Alan -
Ditto Ed's comments - those are good thoughts for you to consider.
A lot of what you'll decide to do will be driven by what
you are comfortable doing. You're in exactly the same boat as Sandy and I with your life situation. We elected to go ahead and purchase a pre-owned Patio Villa a year ago. By the time we added up the cost for what we'd been shelling out for hotel stays/home rental plus cart rental, etc. for our multiple TV visits over the course of time, it wasn't a ton more money out-of-pocket annually to own a PV. Though it's ultimately not what we feel we'll want if/when we'd decide to move to TV permanently, the PV certainly fills the bill for us until then. We also have elected not to rent it out even though we're only in TV for a total of around 7-8 weeks scattered throughout the year. That was simply our philosophical choice. We're rolling the dice about what our place might be worth money-wise on down the road.......but that's the current dilemma with ANYBODY owning a home right now. Our best guess is that we'll come out o.k. on it if we choose to sell in the future for whatever reason.
Construction completion for TV is projected to occur in 2018.
http://www.districtgov.org/images/IR...of%20Facts.pdf See the top of p. 3 of the document for the 2018 reference. If that indeed holds true, you'll still be good to purchase a new home given your timeframe. But IMHO.......if the current rate of home construction and sales rolls on as it has been, the developer could wrap up before then, barring other land acquisition. All speculative at this point.
New vs. resale - Again, something that's up to you to decide. Regardless of which route you choose, you're winding up with a home in TV which is a good thing! Plenty of earlier threads about the pros and cons of each - give the Search function a whirl and review what turns up.
It's pretty straight-forward to get everything taken care of with a home in TV while you're away. Redwitch does homewatch for us and it works out well. We also outsource the lawn/landscaping care and pest control. Once you've got all the pieces of the puzzle covered, things go very well.
Hope all that's helpful. I'm sure you will get good feedback from other TOTVers as well.
And welcome to TOTV!!!!!
Bill
