The Landings - Trawler Village
Trawler Village is a 96 unit, seven building condominium village inside The Landings in Fort Myers, with a completed milestone inspection and reserve study. Flood facts, fees and market data from McGreevy and Comisar.
Trawler Village is a 96 unit, seven building condominium village inside The Landings in Fort Myers, with a completed milestone inspection and reserve study. Flood facts, fees and market data from McGreevy and Comisar.
Updated September 2026
By Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar of McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty Group.
Trawler Village is a 96 unit, seven building condominium association inside the gates of The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club, the gated golf and marina community on the Caloosahatchee River in Fort Myers, Florida. Every one of its 96 homes was built in 1986, every one carries a carport, and every parcel is coded golf frontage. It is also, right now, the single most defensible condominium purchase inside that gate, and the reason is compliance. Trawler Village has completed both its Florida milestone structural inspection and its Structural Integrity Reserve Study, and it has been publicly remediating from them since early 2025. If you are ready to sell your Trawler Village home, call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. If you are buying here, call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
That single sentence is worth more to a buyer in 2026 than any amenity list. Across Southwest Florida, condominium buyers have spent three years afraid of one specific thing: signing a contract, closing, and then receiving a five figure or six figure special assessment because the association had not yet done the structural work the state now requires. Trawler Village did the work. It documented the work. And no special assessment tied to that milestone inspection or that reserve study appears anywhere in the record we searched, a finding we tested with a positive control rather than assumed. McGreevy and Comisar are the team Trawler Village owners call, and this is the page that explains why.
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Trawler Village is a community where the right pricing argument is a documentary argument. Two identical 1,269 square foot three bedroom units can be worth materially different amounts to a well advised buyer, because one sits in a building that has completed a milestone inspection and a Structural Integrity Reserve Study and the other does not. We price on the documents, not on a per square foot average smeared across fifteen very different villages, and we can show a buyer’s agent exactly which recorded instrument and which published board report supports the number.
In the last 12 months we tracked the recorded sale activity inside the Lee County Property Appraiser condominium block that contains Trawler Village, and the picture is a small, tight, low volume market: nine recorded sales dated 2024 or later, a sale median of $335,000, and a price per heated square foot band of roughly $208 to $309 around a $224 median. In a village of 96 homes, that is under ten percent annual turnover, which means every single comparable matters and a single mispriced listing moves the whole village’s perceived value.
Selling your Trawler Village home? Get a free valuation through our Fort Myers home valuation tool, or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072. The compliance position described on this page, a completed milestone inspection and a completed Structural Integrity Reserve Study at a 1986 building, is a selling argument most Southwest Florida condominium sellers cannot make, and it belongs in your marketing.
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Trawler Village is a 96 unit condominium association on Trawler Court inside The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club in unincorporated Lee County, Florida, with a Fort Myers 33919 mailing address. It holds seven buildings, three of four stories and four of two stories, all completed in 1986, all on a single cul de sac, and all coded golf frontage on the county roll.
Item | Trawler Village |
|---|---|
Legal association name | Trawler Village Condominium Association, Inc. |
Florida corporate document number | 749974, filed 11/29/1979, active |
Recorded declaration | OR 1338 PG 975, Lee County official records, 80 pages |
Declarant on the instrument | The Landings, Ltd. |
Units | 96 |
Buildings | 7 |
Four story buildings | 3, at 4574, 4585 and 4586 Trawler Ct, 24 units each |
Two story buildings | 4, at 4570, 4575, 4581 and 4591 Trawler Ct |
Year built | 1986, all 96 units |
Bedroom mix | 48 two bedroom, 48 three bedroom, all 2.0 bathrooms |
Heated area | 1,217 to 1,587 square feet, median 1,269 |
Parking | Carport on 96 of 96 units, garage on none |
Milestone structural inspection | Required, deadline 31 December 2024, documented as completed |
Structural Integrity Reserve Study | Required, documented as completed |
FEMA flood exposure | 6 of 7 buildings in Zone AE, base flood elevation 8 feet NAVD88 |
Management | Alliant Property Management, LLC, 13831 Vector Avenue, Fort Myers |
Club membership | Mandatory, runs with ownership |
Seven buildings, 96 identical vintage homes, one street, one pool, a completed milestone inspection, a completed reserve study, documented remediation in progress, and a management company that is competent but not on site. That is Trawler Village, and each of those facts has a price consequence that this page works through in order.
Trawler Village is the compliance standout at The Landings because it has finished the two pieces of structural due diligence that Florida now forces on older condominium buildings, and because it has published what it found and what it is fixing. Nine of the twelve condominium associations inside the gates carry a milestone inspection and reserve study obligation. Trawler is one of only a small number with a documented completion and a documented remediation program running behind it.
Since the Surfside collapse and the legislation that followed it, the fear in a Florida condominium contract is not the roof and it is not the pool. It is the open ended assessment. A buyer signs, closes, and then the association completes an inspection it had been deferring, discovers structural work, and levies. Because the reserve funding rules changed for budgets adopted on or after 31 December 2024, associations that must obtain a Structural Integrity Reserve Study can no longer vote to waive or reduce reserves for the components the study covers. That is the single provision that has driven condominium fee increases across Southwest Florida.
An association that has already done the inspection has converted an unknown into a known. Trawler Village’s board identified stairwell and stair tread work at named buildings, authorised it, priced it, and funded the first tranche from reserves rather than from an assessment. A buyer is still buying an association with obligations, but the obligations are enumerated rather than hypothetical, and the enumeration is public. That is a materially different purchase, and it is an easier one to finance, because a lender reviewing a condominium questionnaire is asking the same question the buyer is.
Condominium lending in Florida since 2023 has turned on structural and reserve questions. Lenders ask whether the association is aware of deficiencies related to safety, soundness, structural integrity or habitability, and whether a special assessment is in place or planned. An association that can answer those questions from a completed milestone inspection report and a completed reserve study is answering from a document. An association that is still waiting on its engineer is answering from a hope. The first one closes. The second one gets conditioned, delayed or declined.
The completion dates of Trawler Village’s milestone inspection and reserve study are not published, and the filed reports themselves were not reached in the record we searched. What is published, in the association’s own board reporting, is that the repairs were identified in the Milestone and SIRS Study and are being executed. Any buyer should still request the filed inspection report, the reserve study, the current budget and an estoppel certificate through the association, and we request them as a matter of course on every Trawler Village transaction we handle.
Selling here? That compliance position is a marketing asset. Start with a free home valuation for your Trawler Village condominium or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. Buying here? See how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida or call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
Trawler Village’s three four story buildings, at 4574, 4585 and 4586 Trawler Ct, each carry 24 units and each triggered Florida’s milestone inspection requirement. The buildings reached 30 years of age in 2016, which placed the initial milestone deadline at 31 December 2024, and the association’s own published board reporting documents that both the milestone inspection and the Structural Integrity Reserve Study were completed and that remediation followed.
Florida Statutes section 553.899 requires a milestone inspection of a building three habitable stories or more in height that is subject in whole or in part to the condominium form of ownership, by 31 December of the year the building turns 30, and every 10 years after. Section 718.112(2)(g) requires a residential condominium association to complete a Structural Integrity Reserve Study at least every 10 years for each building on the condominium property that is three habitable stories or higher.
The 2025 amendment made explicit that floors used exclusively for parking, storage or mechanical equipment do not count toward the three story threshold. That matters enormously in Southwest Florida, where ground level parking under a residential structure is the norm. At Trawler Village the question does not arise in a contested way: the county building footprint data returns four stories for the three F type buildings and two stories for the four G type buildings, and the association’s own reporting refers to them as the four story buildings.
The association told members that repairs identified in the Milestone and SIRS Study would begin shortly at buildings 4585 and 4574, and that at least one stairway would remain accessible at all times during construction. That is a specific, dated, building level statement, and it is the earliest published link in the chain between the inspection and the work.
The association reported that repair work on stair treads identified in the Milestone and SIRS Study was scheduled to begin in the coming weeks, and that the work would be staggered to ensure that at least one stairwell remained open in each building during construction. Stair treads are a classic milestone inspection finding in a 1980s exterior stair building on the Gulf Coast, and staging the work to preserve egress is exactly what a competent board does.
The board reported that it continues to address Milestone study improvements including stairwell repairs, painting of car stops, new plantings at the pool and re painting the exterior walkways. By that point the program had widened from the two named buildings into general common element work, which is the normal arc of a milestone remediation once the engineer’s punch list is in hand.
The next milestone cycle date is not published. Under the statute the inspection repeats every 10 years from the completed inspection, so the follow on date depends on a completion date that has not been made public. Whether unincorporated Lee County has adopted the optional 25 year trigger available to a local enforcement agency under section 553.899(3)(b), which applies where local circumstances such as proximity to salt water warrant it, is also not established in the record we reached. Both are questions we put to the association in writing on a live transaction.
No special assessment tied to a milestone inspection or a Structural Integrity Reserve Study was found for Trawler Village, or for any other association at The Landings, in the sources we reached. That is a negative finding and it was tested rather than assumed: searching the community magazine archive for the phrase special assessment returns only unrelated matches, while searching the same archive for milestone, for the reserve study and for insurance returns the substantive board reports quoted above. The search terms work and the archive is reachable, so the absence is a real absence in that record. The correct statement is that no special assessment is documented in the sources reached, not that there have been no special assessments. Association budgets, board minutes, the annual financial statements required under section 718.111(13) and an estoppel certificate are the record class that answers it conclusively, and those are exactly what we order on a Trawler Village contract.
Trawler Village’s board has published two dollar figures that matter to a buyer, and both come from its own reporting in autumn 2025. The board authorised staircase repairs at 4574 and 4585, with further work at 4586 and at the two story buildings, estimated at $80,000 and funded from reserves. Separately, a contractor’s walkway re grading proposal came in at $550,000 and was referred to attorneys after no agreement was reached.
The important word in that sentence is reserves. The board did not levy for the staircase work. It paid for it out of funded reserves, which is what reserves exist for and what the post 2024 statutory reserve rules are designed to force. A buyer should read that as evidence of a funded balance sheet rather than as evidence of a problem, while still asking to see the current reserve balances in the budget.
We could. It would produce a tidy per unit number. It would also be an invented assessment, because the project was funded from reserves rather than assessed, and because the reserve contributions that funded it were collected over years from a schedule we have not seen. A per unit figure derived that way looks authoritative and is fiction. We do not publish it, and you should distrust any page that does.
A contractor proposed a walkway re grading program at $550,000. The board did not accept it, no agreement was reached, and the matter was referred to attorneys. That is the published record and we report it as the record shows it. We do not know the scope, we do not know the dispute, and we do not know the outcome. What a buyer should take from it is that the board pushed back on a large number rather than signing it, and that the walkway condition is a live item at the village.
The board reported that an updated Reserve Study was to proceed in autumn 2025. Read alongside the completed Structural Integrity Reserve Study, that is an association updating its numbers rather than commissioning its first study, which is the posture you want on a 1986 building.
In September 2025 the board was obtaining updated insurance quotes with results expected in early fall, and reported itself hopeful for a reduction in premium costs in line with other Landings villages. By February 2026 the association publicly thanked three named residents who collaborated to save the village a considerable sum on insurance contracts. The dollar figure is not published. The direction is.
The current monthly assessment for a Trawler Village unit is not published anywhere in the public record. Neither is the club’s resident dues figure, the capital contribution, the food and beverage minimum, or the resale transfer fee. Every figure of that kind that circulates online for this community traces back to sources we do not cite. We will not print an estimate, and anyone who does is guessing. The route to the real numbers is a current estoppel certificate from the association and a call to the club at (239) 482-3211.
At Trawler Village the leading digit of a unit number identifies the building, not the floor. The Lee County recorded legal description for the parcel marketed as 4586 Trawler Ct, unit 102, reads Trawler Village Condo, BLDG TF2, OR 1338 PG 975, UNIT 1B. Anyone who reads unit 102 as first floor, or unit 305 as third floor, is guessing at a Trawler Village address, and at this village the guess is wrong.
The marketed address is 4586 Trawler Ct 102. The recorded legal is BLDG TF2, UNIT 1B. The number 102 is not a floor plus a unit. It is an identifier that maps, through the recorded declaration, onto a building code and a lettered unit inside that building. The building is TF2. The unit is 1B. Nothing in the string 102 tells you which of the four floors that unit sits on.
Florida’s milestone inspection and reserve study obligations attach to buildings of three or more habitable stories. A great deal of casual analysis of Florida condominium exposure is done by reading unit numbers, because unit numbers are the one thing every listing carries. At a village where the number encodes the building, that method returns a confident wrong answer about the single fact that matters most in the current market. It can put a buyer in a four story building they believed was two stories, or scare a buyer away from a two story building they believed was a fourth floor unit.
This is why the rule cannot be generalised from one village to the next inside the same gate. At Ariel, the 18 story tower, unit 1205 at 5260 South Landings Drive does appear to encode floor 12. At Clipper Cove Village, 4811 S Landings Dr unit 101 is recorded as Clipper Cove Village Condo, BLDG CCG1, unit 101 with a parking space reference tied to the same building code, which is building scoped again. Three villages, three conventions, one gate.
We do not infer a floor from a unit number anywhere at The Landings. We read the recorded legal description on the parcel record, and we read building heights from the county’s building footprint layer, which carries a maximum stories attribute sourced from the property appraiser’s condominium building data, cross checked against the parcel layer’s own stories field. That is two independent county fields, not one marketing string.
Ask for the recorded legal description before you form a view about which building you are buying into. It is on the parcel record, it is on the deed, and it names the building code. Then match that building code to the street address, because the building code, not the unit number, is what tells you whether you are in one of the three four story buildings subject to the milestone and reserve study regime or in one of the four two story buildings that is not.
A Trawler Village seller in one of the two story buildings has a clean statutory story to tell: the building is not subject to the milestone inspection or the Structural Integrity Reserve Study at all. A seller in one of the four story buildings has an even better one, which is that the work is done and documented. Neither story gets told if the listing agent cannot read the legal description. We can, and we do, on every Trawler Village listing.
Trawler Village is built as seven separate structures on a single cul de sac, in two distinct building types. The three F type buildings are four stories with 24 units each, six per floor. The four G type buildings are two stories, one with 12 units and three with four units each. The split is the reason the village carries two different regulatory profiles at the same address.
Building code | Address | Units | Stories | Milestone and reserve study obligation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TF1 | 4574 Trawler Ct | 24 | 4 | Yes |
TF2 | 4586 Trawler Ct | 24 | 4 | Yes |
TF3 | 4585 Trawler Ct | 24 | 4 | Yes |
TG4 | 4575 Trawler Ct | 12 | 2 | No |
TG1 | 4570 Trawler Ct | 4 | 2 | No |
TG2 | 4591 Trawler Ct | 4 | 2 | No |
TG3 | 4581 Trawler Ct | 4 | 2 | No |
Three buildings, 72 of the 96 units, four stories, six units to a floor, exterior stairs. These are the buildings that reached 30 years of age in 2016, that carried the 31 December 2024 milestone deadline, and that are the subject of the stairwell and stair tread remediation described above. They are also the buildings whose lightning rods were repaired after Hurricane Ian.
Four buildings, 24 of the 96 units, two stories. One of them, TG4 at 4575 Trawler Ct, holds 12 units at six per floor. The other three hold four units each at two per floor. None of them is subject to the milestone inspection or to the Structural Integrity Reserve Study, because neither obligation reaches a building below three habitable stories.
County building footprint data returns a maximum stories value of 4.0 for the three F type buildings and 2.0 for the four G type buildings, and the association’s own board reporting refers to the four story buildings as a group when describing the lightning rod work and the dumpster placement. Independent county measurement and first party association reporting agree. That is not always true inside this gate, and where it is not true we say so.
Trawler Village carries a common element parcel of roughly 6.36 acres, with a site address of 4580 Trawler Ct, recorded under the same instrument at OR 1338 PG 975. That parcel is what holds the village pool, the gazebo and barbecue area, the carports and the walkways, and it is the parcel that the association’s maintenance and reserve program is ultimately spending against.
Every Trawler Village building fronts Trawler Court. There is no scattered parcel, no detached phase and no second entrance. For a buyer that means the village reads as a single small neighborhood rather than a wing of something larger, and for a seller it means comparable sales are genuinely comparable, because every unit in the comparison set shares a street, a vintage, a builder and an amenity package.
Six of Trawler Village’s seven buildings, 86 percent, sit inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area mapped as Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 8 feet NAVD88. The seventh sits in the 0.2 percent annual chance flood hazard band, often called shaded Zone X, which is outside the Special Flood Hazard Area. No Trawler Village structure is mapped Zone VE.
The Landings, Trawler Village included, sits on FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map panel 12071C0416G, effective 17 November 2022. The vertical datum on every Special Flood Hazard Area polygon covering the community is NAVD88, and the AE subtype is coastal floodplain. The pending Lee County map revision touches a different set of panels and does not include 0416, so the community is not scheduled to be re zoned by that revision.
Zone AE is the one percent annual chance floodplain with a published base flood elevation. At 8 feet NAVD88, the regulatory flood elevation for the AE areas of The Landings is 8 feet. Unincorporated Lee County additionally requires one foot of freeboard above the FEMA base flood elevation for new construction and for substantially improved or substantially damaged structures, which makes the effective regulatory target 9 feet NAVD88.
The base flood elevation here is stated in NAVD88. Storm surge and storm tide figures from the 2022 hurricane are published above mean higher high water. Those are different vertical references and they are not directly comparable. We do not put an arithmetic comparison of the two on this page, and neither should anyone else, because the comparison looks meaningful and is not.
The building by building classification above is a screening result produced by testing building footprint centroids against FEMA flood hazard polygons. It is a very good guide to which building sits where. It is not a Flood Insurance Rate Map determination for any individual structure, and it is not an elevation certificate. Before closing, a Trawler Village buyer should obtain an elevation certificate for the specific building if one exists, and should ask the association whether it holds one.
Any repair, remodelling, renovation, reconstruction or addition to a structure in a Special Flood Hazard Area that is below the required flood elevation triggers Lee County’s substantial improvement review when the cost reaches 50 percent of the market value of the structure. For a condominium the denominator is a problem, because the Property Appraiser does not develop a tax roll value letter for condominium property. The county’s own published guidance points condominium owners to a private appraisal of the entire complex, coordinated through the association. Trawler Village, with six of seven buildings in Zone AE and a 1986 vintage, sits squarely in the high exposure group for that rule.
Unincorporated Lee County requires a permit for all repairs to a property inside the Special Flood Hazard Area where there has been damage, including water intrusion. That is not a formality that an association can skip, and a buyer reviewing a unit that has had a water event should ask to see the permit record.
There is no Letter of Map Amendment or Letter of Map Revision on record for a Trawler Village address in the county’s amendment set. Several other villages at The Landings do carry them. The absence means no Trawler building has been removed from the Special Flood Hazard Area by an individual determination, which is consistent with the screening result above.
Trawler Village came through Hurricane Ian and then spent the following two years hardening. By autumn 2024 the association reported that the flat parts of the roofs had all been replaced, and that the lightning rods on the four story buildings that had been damaged by Hurricane Ian and could be repaired had been repaired, with several others beyond repair and needing complete replacement.
Roof age is the dominant underwriting variable in the Southwest Florida admitted insurance market. An association that replaced all flat roof sections by autumn 2024 is presenting an underwriter with a roof that is, as of this writing, roughly two years old. That flows into the master policy premium, which flows into the monthly assessment, and it flows into what an individual owner pays for an HO 6 policy on the interior.
The lightning protection on the four story buildings was damaged by Ian, partially repaired, and partially in need of replacement. Separately, a Trawler building was struck by lightning in August, sending stucco fragments into the pool, and the subsequent inspection found that some of the lightning rods on the building were not adequately secured and were ineffective. An electrician was engaged. A buyer should ask the association for the current status of the lightning protection system on their specific building, because the published record shows it has been a repeat item.
A Trawler Village board note from the 2024 season reads that the village thankfully missed that one with only minor vegetation damage. That is a useful piece of context: the village’s hardening program was tested by a subsequent season and the reported result was vegetation only.
The storm made landfall at Cayo Costa on 28 September 2022 at 130 knots. Maximum inundation up the Caloosahatchee at Fort Myers was in the range of 5 to 8 feet above ground level, and the National Ocean Service tide gauge at Fort Myers recorded a storm surge of 7.25 feet and a storm tide of 7.53 feet. Lee County recorded at least 52,514 structures impacted, 5,369 destroyed and 14,245 with major damage. Any 1986 riverfront condominium in this county is a post Ian building in the sense that matters, which is that its insurance, its reserves and its inspection posture were all reshaped by that storm.
The Lee County Property Appraiser does not carry a hurricane damage flag on parcel records, because damage reporting was owner initiated through a code on the tax notice. The absence of a damage marker on a Trawler Village parcel proves nothing about whether that parcel was damaged. Anyone telling you that county records show no hurricane damage at a Florida address is describing a field that does not exist.
At Ariel, the 135 unit tower in the same community, Ian repair required almost two years and more than $5.5 million, including nearly 51,000 square feet of glass replaced to a 175 mph rating across 563 openings. The board engaged a public adjuster and insurance proceeds covered all the repairs, and the glass replacement cut that building’s insurance cost by $400,000 annually. Trawler’s Ian program was smaller, quieter and roof and lightning focused. Different buildings, different storms on the same day.
The Landings, Trawler Village included, sits in Lee County evacuation Zone A, which is the first zone ordered to evacuate. That is a function of being on the Caloosahatchee, it is true of every village inside the gate, and it is a fact a buyer should plan around rather than be surprised by.
A Trawler Village owner carries two insurance relationships, not one. The association carries a master policy on the building and the common elements, funded through the monthly assessment. The owner carries an HO 6 policy on everything inside the unit boundaries that the statute excludes from the master policy, plus loss assessment coverage, plus flood coverage if there is a federally regulated loan on a unit in Zone AE.
Florida Statutes section 718.111(11)(f) requires the association’s policy to cover all portions of the condominium property as originally installed, or replacement of like kind and quality in accordance with the original plans and specifications, together with alterations or additions made to the condominium property under section 718.113(2).
The same statute pushes a defined list onto the unit owner: all personal property within the unit or limited common elements, and, within the unit boundaries and serving only that unit, floor coverings, wall coverings, ceiling coverings, electrical fixtures, appliances, water heaters, water filters, built in cabinets and countertops, and window treatments including curtains, drapes, blinds, hardware and similar components. In a 1986 building with 1,269 square feet of median heated area, that list is most of what a buyer walks through at a showing.
Florida Statutes section 627.714 requires policies issued or renewed on or after 1 July 2010 to include at least $2,000 in property loss assessment coverage, with a deductible of no more than $250 per direct property loss. The limit that applies is the limit in force one day before the occurrence, not the limit at the time the association levies. Buying more loss assessment coverage after a storm does not help retroactively. The statutory floor is $2,000. The association exposures documented inside this community run far higher than that. Ask your agent what your loss assessment limit is, and whether the association’s master policy deductible, divided by your ownership percentage, exceeds it.
Under the federal coverage schedule, a residential condominium building policy is capped at $250,000 multiplied by the number of units in the building, with $100,000 of contents coverage per insured unit owner. For a 24 unit four story Trawler building that arithmetic produces a large number, but a per building cap is not a replacement cost guarantee. Where replacement cost exceeds the cap, the shortfall goes to the private excess flood market, and where the association carries neither, it goes to a loss assessment against unit owners.
The federal mandatory purchase requirement attaches to the loan, not to the property. A buyer financing a unit in one of the six Trawler buildings inside Zone AE with a federally regulated or insured loan will be required to carry flood insurance. A cash buyer is not federally required to carry it. The association’s recorded documents may still require it, and going without coverage at base flood elevation 8 on the Caloosahatchee is a decision rather than a saving.
Property owners in unincorporated Lee County automatically receive a 25 percent discount on National Flood Insurance Program premiums because of points the county has earned through the Community Rating System. Lee County joined the program in 1991 and the discount is worth roughly $15 million a year countywide. To confirm it is being applied to your policy, look for Lee County identification number 125124 printed on it.
In March and April 2024 FEMA notified Lee County of an intent to retrograde its Community Rating System classification after finding that more than 600 county property owners had violated the 50 percent rule during Ian rebuilds. Unincorporated Lee County kept its classification, confirmed in November 2024 reporting. Fort Myers Beach did not. At stake for unincorporated Lee County were 51,103 policyholders and coverage exceeding $13 billion.
Bonita Springs, Cape Coral, Estero, the City of Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach and Sanibel each participate in the Community Rating System separately, with their own classifications. The Landings is in unincorporated Lee County, so the unincorporated county rating is the one that applies to Trawler Village, and using the City of Fort Myers number because the mailing address says Fort Myers is a common and expensive error.
Florida’s uniform mitigation verification inspection form, OIR B1 1802, verifies roof covering, roof deck attachment, roof to wall connection, roof geometry, secondary water resistance and opening protection, and carriers are required to give premium credits for the features it verifies. The credit percentages vary by carrier and we do not publish a fixed number. Trawler Village’s flat roof replacement is exactly the kind of item that belongs on that form.
Trawler Village’s master policy carrier, its premium, its deductible, and the typical HO 6 or flood premium for a unit here are not published. Any page that prints a premium figure for this village invented it. The route to a real number is a quote from a licensed agent against the actual building and the actual coverage, plus the association’s current declarations page, which comes with the estoppel package.
A Trawler Village owner pays a village monthly assessment to the condominium association and, separately, belongs to The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club, because club membership runs with ownership here. The village assessment covers the association’s insurance, reserves, common element maintenance and the community bulk services that the club re bills to the villages. The dollar amount of the Trawler Village assessment is not published.
Layer one is the village monthly assessment to Trawler Village Condominium Association, Inc. Layer two is the club obligation, which every resident carries. Layer three is the county tax bill, which carries both an ad valorem component and a single non ad valorem line. A buyer needs all three to model carrying cost, and only the third is fully public.
Bulk television, internet and water are paid at the community level and re billed to the villages, and the community told residents in its own resident notice that the single monthly bill will be paid by The Landings and re billed to the villages much like the water fees, so the costs will still be paid by the village monthly assessment. That is first party and it is quoted from the association leadership’s own notice rather than from a marketing page.
From 1 January 2025 the community moved from village by village contracts to one consolidated community wide agreement with the cable provider, negotiated by the Village Presidents together with Landings Administration. The consolidation produced a reduction in monthly fees, a signing bonus and a premium movie channel at no additional charge, the agreement runs through March 2031, fiber was run throughout the community and into residences, and the community reported that internet speeds increased substantially. Service problems go to the provider directly, not to the Administration Office. The specific speed tier is not published.
The community magazine told members in autumn 2025, ahead of the September budget meetings, to expect a $1,536 assessment and a dues increase at the community level for 2026. Three caveats travel with that number and all three matter. It was a forecast reported to members before the budget meetings, not an adopted figure. It is a club level assessment separated under its own Landings Master Budget heading, not a Trawler village assessment. And the source does not state the unit of account, so we do not write it as a per home number. Whether it was adopted, and at what amount, is not published.
Resident club dues. The resident capital contribution or initiation. The food and beverage minimum. The resale transfer fee. The current Trawler Village monthly assessment. Five numbers a buyer wants, none of them in the public record, and every circulating figure we found for them traced to a source this page does not cite. The club’s number is (239) 482-3211 and one call closes most of it. We make that call on behalf of our buyers.
For completeness, and clearly labelled: the club publishes a non resident associate schedule for its 2025 to 2026 fiscal year, with a Dining Club category at $950.00, a Pool category at $1,600.00, Single Tennis at $2,015.00 and Family Tennis at $2,850.00, each before tax. Those are non resident associate categories. They are not what a Trawler Village owner pays, and it would be wrong to present them as such.
We order the estoppel certificate, which states the current assessment, any special assessment, and any amount owing. We pull the tax record for the specific parcel. We ask the club directly for the resident schedule in writing. Then the buyer has a real monthly number instead of a plausible one. Selling a Trawler Village home? Start with a free valuation of your Trawler Village condominium or call Jesse at (239) 898-6072. Buying one? See how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida or call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
Trawler Village Condominium Association, Inc. is managed by Alliant Property Management, LLC, from an office at 13831 Vector Avenue, Fort Myers, which is outside the community. The association’s registered agent is care of Alliant at that address. Alliant manages three of the fifteen associations inside The Landings: Trawler Village, Steamboat Bend East and Sunset Cove.
Only one of the fifteen associations at The Landings has its manager physically on site inside the community. Ten of the fifteen, Trawler Village among them, are administered from offices elsewhere, and three of those are outside Lee County entirely. Off site management is normal and it is not a criticism. What it changes is response time on document requests, and it means the person who can answer a question about your building is not someone you run into at the pool.
Trawler Village told residents that village updates would move entirely to the Alliant portal and that the community website would no longer be used for Trawler specific announcements. That is a rational management decision and it has a side effect worth naming: the public record on this village is getting thinner over time rather than richer, because the announcements that used to be published now sit behind a credential gate.
When the documents move behind a portal, the practical route to them is the association, the manager and the estoppel process. That is exactly the work we do on a Trawler Village transaction, and it is why we ask for the milestone inspection report, the reserve study, the current budget, the reserve balances, the insurance declarations and the meeting minutes in writing at the start of a contract rather than at the end of inspection period.
The association was filed with the Florida Division of Corporations on 29 November 1979 under document number 749974, it is active, its most recent corporate event of record is amended and restated articles dated 22 January 2013, and its 2026 annual report was filed on 28 April 2026. The condominium project itself is recorded with the state regulator as Trawler Village Condo, project number PR1S001961, 96 units, recorded 27 March 1979, approved and recorded, with no delinquency flag.
Trawler Village’s president also serves as Assistant Secretary of the master club. That is publicly recorded interlocking service, not an inference. It is the kind of detail that tells you the village has real representation at the club level, which matters when club level assessments are being set.
The estoppel certificate. The recorded declaration and every recorded amendment. The current rules and regulations. The current budget and reserve schedule. The milestone inspection report and the Structural Integrity Reserve Study. The master insurance declarations page. The most recent annual financial statement. The last twelve months of board minutes. That list is the difference between buying a building and buying a rumor about a building.
Trawler Village is the most uniform product at The Landings. All 96 units were built in 1986. The mix is exactly 48 two bedroom homes and 48 three bedroom homes, every one with 2.0 bathrooms. Heated area runs from 1,217 to 1,587 square feet with a median of 1,269, every unit has a carport, and no unit has a garage.
A village where every home shares a year, a builder, a bathroom count and a narrow square footage band is a village where comparable sales actually compare. That is why Trawler carries the tightest price per square foot range in the community, roughly $208 to $309. It also means that when a unit sells badly, the damage to the next seller is immediate and visible, because there is nowhere to hide behind product differences.
An exact 48 and 48 split is unusual, and it gives the village two genuinely distinct buyer pools rather than a dominant product with a minority variant. The three bedroom homes carry the upper part of the square footage range. The two bedroom homes are the entry point into The Landings for a buyer who wants the club, the marina and the golf course without the price of a villa or a single family home inside the gate.
Every one of the 96 units has a carport and none has a garage. That is a real lifestyle fact for a buyer coming from a single family home, and it is also a maintenance item the association carries. A damaged carport roof at 4574 Trawler Ct and the board’s repair contract for it appear in the published board reporting, which independently corroborates the county roll’s carport coding at that building.
All 96 Trawler Village parcels are coded golf frontage on the county roll. Not every unit has a golf view, and frontage coding is not a view guarantee, but it does describe where the village sits relative to the course and it is one of the reasons Trawler reads as a quiet interior village rather than a road facing one.
A 1986 Florida condominium is a concrete and block building with exterior stairs, flat and low slope roof sections, and original electrical and plumbing distribution unless it has been upgraded. It is also a building that is now inside the milestone inspection regime, which at Trawler has been satisfied. Interiors vary enormously by how recently they were renovated, and in a village this uniform the interior is where most of the price spread actually lives.
Kitchen and bath vintage, because that is the largest single driver of price inside a fixed footprint. Impact glass or shutter provision on the openings. Water heater age. Air handler and condenser age and location. Any evidence of past water intrusion, which the published record shows has been an item at this village. And the stair and walkway condition adjacent to your specific unit, given the remediation program described above.
Trawler Village sits in the middle of The Landings by price, with a recorded sale median of $335,000 on nine sales dated 2024 or later and a median of roughly $224 per heated square foot. That places it above the community’s two largest workforce priced condominium villages and well below the single family homeowner association neighborhoods inside the same gate.
Data updated: September 2026.
Village | Form | Units | Sale median, 2024 and later | Median per heated square foot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Sunset Cove | Condominium | 45 | $245,000 | $173 |
Steamboat Bend | Condominium | 112 | $228,500 | $196 |
Steamboat Bend East | Condominium | 120 | $242,500 | $218 |
Trawler Village | Condominium | 96 | $335,000 | $224 |
Windjammer Village | Condominium | 195 | $329,750 | $230 |
Flagship Village | Condominium | 76 | $381,500 | $254 |
Harbortown | Condominium | 73 | $552,500 | $276 |
Sunset Harbor | Condominium | 45 | $520,000 | $336 |
Clipper Cove Village | Condominium | 40 | $520,000 | $364 |
Mariner’s Cove | Homeowner association | 48 | $665,000 | $363 |
Lighthouse Village | Homeowner association | 27 | $717,500 | $394 |
The per square foot column is the more honest comparison, because the absolute median is driven by how large the typical home in each village is. Trawler at $224 sits seventh of fifteen. Its absolute median of $335,000 is higher than several villages with a lower per foot figure, which simply reflects that Trawler’s homes are mid sized rather than small.
Trawler’s per foot range of roughly $208 to $309 is the narrowest at The Landings, and that is a direct consequence of the product uniformity described above. For a seller it means the market has a clear opinion about what a Trawler unit is worth, and a listing priced outside that band will be tested hard. For a buyer it means there is less opportunity to find an outlier bargain and less risk of overpaying blind.
We are not going to predict a number. What we will say is that in the current Florida condominium market, the documented completion of a milestone inspection and a Structural Integrity Reserve Study is a differentiator that a well advised buyer pays for, and that several of the villages in the table above have not documented the same position publicly. That is the argument we make for a Trawler seller, and it is an evidence based one.
On the 2026 county roll, Trawler Village’s just value median is $202,578 within a range of $195,752 to $260,434. Just value is not market value and the gap between the two is normal and large in this market. It is useful here only as a cross check that the roll and the recorded sales are telling a consistent story about where Trawler sits in the community’s price order.
Nine recorded sales is a real sample for a 96 unit village and it is a small sample in absolute terms. We report the median with its count attached for exactly that reason. Any single unusual transaction moves a nine sale median materially, which is why we re pull the data at the point of listing rather than relying on a figure published months earlier.
Trawler Village is governed by Trawler Village Condominium Association, Inc., a Florida not for profit corporation filed on 29 November 1979, operating under a condominium declaration recorded at OR 1338 PG 975 in the Lee County official records, an 80 page instrument titled Condominium Declaration of Trawler Village Condominium of The Landings, with The Landings, Ltd. named as declarant.
The recorded declaration sits at the top, followed by the articles of incorporation, the bylaws, and then the rules and regulations that the board adopts and amends. The declaration is the durable instrument. The rules change. Anything on this page sourced to the 1979 declaration is presented as the recorded baseline, because later recorded amendments and current board adopted rules control day to day life.
The declaration reserves to the association a right of first refusal on a proposed sale or transfer, with thirty days written notice in which to make its election. In practice associations rarely exercise these, but the notice period is real and it belongs in the transaction timeline. A contract written without accounting for association approval and the notice window is a contract with an avoidable delay built into it.
The recorded declaration for Trawler Village does not contain a clause requiring an owner to list through an in community real estate office. We tested that specifically against the recorded instrument rather than assuming it, because several club communities in Southwest Florida do carry such a clause and buyers and sellers ask about it constantly. At Trawler Village the answer from the recorded document is that no required listing clause is present.
Club membership at The Landings runs with ownership and is not optional. That is a first party fact from the club itself, which states that every resident is considered a member with an equal interest in the well being and maintenance of the community. It is also frequently confused with something it is not. Being obliged to be a club member says nothing about who you may hire to sell your home, and at Trawler Village the recorded declaration does not restrict that choice.
The members purchased the recreational amenities from the developer in 2002 for $7,950,000, recorded at OR 3679 PG 1003 and OR 3680 PG 0007. That transaction is why The Landings is a member owned club rather than a developer owned one, and it is the structural reason every resident is a member.
Trawler Village’s board publishes its slate and its recognitions in the community magazine, including thanks to an outgoing president for the continued efforts to rebuild, repair and plan for the future of the village’s physical plant, and to a treasurer for navigating the state’s fiscal requirements and the recovery efforts associated with Hurricane Ian. A board that names its work publicly is a board whose record a buyer can actually inspect.
If a Trawler Village buyer reads only one document, it should be the estoppel certificate. It states the current assessment amount, any special assessment, any amount owing on the unit, any pending litigation the association has disclosed, and the transfer requirements. It is ordered through the association or its manager, it costs money, and it is the only document that speaks to the present rather than to 1979.
The rules that follow come from Trawler Village’s recorded declaration and from the association’s own published operational notices. They are the recorded baseline, not a guarantee of current house rules, because condominium rules and regulations and later recorded amendments control today. Any buyer with a specific requirement should have the current rules package and the estoppel certificate in hand before the inspection period ends.
The Trawler Village declaration provides that all leases or rentals shall be approved by the manager designated by the association. Unlike several sibling villages inside the same gate, the Trawler instrument does not state a minimum lease term on its face. That does not mean there is no current minimum, because a later amendment or a board adopted rule may set one, and it is a question we put to the association in writing on any transaction where rental use matters.
A maximum number of leases per year is not established in the recorded document for Trawler Village, and it is not established for any village at The Landings in the recorded instruments we read. If an investor buyer is underwriting on a specific turnover assumption, that assumption needs to be confirmed against the current rules, not against the declaration.
The Trawler Village declaration shares a clause with eight other villages in the community providing that no pets or animals shall be allowed to be kept in the condominium except for dogs, cats and birds, which must be kept on a leash or caged at all times when outside the apartment. No number limit, no weight limit and no breed limit appears in that recorded clause. Current board adopted pet rules may differ and should be requested.
Trawler Village’s declaration is one of ten at The Landings that states, in terms, that there shall be no restriction as to the minimum age of children who may live in or visit the condominium. That is a strong negative finding because the document says it rather than merely omitting it. The Landings is not an age restricted community, although its resident base does skew toward retirees and seasonal residents.
The declaration provides that automobiles may be parked only in the areas provided for that purpose, and that trucks, vans or other non private passenger vehicles, trailers, boat trailers and motor homes shall not be parked in the parking areas. For a village where every unit has a carport and none has a garage, that clause has practical bite, and a buyer arriving with a work van or a boat trailer should resolve storage before closing.
Trawler Village’s own current operational notice asks owners who leave a vehicle in the village over the summer to leave a spare key accessible, because cars that need to be moved but are inaccessible may incur towing costs. That is a small thing and it tells you something useful about how the village is run, which is that maintenance access is planned rather than improvised.
An owner whose guests stay in the unit while the owner is away is asked to file a Notice of Guest in Residence form. Again a small procedural point, and again a signal that the village runs on documented process rather than on informality.
The community does not publish a recreational vehicle or trailer storage facility, and we are not going to assert that none exists, because absence of a published facility is not proof of absence. What is on the record is a resident couple who keep a camper and use it, described in a village column, so residents do own them. A commercial self storage facility sits roughly a tenth of a mile from the community entrance on McGregor Boulevard, which is the practical answer most owners reach.
Day to day, Trawler Village runs on a village pool and gazebo, carport parking, dumpster collection at the four story buildings, bulk cable and internet delivered community wide and re billed through the village assessment, Lee County Utilities water and sewer, and a single gated entrance staffed by the club’s own community patrol. The village is small enough that most of it happens on one street.
Trawler Village has its own pool, separate from the club’s competition sized pool. The pool, gazebo and barbecue area are the village’s social center, and the pool has been an active maintenance item: it was resurfaced, the areca palms behind it were removed, and new plantings at the pool were part of the milestone driven improvement program. A village pool is a village amenity and a village cost, funded through the village assessment rather than through the club.
The four story buildings at Trawler received new dumpsters, which is the collection model for multi story condominium buildings here rather than individual carts. The hauler for the unincorporated 33919 area is Waste Management, reachable at (239) 334-1224, and every parcel inside The Landings sits in the county’s solid waste Area 2. Recycling goes to the county’s resource recovery facility, and the accepted list is the standard county list.
Water and wastewater service is Lee County Utilities, confirmed by testing the community’s location against the county franchise and district layers with a control. Water is billed through the community and re billed to the villages, and the community’s own resident notice uses the water fee arrangement as the model for how the consolidated cable bill is handled. Whether every village is master metered is not established in the public record.
The community wide bulk agreement runs through March 2031, fiber was run throughout the community and into residences, and the community reported a substantial increase in internet speeds after the consolidation along with a premium movie channel at no extra charge. Service issues go to the provider directly. The specific speed tier is not published, which is worth asking about if you work from home.
The Landings runs a single gatehouse, reachable at (239) 489-4595, and a separately budgeted community patrol department. The posted speed limit inside the community is 20 miles per hour. For a Trawler owner that means controlled access, a staffed entry point for deliveries and guests, and a patrol presence that is funded at the club level rather than by the village.
Mail arrangements at Trawler Village are not documented in the public record we searched, and we are not going to guess at whether delivery is to the unit, to a cluster box or to a village station. It is a question we ask the association on a live transaction, and the answer is easy to get. We simply will not print an answer we have not verified.
Landscaping is split between the club, which runs golf course maintenance and property maintenance as separate budgeted departments, and the villages, which run their own committees and contractors. Trawler reported that landscaping projects continued through the summer and that the village was in beautiful shape, and the milestone improvement program added new plantings at the pool. Lee County’s fertilizer ordinance applies inside the gate like everywhere else in the county.
Every Trawler Village unit has a carport. Car stop painting appeared in the milestone improvement list, which is a small indicator that the parking areas are on the association’s maintenance cycle. Electric vehicle charging is not documented anywhere at The Landings in the record we searched, which is worth asking about directly if you drive one.
Every Trawler Village owner is a member of The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club, Inc., because membership runs with ownership here and is not optional. The club owns and operates an 18 hole executive golf course, 13 lighted Har Tru tennis courts, a sports complex with 8 pickleball courts and 3 bocce courts, a competition sized swimming pool, 18 stocked fishing lakes, a private harbor and full service marina, and two restaurants.
The course is an 18 hole executive layout, stated by the club itself, measuring 3,078 yards from the back tee, a figure that corroborates across two independent golf course databases. We do not publish a par number for it, because two reputable databases disagree and the club’s own scorecard was not reachable in the record we searched. An executive course is a genuine asset for a condominium buyer: it is walkable, it plays fast, and it keeps club dues far below what a championship layout requires.
Thirteen well lit Har Tru courts is a serious tennis facility for a community of roughly 1,200 homes, and the separate sports complex adds 8 pickleball courts and 3 bocce courts. For a Trawler buyer who plays, this is the single strongest value argument in the whole purchase, because the racquet facility here is larger than what many far more expensive Southwest Florida communities offer.
The club operates a full service marina and private harbor on the Caloosahatchee. The Landings sits on the south shore downstream of the Cape Coral Bridge, which is verifiable geography. We do not publish any claim about bridge clearance, air draft or bridgeless access to the Gulf, because we have no first party or government source for it and it is exactly the kind of claim a buyer spends real money on. The harbormaster at (239) 482-3211 is the person who answers it definitively.
There are two restaurants on property, the Wheelhouse Grille and the Helm Club, whose dining room is the Compass Rose, plus Picnic Pointe and a pavilion for outdoor events. The Wheelhouse Grille was completely rebuilt after Hurricane Ian damage. Dining reservations run through a dedicated line and can be made up to fourteen days ahead.
The club runs on an October to September fiscal year, reported revenue of $12,776,090 in its 2024 fiscal year, and employs over 120 full and part time staff. That is a real operating business, and it is the reason the club level budget and any club level assessment matter as much to a Trawler owner’s carrying cost as the village assessment does.
Resident dues, the capital contribution, the food and beverage minimum and the transfer fee are not published. Every figure circulating for them online traces to sources we do not cite. Call the club at (239) 482-3211 and ask for the current resident schedule in writing. It is one phone call, we make it for our clients as a matter of routine, and it is the difference between a carrying cost model and a guess.
A Trawler Village condominium sits in unincorporated Lee County, not the City of Fort Myers, in the Iona McGregor Fire District. The 2025 combined millage for the taxing district covering The Landings was 13.4125 mills, and the tax bill carries exactly one non ad valorem line, the Lee County solid waste assessment, which for a condominium unit was $18.31.
A Fort Myers mailing address is not the City of Fort Myers. The community sits in unincorporated Lee County, which determines the millage on the bill, the building department that reviews a permit, the code enforcement office, and, for a riverfront community, which Community Rating System discount applies to flood insurance. Using city figures for a Trawler Village unit produces a wrong tax estimate and a wrong insurance estimate at the same time.
The solid waste assessment for a condominium unit inside the community was $18.31, against $348.75 for a single family home. That is not a rounding difference and the two should never be averaged. It is one of the quiet reasons a condominium at The Landings carries a lower all in county bill than a comparable single family home inside the same gate.
There is no community development district assessment at The Landings. That was proven four independent ways in the underlying research and it is worth stating plainly, because community development district debt is a common and expensive surprise in newer Southwest Florida communities. A statewide list does contain a similarly named district, and it is not in Lee County and does not apply here.
Take the parcel’s own tax record rather than the seller’s current bill, because a homestead exemption or a portability transfer on the seller’s side will understate what a new owner pays. Then add the solid waste line, then add the village assessment from the estoppel certificate, then add the club obligation. That is the carrying cost. Anything shorter is an estimate wearing a number.
Trawler Village sits off McGregor Boulevard in south Fort Myers, inside the Lee County school district’s assignment system, roughly fifteen minutes from Lee Memorial Hospital and HealthPark, and within easy reach of Southwest Florida International Airport, downtown Fort Myers and the Sanibel causeway. School assignment in Lee County is by address and by the district’s choice process rather than by a fixed neighborhood boundary alone.
Lee County operates a school choice system, and assignment is determined by address within a zone rather than by a single guaranteed neighborhood school. Any buyer with school age children should confirm current assignment directly with the district for the specific address, because zones and choice boundaries are reviewed and do change. We provide the district contact rather than printing a school name that may be out of date by the time you close.
The Lee Health system anchors healthcare in the county, with Lee Memorial Hospital, HealthPark Medical Center and Gulf Coast Medical Center all in the Fort Myers area, plus urgent care locations and a proton therapy center. For a community whose residents skew toward retirees, proximity to a full service system is a genuine part of the value proposition, and it is one of the reasons south Fort Myers holds its pricing.
McGregor Boulevard runs directly past the community entrance and connects north to downtown Fort Myers and south toward the Sanibel causeway. Summerlin Road provides the faster route across to the beaches and the airport corridor. For a seasonal resident the practical measure is that the airport, the beaches and downtown are each a manageable drive without using the interstate.
The Cape Coral Bridge replacement is a live Florida Department of Transportation project with its own public documentation, and the published schedule material indicates construction planned to begin in 2026. It is upriver of the community and it will affect traffic patterns on the north side of the river during construction. We link the project’s own documents rather than summarising a timeline that is still moving.
Most of daily life for a Trawler Village owner happens inside the gate, because the club supplies golf, tennis, pickleball, bocce, two restaurants, a pool and a marina. The external trips are groceries, medical appointments and the airport. That pattern is why an executive golf course and a strong racquet program matter more to value here than proximity to any particular retail node.
A buyer drawn to Trawler Village is usually choosing between it and three or four other condominium villages inside the same gate, all of which share the club, the golf course, the marina and the tax picture, and none of which share Trawler’s exact combination of vintage, uniformity and documented compliance position. The right comparison is village by village, not community wide.
At 195 units Windjammer is the largest association at The Landings and the oldest, built from 1973 to 1976, with a mix of four story, two story and single story product. It carries a milestone and reserve study obligation on its four story buildings and has published milestone repairs to stairs and walkways. Its median per heated square foot of $230 is close to Trawler’s $224 on far more product variety, which makes its comparable set noisier.
These two are the workforce priced entry into The Landings, with sale medians of $228,500 and $242,500 and heated areas starting well below Trawler’s floor. Steamboat Bend East is managed by the same firm as Trawler and has publicly described passing a large milestone inspection. If budget is the binding constraint, these are the alternatives. If square footage is, Trawler is.
Flagship is 76 units across five buildings built in 1982, with two four story buildings, one three story and two two story, so it carries the same split regulatory profile Trawler does. Its median per foot of $254 is above Trawler’s, and its pool was reported defunct, which is a live village level capital question a buyer should ask about directly.
Forty five units in two three story buildings, built in 1992 and 1994, which makes it the newest condominium product at The Landings and gives it a later milestone deadline of 31 December 2025. It is managed by the same firm as Trawler. At $173 per heated foot it is the cheapest per foot in the community, and its newer vintage is the trade against Trawler’s completed compliance position.
Forty units, built 1981, with one four story building and two two story buildings, and the highest condominium price per heated foot at The Landings at $364. Clipper Cove is the premium small condominium village here. Its unit numbering is building scoped like Trawler’s, which is another reminder that the numbering convention varies by village.
Both are low rise villa and coach home products with no building of three or more stories, which means neither carries a milestone inspection or a Structural Integrity Reserve Study obligation at all. For a buyer whose objection to Trawler is purely regulatory, these are the structural alternative, at $276 and $190 per heated foot respectively and with substantially larger homes.
The two homeowner association neighborhoods inside the gate, 48 and 27 detached single family homes, built in the 1990s, at $665,000 and $717,500 medians. They sit outside the condominium statutes entirely. They are a different price tier and a different product, and they are the answer for a buyer who wants the club without any condominium governance at all.
We build the comparison on four axes that actually differ: the building’s statutory obligation and whether it has been satisfied, the flood zone of the specific building, the price per heated square foot rather than the headline median, and the association’s published capital and insurance behavior. Call Marc at (239) 287-5873 and read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida, or if you own here already, start with a free valuation of your Trawler Village home.
Trawler Village is a strong buy for a specific buyer and a poor fit for another, and the honest version of that sentence is more useful than a marketing one. The strengths are compliance, uniformity and value per foot inside a club community. The weaknesses are 1986 construction, heavy flood zone exposure, off site management and a set of costs that the community does not publish.
The completed milestone inspection and Structural Integrity Reserve Study, with documented remediation, is the headline and it is real. The staircase work was funded from reserves rather than assessed. The flat roofs were replaced after Hurricane Ian. The product is uniform enough that pricing is legible. Every unit has covered parking and golf frontage coding. And the club amenity package, particularly 13 Har Tru courts and 8 pickleball courts, is larger than the price point suggests.
Six of the seven buildings sit in Zone AE at base flood elevation 8 feet NAVD88, which drives flood insurance and puts the village in the high exposure group for the substantial improvement rule. The buildings are 1986 vintage with exterior stairs, and stair and walkway condition has been an active item. The $550,000 walkway proposal that went to attorneys is unresolved in the public record. And the village assessment amount, the club dues and the transfer costs are not published anywhere.
Off site management is not a defect, but the migration of village announcements to a credential gated portal does mean a buyer cannot self serve the recent record the way they could two years ago. Mandatory club membership is not a defect either, and it is not the same thing as a restriction on who may list your home, which the recorded declaration does not impose.
A buyer who wants a club community with golf, tennis, pickleball and a marina at a condominium price, who values documented structural compliance over newer construction, who is comfortable with flood insurance as a permanent line item, and who intends to occupy rather than to run high turnover rentals. Seasonal owners and retirees fit this village naturally, and the resident base reflects that.
A buyer who wants newer construction should look at Sunset Cove or Sunset Harbor. A buyer who wants to avoid the condominium structural regime entirely should look at Harbortown, Longboat or Schooner among the condominiums, or at Mariner’s Cove and Lighthouse among the single family neighborhoods. A buyer who needs a garage should look outside the condominium villages altogether, because Trawler has none.
Would we buy this unit, in this building, at this price, knowing what the documents say? At Trawler Village that question has an unusually good chance of a yes, because the documents exist and say something favorable. That is not true everywhere in this county right now, and it is the reason this village earns its own page.
If you are searching for a Trawler Village listing agent, or thinking that you need someone to sell your Trawler Village home, the argument that sells your unit in 2026 is not the view and it is not the pool. It is that your association completed its milestone structural inspection and its Structural Integrity Reserve Study, remediated from them, and funded the first tranche of that work from reserves rather than from an assessment. Most Southwest Florida condominium sellers cannot say that.
We tracked nine recorded Trawler Village sales dated 2024 or later, at a median of $335,000 and a median of roughly $224 per heated square foot within a band of $208 to $309. In a 96 unit village that is fewer than one sale a month, so the pricing decision on your listing is not a small input into the market, it is a large fraction of it.
Four things. First, the compliance story is a marketing asset and most listings here do not use it. Second, the building code in your recorded legal description, not your unit number, determines which regulatory story applies to your home, and a listing agent who gets that wrong invites a buyer’s agent to price in risk that does not exist. Third, the association reserves a right of first refusal with a thirty day notice window, so the transaction timeline has to account for it. Fourth, the recorded declaration does not require you to list through any particular office, which means the choice of representation is yours.
Use our free Fort Myers home valuation tool for an instant starting point, then call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072 for a real number built on the nine sale comparable set, your specific building, your specific square footage and your renovation history. Text or call, whichever you prefer. If you are also buying, read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida or call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
It helps the certainty of your sale more than it helps the headline number, and certainty is what converts a contract into a closing. A buyer’s lender asks whether the association is aware of structural deficiencies and whether an assessment is in place or planned. An association with a completed milestone inspection and a completed reserve study gives a documentary answer. That removes conditions, shortens timelines and reduces the chance of a renegotiation after inspection.
You disclose what you know, and Florida condominium sellers deliver the association’s governing documents and the statutory disclosures in any event. The better posture is to lead with it: a buyer who receives the milestone and reserve study documentation up front and sees remediation under way reads it as competence, while a buyer who discovers the same facts in week three of a contract reads it as a problem.
There is no published Trawler Village assessment schedule in the public record, so that timing question has to be answered from the association’s current budget and board calendar rather than from anything on the internet. We pull the estoppel certificate and the current budget at listing, which is the only way to answer it honestly for your specific unit.
With nine recorded sales dated 2024 or later, days on market at the village level is a small sample statistic and we do not publish a village median that a single outlier would move. We pull the current active and closed set at listing, and we price against the per foot band rather than against a community wide average that mixes 1973 towers with 2000s single family homes.
The recorded declaration gives the association thirty days written notice in which to make its election. Practically that means association notice and approval have to be initiated early rather than treated as a closing week formality. We build it into the timeline at contract, which is the difference between a thirty day close and a delayed one.
Leases at Trawler Village require approval by the manager designated by the association under the recorded declaration, and the current rules package may add a minimum term. Before marketing to investors we confirm the current leasing rules in writing with the association, because marketing a unit on a rental assumption that the rules do not support is the fastest way to lose a contract in week two.
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Florida condominium transactions in 2026 turn on documents: the milestone inspection, the reserve study, the reserve balances, the master insurance declarations, the estoppel certificate and the recorded declaration. We represented sellers and buyers through the entire period in which those requirements came into force, and we built the document request list on this page from transactions rather than from a statute summary.
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These are the questions buyers actually ask us about Trawler Village, answered from the recorded documents, county and federal records, and the association’s own published board reporting. Where the answer is not in the public record, we say so rather than estimating.
Yes. Trawler Village’s published board reporting documents that repairs identified in the Milestone and SIRS Study began at named buildings in 2025, which is the completion of the inspection made visible through the work that followed it. The three four story buildings reached 30 years of age in 2016 and carried a 31 December 2024 initial milestone deadline. The completion date itself is not published, and the filed report should be requested from the association.
Yes. The association’s board reporting refers repeatedly to repairs identified in the Milestone and SIRS Study, which is the structural integrity reserve study required of a residential condominium association for each building of three or more habitable stories. The association additionally reported that an updated reserve study was to proceed in autumn 2025, which is the posture of an association refreshing an existing study rather than commissioning a first one.
No special assessment tied to the milestone inspection or the reserve study is documented in the sources we reached, and that finding was tested with a control search rather than assumed. The correct statement is that none is documented, not that none has ever existed. The definitive answer for a specific unit comes from a current estoppel certificate, the association’s budget, its board minutes and its annual financial statement.
Seven. Three are four stories with 24 units each, at 4574, 4585 and 4586 Trawler Ct. Four are two stories, at 4570, 4575, 4581 and 4591 Trawler Ct, holding 12, 4, 4 and 4 units. All seven front Trawler Court, and all were completed in 1986.
The three four story buildings, at 4574, 4585 and 4586 Trawler Ct. The milestone inspection and the Structural Integrity Reserve Study both attach to buildings of three or more habitable stories. The four two story buildings are outside both requirements.
No. At Trawler Village the unit number encodes the building, not the floor. The recorded legal description for the parcel marketed as 4586 Trawler Ct unit 102 reads BLDG TF2, UNIT 1B. Read the recorded legal description on the parcel record or the deed, not the marketing unit number, if you want to know where in a building a unit sits.
Six of the seven buildings, 86 percent, sit inside a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area mapped Zone AE with a base flood elevation of 8 feet NAVD88. The seventh sits in the 0.2 percent annual chance band outside the Special Flood Hazard Area. The governing map panel is 12071C0416G, effective 17 November 2022. No Trawler building is mapped Zone VE.
If you finance with a federally regulated or insured loan and the building is in Zone AE, yes. The federal mandatory purchase requirement attaches to the loan rather than to the property, so a cash buyer is not federally required to carry it. The association’s own documents may require it regardless, and forgoing coverage at base flood elevation 8 on a tidal river is a decision, not a saving.
Yes. Property owners in unincorporated Lee County automatically receive a 25 percent discount on National Flood Insurance Program premiums through the Community Rating System. Confirm it is applied by looking for Lee County identification number 125124 on the policy. The Landings is in unincorporated Lee County, not the City of Fort Myers, so the unincorporated county rating is the one that applies.
The association reported that the flat parts of the roofs had all been replaced, and that lightning rods on the four story buildings damaged by Ian had been repaired where repair was possible, with several beyond repair and needing complete replacement. The village also reported minor vegetation damage only from the 2024 season. County parcel records carry no hurricane damage flag, so absence of a marker proves nothing either way.
The current Trawler Village monthly assessment is not published in the public record, and neither are the club’s resident dues. We will not print an estimate. The assessment amount appears on a current estoppel certificate, which is ordered through the association or its manager, and the club’s resident schedule comes from the club directly at (239) 482-3211.
The association’s insurance, reserves and common element maintenance, plus the community bulk services that The Landings pays centrally and re bills to the villages. The community’s own resident notice states that the consolidated communications bill is paid by The Landings and re billed to the villages much like the water fees, so those costs are paid through the village monthly assessment.
Alliant Property Management, LLC, from 13831 Vector Avenue in Fort Myers, which is off site. The association’s registered agent is care of Alliant at the same address. Village announcements have moved to the Alliant resident portal, so the current record sits behind a credential gate rather than on the community website.
Yes. Membership at The Landings runs with ownership, and the club states that every resident is considered a member with an equal interest in the well being and maintenance of the community. The cost of that membership is not published, which is why the number to call is (239) 482-3211.
Yes. Trawler Village has its own village pool with a gazebo and barbecue area, separate from the club’s competition sized pool. The pool has been resurfaced, and new plantings at the pool were part of the milestone driven improvement program. The village pool is a village amenity funded by the village assessment.
The recorded declaration permits dogs, cats and birds, which must be kept on a leash or caged at all times when outside the apartment. No number limit, no weight limit and no breed limit appears in that recorded clause. Current board adopted pet rules may differ from the 1979 recorded baseline and should be requested with the rules package.
All leases or rentals must be approved by the manager designated by the association under the recorded declaration. The recorded instrument does not state a minimum lease term on its face, and a maximum number of leases per year is not established. A later amendment or a current board rule may impose either, so confirm the current leasing rules in writing before underwriting a rental.
No. Trawler Village’s declaration states in terms that there shall be no restriction as to the minimum age of children who may live in or visit the condominium, and The Landings as a whole is not an age restricted community. The resident base does skew toward retirees and seasonal residents, which is a demographic observation rather than a rule.
Yes. All 96 units have a carport and none has a garage. The declaration also restricts parking to the areas provided and prohibits trucks, vans and other non private passenger vehicles, trailers, boat trailers and motor homes in the parking areas, which is worth resolving before closing if you own one.
Heated area runs from 1,217 to 1,587 square feet with a median of 1,269. The mix is exactly 48 two bedroom and 48 three bedroom homes, every one with 2.0 bathrooms. That uniformity is why Trawler carries the tightest price per heated square foot band at The Landings.
Recorded sales dated 2024 or later show a median of $335,000 across nine transactions, at a median of roughly $224 per heated square foot within a band of $208 to $309. The 2026 county roll shows a just value median of $202,578, which is a tax roll figure rather than a market figure. We re pull the live comparable set at the point of any offer.
No. Trawler Village is in unincorporated Lee County with a Fort Myers mailing address, inside the Iona McGregor Fire District. That determines the millage on the tax bill, the building department that reviews permits, the code enforcement office, and which Community Rating System flood discount applies. Using City of Fort Myers figures here produces wrong tax and insurance estimates at the same time.
These are the questions Trawler Village owners ask us when they are getting ready to list. If you want any of them answered against your specific unit rather than against the village, call Jesse at (239) 898-6072.
McGreevy and Comisar. We are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008 and the #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012, we price Trawler Village from the recorded documents and the per heated foot band rather than from a community wide average, and we build the compliance story into the marketing rather than leaving it for a buyer’s agent to discover. Call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072.
It depends on your building, your square footage within the 1,217 to 1,587 range, your bedroom count, and above all your interior condition, because in a village this uniform the interior is where the price spread lives. Start with our free home valuation tool and then call Jesse at (239) 898-6072 for a number built against the actual comparable set.
We tracked nine recorded sales dated 2024 or later in the Lee County condominium block that contains Trawler Village. In a 96 unit association that is a low turnover market, which means each comparable carries unusual weight and a single mispriced listing can reset what the next seller is measured against.
No. We tested the recorded declaration for a required listing clause specifically, and no such clause is present in the Trawler Village instrument at OR 1338 PG 975. Mandatory club membership runs with ownership, but mandatory membership is not mandatory representation, and the choice of listing agent is yours.
Yes. The recorded declaration reserves to the association a right of first refusal on a proposed sale or transfer, with thirty days written notice in which to make its election. It is rarely exercised, but the notice window is real and it needs to sit in the transaction timeline from the contract date rather than from the closing week.
The recorded declaration and amendments, the current budget and reserve schedule, the master insurance declarations page, the most recent annual financial statement, board minutes, an estoppel certificate, and increasingly the milestone inspection report and the Structural Integrity Reserve Study. Trawler Village is unusually well placed on the last two, and that is a selling point rather than a hurdle.
Yes. Assemble them at listing rather than at inspection. A buyer who receives a completed milestone inspection and a completed reserve study with the marketing package reads competence. A buyer who has to chase them in week three reads risk, and priced risk comes out of your number.
It helps, and it is a distinct selling argument. The four two story buildings at 4570, 4575, 4581 and 4591 Trawler Ct are outside the milestone inspection and reserve study requirements entirely, because neither obligation reaches a building below three habitable stories. Some buyers are specifically screening for that, and a listing that does not say it will not be found by them.
Not at Trawler Village, and this is the whole argument of this page. A four story building here is a building whose milestone inspection and reserve study are done and whose remediation is documented. Compared with a four story building elsewhere in the county that has not started, that is a materially safer purchase, and it should be marketed as one.
It is a disclosed item in the public record and it should be handled as one. A contractor’s walkway re grading proposal at $550,000 was not accepted, no agreement was reached, and the matter was referred to attorneys. We ask the association for its current status at listing so the answer is in hand before a buyer asks, rather than after.
Kitchen and bath presentation first, because in a fixed footprint that is the largest price lever. Then anything that reads as deferred: water heater age, air handler age, discoloured ceilings, and any evidence of past water intrusion. Association level items such as stairs, walkways and roofs are not yours to fix and should be presented as association work already in progress.
Against Trawler’s own per heated foot band of roughly $208 to $309, not against the community median. The Landings mixes a 1973 high rise tower, 1970s villas, 1980s mid rises and 1990s single family homes inside one gate, and a community wide average is the least informative number available for a Trawler unit.
The structural argument is better than it has been at any point since the legislation took effect, because your association has finished what many have not. The offsetting pressure is a statewide condominium market that is cautious on fees and insurance. We work that trade off unit by unit rather than issuing a community wide verdict. Call Jesse at (239) 898-6072.
Florida condominium sellers deliver the association’s governing documents and the statutory disclosures, and you disclose known material facts about the unit. In practice at Trawler Village that means the declaration and amendments, the rules, the budget, the financials and the estoppel, and it is good practice to include the milestone inspection and reserve study documentation voluntarily.
Leases at Trawler Village require manager approval under the recorded declaration, and any existing lease survives the sale on its own terms. Marketing a tenant occupied unit narrows the buyer pool toward investors, and the current leasing rules need to be confirmed in writing first so that the investment case you are marketing is one the association actually permits.
Time the listing to the season and lead with the club. A Trawler unit is a low maintenance, covered parking, golf frontage home inside a gate with an executive course, 13 Har Tru courts, 8 pickleball courts, a marina and two restaurants. That is a seasonal owner’s product, and the village’s own columns record the seasonal rhythm plainly.
Letting the listing describe the unit by its marketing number and by a floor that the number does not actually encode. Buyers and their agents check, and an error on the building is an invitation to discount for regulatory risk that does not apply. We read the recorded legal description first on every Trawler listing.
Two ways. Use our free Fort Myers home valuation tool for an instant starting point, or call Jesse direct at (239) 898-6072 and we will pull the comparable set, the estoppel certificate and the association’s current document package before we talk about a number. If you are buying as well as selling, read how we represent buyers in Southwest Florida or call Marc at (239) 287-5873.
McGreevy and Comisar are Jesse McGreevy and Marc Comisar, licensed Florida real estate professionals regulated by the Florida Real Estate Commission, FREC, and brokered by Domain Realty. They lead Domain Realty Group, the #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012, and are Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008. Our office is at 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134.
Jesse McGreevy holds Florida real estate license SL3101296 and Marc Comisar holds Florida real estate license BK3060671, both regulated by the Florida Real Estate Commission. The brokerage of record is Domain Realty. Read more about McGreevy and Comisar, or reach us at (239) 898-6072 and (239) 287-5873.
Jesse McGreevy leads the listing side of the business. Marc Comisar leads buyer representation. Both live and work in Southwest Florida and have done so through the market that produced Hurricane Ian, the condominium structural legislation and the insurance repricing that followed, which is the market Trawler Village sits inside.
Domain Realty Group brings together roughly forty agent partners across Lee and Collier counties under the Domain Realty brokerage. Current listings, market coverage and the full roster are published at Domain Realty Group. McGreevy and Comisar and their Domain Realty Group team have sold over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate, and McGreevy and Comisar alone have over $900 million in Sales.
We read the recorded legal description before we form a view about a building. We request the milestone inspection report, the Structural Integrity Reserve Study, the budget, the reserve balances, the master insurance declarations and the estoppel certificate at the start of the contract rather than at the end of the inspection period. And we tell a client when a number is not published rather than inventing one, which is the standard this entire page is written to.
The documents below are the primary records behind the claims on this page, each linked to its own official authority source rather than to a copy we host. Association held documents such as the filed milestone inspection report, the Structural Integrity Reserve Study, the current budget and the estoppel certificate are obtained through the association and its manager, and we order them on every transaction.
Document | Authority source |
|---|---|
Trawler Village recorded condominium declaration, OR 1338 PG 975, 80 pages | |
Trawler Village Condominium Association, Inc., corporate record, document 749974 | |
Florida milestone inspection statute, section 553.899 | |
Florida Structural Integrity Reserve Study statute, section 718.112 | |
Florida condominium insurance statute, section 718.111 | |
Florida loss assessment coverage statute, section 627.714 | |
FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map panel for the property | |
Lee County flood zone, freeboard and substantial improvement rules | |
Lee County Community Rating System discount and community identification number | |
Lee County parcel record, building characteristics and recorded legal description | |
Florida condominium project registration record | |
The Landings Yacht, Golf and Tennis Club, first party club record | |
Lee County mandatory flood insurance information sheet | |
Lee County substantial improvement and 50 percent rule guidance | |
Lee County floodplain terms and flood zone definitions | |
Lee County Property Appraiser guidance for condominium owners after Hurricane Ian | |
National Hurricane Center tropical cyclone report for Hurricane Ian | |
FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, the mapping service behind the building classification |
Every factual claim on this page traces to a primary or authoritative source. Market figures come from county records and the Southwest Florida MLS. We do not cite listing aggregators or competing brokerages.
McGreevy and Comisar, Domain Realty Group. Top 1% Real Estate Agents Nationally Since 2008. #1 Team in Southwest Florida since 2012. Over $2.5 Billion in Real Estate sold as a team and over $900 million in Sales personally. Jesse McGreevy (239) 898-6072, Marc Comisar (239) 287-5873, office 24031 S Tamiami Trl #101, Bonita Springs, FL 34134. Market data from Southwest Florida MLS, pulled September 2026. Brokered by Domain Realty.
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