[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I know because I bought via a private sale. The seller used an outside real estate agency to list their home. The Villages didn't vet us. They didn't ask us if we had kids moving in. They didn't ask how many pets we had, they didn't ask if we were over 55 - until closing day when they took our out of state licenses to confirm our identities (we hadn't moved here yet, so obviously we didn't have Florida IDs yet).

If we were age 52 and 53, had two grandkids age 8 and 9 moving in with us, they would not have known until we tried to get Villages IDs for them. And by then, it'd be too late.

Maybe you dodged a bullet. Maybe you would have been sadly surprised when someone pointed out that the deed restrictions on the home you just purchased did not allow your grandkids to move in with you. It would have put you in a position similar to those that now have to remove the stone that was present when they purchased.

Or, maybe something was happening behind the scenes that you weren't aware of.

If this truly was a private purchase with no agents or lawyers involved and the seller did not mention the restrictions at the time then you really did dodge a bullet.