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KayakerNC - My hubby & I have visited several yrs in TV and love it but weren't in a position to make our move yet. So this last April we were just in to look (we want the Gardenia). We were about to leave after being pre-approved but I really did not want to rent our new home before we had a chance to live in it. The morning we were leaving we pulled up several Patio Villa to look at that were pre-owned and we bought the 3rd one we saw. Be careful - if you rent through TV - you have to pay 20% of the rent they would have gotten on your place, to TV as well as a cleaning fee each time you go... I visit mine periodically and was not willing to do that. We are going to list ours independently with one of the online websites that rent there. We found that having the villa gives us a place to stay as well as a place to rent and we got it fully furnished - bond paid - for 130K. We can get conservatively 15K yrly for season and a few other months rent. Which will leave us time to come ourselves. Just another side to think about. We will buy our main home when we are closer to living there yrly and may keep this one for rental or family. We too, have 2 other homes to sell - Atlanta and a NC mtn.home too. Our Villa will be listed for the season as soon as I can get it online. Good luck.