Best place to live or vacation in the FL Keys?
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- This video will give you many insights into the different areas of the Florida Keys in which to vacation or purchase a home based on your needs. It can be confusing to find your place in the Keys, we can help you decide!
Mark and Laurie are real estate Advisors with Engel & Völkers here in Marathon, FL. We can help you sell or purchase a home in the Florida Keys. Call/Text or email Mark Gable 770-561-6091, markgable@me.com
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Thank you, great information. Laurie, has the body of a fit 20 something, way to go!
A little surgery helped. Kinda sad thats all you got from video though.
The beauty is in the boat!
Could not agree more, green is my new fav color!
If ever I needed help in buying a home or renting short term, I would look into working with you guys in a heartbeat. I love your honesty and I appreciate your helping people with your work. Thank you guys!
Awesome! Thank you Henry!
@@GablesOnTheGo Especially since they are from Atlanta. I appreciate Georgians. Speaking from Augusta.
I am able to pay much closer attention and to comprehend things so much clearer when Lori wears her bikini !!!
Helps stay focused 👌🏻
Love all the channels where the guys are in t-shirts and board shorts and the women in 10 square inches of clothes. 😂
Loser comment
You will be the first people I call if I win Powerball! I love all of the Keys but after staying in Marathon 18 times in 20 years, Marathon holds a special place in my heart!
Come on Powerball!! Thank you!
We drove from Islamarada to Key West and I would have to say Marathon was our favorite and we would go back there in a minute. Sooo beautiful. Love you guys.
Thank you so much Vickie!
I just took the family for another FL Keys vacation. Had a great time in Islamorada, and Key West. Had a fantastic time in Key Largo! I still love it all though. I haven't found a bad key yet! I'm in my 50's with older kids. Being from Colorado, the Keys have become out favorite vacation destination.
That is awesome! We agree, anywhere in the Keys can be fantastic!
My wife and I visited for the first time last May and stayed on Duck Key at Hawk's Cay Resort - best three days of our Florida vacation (we drove down from Tampa through the everglades). The locals were SO friendly! Highlight was renting a pontoon boat in Marathon and headed out of the shore of Curry Hammock state park. We dropped anchor and just enjoyed the amazing view and clear water. A little rain came through briefly, so we ended up having the entire sandbar to ourselves. Would LOVE to own/rent a home down there one day. You guys are living the dream!
So glad you had a great trip down here! You are correct, the locals are so friendly. It makes it feel like home as soon as you arrive 😀
I lived/camped 17 miles north of Key West on a canal that turned out to be a nudist hangout. Back when I was hitch hiking around the country as a kid. Stayed about 6 months before heading west. Loved every minute.
Keys life must be great for your health! I would have never thought you folks were in your 50”s! My wife and I were going to drive to Key West not realizing how far of a drive it actually was. We made it to Marathon when we decided to turn around and head back. Wish we had pushed the rest of the way!
i watch / listen to these while i work. always like your videos.
Awesome, thank you!
We’re going to be at Bahia Honda in August, very excited it’s my first trip to the keys!!!
Be sure to get out on a boat on the water so you can see everything from the ocean perspective 😉
Christy and I grew up in South Florida and have been coming to the Keys since I was a kid. 29 years ago I had an job opportunity to move to Pennsylvania were we raised our two girls and now they are grown. We knew we would return to Florida at some point so we started our journey to purchase a home in the Lower Keys two years ago. We watched one of your earlier videos about Little Torch and knew this was a place that we should consider. We ended up purchasing a home there and its been a lot of fun. We've learned a lot about how to be patient and sometimes not so patient with contractors. We went through 3 electricians, 3 plumbers and are now on our 3rd window contractor. Thankfully we have a great property manager that has been able to do some of the work or coordinate the right people for the job. We love exploring different restaurants and have weeded out the ones that are purely for tourist with fun atmosphere but quality of food is not so good with a high price for what you get...all part of the journey. We equally have had fun exploring the waterways for snorkeling and fishing. The abundance of sea life has opened my eyes to a whole other world. There have been times when we have had schools of colorful fish swim right along with us - almost excepting our visit as one of their own. I'm always thankful of your videos as it explores areas of the Keys that I haven't seen before but look forward to checking out.
Thank you for all your postings and your channel.
Pat and Christy - Little Torch Living
Welcome to Little Torch! Just curious, why you didn't call us to help you find your home here. Any feedback very much helps us in our business.
Another great video guys. The weather up here in Lighthouse Cove, Ontario is finally warming up, plus the walleye are biting in Lake St. Clair Mark. Be safe and keep kicking out the informative vids.
Thank you so much!
I have lived most of my life living in key largo before moving to Hawaii and Japan. But key largo has become too busy and no longer feels like the keys at all. There is zero local feel left and the traffic is horrible. If I moved back to the keys I would go to Marathon or south to live again. Islamarada and Key largo would be horrible to live in.
i have followed you guys for about 3 years. Took a trip alone back in February. my goal is to live there when i retire . Ill be looking for an RV lot ! love you guys !!!!
When the Post Card Inn was Holiday Isle, it was a SERIOUS party location for sure! My liver can attest to that fact.....
Bartenders weekend!
Good ol days!
I lived in Tavenier Key at the Ocean Pointe for almost one year it was nice.
I was just thinking about you guys and hadn’t seen any new videos lately? YT wasn’t recommending them? Then! Here you are!
Awesome! Thanks for watching...we've been busy and have not put out that many videos lately but we are trying to get better!!!
From a 30 year husband wife real estate team in California just wanted to say nice job on this video. I didn’t know much at all about Florida Keys but feel like I do now. 😊
Love this video and how you promoting the keys. I personally prefer the lower keys as I am able to actually get away from the main land and fishing is fire! Keep it up!
Thanks so much for watching!
Your new dreams are more in tune with mine! keep us informed. I do not fish, but I do eat fish all week when I am in
Key West!
Will do!!
I am moving down to the Keys but I don't have anywhere near the money to live anywhere in the Keys. I am a musician and a chef so I am going to have to make some friends or find a boat to live on or something.
We live in Little Torch. Absolutely love Big Pine being a country girl. Love Marathon! There is something for everyone in the Florida Keys! Great video you guys! 😊👍
I must say I must choose key west to go for vacations although spent tons of time at Cheeca but both are great.
Key west has so many good eateries and if you want to be on the water or not there is stuff to do, however the drive gets old. Overall middle keys would be where I hang my hat one day.
It amazes me the Prices of "Cinder Block Shacks" in the Keys. Anything on the water (that is barely livable) $1MM+. Would have been nice to hear you throw around some real numbers with some examples (pics). Thanks... good presentation.
Have a home on Ramrod for twenty plus years. Love it. It’s the best. Great people.
We agree!
Knowing nothing about the Keys...after watching your video I now know about them. Thanks
Happy to help!
Great video! Thanks for all the info!
Thank you and you are welcome!
Excellent video. Two more years in education and here we come...
You have a lot to look forward to!
Went to Marathon for years for lobster season. If it’s too rough outside,
you can go inside & do a lot. Love lower keys but you have to read the water & pay attention to the tides.
Good point Randy
We LOVE the Keys! Alli is originally from Stone Mountain Georgia. We are moving her mom down first of July and will miss RVing back there to Stone Mountain but we will always go back to the north Georgia mountains as we LOVE that area too!
We love North Georgia too, the mountains are a beautiful contrast to the Keys and we appreciate both!
@@GablesOnTheGo for sure! I think our plan is Helen or somewhere close again for Christmas vacation this year. 😁
Great overview. Love the use of maps to highlight what you're talking about.
Glad you like them!
Grew up in Coconut Grove and moved to Key Largo for 18 years. Loved it. It’s all good. Unfortunately, KL and Islamorada, the North keys are really expensive. The lower keys are more family friendly and more affordable.
Your information is spot on! We have a condo in Marathon where we spend our winters. Until we totally retire it really works for us, but Once we decide to move to the Keys full time, we will buy in either Islamorada or Duck Key.
Thank you!
Your video made me nostalgic! Fell in love with my hubby in Marathon in 2002 and then
married him in Cudjoe 2004. We are excited about returning thus year for our 20th !😍
That is awesome! thanks for watching!!
Bought my place on Summerland 5 years ago and I dont regret buying in the lower Keys a bit. Best place to live for sure.
We LOVE staying in Marathon!! Centrally located, has alot to offer for our family, more "reasonable" prices for accommodations, and an easy drive either direction to see the rest of the Keys. Can't wait to vacation again there soon!! Love your channel!!
Thanks for sharing!!
Great video.....Thanks for sharing all the information. Nice to see you guys back out on the boat too!
Thanks for watching! It was a super nice day to enjoy the boat!
Awesome video guys ! I comments on one of your previous video before recommending you guys do a video on vacation renting since most of us watching from different states would love to know the info. I been to the keys 5+ times and must said the middle keys is more relaxing and chill
Lav mics sound amazing, great vid as always
Wow little palm island resort is $3,000-$4,000 a night.
Empty lots on the water in big pine key are not too crazy price wise.
Careful with empty lots on Big Pine Key, not all are buildable. 😉
@@GablesOnTheGo I'm not in the market for property in the Keys but yeah same thing with off the grid property's I was looking at,
could be wet lands, flood zones, easement's, land locked, mineral rights, hard to get permits, minimum size/certain type of dwelling only allowed, all sorts of possible issues.
I have seen some intriguing land for sale though, like an island in the middle of Withlacoochee river but you could not build on it and could only get to it with a long boat ride🤷♂
Marathon is working class.
A military guy told me Key West Fla is the new Area-51 ... Island is highly protected
Useful info. Thanks for the inside scoop!
You are welcome!
Love your channel, the only suggestion I'd suggest you make if you care for it is to get a pilot house boat with a couple of beds so you can roll out on overnights.
Laurie and I tried the "liveaboard" life and it was not our thing at all. Pilothouses can get awfully hot and cramped for overnights down here....I guess we are fair weather boaters! Thanks for watching!
As always great video and very educational. We are planning a seven day vacation trip for next May in the Keys. Our two sons want to spend the whole time in Key West. Any advice from y'all will be appreciated. No hurry. Go Dawgs!
Give us a call any time, we'll be glad to help in any way we can. Mark Gable 770-561-6091 Coco Plum Real Estate
You both are fresh exciting to hear
It's real nice to know true real perspective ideas and opinions if what you know from experience
Is refreshing
When I buy in the keys I'll search you out even if it's not your listing. I want you both to get credit for bringing me to the keys. After all I've seen and followed you for almost 6 months already
Thank you for sharing real value.
Stay blessed
Duke R Peebles
Thanks so much for watching and all the kind words! We will definitely be happy to help you when you are ready!
Thanks for the insight, I actually stayed in Marathon for a week about six, seven years ago
You saw so Little of ALL of the beauty. Its a shame you stayed in one place if that was your first and only time there.
Thank you for the ride on the boat and the information! 👍
Our pleasure!
Great video🙌 Checkout Lower Matecumbe Key (tail end of Islamorada MM 76) Port Antigua - beautiful private Homeowners beach!
Thank you Armando, we will check it out!
Great video. I hope my family of 5 can take a vacation in the keys sometime soon. We would have to go to a place where we can access the beach because we have little ones that absolutely love that. We’re in our early 40 and have no interest in the party life nightlife we just want a quiet family oriented place for vacation. Great information thank you 🙏
You are welcome!
We love Coconut Palm Inn in Tavernier and have been to Key West a few times. We want to try Key Colony Beach or Marathon for our next visit. We are not boaters but would enjoy a 1/2 day boat trip out on the water.
You should definitely try to get out to the reef and do some snorkeling and fishing...that's where the water really turns amazing and most people fall in love with the Keys after seeing that water!
Loved the views! Just so spectacular! If/ when I need a vacation place I’ll definitely only call the Gables!
Thanks so much, what a nice thing to say! Give us a call any time.
Wonderfully informative video! How did you guys gain so much knowledge in the short time you have lived there. Amazing!!!!
We have been immersed in the lifestyle and people here for 3 years and you can learn a lot when you listen and meet new people 😉
Thought your video was amazing thought it was very informative absolutely love your down-to-earth and honest commentary great job
Wow, thank you!
Laurie looking good
Thank you James!
Awesome video. Very informative, and very cool 😎.
I live in Palm Beach Gardens, wanna eventually head down to the Keys to retire and live.
Thank you! Let us know when you are ready to head this way!
Do you guys do any SUP or kayaking etc. Forgive me if I missed the video. Love the videos, moving there soon and want to get an insider opinion of those activities
We have don't really have a comfortable kayak but want to get a SUP and play around with our friend's Hobie Cats that are pedal driven so that would be a fun video topic to do. Thanks for the suggestion!
Good video. Good info. And Lori, you look super.
Thank you!
I was stationed there in the 70s and got out in 81..I stayed for a few years and left. Back then it was different. Party time .Much later in life I moved to Homestead and was in the keys practically everyday for the next 8 years. The traffic and multitudes of people has ruined it. The best keys are from marathon to Sugarloaf.
Lived two blocks off Duval from 2009 to 2012. WOULD NEVER GO BACK AND WE CAN AFFORD IT.
Great video ! I kept looking to the port and starboard along with stern . Tim Nj.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just watched this video with my girl and it was an EXCELLENT video and very informative. We are staying in Plantation by the Sea and will one day be looking to purchase as a Snowbird. We have rented all over and will be heading down to Key West in Feb . Just trying to decide where we want to be. Thanks for the info and when we are ready we will be calling you guys :). PS The wind blocking microphones worked fine when you were running :) Thanks , Capt Andy Riptide Bait and Tackle NJ :)
Glad it was helpful! Thanks so much for watching and if there is anything Laurie and I can help you with, please give us a call. 770-561-6091 Mark Gable LLC, Coco Plum Real Estate, Marathon FL
Second time watching. Well done and helpful info along with a gorgeous backdrop🐬🌊☀️! Appreciate the breakdown/differences between primary/investment property’s locations.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you! Very informative and honest opinions! You guys are a cool couple, beautiful people and a beautiful place :)
We appreciate you 🥰
Laurie Laurie!! Amazing lady 🎉🎉
Much blessings to you. Great info🙏🙏
Spent a lot of time in marathon what lot of fun but spent a lot of time in key colony beach great place with a nine hole golf course which is a lot of fun.
Awesome!
Love watching you guys. My family and I are from South GA, close to Moultrie. We love to vacation in Marathon or Islamorada every July. I've made the mistake of talking up the Keys for too long to my wife's side of the family and now they ALL want to come down next summer with us. We were actually in Marathon last week! Anyway, I would love to talk to y'all about rentals large enough for everyone and in our budget if possible.
Enjoyed watching the video today!
Thank you Jim!
Also,as we get older,the lower keys have more water options.
You guys are the BEST. Thanks for another great video...
Our pleasure! and thanks so much for watching!
You guys are one of my favorite CZcams channels of all time because of the fact that it’s my dream to live in the keys! I’m very young, only 24 years old, I run my own business from home and have become quite successful with it. My plan is to move to the keys in a couple of years when my partner finishes college, to rent while looking for a forever home. My biggest question for you guys whenever you have the time, or maybe in a future video, is what are the best ways to have your finances in order to make the move? How difficult may it be to score a nice home in the keys for a FIRST TIME home buyer? Are there extra challenges for first time home buyers trying to buy in the keys? Of course with being so young, I’ve never OWNED a home, just rented. I’ve lived in Georgia my entire life as well, and would love to work with you guys in the future when the time is right for us to come down! (I’d be down there next week if I could 😅) thanks so much for sharing this information and sharing your life in the keys, Gables on the Go 🧡🧡🧡
Thank you Morgan! That is great that you are running your own business. I would probably talk to a few mortgage brokers who are local to our area now if you want to start preparing for that day when you are ready to buy. Educating yourself early and often if probably one of the most helpful things you can do to prepare. Our market is different from many other markets and it would be most beneficial to talk to people who are working with properties in this area, insurance agents included. If you would like some referrals please feel free to email or text us and we can forward that information. Mark Gable, Coco Plum Realty, Marathon, Florida, gablesonthego21@gmail.com or 770-561-6091.
I lived in key largo for 12 years, I went back recently and I tried to live there after living in the houston area for 10 years and I just couldn't do it. So different.
Thanks for sharing, I am sure some things have changed in 12 years.
Great business card...
Marathon has Sombrero Beach
Love your videos! What model boat do you guys have? Living in Ft. Lauderdale, but SERIOUSLY thinking i might want to move perm to lovwer keys and would definitly work with you guys!
Our boat is a 2006 ProKat 2360 center console. Give us a call any time if you need help with anything down here! 770-561-6091
Great video guys! Spot on, from our experience. Of course a lot of our opinions are from our time with you, so maybe a biased opinion;)
Thanks Ciaran!
I stayed at a boat friendly place in Little Torch Key. I like Big Torch Key the most.
The Torch Keys are very pretty and quite.
Thank you for the beautiful water views and for always sharing great information! The color of the water in the Keys is unforgettable. My favorite. Your dolphin call, called my dog over. Haha. We love Marathon. It has everything you need. My husband loves to fish around Big Pine Key area. As you mentioned, lots of back water fishing to explore. We stayed on Little Torch Key this year. Did a lot of fishing in some of the areas in your video today. I have a question, what is the Large barge near Picnic Island? Is it a floating restaurant? A floating Bar? Thanks again. Looking forward to your next video.
It's Capt. Jacks place, he lives there. We've never actually been to his place but it looks like folks are always up there hanging out with him and having cocktails....maybe one of our locals can give us some more information on what the story is there.
@@GablesOnTheGo Thank you
I was in the Florida Keys this morning on CZcams. I went to Grassy Key and Fat Deer Key
On my last trip to the Keys, we stayed in Marathon for two weeks for a base and after a week, my wife asked if I could live there. I told her they got Publix, Win Dixie, and KMart which is 100% of everything I need and 70% of everything I want. Needless to say, I had to make a trip up to the mall in Sunrise. Marathon has to be desolate now with KMart now closed?
Nope not at all, the K Mart was always horrible anyway...I don't think anyone around here misses it at all. Marathon still has most everyone someone might need on vacation.
The keys have always been for the UNDERWATER scene. Been going there for a long long time❤
Where do you get info besides restaurants and vacation rentals - What is the topography like? Access to walking, jogging, water entry?
I lived in the Lower Keys and Key West and worked in Marathon. I thought Marathon was a dump, honestly. Maybe great for fishing. But otherwise not great. I liked living in the Lower Keys. Loved where I lived on Ramrod Key, walking distance from Five Brothers, a Cuban cafe and market. But in the Lower Keys, most of the homes are vinyl-sided trailers hiked up on cement-block stilts. Not pretty. I was delighted to be able to move to Key West, to the historic district. The old Cuban neighborhood, actually, that is just off Truman Avenue. The island's very interesting. It's just too bad that it draws such a low class of tourists -- too many people who come down to get drunk and make fools of themselves. It makes it less attractive as a place that you might want to make your home.
General price levels would have been nice to discuss.
Yes, kind of difficult since prices are subject to change so often and this video may still be watched a year or two from now. But if you are interested we can set up a property search portal for you to see real time prices. Just reach out to us.
Laurie and Mark:
Love your vids! I have been looking for a pair of sunglasses like yours, Mark, for ages. Can you please tell me what brand they are and where I could purchase them?
Thank you kindly! 😁👍👌
The ones I have on in this video are Costa Del Mar Fantails with the glass Blue/Gray Mirror lenses. They are excellent glasses but they can get heavy after wearing them all day. I have another pair by Costa called Brine with copper polycarbonate lenses and they are my day to day glasses. I like the weight and the lenses are a bit lighter in color so I'm not taking them off and on constantly when lighting changes. The glass Blue mirror lenses do better offshore on very bright days, the copper lenses work for just about anything. One word of caution, the rubber nose piece and ear pieces on the Manta glasses deteriorates and gets gummy and falls off with time. I have had Costa replace these three times. I just ordered a pair of glasses from Bajio called Nippers....I'll be sure to do a review of them on the channel if I like them...
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I grew up on Big Pine key,..great memories
Big Pine is a very cool place!
The Sombrero Beach area like Sombrero Beach Road, Man 'O War Drive on Marathon is pretty nice.
Yes, we agree. That is a beautiful area!
I would have bought Thompson island connected to key west if money was no object for 10 million when it went for sale years ago.
We would have loved to bought property even just 4 years ago...
Broke Ass Teachers!!! I am still laughing. If it was not for you two I would not live in the most beautiful place for me, lower keys!! I absolutely love it down here, the people are so amazing and some amazingly strange. But eve day is a new adventure for me. Thanks to you and Lori being so descriptive and so honest about the surroundings I was able to make an educated decision on moving here. So I owe a lot to you two. It’s going on two years and absolutely zero regrets (except the No seeums). Thank you for being great Ambassadors for this wonderful and beautiful area.
Thank you Tom, we really appreciate your feedback and so glad we could help!
Great info! Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Keep the camera on Lorie,
Great Video! appreciate all the insights and in such a beautiful area.
Thank you Jason!
Nice video guys, love the Keys..Would love to collab with you one day next time I'm down.
That would be cool! I like your channel🌞
I want to live with you guys.😁🍹
New subscriber. Thanks for the information.
Thanks for the sub!
Thanks for the good information!
Our pleasure!
Great video, but guys put me on overload.
Why is that?