It took 8 months, 45 showings and two failed deals but our home is finally sold. The only way we sold it was to keep lowering the price until we started getting offers. Keep at it. We ended up selling it to a couple who viewed our home 3 months ago. spent a total of 10 minutes walking around and did not ask any questions when they left. Our experience has been that many buyers have been looking for up to 10 months (like ours were) and are only now making offers to get in under the deadlne for the expiration of the fedferal tax credit.
Well we sold it and are talkng to movers but now that the excitment of our June (and two other) visit to the Villages has worn off, we are unsure if the Villages are for us since we both work full time and cannot retire for 7 more years. We had already picked out the model home we wanted during our last visit and have been working with a Village real estate agent for the last few months. All that was left was to pick from the available new homes when we get there. Now that we have had time to see homes outside of the Villages and found that for the same money we could get a lot more, our plans have changed from a definate move to TV to a maybe. We now have to start our home hunt all over again once we get to Florida.
As I said in another post, we love the idea of the Villages but we will be giving up a better home to live in a place were we cannot enjoy what we are paying for because we have to work full time for at least 7 more years. Then there is the bond fee.
