Jupiter Farms: Backyard chickens

Jupiter Farms means freedom...freedom from restrictive HOA covenants and the freedom to do as you please.  People move here primarily for this reason and for the large home sites.

One of the things you can do here is own backyard chickens.  With the current sustainability craze, owning chickens is quite the in thing to do.  If you own them, you will learn about their laying habits.

One of which is they lay best when the weather is great, just like it has been this weekend.  Once the really hot weather of the summer is upon us, the number of eggs laid daily will really drop off. Here's a sample of what I picked up yesterday.

Unless you have tried the real cage free eggs you haven't really tasted how good an egg can be.  And those from backyard chickens are much lower in cholesterol than those from industrial production farms and you can supplement their diet with flax to boost Omega 3 in your diet.

If Jupiter Farms sounds like the kind of place you would like to live and are thinking of moving here, let me show you the best deals and locations.  Since this is a 16 square mile area, there are plenty of things to know before you buy.  I have lived here for the last 15 years and can be reached at 561-762-4073.

Pileated woodpecker in my Jupiter Farms yard

One of the reasons people like to live in Jupiter Farms is because we have so much wildlife here. This Pileated Woodpecker was making noise in my front yard so I grabbed the camera and shot this.

 

If you are looking for a home in Jupiter Farms, use a Farms agent. I have lived here 15 years and can show you the best locations. And with sales and prices both going up, the best deals will go quickly. You can search Jupiter Farms homes for sale yourself at Coastal Florida Real Estate or for personal service call me directly at 561-762-4073.

Just Sold in Jupiter Farms

Jupiter Farms is a very large are and we always have plenty of homes on the market.  This one just sold after over 600 days on the market.

It is a 3 bedroom, 2 baths home with about 1,700 square feet of living space and no pool.

Jupiter Farms home

If you are looking at homes in Jupiter Farms, let me show you the best locations.  Unlike many agents I have lived here 12 years.  Contact me, Richard Sites, at 561-762-4073 or send me an email.

Jupiter Farms: It could be the flooring, right?

OK, the house is ready to sell...or so you think. You learned all about staging from HGTV and your agent. 
And you have some great pictures.  But what about the flooring?



Yes, they make a big difference! Thinking of selling or having trouble selling? Let's talk. Usually just a 1% improvement in your value proposition will get you the successful sale you need to move forward with your life. Give me a call at 561-762-4073.

Junk mail on the Internet. Got a phone?

Several years ago when the Internet was "introduced" real estate agents began to migrate to websites to display their listings and comb the web for buyers.  In fact, there is now every conceivable opportunity to look at homes on the web, now called Web 2.0.  But here is my challenge:  Are you really any better off?

 
In the "old days" real estate listings were published in a book each week and buyers had to pour over pages for small print to find possible houses.

Then the Internet allowed us all to see things quickly and easily anytime, anywhere.  But consider what it has also brought us:  clutter!

How has email made things simpler?  Does your Inbox have too much stuff each day?  Do you spend some time every day adding people to your blocked senders list and deleting things?  Of course you do.  Email has now suffered the same fate snail mail did, that is "junk mail".  In fact your first task when going to your mailbox is to stop at your recycling and throw most of the stuff out.

How about your home phone...if you still have one?  Many people don't even answer the phone any more since it is plagued by robo-calls that are not policed by the DNC list.  They just let the phone go to the answering machine (if they still have one) and sort out what messages they want to hear at a later time.

So based on these two things, why would a buyer prowl the Internet signing up on every website only to have the results be lots of information they don't want?  All the information comes from the same MLS database.  IT IS ALL THE SAME INFORMATION.

Every website, whether it be personal, corporate, Realtor.com, Homes.com, Zillow, Trulia and on and on...are all providing the same information.  The ONLY difference is the display format and some companies are spending a fortune to try and display it attractively.  So what do I suggest?  Stop searching for houses and instead search for an agent.

A great agent has tools and software that are better than anything offered on the web.  A great agent knows the market, both geographically and financially.  A great agent knows how to communicate and I don't mean tweeting.

Now here is the really crazy idea:  If you are really serious about buying, how about calling someone?  I know this is a radical idea but you can test their effective with a simple call.  If you don't get a return call within say an hour or two, just move on to another agent.  Hey, getting an automated email response to signing on to a website telling you how important you are is not communication.

Just have a real, old-fashioned phone conversation with someone and see what you think.  Every agent would rather have a conversation with a truthful buyer than waste time chasing Internet leads around or calling them every day.  So tell the agent exactly where you stand in terms of your purchase.  Then let them send you appropriate listings.  The irony is that you may not be able to reach someone, even though everyone has a phone everywhere.  So if you can't reach them on the phone you can cull them off your list.

Let's face it, given a chance everyone pushes the "0" button to speak with a Customer Service Representative so do the same when looking for a home.

OK, give me a test.  Looking for a home in this area?  Call me, Richard Sites, at 561-762-4073, and see how I do.  I have lived in Jupiter for 22 years, I know the area and I know how to answer my phone.  And as the commercials say, "No salesman will call".

Jupiter Farms $ 70,000 reduction

Now here's a great deal!

This Jupiter Farms home features 2,349 feet of living space with 4 bedrooms, 3 baths and a pool.  It is the highly desirable CBS construction and like all homes for sale in Jupiter Farms the lot is 1.25 acres.

Jupiter Farms is a large area of semi-rural homes located about 10 minutes west of the Town of Jupiter.  But, and this is a big but, you are still only about 15 minutes from the ocean.   This home is perfect for family living.

Maybe this is not the right Farms home for you.  Well, we have 148 homes on the market in our western communities ranging to near $ 10,000,000. Contact me, Richard Sites 561-762-4073 or by email, and we can find you the perfect spot.  Unlike many agents I have lived in the Farms for 12 years and can show you the best locations.

Jupiter Farms sold on Sept. 17

Jupiter Farms, the famous equestrian area, is located about 10 minutes west of the Town of Jupiter.  Here residents are unfettered by restrictive HOA covenants and enjoy the freedom this brings with it.  I moved from Tequesta out here about 12 years ago and love my 1.5 acres.

This house just sold here in the Farms after about 9 months on the market.  It is a 3/2.5 with about 2,000 square feet under air and was a short sale.  It sold for $ 232,000 and does not have a pool.

Since Jupiter Farms and our western communities are such large areas, there are always plenty of properties on the market. Right now they range in price up to nearly $ 10,000,000 for an estate in Ranch Colony.

You might consider Jupiter Farms homes for sale if you like an individual styled home with plenty of room.  You will certainly know your neighbors since there is a strong sense of community here and will probably never go the the local Publix without running into several people you know.

To see all Jupiter Farms homes for sale or more information on this area, contact Richard Sites at 561-762-4073 or by email.  Unlike most agents I have lived here 12 years, lived in Jupiter for 22 years and grew up in South Florida.  I can show you the best location for the lifestyle you want to enjoy.

Sonoma Isles: Jupiter Farms gets new DiVosta homes

Jupiter Farms, a semi-rural area west of the Town of Jupiter, is slated to get around 300 new DiVosta homes soon.  Just west of the Florida Turnpike is a parcel of land where cows once grazed. WCI, a builder casualty of the boom gone bust period here, owned the land and sold it to Toll Brothers and the Jupiter Country Club was built.  Except that there wasn't quite enough room on the south side of Indiantown Road for everything they wanted or needed to build so they bought a key hole shaped parcel on the north side to build the clubhouse and three golf holes.  The surrounding land remained fallow.  Enter DiVosta.

Several decades ago Buzz DiVosta started his company, Berg and DiVosta and began building condos using a repetitive formula.   This area is peppered with DiVosta condos.  Then they began building houses using a similar formula.  No variations were allowed to the floor plan, only the upgrades.  You couldn't even change colors on the exterior.  If you wanted your house yellow, you had to buy the one they offered in yellow since no changes were allowed.

A couple of years back, Pulte homes paid a reported $140 million for DiVosta.  They are currently building Windsor Park in Abacoa, Jupiter.  And now the company plans to build around the parcel Toll Brothers owns.  It is called Sonoma Isles.

Jupiter Farms residents have long protected their idyllic lifestyle on large home sites and the threat of more building is always met with an uneasy feeling.  While it is true that Riverbend Park provides a buffer for the Farms from too much development, the Farms residents can always feel the pressure of developers breathing down their necks.

Heck, you move to the Farms to get away from people...like they did in the TV show "Green Acres".

Homes in Jupiter Farms are built on 1.25 acres or more where you can ride horses or have a big garden.  You can see all Jupiter Farms homes for sale at Coastal Florida Real Estate or if you need some guidance, I have lived here for 25 years and can show you the best locations.  You can contact me at 561-762-4073.

Jupiter Farms, Landowners Family Day 2012

Jupiter Farms provides a great quality of life.  There is plenty of room to own and ride a horse, a community park, wildlife and song birds everywhere and something in short supply these days, peace and quiet.

People move to homes in Jupiter Farms to escape the zero lot line communities built during the real estate boom here in the early 2000's.  Here in Jupiter Farms we like to say hi to our neighbors, but from a distance not by bumping into them in the driveway.

Each year the water control district hosts a Landowners Family Day where there is music, bar-b-que, a petting zoo and more.  Take a look at the fun we had this year.




If you are considering moving here, you can see all Jupiter Farms homes for sale by visiting me at Coastal Florida Real Estate.  Here, every home and every picture is provided in real time.  No other site has any more or more current data, its all here.  If you need a little guidance, I have lived in the Farms 12 years!

Time to trim the trees

Jupiter Farms is a great place to live!  We have no restrictive HOA rules, plenty of room to ride and quarter horses or backyard chickens (try that in Abacoa!), plenty of wildlife and lots of trees.  Although the hurricanes of 2004, Frances and Jean, took down hundreds if not thousands of trees, we still have plenty and since the power wires on not buried out here, the trees have to be trimmed periodically.

So one of the largest companies that handles clearing for utility lines has been working in the Farms.  Today, I watched from my home office as they trimmed the pines that line the front of my house.

Jupiter Farms tree trimming

This crew was very efficient and stopped, did their work and were gone in probably under 30 minutes.  I watched in amazement as the trimmer maneuvered his bucket between the power lines to get to my trees.

Richard Sites

If you are looking for a home here in the Farms, I have lived here 12 years and can show you the best locations and some great values.  You can reach me at 561-762-4073 or if you prefer email use coastalflrealestate@gmail.com.  If you would like to search yourself, the fastest MLS search available can be found at Coastal Florida Real Estate.

Freedom and Privacy in Jupiter Farms

"Hungryland" Trail Day set for Saturday

One of the really great things about living in Jupiter Farms is the access to so much undeveloped land and recreational areas.  Of course, the best known is Riverbend Park but that's not all there is.  Recently Cypress Creek was opened and although not completed, will eventually connect Riverbend with Hungryland to the west.

I don't know how the John C. and Mariana Jones Hungryland Wildlife and  Environmental Area got it's name but it is 16,645 acres of some of the highest quality, undisturbed pine flatwoods remaining in South Florida.  You can hike, camp or bike along the Old Jupiter-Indiantown Road, hunt for deer, hog and other small game and fish.  This Saturday, NETA, the Northeast Everglades Trails Association, is sponsoring Hungryland Trail Day.

The organization will be hosting this event for hikers, bikers and equestrians to help encourage the public to come enjoy our great outdoors.  The event is open to the public and is free and there will be burgers and dogs on the grill at noon.  Enter the park at Gate 9.  How do you get to gate 9?

Indiantown Road west from Jupiter until you reach the flashing light at Mellen.  For those of you using GPS devices, the machine may call this 125th.  Turn right, (north if you are using GPS) and go about a mile until you see Old Indiantown Road.  Make a left and continue until you hit the big yellow gate.  This is gate 9.  Park outside the gate and then hike or bike down Old Indiantown Road into the Park.

Looking at homes for sale in Jupiter Farms?  We enjoy a lifestyle unlike any other in this area and yet we are still only 15 minutes from the ocean. Let me show you the best values and opportunities.  Unlike many agents I live in the Farms.  Contact me at 561-762-4073 or rsites@bellsouth.net.

Richard Sites, Realtor

Jupiter Farms parade, craft sale and Christmas tree sale

I have lived in Jupiter Farms for 11 years.  Although I was raised in South Florida, the "cracker" and "conch" lifestyles I grew up with have given way to suburbia.  Many of us relocated from Miami to get away from the sprawl.

When I moved to Jupiter 21 years ago, it was still a very small town in more ways than one.  But slowly the secret got out and people moved into the newly built homes in the country clubs.  Right down the street from where I live, grazing cattle were replaced by the Jupiter County Club, a Toll Brothers community.  We used to have citrus trees in nearly every backyard, but the State cut 66,000 of them down. But Jupiter Farms is the undiscovered jewel left in the northern Palm Beach area.  Even though I live on the western side of the Farms, I am only 15 minutes from our fabulous beaches.

One of the big attractions to life in the Farms is the fact that there is a strong community spirit fostered by the Jupiter Farms Residents association.  This group is dedicated to preserving the great lifestyle we enjoy out here.

Each holiday season, they host a craft sale, Christmas tree sale and Farms parade. This year the fun begins Sunday Dec. 4 at 9:30 at our new community center.  The Christmas tree sale is going on Saturday and Sunday and all proceeds go to the JFR Scholarship fund.  The craft sale is Sunday AM and the parade begins at 1:30 and travels along Sandy Run Road, one of our major paved roads.

In the parade, you will see many Farms theme floats made locally in folks back yards.  And there is plenty of hay, horses and wagons and the like.  For your chance to get a feel of what the Jupiter Farms lifestyle is all about, be sure to come out on Sunday.

If this looks like a great place to live, I can show you all Jupiter Farms homes for sale listed by all brokers.  Contact me at 561-762-4073 or rsites@bellsouth.net.

Richard Sites, Realtor

Jupiter Farms, it's time for bonfires!!

Few things make it seem more like fall than the smell of burning leaves.  Here in Jupiter Farms, where we don't have any choking HOA restrictions we can enjoy a great fire in the backyard.  And there's nothing like a big bonfire on a cool, fall night.

Homes in Jupiter Farms sit on lots of 1.25 acres and more so there are no neighbors to complain about your fire.  In fact, my neighbor to the east builds much bigger fires on cold nights than I do.  My neighbor on the west likes to burn leaves so you can often smell his fires during the afternoon.

With bonfire season upon us, we now start watching for people cutting down dead trees and moving them to the street for pickup.  We mostly see pine trees at the street but they burn very quickly.  If I stumble upon an oak tree cut up and at the street I almost always bring this wood home.  It burn slowly so the fire doesn't need as much tending.

And since there are HOA rules, you can have any wildlife here you might like such as chickens, ducks, geese, horses or goats...and we have them in Jupiter Farms.

Looking at homes for sale in Jupiter Farms?  Unlike many Realtors, I have lived in the Farms for 11 years and can show you the best values and locations and homes listed for sale by all brokers.  Contact me, Richard Sites, at rsites@bellsouth.net or on Skype at rsites or 561-762-4073.

Richard Sites, Realtor

Jupiter Farms homes, the cavendish banana adds a tropical touch

Homes in Jupiter Farms are sometimes lacking a tropical touch.  Sure we have lots of land.  The properties here are 1.25 acres or more but mostly pines and palmettos.  One way to add a quick, tropical touch is to add the dwarf, Cavendish banana.

Cavenish banana

This smaller cousin of the taller, commercial species is a great addition to the landscapes.  True enough, it produces edible bananas.  But the real attraction is the quick habit of growing large, tropical leaves.  And since it doesn't require much space is perfect close to the house.

Bananas in Jupiter Farms



This clump is growing near my Jupiter Farms home.  So how do you get a clump started?  Well, check the local big box stores during the summer.  Or support your local, small nursery.  If they don't have them, they can get them.  Plant and water....that's it!

Looking at Jupiter Farms homes for sale?  Unlike many Realtors, I have lived in the Farms for 11 years and can show you the best values and opportunities.  Contact me to find out whether Jupiter Farms might be right for you or on Skype at rsites.  Of course you can text or call at 561-762-4073.

Richard Sites, Realtor