[Sidney Lanier]

I absolutely agree, TomW: Signage does not sell a house. We are south of CR-466, meaning the only signs that we would see are small ones in windows, yet we bought privately without benefit of any signage at all. And in truth, on a percentage basis there are very few houses for sale throughout TV. When we came back to TV in the hopes of actually buying, we had our time pre-planned: a day with a VLS salesperson, a day with a MLS one, a day looking at FSBOs (found mainly in the Daily Sun listings), and a day to catch our breath and regroup. Ironically, we ended up buying not a FSBO but a listed house which we were fortunate enough to see privately, and in Florida a listed seller can phone the real estate office and end the listing with a call.

I remember once our going to a yard sale on a road not far from where we live, but in a different town, here in the Mid-Hudson Valley, where there were 'for sale' signs on very nearly every other house. We could come to no conclusion other than there was a problem there, and by asking it turned out that there was: A townwide reassessment hit harder those people in older homes who were still paying taxes based on property values from decades earlier, while those in newer houses of equal value had been paying disproportionately higher taxes, and New York State being known as 'Land of Taxes,' some were priced out of the market....