10  Country  Acres - For  Sale by Private Owners in Alva, Florida

June  2009

This is an ideal piece of land on which to build a country estate and live.  It's far enough away from the bustle of the coast to be peaceful and secluded, but an easy zip into Ft. Myers for the conveniences of the big city.  Here's a closer map with the property location pointed out.  Alva is the black dot with the '1' in it :

Highlights:

• This piece is a whole 10 acres, a full  330 x 1320 feet of property, not  9.999.... acres.  10 acres is the minimum size property to build on out here (without seeking special zoning changes).
• Quiet and isolated, yet just ¼ mile from a major highway (S.R. 80 / Palm Beach Blvd.) with a straight, fast shot into Ft. Myers.
• Nearest neighbors would be close (within about 500 feet), but not in view.
• Mostly natural woods, including live oaks, cabbage (sabal) palms, scattered large slash pines & scrub oaks.  Approximately 1 acre near the center is cleared of heavy growth – an excellent building site.
• Existing 28 x 96-foot shade cloth greenhouse, 28 x 20-foot area of it under rain-proof galvanized tin for storage.
• There is an existing well with good, clean water that's completely separate from the one on our adjoining property.  A brand new (Feb. 2007) pump is already installed and useable on it.
• The area is served by all the major cellular phone companies.
• Fast broadband DSL Internet service is available via the phone lines in this area.
• Electricity is already installed and running in the greenhouse on its own separately-billed power meter.
• A driveway easement exists across the property to the north for access to S.R. 80 / Palm Beach Blvd.   Access right now is via our easement which runs parallel to the easement described above, and would be yours to use as long as needed.
• Quality, country-style elementary and middle school, convenience store, U.S. post office, and boat launch to the scenic Caloosahatchee River only 3 minutes away.
• The property is zoned agricultural, so horses, chickens, gardens, etc. are fine.  You may have an agriculturally-oriented business here such as a plant nursery, specialty crop farm, home hobby pet / livestock breeding, etc.
• There are no swamps or wetlands on the property that might interfere with developing it for your use.
• Visually secluded by plenty of native flora.  This property (and our 10 acres) is like an island of natural beauty in a sea of pastures, citrus groves and totally cleared land.
• No deed restrictions or clauses concerning future use / development of this land exist.
• A major electric power line easement borders the south end of the land, so no one will ever build too close back there.
• Great neighbors (us) !  We're self-employed, do-it-yourself kinds of people who get along well with virtually everyone.

PHOTOS

This 2005 aerial photo below shows the region around Alva, Florida spanning about 4 miles west to east.  The Lee - Hendry County line  is the vertical pink line.  The horizontal red line in the middle is State Road 80, a.k.a. Palm Beach Blvd.  The wavy dark blue streak is the Caloosahatchee River (that runs between the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Okeechobee).  'Downtown' Alva is to the left of the picture where a road crosses the river (more-or-less in the white circle).  The  yellow rectangle  shows what was our former whole 20-acres.  In this photo, the left half of that (outlined in blue) is the 10 acres we've split off for sale.

In the aerial photo below, the yellow rectangle outlines our former 20-acre piece.  The thin red rectangle within it is the western 10 acres split off for sale.  The pink line is the Lee / Hendry County line, Lee Co. being to the right (east).  The faded green rectangle near the middle of the 10 acres for sale outlines where the greenhouse is situated; the well is at the south end of the greenhouse.  The inset letter  A  shows where the landscape view in Photo A (further below) was taken (arrow points to direction of view); the inset letter  B  represents Photo B's landscape view (also further below).

PHOTO  VIEW  'A' :   View of the partial clearing and adjacent woods on the southern half of the property.  The terrain is palmetto, scattered pines, and scrub oak.  The soil is sandy and well-drained; it never has standing water, even after a heavy rain.  Photo taken from point  A  on the close-up map above.

PHOTO  VIEW  'B' :   This is a view taken just behind the greenhouse looking north (point  B  on the close-up map above).  This is the dense palm and oak woods that Alva is famous for.  Even bigger, thicker 'bearded' oaks occur in numbers on the northernmost third of the property.  This is what it looks like uncleared.  We've simply never removed all the undergrowth as some neighbors have done.

Some neighbors have chosen to clear the area under their oaks and palms like.... THIS.