Showing posts with label Fiddler's Creek Homes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fiddler's Creek Homes. Show all posts

Thursday, October 25, 2007

Fiddler's Creek Homes for Sale with Smokers Living In Them

For those who do not smoke, the ashtray atmosphere of a Fiddler’s Creek smoker's home is one of the factors that will turn off a potential buyer to your home. A Google search of "cigarette odor removal" renders more than 255,000 Websites.

Fiddler’s Creek Homes with smokers. Ok, I am already uncomfortable bringing up the subject, but we really need to talk! Trying to sell your home, and you smoke it is a tough thing!

The most effectual short-term approach to the smoke-odor problem involves total repainting of walls and ceilings, complete replacement of carpets and draperies, and extensive cleanup of everything else.

There are hundreds of products and remedies that compete in the marketplace. If any of these products were successful, it would no longer be necessary for nonsmoking travelers to request nonsmoking rooms in hotels.


Finding the perfect remedy to cigarette odor is like the quest for the Holy Grail. Here are a few tried and true ideas to help remove the smoke odor from your Fiddler’s Creek home:


  • Clean those light bulbs. Light bulbs are a double-whammy when it comes to cigarette odor. First of all, they attract smoke. Secondly, each time you turn them on afterward, the heat releases odors from the smoke's residue.
  • Launder whatever you can. If an entire room smells like last year's bachelor party, you should wash or dry-clean everything possible in order to maximize cigarette odor removal
  • Set small bowls of vinegar, pine-scented cleaner or activated charcoal around the room
  • Try Vamoose 1808T Tobacco Odor fabric spray or Febreze Fabric Freshener.
  • Baking soda – an old standby for odor removal. Whether cleaning your carpet or smelly furniture baking soda is your friend. Sprinkle it over the smoke-infused area and let it sit for a few hours. Then whip out your trusty vacuum cleaner to suck up the soda, finishing the job.
  • Often overlooked is the interior of forced-air heating ducts. These can emit odors every time the heating or air conditioning is operated. Some kinds of air ducts can be cleaned, while others must be replaced.

Lastly, it is the simple passage of time. If you live in your Fiddler’s Creek home long enough, the cigarette odors will gradually but surely become a vague remembrance.

And that is something that a Fiddler’s Creek Buyer doesn’t want to do!

So when you are trying to sell your Fiddler’s Creek home, you need to do everything possible to eliminate the smell immediately!

Try some of these methods to get rid of the smell of smoke in your Fiddler’s Creek home. Fiddler’s Creek buyers right now have lots of choices to purchase a Fiddler’s Creek home. To get your Fiddler’s Creek Home Sold you will definitely need to make your Fiddler’s Creek home the most desirable.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

The Factors of Exposure on your Fiddler's Creek home...

If you do not already live in Fiddler's Creek you might not know about the importance of which direction your lanai faces.

The direction affects how your house will heat/cool during the day and affect the temperature of your Florida pool. With the hot Florida sun, it is a huge factor for many home buyers.

So what is the best exposure for your Fiddler's Creek home?

This is a highly personal choice. And it is entirely up to you. Here is a brief breakdown of the exposures and their pros and cons:

Northern Exposure

Northern exposure is the least preferred exposure. The pool decks tents to be shaded all day and the sun heats your home from the front all day long. However if the lanai goes out far enough there can be sunlight on the back of the lanai all day and the front on the lanai will stay cool.

Southern Exposure

Southern Exposure is the most popular exposure in Florida, which gives you sunlight on you pool deck all day long. Another benefit of southern exposure is that the sun never shines directly into your home always right across your lanai.

Eastern Exposure

Eastern exposure gives you sunlight on your deck until around 2:00pm afterwards your lanai cools down making it a great place to relax and possible even sit down for drinks. The negative of Eastern Exposure is that the sunlight comes directly into your home in the morning heating your home and causing glare.

Western Exposure

Western exposure gives you sunlight on you pool deck from around 2:00pm on. The downfall with western exposure homes is that the sun heats home around 5:00 when most are getting home for work or in Florida the Golf Course or Beach.

Homes do not always come in the exact direction, sometimes they will face South West, North East and will be a blend of these exposures. So when looking at Florida homes, the best thing to do is go to the home you are interested in at different times of the day. You very well could find that one exposure works much better for you than another.