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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

One important thing to consider, that we didn't even think about the first couple years we visited as guests/on vacation:

How many vehicles will you have, when you get here? You need a place to put them all. If you have one car, one golf cart, a courtyard villa would accommodate that just fine, no problems at all.

If you get a second golf cart, one of your vehicles will need to stay in the driveway. Which is fine, but still do-able.

If each of you has a car, and you have two golf carts, then trying to get 2 in the garage and 2 in the driveway will become a huge ongoing inconvenience.

We have a carport and a golf cart garage, but we use the garage for our lawnmower and other tools (electric trimmer, rakes and shovels, air compressor, etc.) We have an extra long double-driveway, so we can have all 4 vehicles in the driveway and still be able to take any of them out to the road without having to move another one out of the way.

One car + one golf cart = you don't have to rule out any options at all.

Lots of Patio Villas now being built with full size 2-car garages that will hold one car and 2 golf cars, you can also now have golf car garages in addition to the full garage. Still, most people have stuff stored in at least part of their garage and end up parking in their driveways.