If you’re seriously thinking of making TV your future home, you need to treat your lifestyle visit as a potential place to relocate to, not necessarily just a nice vacation week.
I purposely did back-to back lifestyle visits last July and August, as high temps and humidity could have been a deal breaker to me as a year-long future resident (I found out though very hot, I survived the weather/climate fine.) Had I just did a lifestyle visit in the snowbird season of more temperate weather, I could have had buyers-remorse come summer time temps.
I also did a third visit in October where I rented a villa for two weeks in an established neighborhood, so I could compare the new builds of the lifestyle visits with the resales of a more established neighborhood.
Though I enjoyed the relaxing amenities of my lifestyle visits, I also did my homework:
1) where would my doctors/ hospital be?
2) are there sufficient restaurants that I would enjoy?
3) what are the grocery stores like?
4) where is the shopping? Quality of stores?
5) what are the gyms like?
6) where is the movie theatre?
7) how bad is the noise near the turnpike?
8) are the power lines that could be in view a deal-breaker?
9) location of new home sites - pros/cons - corner lots, walls, views or lack of views
10) how far does pickleball noise travel?
11) location of individual villages to amenities that are important to me
12) age demographics of certain areas of TV
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MICHAEL
*The Village of Richmond*
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