When we recently began the search for a used home we ended up with a Villages agent to show us the ones listed with the Villages and a Realtor that could show us the rest of the houses listed by real estate companies. Sort of a rotten deal because who ever you buy from the other one gets the shaft.
Years ago the Villages was a MLS realtor with a broker and they shared listings, then they closed all their Real Estate offices and went to agents and dropped MLS and refuse to work with the other real estate companies. Someone said the Villages did not like having to pay commissions to outside realtors.
We listed our old house with the Villages to begin with, they used it to sell new homes, if they showed it they were telling the customer that they could buy a new one for the same price. After the listing expired we listed with a local Realtor and they sold it with in two weeks.
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