[Sidney Lanier]

We are in total agreement with 12ridehd in terms of buying a resale. We came to TV knowing that we wanted to do that for, among other reasons, those cited in 12's posting: You see exactly what you're getting. Besides, I had once before built a house and had said 'never again!' We were fortunate in that, even though the house we bought had been listed by TV Resale Dept, we saw it privately and the sellers were able to end their listing with a phone call. It had been built in spring 2004; we saw and bought it in fall 2007. Before we began negotiating on a final price, the sellers immediately deducted what would have been the 6% brokerage fee, and then we negotiated from that point. In addition, the house came with wonderful optional landscaping, a costly water purification/softening system, a screened (and furnished) front porch, lots of options that we didn't even realize were options, and the bond had been paid when the sellers had bought new. We ended up with a Designer home that cost barely more than the Patio Villas we had been looking at. No complaints about a resale!