[ijusluvit]

It's true there is no mixing TV realty and MLS. Get a rep from each to see all possible sales. I think MLS may be the better route with the "buyers market". Villages properties and their agents seem less flexible on price and other aspects of the sales contract. And believe it or not, there are actually foreclosures in TV! In the case of friends of ours who were negotiating purchase of such a property, the MLS agent really knew what she was doing. This was a month or so after an MLS company picked up the listing which previously had been under contract with TV for 6 months.

Also, why not shop around for a mortgage? We naively thought that since we had to do the details from afar, going with Citizens would make it simple. It was such a disaster that a VP eventually called us to apologize for all the mistakes made by bank staff. She said our case was the most mishandled she had ever seen. Maybe I should be happy to be #1 in something...