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Originally Posted by Accidental1
My wife and I are looking at homes in the Villages. Currently we've just been going to open houses on our own and looking mainly at listings offered by The Villages (not MLS listed). We were wondering how others have handled their purchase of pre-owned homes from the Villages. Did you get your own MLS realtor to assist you or did you deal only with The Villages sales representatives? It seems to me that dealing only with The Villages sales representatives (even if the person assisting you isn't the one who is listed as the rep for the home being sold) is risky. In that case is anyone really looking out for the buyers best interest? Would love to know other peoples experiences. If you've bought new homes your input would be appreciated too.
Thank you.
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I can only say that I bought one TV home from a MLS realtor and another TV home from the Villages both pre-owned. To me, the process was identical except on one, we looked at the Villages site, on the other we looked at Zillow.
In both cases, I feel like the agent was looking out for us. In both cases they negotiated our offers with the listing agent with no pressure for us to accept a counter or whatever. It was exactly the same thing and we feel like it was a win. The contract for the TV listing was a little more specific on some things but no show stoppers.
Good luck.