The Pros And Cons Of Living In Avondale - Jacksonville FL | Is This The Best Neighborhood For You?

So you're thinking about moving to Jacksonville Florida but you're kind of interested in Avondale and you'd kind of like to know what's the good and the bad the pros and the cons the ying and the Yang well today we're going to cover that everything you want to know about Avondale good and bad Frozen conjing and yang we're going to get into that you're going to want to stick around to the end because we're getting after it right now if this is your first time to this Channel and you want to know everything about living in the Jacksonville area subscribe below and tap the bell for notifications so you can be the first first to learn about the current market conditions here in Jacksonville Florida my name is Jay wike and I'm a local real estate agent I get calls texts emails every day from people just like you that are looking for help moving to this area and I absolutely love it so whether you're moving in nine days or 90 days give me a call shoot me a text send me an email or even schedule a zoom call through the link below I'm happy to help you make a smooth move to Jacksonville so like I said today we're going to cover the pros and cons of living in the Avondale neighborhood of Jacksonville it's a fantastic architecturally Rich historically Rich area of Jacksonville it is fairly well established but you're going to see that it's probably worthwhile checking out if that's something that you'd like to have some of the history some of the great architecture beautiful homes in this area and green space and we're going to get started right now okay so let's get started with the pros and cons of living in Avondale so I'm going to get started with the cons here's one con which is going to be although Avondale is an amazing neighborhood and it's got beautiful architecture a beautiful historic area landmarks throughout the trees it does change a little bit once you get about a mile out you will notice a change it's not going to be quite as elegant or elaborate a neighborhood if you will there's a nearby neighborhood called Murray Hill which I'd recently just sold a home in but it's going to be evolving over time so some folks that live in Avondale if they were to sell their home and take the equity and then they wanted to move into Riverside and start all over again buy it buy at the Baseline and over time grab that Equity as the prices go up you could definitely do that with Murray Hill for example but just letting it's Avondale is mostly zoned a single family there are going to be some multi-families in here but not many it's not going to have a huge amount of rentals once you get outside of Avondale you have more access to more rentals but yeah it does change once you get outside of a certain range here in Avondale the way things appear the stylings architecture the neighborhood a little bit it does change a bit okay so the next I'm gonna call it a con only because it does involve some regulations and restrictions there's something called the rap that's Riverside Avondale preservation It's a Wonderful organization and it definitely has a purpose it's designed to preserve the history and the integrity and the architectural stylings of the neighborhood of Avondale and not let there be overgrowth and just tearing down and building back whatever you want that's definitely not going to be the case within this District of the city of Jacksonville anything that you're going to do as far as modifications of the home even new construction has to be built to to the specifications and approval of the Riverside Avondale preservation group you can't have any gutters for instance on the front of the house you can't have an attached garage with a forward-facing door those are just a couple of examples I mean it's not overly complex but if you were going to make some changes to the property you would definitely want to go online look up the guidelines which they have online look at the PDFs they even have one for fencing you would want to go online take a look at that feel like you're in compliance and then submit that to the Riverside Avondale preservation group for final approval and then you can move forward okay so here is another con there is the potential for some potential for this area is not exactly flat it does have some terrain to it but we're not in the exactly in the Carolinas we're in Florida we're not very far above sea level anywhere you go so some of the homes here are closer to the river so if you have tidal surge increased levels of the river that kind of thing during a tropical event if you live Riverfront it's definitely a potential that the water could come up closer to your property I also talked to a resident and he was telling me that if you have a house with low-lying air within it you can have some some huddling potential for puddling of some water they don't have an issue with like sewer backups or any of that kind of thing or the the streets becoming impassable or any of that kind of thing but yeah that is something to consider it would be the potential for some flooding if you're in the wrong spot and I could definitely help you figure out if that has a high risk or not okay so here's another con while there are amazing old growth trees throughout this area beautiful branches and leaves and all that type of thing what can happen if we have a tropical event or a really strong thunderstorm that we're to go through oh you can get some debris that falls from all those trees and when the when that debris Falls of course you're gonna have to pick it all up from your yard that's a given rake it up pick it up whatever but sometimes those branches can fall and they don't have any really to speak of underground Utilities in this area so the power lines are overhead so if you have a big storm event happens there is the potential that the area could lose some power and I've been told that when they do lose power they lose it for a little while let's put it that way what I would consider if I bought a home of a certain price range in here and of course you'd have to make sure that it could get approved by the rap I would consider getting a full house generator backup that Kohler has those different different companies have them and you can turn them on you can check them you can run them off Natural Gas with a tank and you can even check them with an app that's something that I would consider depending on what what I bought in this area okay so here's another con if you're thinking of coming into Avondale and just picking up a rental very easily there aren't that many rentals available in this area and when they are they're going to go quickly it's about it's zoned R1 residential single family there's very few rentals there is some multi-family dwellings in this area but I think they're mostly going to be like phone departments or condominiums that type of thing so rentals will be harder to get the nice thing is is that there's neighboring communities very close by again Murray Hill Brooklyn those types of areas that are nearby that you could probably pick up a rental in much more easily than Avondale if you wanted to get one okay so hooray we're going to start in with the pros here's one of the huge Pros that I love of I love architecture and I love history so this area is rich in really nice architecture you can have a lot of Italian Styles Mediterranean Styles a lot of the Craftsman Styles this area is also part of the national registration of historic places so this this area was developed as a result of they call it the Great Fire of 1901 that happened in Jacksonville so after that fire happened people needed places to live and this was the area that they moved into from downtown Jacksonville to settle and start again so it's kind of like a Renaissance area if you will it's really cool okay so here's another huge Pro which is the amount of Green Space I'm in a very large park right now this is called Boone Park and you can see the trees throughout there's Parks do not pass walking paths throughout there's pickleball courts public pickleball courts public tennis court I believe there's basketball courts as well you see a lot of people walking their dogs in here pushing strollers there's picnic benches picnic Huts that kind of thing there's also Edgewood Parks there's three of and then the street ends that run north and south the ones that terminate at the river almost every one of those Street ends has its own small very cute quaint and green space right there on the river I shot the opening to Vlog video from one of those Street ads so you want to check that out too okay so here's another Pro which is socialization people in this area are friendly there's a there's opportunities to interact at the parks at the shops of Avondale which I shot some b-roll footage of that so you'll see that as well amazing shopping area there's the Riverside Arts Market which is under the Fuller Warren Bridge under the columns in the shade of the floor Warren Bridge that's every Saturday they have vegetables Farmers Market vegetables food trucks even healthy options for dogs pet friendly things all that kind of stuff they even make soap believe it or not but definitely I've walked around here quite a bit and people here are very friendly very outgoing and I've definitely ran across quite a few tags show in New York so I guess the word is out on Avondale up in New York but if you want to get a piece of the pie down here reach out to me I can definitely help you okay so here's another Pro which is going to be it's access to Downtown Jacksonville it's very close to of course all of the sporting events which go on which we have a pro and semi-pro basketball football baseball hockey soccer all of that of course the Jacksonville Jaguars and we made it into the playoffs this year every day as far as art goes there's a Commerce Museum of Art and Gardens very amazing place you want to look that up online they have some very nice art that they have their house which is in Residence so it's there all the time there's a lot of local art galleries throughout this area a lot of artists as far as being close to places to work if you're not going to work from home there's also Blue Cross and Blue Shield is very close Wells Fargo Bank is very close Black Knight financials very close there's a number of financial institutions very close to this area and Tran you're very close this is at the crossroads where I-10 West and I-95 South intersect so that's also a great thing to know you're very close you can get very easily up to the airport you can head north you can head West you could head north you could head south it's really great location okay here's another Pro if you like to support locally owned businesses and they are everywhere in this area lots of award-winning restaurants lots of independently owned businesses and the locals here support the locals the shops of Avondale is only five minutes drive from Boone park right where I am and I did some b-roll footage of the shops of Avondale but you definitely want to check that out if you want to go across the river over to San Marco that's another really nice kind of like an art deco area just on the south side it's also very close and just across the river like I say Avondale Riverside of San Marcos so you can check that out as well same deal locally owned businesses restaurants and I'm talking five-star restaurants too really nice place to go okay so this is another huge Pro which is going to be there's a lot of safe low traffic areas and again Green spaces in these areas you have a lot of nice Street ends a lot of shaded areas it's great for bicycling rollerblading I see people on scooters of course that's a motorized vehicle but walking running all of that it's it's a great area it's safe it's pretty quiet for the most part and yeah I mean if you're looking for a place really not too far at all from downtown Jacksonville but just far enough that you can feel like you have some peace and quiet you can hear the birds chirping and see the squirrels run flitting about in the woods it's a great place great area for Green Space thank you so that's going to wrap up the pros and cons of Avondale you got a lot out of that and if you have any questions feel free to reach out to me directly you can give me a call give me a text shoot me an email you can schedule a zoom call whatever works for you works for me let's communicate let's get you set up to make that move Jacksonville and like I always say whether you're moving in nine days or 90 days give us a call shoot us a text send us an email happy to help you make a smooth move to Jacksonville or any of the surrounding areas check out my videos for other areas around Jacksonville of course and please subscribe so you can be the first to know about what's going on in the area and get some valuable information so like I always say see you around town thank you thank 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