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Originally Posted by graciegirl
There are all kinds of very inexpensive options to move your stuff and homes are easy to sell. In fact, most of us do not need a realtor to sell a home.
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I wouldn't go as far as to say that. There are tons of homes on the market iin The Villages that have been on the market for quite some time. And there are a myriad of reasons they have not sold. Maybe priced too high, bad location, you name it. To make a general statement that homes are easy to sell and you don't even need a realtor, is really stretching it, IMHO. We did sell our own home a few years ago without a realtor (but that was during the big housing boom), and some people are doing it now. But there is quite a bit of competitition from the Developer's new homes, and some locations (south of 466 for example) are probably easier to sell than north of 466. I would guess most use a realtor or The Villages salespeople . Our neighbor near Lake sumter south of 466 took at least a $40,000 loss on their home last year, and it took a long time to sell, using a variety of realtors and The Villages salespeople. And it was a really nice designer in a good central location. When you look at The Villages real estate ads, you can follow a house for awhile. If it doesn't sell within a few months, they remove it from the real estate listings, and then relist it a month later with a new number. So it looks like a house is "sold" when in fact it is still on the market.