535 W 2nd Ave, Windermere, FL 34786

What the county record says

More bedrooms than baths on a lakefront street

This parcel files four bedrooms against three baths, and it is in the minority on W 2nd Ave: 24 of the 48 parcels here file more baths than bedrooms, against 18 the other way and six level. The street's average bath count, 4.31, sits above its average bedroom count of exactly 4.0.

That inversion is worth knowing before writing copy. On this street, five and a half baths is ordinary and four bedrooms is ordinary; a house with more bedrooms than baths is describing itself accurately rather than modestly.

The assessment of $1,674,180 is the tenth-lowest of the forty-eight, at $472.80 a foot.

Reading the Wauseon Bay frontage

Wauseon Bay opens off Lake Butler on the Town of Windermere side, so an address here is on the Butler Chain without sitting on the main basin. This parcel is screened as lakefront because its boundary reaches a mapped water polygon — a mapping result, not a shoreline survey.

Bay frontage, canal frontage and lake frontage are three different things to a buyer, and a GIS screen does not settle which one a deck faces. The recorded plat and the deed describe the lot; the permitting authority describes what may be built on the water.

What this page is not

• It is not a listing. Nothing here says the property is for sale.
• It is not an appraisal. Just value is the county's figure for its own tax year.
• It is not a condition report. A low rate per foot is a county figure, not a finding about the house.

Windermere adds municipal review

Inside the Town of Windermere, exterior work and tree removal run through the town as well as the county. A renovation story in a listing description should name the approval that exists, not the one the buyer hopes for.

Keep reading

• Town of Windermere guide
• Every Butler Chain shoreline address
• Search another county record