Nick Flerlage

Your Lifestyle Locator

What do Clients Say?

The service that NextHome Suncoast provided was the best that I've experienced with selling a home. No question went unanswered, and they responded immediately to alleviate any concerns that we had. Highly recommend Nick & Beth and their staff to anyone interested in selling or buying a home.

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Nick and Beth were absolutely fabulous to work with They are kind thoughtful and patient.They are very professional and have a very strong customer focus. I would recommend them as the best

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Nick and Beth were a great team to work with! The duo really listened to what we were looking for in a house and took the time to show us various properties that aligned with our needs until we found the right one. Never once did we feel rushed or felt like we were trying to be persuaded into buying a house we didn't want. Instead, their attention to detail and great knowledge of the area saved us from making offers on homes that would not have suited us in the long run. I highly recommend Nick and Beth with NextHome Suncoast! Thank you both for such a phenomenal job - we look forward to working with you again in the future!

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We have bought with Nick, sold with Nick, and Bought again. You would be hard pressed to find anyone who knows the Venice market better and he has an intuitive sense of getting the price right. Maybe even more importantly, he has guided us through all the details that come with any deal and he has a great network of support services. He and Beth are great people to work with and we cannot recommend them highly enough.

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We cannot say enough great things about Nick from the Flerlage team. We are relocating from the grey state of Ohio to Venice, Florida. We began our journey in Feb 2019 and had our home purchased by the end of April 2019. Nick took an entire weekend and showed us close to 15 homes. He was so eager to share his love and knowledge of the area. Once we found our potential home he went the extra mile to make sure all of our concerns regarding remodeling and zoning were verified. He made it his personal goal to make sure our home was cleaned and left as a clean slate for us to begin when we arrive. We were so fortunate to find Nick. We are so excited and happy for our new journey that he helped make possible.

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About Nick

The foundation of a farm life shaped Nick Flerlage more than almost anything else in his life.  He grew up on a tobacco farm in rural Southern Maryland, the youngest of five children. His Dad was a retired Army Sergeant who enjoyed the farm life, and his Mom was a homemaker who managed the household and their mini Dachshunds. Although their primary crop was tobacco, they also grew corn, soybeans, hay, and a huge garden. Nick spent many hours on their Massey Ferguson tractors, and recalls planting, topping, cutting, spearing and hanging tobacco to cure.  A lot of the structure in his life came from those summer days on the farm with his father. And much like his career today, there was always work to be done.

When Nick was a teenager, he learned his first lesson in overcoming adversity when he suffered a motorcycle accident, and spent two months in traction and another two months in a body cast. He had to learn to walk all over again. Not long after, he left home at the age of 17 to conquer the world, and has been paving his own entrepreneurial path ever since.  He graduated from the University of Maryland with a Business Management degree and an MBA at their R.H. Smith School of Business. After college, he began working as a biologist at the National Institute of Health. While working there, he co-authored articles in various different biological journals.

His foray into real estate actually began for the right reasons, but at the wrong time, meaning just before the most recent housing bubble.  As everyone else seemed to be getting out of the industry, his entrepreneurial spirit and zest for a dynamic profession led him into it. And even though it was during a down time, he followed the Warren Buffet strategy of swimming against the tide and hasn’t looked back since.

Today, Nick and Beth, his wife of 30 years, work side by side and specialize in helping active professionals or retirees to locate or market local homes to suit their changing needs.  They are recognized for their superior knowledge of the Venice lifestyle and its active communities.  It’s actually how they earned the title of ‘Lifestyle Locators’. They are consistently in the top 1% of all agents, has been a Five Star Proffessional for 13 years, and voted ‘Best of Venice’ for the past 8 years.