In Florida the lanai is where guests actually live once the parks close. In almost every listing it is a table, four chairs and an empty slab. That gap is the most underused opportunity in this market.
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Walk through the listings in any resort community and count how many pool decks have been designed rather than furnished. It is a very small number. The budget went inside, and the outdoor space got whatever was left.
That is backwards for this climate. Guests come off a park day, swim, eat outside and stay out until bedtime. The lanai is the room they spend their evenings in, and it is the frame around the photograph that sells the home.