This is just one opinion. If the lot is the #1 criteria, then seeing how the views look after that home and all the surrounding homes and landscaping are done is best accomplished by seeing/getting either an already-built new home, or a pre-owned home.
I remember a rather long thread here by Happinow (I think), in which there was great disappointment over their golf or partial golf view being blocked by a neighbor who built later and added barrier landscaping or some such thing that blocked their view and caused friction between neighbors.
Again, this is just an opinion. We didn't put so much priority on the lot as on the village location--in relation to the facilities we like the most i.e. Lake Sumter Landing, Havana and Mallory CC's, etc. And overall, the criteria at the top of our list was the LIFESTYLE and access to our favorite places in TV. I don't know of anybody with an "undesirable" lot in our CYV's. The privacy of the walls on 3 sides eliminates many of the common sources of squabbling between neighbors.
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