[TrudyM]

We are not in the villages yet, I am at the data crunch stage. That said we have moved allot. I am analytical by nature and always crunch the numbers. I found allot of info in the nuts and bolts forum.
One big thing is bond or no bond. It will impact your monthly expenses. (If you are an obsessive number cruncher, you can get a life expectancy number for yourself from sites on the web and do the math if you are like me.)
Another is if I am not mistaken the different counties have different tax rates as TV is huge it covers several counties.

Unlike the above poster I believe the inspection is a must. That said it only finds visual problems they don’t open up walls. Subject to inspection and termite report should be in the contract. The punch list of repairs should be put in an addendum to the contract to clear that contingent. We have in the past gotten estimates for the repairs, doubled the amount and then backed that from the price or had that amount remain in the escrow account that they don’t get till the repairs are done. It is amazing how fast the repairs get done when they don’t get their money, especially if you write in that the commission to the realtor isn’t paid until after the repairs hold is cleared.
Unless TV is very different, you do not have to sign the contract as written by the sales person, insert and amend it, to fit your needs.

I went through a copy of the Sun and listed all the groups we might be interested in and then mapped their locations on a TV map to narrow in the zone.

If you figure out something else that would be good in the analysis let me know.

Best of luck.