3500 Areca St

Site & surroundings

Physical conditions that affect value and rarely appear on a listing.

• FEMA flood zone AE — special flood hazard area

  1% annual chance flood (100-year), with a published base flood elevation. Insurance mandatory with a federally backed loan. Flood insurance will be required for a federally backed mortgage, which is a permanent cost on any resale and can exceed the payment on a low-value parcel. Base flood elevation 9 ft — compare it to the parcel's own elevation.

• Tamiami Trail961 ft from parcel centre

  Constant road noise from an arterial route. Frontage cuts residential appeal and can raise commercial appeal; which one depends on zoning.

• Fort Myers Division0.2 mi from parcel centre

  Active freight track. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.

• Seminole Gulf Railway0.2 mi from parcel centre

  Active freight track. Noise, vibration and horn use at crossings — check where the nearest crossing is before assuming quiet.

• Industrial land (9 nearby)0.2 mi from parcel centre

  Truck traffic and operating hours are the usual complaint.

• Cooper Substation0.4 mi from parcel centre

  Transformer hum, and a persistent resale objection whatever the engineering says.

Context

• Water body (4 nearby)374 ft from parcel centre

  Frontage or flood exposure depending on elevation and zone — read this next to the FEMA signal, not on its own.

• Lake Amsterdam0.2 mi from parcel centre

  Frontage or flood exposure depending on elevation and zone — read this next to the FEMA signal, not on its own.

• Elevation 3 ft

  Ground elevation at the parcel. Compare with the FEMA base flood elevation where one is published.

• 9% of homes vacant year-round in Census Tract 103.01

  225 of 2,486 units vacant year-round, around or below the national tract average. A further 474 unit(s) are vacant seasonally — second homes rather than distress — so a headline vacancy rate quoted elsewhere for this tract will read 28%.

• Tract median home value $282,100

  Self-reported median across the whole tract — context for whether a number is plausible, not a comparable and never a bid input.

© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Flood zones from FEMA, elevation from USGS, tract statistics from the US Census. Proximity is measured from the parcel’s recorded location, which for most parcels is an assessor centroid rather than a boundary — treat these as figures to verify on a site visit, not as survey distances.