Lylesellsfla is a good site. Also realty executives has a good site (
www.buyinthevillages.com/ ). Do a search on TOTV before using any outside or Villages agent. Some are useless. My wife and I had a horrible experience with an outside agent and his agency that ended up costing us about 725 bucks for nothing.
Good advice on using Villages agents and outside agents. We used both and would never have found the house we did without using an outside agent, and I am sure there are those who would never have found theirs without a Villages agent.
You can finance a pre-owned home or manufactured house with any of the mortgage companies around here. It's up to them whether or not you have enough to put down. The Villages has nothing to do with that.
Good luck. If you need some help when you start looking, pm me. We recently bought a pre-owned home and would be glad to assist in any way we can.