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Originally Posted by Mzjaz
My wife and I have been renting in TV for several months each year for past few years. We are getting ready to retire, downsize, and by a smaller home. Most of the homes we look at are basic builder grade, have cheap cabinets and countertops, have too much deferred maintenance, and are too overpriced. We don't want to spend another $120,000 to bring it up to a level found in houses outside TV. When you add in the taxes and bond it is not an affordable lifestyle we want in retirement. Plus the all the Villa Villages remind us an overpriced mobile home park. Just our observations.
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You come here every year to rent, for what reason? If you're looking for a bargain go to Pasco or Hernando County and get a home in a 55+ community for half the price just 20 minutes from the Gulf, that's what I would do if price was the only consideration. The reason they can ask a lot more for the homes, you should have already that figured out and saved your first post for something important.
Here's my overprice mobile home, as you call it. I paid $158K new in 2011 and I've put about $20K into the home. I don't think too many trailer parks look like our villa community, maybe that is just me. It's now been appraised for $249K, that's inflation.
