[sschuler1]

We are having a new home built, and found that we got such a great price on the new home that there was no comparison. We are building in Hemingway, which will be almost in the middle between Lake Sumter and the new town square Brownwood when it is built. We don't feel that we are building too far away from anything. There is a brand new regional rec center being built near us, there is a grocery store right near us on 466a, and Lake Sumter is maybe 5 minutes further by golf cart than any of the areas that the others are talking about. Also the big plus that no one has mentioned: everything is new. Your roof is new, furnace and a/c is new, appliances are new. You won't have to sink money into those repairs for many years. Sure you might need to put some of the little extras into the house, but at least they are your choices and you might have to change those things out anyway in a used home because you don't like what the previous owner picked. There was no question for us. We couldn't find a used home that we could just move into without sinking some money into it, and we ended up spending less on the new with everything we wanted.