Highly recommend doing the Lifestyle Visit. The Villages will put you up for a week in a villa near Brownwood (your stay can be 4-7 nights). The villas are much nicer than any hotel room, and include everything you need...linens, towels, pots & pans, dishes, even coffee. Also included is a golf car and 2 bicycles. There is no sales pressure, no meetings, no seminars. You will be assigned a sales rep, but you can choose to spend as much or as little (even none) time with him/her as you like. Use the time to venture about in the provided golf car to your heart's content. We did our Lifestyle Visit in September, when the rates were $99/night, which is a heck of a good deal. Your sales rep can even give you a guided tour of TV if the trolleys aren't running.
All in all, the Lifestyle Visit is the perfect way to experience TV, and gain an appreciation for the scope of the place. You may even find your perfect home (we did) during that visit. If not, you can actually do the Lifestyle Visit again, or come down and rent a place for a month or two and look at your leisure. Good Luck!
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