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Originally Posted by Army Guy
Ok, my wife and I as I have said in other posts arer in the TV "buying" stage of a CYV. We have studied the maps, all the home buying sites, etc and the following appears to us:
1. Each village within TV has the roughly (+/-) the same number of homes & villas in it.
2. Each village has one "neighborhood" of stucco/concrete CYVs and one "neighborhood" of frame/siding CYVs.
3. TV builds many more 3 bedroom CYVs, then they do 2 bedroom CYVs.
4. TV presently builds more of the Woodlawn 2 bedroom CYV then they do Beauregard 2 bedroom CYVs.
Are we on trach with our observations or are we in left field!
Army Guy
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When we bought (summer of 2006) a 3 BR Bonita in Sabal Chase (with closets in all bedrooms), our rep told us that the 2 bedrooms used to be more popular and more were built but that the 3 bedrooms were now the thing - I bought when there was a waiting list and you had 4 hours to make your decision by phone from afar in most cases. My sister bought a CBS designer in Largo. Largo has no patio villas, Sabal Chase I think has 2 CBS CYV neighborhoods and either 1 or 2 frame CYV neighborhoods as well as patio villas, designer and ranch neighborhoods. Am not sure, but haven't seen any Courtyard Villas in Sunset Pointe but do see patio villas. I'm not sure of the ratio of 3 br to 2 br CYVs - just walking around our CYV neighborhood seems to be about 50/50, but I haven't done the exact count.
Just did a search of Villages only resales and found 30 3-bedroom CYVs either for sale or pending and about 49 2-bedroom ones. Usually very few Bonita/Foxglove on the market at any one time (and I check all the time for some obsessive reason, maybe just to feel good about my choice, who knows). Maybe they build more Anna Maria's/Stoneybrook models, don't know. There always seem to be more of those on the new construction available as well.
As with any house, there are pluses and minuses to every floor plan, just have to find the one that suits YOU the best.
My conclusion is either there were more 2 bedrooms built and thus more 2 bedrooms on the market at any time, or maybe there are more people who decide to move to a bigger unit, maybe when they become FROGS, if they have a 2 bedroom. Could be other reasons that haven't occurred to me.
We originally thought we would buy bigger when we moved down permanently, but now don't think we will as we are finding we have plenty of room and think we will forever. My goal in retirement anyway (at least one of them) is to simplify my life anyway. Just need space (or an air mattress) for the visiting kids/grandkids to sleep on as they multiply (the grandkids, not the kids, hopefully
