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Old 11-21-2012, 11:22 AM
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Originally Posted by eweissenbach;551***
The price difference could easily be in the lot premium. Anyone can cherry pick listings and find some that are apparently overpriced. Those that are will either sell for much less than listed.....or won't sell. My experience is that you can GENERALLY find homes that are better values in resales than new, though new may still be anyone's preference for good reasons.
I agree completely. As many have said, we each have our own needs and desires. But I'm convinced that there are many resales out there, and probably quite a few south of 466 that are better buys than new, and they may be more central as well. I know a number of people that have gotten fantastic deals on re-sales. We live near Lake Sumter south of 466 and the designer next to us sold for about $40,000 less than what they paid for it 6 years ago, and they had about $20,000 in improvements to boot. And you know the bond is about $10,000 less than what new would be. If I was in the market for rental property I would have bought it myself for a rental. And I think that was the aim of the original poster - to point out that if you look around, and don't get caught up in the "fever" of buying new, you can save a lot of money if you look at resales. I also think there are a couple of people on this board that consistently back the Developer, always seem to have the latest information, etc, and I suspect are connected with the Developer in some way. If you're a newbie or wannabe, take everything you read with a grain of salt.