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Originally Posted by Gulfcoast
I often hear people recommend renting in TV before buying. I'm curious to know who followed that advice (or wish that they did) and what they learned from renting first. Did renting change your mind about where you bought or what style home you wanted?
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We rented a furnished home for 2 years and ended up buying it! We were so glad to be able to test the neighbors and neighborhood before making a decision. We liked it so much, we bought it, furniture and all. We had sold all of our furniture before moving to TV because we knew it wouldn’t fit in Florida and the cost to move it was astronomical. So glad we did because we would never have been able to sell it here. We have about 70 boxes of stuff in a storage unit that we brought with us, personal things we couldn’t do without. Anyhow, we are SO glad we did it this way. We had lived in our house for 34 years. Moving was stressful. Doing it the way we did reduced a lot of that stress. We’ve been here 5 years, Sept. 1, and love it.