Premier Garage Condos: Quality, Community, and Investment with Dave Anthony

Premier Garage Condos: Quality, Community, and Investment with Dave Anthony

Premier Garage Condos Near The Villages: Dave Anthony on Climate-Controlled, Secure Storage and Hobby Space

In Season eight of Villages Vitality Life: Seniors Life Unscripted, host Mike Roth interviews developer Dave Anthony, who began developing communities in the early 1980s in Punta Gorda and later designed higher-quality garage condos after seeing early, lower-ceiling, smaller models. Anthony explains why he expanded near The Villages after customers requested it, and details features of Premier Garage Condos, including mini-split climate control, R-30 roof insulation, insulated Clopay doors with hurricane bars, block-and-rebar structural walls, 18-foot ceilings for mezzanines, 100-amp service with multiple outlets, high-bay LED lighting, phone-enabled access, gated entry, cameras, and common restrooms (with optional bath prep where sewer is available). He notes strict HOA rules for personal use only, discusses unit sizes (starting 24x52), lift and mezzanine coordination, sales progress on the 37-unit Leesburg project, and provides his contact information and website.

00:00 Season 8 Kickoff
00:42 Meet Developer Dave
01:13 Why Garage Condos
01:46 Design Upgrades That Matter
02:39 Why Build Near The Villages
03:06 Climate Control And Insulation
04:06 Storm Ready Construction
05:09 Bathrooms And HOA Costs
06:57 Leesburg Site And Expansion
07:50 Unit Sizes And Mezzanines
09:23 Car Lifts And Buildouts
10:29 Standard Features And Smart Access
11:35 Security Cameras And Restrooms
13:07 Alzheimers Tip Break
14:07 Condo Ownership Vs Renting
15:13 HOA Rules And Private Use
16:24 Branding And Project Phases
18:09 Sales Update And Timeline
19:16 Fencing Lighting And No Windows
20:14 Hobbies Washing And Door Specs
22:57 Cooling Performance And Humidity
24:19 Resale Value And Flood Elevation
25:27 How To Contact Dave
27:03 More Than Storage Lifestyle
27:57 Wrap Up And Supporters

Season 8 Introduction

Transcript

Premier Garage Condos: Quality, Community, and Investment

with Dave Anthony

Premier Garage Condos Near The Villages: Dave Anthony on Climate-Controlled, Secure Storage and Hobby Space

 [00:00:05] Dolores: Welcome to Season eight of Villages Vitality Life, Seniors Life Unscripted. Our podcast used to be called Open Forum in The Villages, Florida. In this new season, we talk to leaders of clubs and interesting folks who live in and around The Villages. We also talk to people who have information vital to seniors.

You will get perspectives of what is happening in and around The Villages, Florida. In addition, in this new season, we will add more information for all seniors. 

We are a 

[00:00:35] Dolores: Supported podcast.

[00:00:37] Mike Roth: This is Mike Roth on Villages Vitality, Senior Life Unscripted. I'm here today with Dave Anthony.

Thanks for joining me, Dave. 

[00:00:45] Dave Anthony ai: Mike, thanks for having me, 

[00:00:46] Mike Roth: Dave, you're a developer. How long have you been a developer? 

[00:00:50] Dave Anthony ai: I actually started developing back in the early eighties. 

[00:00:53] Mike Roth: Tell us a little bit about your background. 

[00:00:56] Dave Anthony ai: I started in the, early eighties, developing manufactured home communities in Punta Goda, and I did that for several years.

I developed three communities and then I retired from that, had a consulting business and built, an RV community and also a gated community there in Punta Goda. 

[00:01:13] Mike Roth: Why don't you tell us a little bit about why you decided to get into the business of building garage condos? 

[00:01:21] Dave Anthony ai: Because I needed one and I was able to go look at one that was being built in our town. Some friends of mine had bought one. This is about. Oh, at least eight years ago now, and went over to it.

And I liked the concept. I just didn't like the structure that they were building, didn't like the quality of it and felt like I could design it a little bit better. And I listened to those gentlemen that had bought in there and things that they wished were different. 

[00:01:46] Mike Roth: Could you give our listeners a little bit of an idea of what you saw and what you didn't like?

[00:01:51] Dave Anthony ai: That was in the beginning of the industry and they were building them with lower ceilings. They did not use. LED lighting or high bay lighting. The ceilings were only 16 feet high, so if you wanted to build a mezzanine or a second level, you couldn't do it. And actually, they were too small.

They were 18, 20 feet wide, which, in today's world you need at least 24, 25 feet wide to have two vehicles in there. So I just started researching it and spent time going around the state of Florida looking at other developments of what they did. I learned more from what I didn't want to do than by what I wanted to do.

And then I sat down with my architect and my engineer that I had used in the manufactured home business. And we designed what we have today. 

[00:02:34] Mike Roth: So today you're building condo garages. Here in The Villages area. 

[00:02:38] Dave Anthony ai: That's correct. 

[00:02:39] Mike Roth: Next question's gotta be why The Villages area? 

[00:02:42] Dave Anthony ai: Some of my customers moved here for the lifestyle of The Villages.

So we were in Punta Goda and I built the first complex and some of those folks that bought from me actually moved up here. And about four years ago, they called me up and said, Dave we think you ought to come up here and take a. I look at the area and think about building up here because we don't have the product that you have up here for us, and we'd like for you to come up and meet with us.

So I did. 

[00:03:06] Mike Roth: Now let's talk a little bit about some of the features that are in your garage condos. First of all, are they all season air conditioned. 

[00:03:14] Dave Anthony ai: Yes. We use a mini Splish system, which can be for air conditioning, heating you can just put it on a dry mode if you want, but it really, it's more efficient to run it in the AC setting.

So they are climate controlled and that's probably one of the most important factors. 

[00:03:29] Mike Roth: Now, here in Florida, people are worried about the heat getting into there. Garages in their houses. 

And so they put relatively speaking and effective insulation on the garage doors. 

[00:03:41] Dave Anthony ai: That's true. 

[00:03:42] Mike Roth: What do you do?

[00:03:43] Dave Anthony ai: We, that's one of the things that I noticed most of these places use a metal rollup door. If they did, they use a standard garage door. We upgraded that quite a bit. Start off with, we use R 30 insulation in a roof and the garage doors are Clopay doors. It's the best insulated door that they make.

So that was one of the major factors that I looked at that we use standard in our product. 

[00:04:06] Mike Roth: Do you have hurricane bars on your garage doors? 

[00:04:08] Dave Anthony ai: Oh, absolutely. And the way I build these units here, I build 'em the same way that we did in Punta Goda. The way I build these is each unit within a building is its own building.

They're completely footed all the way around. They have a, what they call a bond beam, which is like a tie beam halfway up, and then a tie beam at the top of course, but also my dividing walls. Between my units are concrete, structural walls, and the unit is completely footed. So it is a building within a building.

[00:04:38] Mike Roth: So when you say concrete structured wall, does that mean it's got concrete, poured concrete with rebar in it, or does that mean. Cement block. 

[00:04:46] Dave Anthony ai: It's cement block with rebar. So on the perimeter walls every two feet, you've got rebar going up and it goes to a, what they call a bond beam, where it's tied with steel and goes around the dividing walls have steel rebar going up every four feet.

And then at 11 feet there's a row of steel going completely around the building again at 18. So those are structural walls on top of a 30 inch footer. 

[00:05:08] Mike Roth: And, let's. Talk about bathroom facilities, what do you build into each unit? 

[00:05:13] Dave Anthony ai: It depends on the location and it varies. If we have a location that we're on a septic tank system, then obviously we don't have bathrooms within the units.

We have nice common restrooms and we always locate them to where it's very convenient for the customer, either depending on the size of the project. Some of ours have. One common restroom in the center has a men's room and separate ladies' room. So the ladies have their own. If the project is a little bit bigger, we'll have two or three sets of bathrooms, so they don't they're very convenient for 'em.

If we have a location where we're on sewer, we will offer some of the buildings to be prepped. For a bathroom and a person can add a bathroom. But we still do the common bathroom because in Punta Goda all but one of my first project was on septic tank. The rest of 'em were on sewer. And actually I've only, out of 200 units that I've done in Punta Goda, I've only had four people outta half a bathroom.

They find it, the common restrooms are convenient enough to them and they don't lose storage space. 

[00:06:12] Mike Roth: That's interesting perspective. 

[00:06:14] Dave Anthony ai: Yeah. 

[00:06:14] Mike Roth: I would've. Thought that a common bathroom adds a maintenance cost. That the girls 

[00:06:20] Dave Anthony ai: minor, very minor. It's in, in the HOA docks. The lady comes, we have a cleaning service come once a week to clean the restrooms and sanitize them.

And then what happens is each, complex has its own HOA and there's five directors. And so you have a cleaning service come once a week for that, for the maintenance of the lawns and everything. And we find that it really is very inexpensive. The maintenance fees for the one we're building here in Punta Goda, the total HOA fees, including the insurance on the complex, and again, security cameras, gated entry, many of those items is $124 a month.

So it's very reasonable. 

[00:06:57] Mike Roth: Now you're building, in construction phase now for a unit in Leesburg, correct? 

[00:07:04] Dave Anthony ai: Yeah, the address is Leesburg, but we're actually located very close to The Villages. We're exactly two miles east of the new Walmart on highway 44, so just two miles east of there on the right hand side.

So it's very convenient to The Villages. 

[00:07:17] Mike Roth: The right hand side, that means the south side. 

[00:07:20] Dave Anthony ai: That's correct. As you're heading from 

[00:07:22] Mike Roth: The Villages 

[00:07:22] Dave Anthony ai: towards, from The Villages, from Walmart towards Leesburg, two miles down on your right. 

[00:07:27] Mike Roth: Now, is that one on septic or is it 

[00:07:29] Dave Anthony ai: That's on septic. Okay. Now we've just acquired two other locations because we are anticipating expanding, and matter of fact, we just put up the signs this week.

Both of those will have sewer available to 'em. Some of the buildings will be prepped where people can add a a toilet if they like, or a half a bathroom and some will not. 

[00:07:50] Mike Roth: And how large are the units that you're building? 

[00:07:52] Dave Anthony ai: Our units start, and again, this is over research and building for the years.

Our units start at 24 feet wide by 52 feet deep and go up from there. The location we're at right now, all of the units are 52 feet deep. Okay, but we have 24 wide, 30, 32, or 34 depending on what the customer needs. Now , in the next complex that we're gonna do we will, again, we'll start at that size, but we'll also have some units that are deeper. We'll have some that are 60 feet deep for people that have some very large stuff, but we've found that 52 feet will accommodate 90% of what people need. 

[00:08:33] Mike Roth: What about building a second story inside this garage condo? 

[00:08:36] Dave Anthony ai: Yes. That's one of the things that I would say probably about 70% of the people do.

That's why we went to an 18 foot ceiling clearance so that when you build a mezzanine, you can have nine feet clearance on the bottom and eight on the top, or however really you, wherever you want to build it for the division in the height. But yes, and the other thing that I do is I come out 12 foot from the rear wall and I put a.

30 inch by 30 inch isolated footer so that if person's building a mezzanine, then they have a footer to put the post on in the middle. Now you can span the 24 foot without a post, the 30 foot, you should have a post, but you can, you could span it with a very large beam. But most of the people do not.

They put a post in the center there. 

But yeah, they build a mezzanine for. For many purposes, 

[00:09:23] Mike Roth: Do people put lifts into these garage condos? 

[00:09:27] Dave Anthony ai: Yes. Yes. 

[00:09:27] Mike Roth: Which, what type of lifts? 

[00:09:29] Dave Anthony ai: Most of them, not too many guys do the two post lift anymore. I would say 99%. It's a four post lift because they have those trays on 'em with the jacks that they can raise them.

The four posts are much more easy to maneuver. 'cause the new ones they have now, you don't even have to bolt 'em down. They have a dolly thing on 'em, and you and they just raise up. And actually two people can just move that lift anywhere they want within the unit. So 90% of the people. Do a four post lift that handles a single car.

They, even, a couple of the guys have what we call double wide lifts, where you have two cars side by side, and again, it's a four post lift that goes up. Now that one, they normally bolt down because it's too big to maneuver around. 

[00:10:08] Mike Roth: And installing the lift is. Something that you would do for the condo owner?

[00:10:14] Dave Anthony ai: We don't do it, but we assist them the same way. If they want a mezzanine, okay, we have a framer that does it, and we help them coordinate to get it done. 

[00:10:23] Mike Roth: Okay. For the first owner? 

[00:10:25] Dave Anthony ai: Yes. Yes. We assist the owner with that. We don't do it ourselves. Our units come. I can tell you what, they come with standard.

They come with a mini split system. They come with a hundred amp service. We do 13 double electrical outlets around the side of it so people can plug stuff in without running extension cords all over the place. We have two ceiling fans that help circulate the air. They come with high bay, LED lighting that's made just for this type of structure.

Our garage doors are, like I said, all Clopay. They're all of course, have open operators, but they're commercial. We don't use a standard opener. It's a commercial rated opener, which is 30% stronger than a standard. All of the things that we sell are adaptable to your phone.

The man doors are all keyless entry to your phone, your air conditioner, your garage door, all that stuff can be operated from your telephone remotely. 

 Of course you know the, there's a keypad on the man door. The garage door has a keypad outside of it. You also get a button open or like you do for your regular house. And that you get the the opener will have two buttons on it.

One operates the gated entry 'cause it's a gated entry. And the other button will open your garage door. 

[00:11:34] Mike Roth: Okay. 

[00:11:34] Dave Anthony ai: Okay. 

[00:11:35] Mike Roth: And on the common restrooms, are those doors locked? 

[00:11:39] Dave Anthony ai: We used to lock 'em, but we changed because of because of ladies brought it to my attention. We used what I guess you'd see at an airport or a commercial place where the, you go up to the door and it'll say open or used on it.

So when a lady goes inside the door, she can turn around like a deadbolt and throw the lever and it says occupied. That way if a lady or somebody's in there using the restroom and you're in a cubicle, you nobody open, can open the door and come in. 

Since the area is gated and everything and we have security cameras we've switched over from the key.

Now first one we did a keypad, but it was actually the ladies that recommended to me to go to a different type system. 

[00:12:16] Mike Roth: So you say you have cameras? 

Where. Is the recording made from, for these cameras? Where does it go? 

[00:12:22] Dave Anthony ai: Where we do the common restrooms, we have a maintenance room, and inside that maintenance room is a control system for the cameras.

We also have bay. We bring the service into the complex, and then we have repeaters throughout the complex. So every unit has bay to it, which is included in the HOA fees. So all of that equipment is in a locked room in store room inside the men's room.

And the fellows or ladies too, we have ladies and fellows that are directors each community, he has a five director board, and they have access to that too. To monitor it. Every owner can have access to the cameras. So in other words if you own a unit in there, you have that app on your phone, you can see every camera that is being operated at any time.

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[00:14:02] Mike Roth: Thank you, Dr. Curtis for that Alzheimer's tip and information. This is Mike Roth. I'm back with Dave Anthony now, Dave, in your, building of these garage condos. 

What made you make the decision to make them condos as opposed to just rental garages? 

[00:14:20] Dave Anthony ai: Because it's an investment and, fellows that I talked to that were renting in buildings, most of those buildings were not built to the quality of what we're building. And the other thing is they couldn't modify it, they the way that they wanted. So if a gentleman's renting a building, if he could build a mezzanine, he would invest all that money and never own it.

So this is a tangible piece of property that you can sell you own and you can go inside and design it to fit your personal needs. We've been doing this now for seven years, and Punta Goda, we've just finished our fifth complex in Punta Goda, and they're under such demand that we don't even have a resale available if it comes available.

It's usually gone within two to three days, and that's usually because somebody within that. Community wants another unit or a friend wants a unit. So it's a very good investment rather than just renting and not getting any return on your money. 

[00:15:13] Mike Roth ai5: There is another community or offsite garage rental space .

Here in The Villages area near Brownwood . In that development they have allowed some commercial businesses to come in golf cart repair shops and they have golf carts all over the place . What are the restrictions in your community? 

[00:15:34] Dave Anthony ai: It's in the HOA documents.

It's very clear that these are for private personal use only. That's what we call a flex base business, where people can either use it for personal or for business. So ours is very clear in the HOA documents. This is for private use. Only no commercial businesses, not even storing of business stuff.

So in other words one of my good friends in Punta Goda is a plumber and he owns a unit. But he cannot store his plumbing supplies in there. No, this is strictly personal stuff. The point is to not have, my friend is a plumber, he's got employees. 

So he sends one of his employees over to get something out so then you lose control of who's coming and going. So the concept is there's nothing wrong with that, but it needs to be separate.

And I've found that's really important to my buyer, that this is for personal, private use only. 

[00:16:24] Mike Roth: So the property that you're building. In Leesburg what is the exact name of it that someone would say? 

[00:16:29] Dave Anthony ai: It's called Premier Garage Condos. 

[00:16:32] Mike Roth: Premier Garage Condos. Is that gonna be the same name for the units in Wildwood?

[00:16:36] Dave Anthony ai: What we're doing is we've, since we've expanded to keep it simple, we've got it. We've branded ourselves. If you go to us on the website, it's Florida Premier Garage Condos. So then it would be Premier Garage Condos, Wildwood Premier Garage Condos, Sumterville. Premier Garage Condos, Leesburg. 

[00:16:56] Mike Roth: The condos that you're building in Leesburg, how many units actually are there?

[00:17:01] Dave Anthony ai: There's 37 units. I built it in two phases. And the reason for that is, not to save money. It's for two reasons. One is when you build a complex and you've got six buildings. The county or the city wants you to complete all six buildings before you can sell any of them. So what we're doing we're building the first four buildings .

Which will be completed end of May, early June. And those folks can move in the second. Two buildings, the last two buildings, we have already done the site work.

We're gonna start building those buildings in mid to late April. So the reason we did that is we could complete the first four buildings. Those folks can move in while we're building the other two. But the other factor is, I found out is by what people want in the first four buildings, tells me what sizes I need to have in the other two buildings.

So if my sales are leaning more towards a 30 wide or a 34 wide. Then we make the mix stronger towards those size units. 

[00:18:02] Mike Roth: I see. 

[00:18:02] Dave Anthony ai: So we let the customer tell us what they want and then we try to build the best we can to what their demands are. 

[00:18:09] Mike Roth: Good. And our listeners are listening to this in April of 26 at the earliest.

What, but right now, in March, what percentage of the 37 units have actually been sold? 

[00:18:21] Dave Anthony ai: The first phase is 24 units. 

We only have one left. 

[00:18:25] Mike Roth: You only have one left. 

[00:18:26] Dave Anthony ai: One left outta 24. Wow. A lot of folks were looked at us and once the buildings went up and they could feel 'em and touch 'em then they could see the product I was building.

The other thing is they wanted to make sure we were real gonna build. And a few of the people, about seven of 'em actually, I invited 'em to come down to Punta Gordon and see what we built. And that helped him tremendously. But now that the buildings are up and 95% completed the last two months, the sales have gone very strong.

We just released taking reservations in the second phase, which is 13 units, and we have already sold three of those. 

[00:19:00] Mike Roth: Wow. The asphalt work is done. 

[00:19:01] Dave Anthony ai: The asphalt goes down. The end of March, early April, the asphalt will be down and the garage doors are on, the buildings are painted. We're just finishing up the trim work, and then we get the asphalt down.

Then we can do the landscaping and everything that we need to do. 

[00:19:16] Mike Roth: How tall is the fence that goes around the place? 

[00:19:18] Dave Anthony ai: It's a six foot black fence. We have lighting on the front of the buildings with landscaping.

It's very attractive. They go on our website, but over each. Garage door, bay door up above, there's light that comes down a cone shape and a very soft color lighting that's on every night. So the whole place is lit up every night, not bright white to where it's abusive, but a very soft lighting. So it's lit up very nicely and it has the cameras, so it makes a really good appearance.

Every building has a camera pointed directly at it. And we also have cameras pointed at entryway so nobody can get in and out or go get around any building without being on camera.

And of course we put a lot of signs up to let people know that there are cameras. 

 It's these buildings don't have any windows in 'em for a couple of reasons.

Number one we built these to withstand heavy storms. We don't even if they are hurricane rated windows, we didn't want that. And also reduce any areas for people. To access the buildings. 

[00:20:14] Mike Roth: In your condo agreements with the owners, are there any other restrictions that are different in your world than other garage condos?

[00:20:22] Dave Anthony ai: The main thing is that these are for personal use. I give you an example. I have two gentlemen that are buying it that were had woodworking shops in their basements up north, so they're making him woodworking shops.

I got a a gentleman that bought one for himself and he bought one for his wife, and his wife does pottery and flowers, so they're doing their hobbies in those rooms. I have another gentleman that bought one in Ponag Gorda. And also up here, the gentleman up here who's putting a pickleball court inside his and a golf simulator.

[00:20:52] Mike Roth: Okay. 

[00:20:53] Dave Anthony ai: Okay. So it's a great variety. And then I have people that just store R RV in a boat, strictly storage. We have the car guys, so it's a variety. 

[00:21:02] Mike Roth: Let's something, I wanted to wash my car. Could I do it in the garage? 

[00:21:06] Dave Anthony ai: No, you do it right in the front.

We put a water spigot out front of each unit. We do not have drains within the units.

 We designed ours so we have minimum 80 feet driveways between the buildings. . And that's huge because then you've got a big turning radius if you've got a trailer or even a car trailer behind your thing. So the 80 feet between the buildings is very important for turning radus but also then if I'm out front washing my vehicle and you're. Want to go by me to get down to your unit. You still got another 60 foot of clearance to go around. Okay. So you wash the unit out front, then you put it away inside. 

[00:21:42] Mike Roth: . Let's talk about the garage doors themselves. You said you have hurricane bars on there.

Do you have insulation on the garage door? Hurricane bars? 

[00:21:50] Dave Anthony ai: The h the garage door is insulated. They come out. It's, it, it's two and. Almost three inches thick. 

So the installation is part of the garage door, then the hurricane bars are on the inside. And to give you an example, the rating up here, your hurricane bar is a two inch, ours is four inch.

So I and our man doors are solid too. They're not hollowed doors, they're solid doors. And I can't tell you the exact material, but it's not a steel door. A gentleman asked me one time, how come it's not a steel door? Steel rust in Florida. So the door that we use is it's a type of composite door.

There may they're very expensive, but it'll last forever. It won't rot. 

So there's no wood rot. And there's no rust rot. 

[00:22:25] Mike Roth: So you don't have anything like a little office or. A little study room inside. 

[00:22:30] Dave Anthony ai: Some guys have done that. I have, like when they build their mezzanine, I'm gonna put a living, they put a couch up there and they have color tv, they have refrigerator, some guys, I know. 

[00:22:39] Mike Roth ai5: Some people build man caves at him.

 If a guy buys one of these, is he allowed to work on his own vehicle? There 

[00:22:46] Dave Anthony ai: you can work on your vehicle, inside you're on your lift, you wanna change the oil and that's part of it.

These guys that have cars, you know that they work on them. I have one. So yeah, I work on my vehicle in there, but no, no painting. 

[00:22:57] Mike Roth: Now how strong are the the cooling units that you've put in? You said they're the. split units. How many BTUs of cooling are you putting in? 

[00:23:05] Dave Anthony ai: It's a two ton unit, and this wasn't designed by me, it was designed by the the type, the engineer that does that in Punta Gorda.

And that's the reason for the two ceiling fans is that the idea is that if you set the thermostat, most people set it at either 78 or 80. I set mine at 78. And we put in two commercial rated ceiling fans. They're steel fans. And we have reostats on 'em. You leave them on a low setting and that circulates the air through the building.

And like I say, we've done over 200 of these units and not had one issue with any of them. My electric bill averages just under $60 a month, year round. 

They're very efficient. 

[00:23:42] Mike Roth: So is there any outside air. Put into the 

[00:23:46] Dave Anthony ai: no 

[00:23:47] Mike Roth: units. 

[00:23:48] Dave Anthony ai: No. 

[00:23:48] Mike Roth: By your heating air conditioning system? 

[00:23:49] Dave Anthony ai: No.

[00:23:50] Mike Roth: So it's a sealed system. 

[00:23:51] Dave Anthony ai: It's a sealed system. That is correct. 

 The idea is you want the humidity out of there and we've, it's called floor to power and light down where we live. We did our first complex, we did it, we had 'em come out and do a study for us. 

And, we wanted to see, like I say, this is our seventh project, so we've taken a lot of time to.

Make sure that the things we're using are proper. And like I say we've done over 200 of these units in less than seven years, and we're using the exact same electrical air conditioning system that, that we use from day one. 

[00:24:18] Mike Roth: Okay. Can you talk Dave a, a moment about resell ability of these units?

People are buying 'em as, yep, as in quotation marks, condos. Therefore treat it as an asset. We know about all the problems with condos in South Florida. What have you done here to make the units resalable? 

[00:24:35] Dave Anthony ai: The quality of the way we build them. It's like buying a house in a neighborhood, the neighborhood creates a value.

So the way we design our community, number one with the wide boulevards and then the way the structure is made. It's not a steel building. It's a block building. It's gonna last long time. So that creates value and the HOA with the restrictions and the guidelines creates value.

[00:24:58] Mike Roth: What about the waterproofness of the garage door? How far above the floodplain are you? 

[00:25:03] Dave Anthony ai: Each piece of property's different. Some of the properties are in a floodplain, some are in a eight foot or nine foot, whatever the floodplain is. We're always at least a foot and a half above whatever the minimum requirement is.

But again, some properties are in an eight foot flood elevation, some are in a nine, some aren't in it. They're in what you call an X zone, which is basically no flood zone, so that varies according to the location. 

[00:25:27] Mike Roth: Okay. Now what you haven't told our listeners, Dave, is how to get ahold of you.

[00:25:31] Dave Anthony ai: If you go to the, internet and you google up, Florida. Premier Garage condos. You're gonna come up and you're gonna see our homepage, which is gonna show you the locations of projects in Punta Goda, Inglewood, and the ones I'm working on up here.

And it'll give you a lot of great information. And then there's a form you can fill out for us to send you more information. And I want to tell people we are an open book. We have people all the time. That come to us and one information. And Carol, who's my assistant, has a nice package. She sends out, you don't have to give us a deposit.

You don't see anything. We'll send you all the HOA documents, all the cost factors, every piece of paper you need. We feel like we're an information giver. This is a product that that people purchase it if they want it. And if they don't want it, it doesn't fit into their lifestyle.

That's fine. 

[00:26:23] Mike Roth: And what is there an email address for you? 

[00:26:25] Dave Anthony ai: Absolutely. You can contact me personally directly and that, and a lot of people do. Every person that's ever bought from me in my life, whether it was one of my manufactured homes or this business, I give out my personal email and my personal cell phone number, 

[00:26:39] Mike Roth: which is, 

[00:26:39] Dave Anthony ai: and my email is my last name, Anthony0429@gmail.com.

My phone number is area code 9 4 1 6 2 8 2 0 7 3. And I can tell you if I don't answer it's 'cause I'm on the phone. But I can promise you I never go to bed at night without returning my phone calls. 

[00:27:02] Mike Roth: Good Dave. Is there anything else that you wanted to tell our listeners?

That I failed to ask you? 

[00:27:08] Dave Anthony ai: Yeah. I what I learned in this business, which surprised me, and again, I got into business because I wanted a place to store start off with storing my fifth wheel and my boat. But what I found out was I really wasn't in the storage business. Okay, this is, you become a lifestyle.

'cause what happens is you now got association with guys that have like interest where you might live in a neighborhood where you have cars in your garage, but your neighbors don't. So this is a place where guys get together that have common interests and I've got a whole circle of new friends and it's, and we get together, like we'll go to the go down there and Bob will invite me over to come look at what he's doing to his cars.

And then we'll sit there and have a beer. I go down there and watch the football games. It's more than just a garage condo. It really is. You become a lifestyle and you meet a whole circle of new people. 

[00:27:56] Mike Roth: Great. Thanks a lot for being with us, Dave. 

[00:27:58] Dave Anthony ai: Thank you.

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