[Sidney Lanier]

It's not as though you absolutely need to know EVERY SINGLE HOUSE that's for sale in order to figure out what you want to do. As suggested earlier, YOU know just what you want in a house, YOU know how much you're willing to spend, and presumably YOU have some idea one way or the other if you want new construction or a resale. We arrived here on Labor Day to visit friends who had just bought and moved into their house, and by the next day we had hooked up with a Villages salesperson to start getting some idea of what the market was all about; we were able to do this without knowing everything all at once. However, by the time we got back here in mid-October, knowing for sure that we did NOT want to build but rather definitely wanted a resale, we planned our time: one day with a Villages salesperson, one day with a MLS seller, one day for FSBOs based on what we were able to glean from the Daily Sun and other places. In the end, after all this running around, our friends whom we visited the month before introduced us to their neighbors two houses away who were selling (and BTW they were listed with TV...), and we ended up buying directly from them (all they had to do was place a phone call to TV real estate and withdraw their listing). Do your research however you can do it, knowing it does NOT have to be absolutely 100% (that is, EVERY house as you mentioned in your post). Good luck!