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Originally Posted by ivanhoe
The wife and I are visiting TV on our Lifestyle Preview Plan on May 1. We are very excited about it. 
(We're more than half convinced that TV is going to be our home in the near future. Planning to retire next year around this time.)
The timing of buying and selling our home hear in NY has me thinking that I might prefer selling here and renting nearby until the right unit becomes available. We will be interested in a pre-owned unit and I don't see that coming off just on our schedule.
My question to all my TV forum friends  is-where would you recommend renting close by? 
We see that all year renting in TV is hard to find and it seems a bit expensive.
We wouldn't mind a hours drive as we are New Yorkers and an hour on the pleasant roads of Florida is nothing to us.
I'm asking now as we may take some time to check this out on our visit next week. |
WOW, we are planning about this time next year and are planning on a pre-owned as well. We also are possibly planning to rent and then buy. The advantage of renting within TV is you can get the Sun (local paper) daily delivered to your door (even while renting) and have access to daily open houses by both TV and other realtors. We have made 7 weekly visits and during each visit we would have our morning coffee and plan the open houses to visit in the morning (normally 10:00-12:00) and then the afternoon open houses (normally 2:00-4:00). You also will be "on property" and can spend your time riding around TV and not commuting (something I'm sure you are tired of doing).
Hopefully we can make a rental arrangement (month or two) that wouldn't tie us down on a long term rental should we find that "dream home" with maybe a quick close!!
One think you didn't mention is whether you are moving furniture. We are planning to buy a furnished home, as we don't plan to bring our "stuff" from this house, only to find it won't fit in our Villages home.
Best of luck on whichever plan of attack you choose. After our first visit in 2005, we know 100% that TV was definitely for us.
