help you do that let me know
and I wish you the best of luck thank you very much
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