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Originally Posted by maryanna630
We are interested in buying a relatively new pre owned designer. My husband plays tennis at Glenview so we can't be too far south. While we do have a Villages agent he only seems to want to show us new models. These are much too far from the tennis. We have looked at some homes with an MLS agent but most were very old and very dated. We have concluded that the Villages must have the best/newest resales. Is this true? Can someone recommend the best Villages agent for resales? We are here for a month looking and are exhausted and discouraged. If it wasn"t for the tennis, we would just buy new.
As an aside I will say that I cannot believe the prices for older, dated,tired homes.
We looked at a foreclosure today, built in 2006, beautiful neighborhood;mold outside AND inside, dead cockroaches in many places inside; it was in a lovely neighborhood and was 249,000 dollars!!! Say What and Boy Howdy!!!
Can anyone give us some helpful information here? Have any of you bought a pre-owned which was a good value and updated to todays standards? Has anyone a recommendation for a villages agent who is willing to work with resales?
As always thanks for any and all information. Without you guys, I think we would just give up but we do really like it here.
Maryanna
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Hi Maryanna.
Fairly new is relative here in The Villages. The homes around Glenview were built about ten years ago. They get younger as you go south. If I were you I would ask my realtors...both kinds; rep for The Villages, and MLS agent, to show me homes in Belvedere, Caroline, Mallory, Sable Chase, and the Villages south off of Buena Vista and south of 466.
Don't completely rule out new or newer. I know he likes to be close to Glenview, but I take my golf cart all over this place to play on courses and I don't limit them to location. I know JoJo plays a lot of tennis at Glenview and gets there from Amelia. The further south you go, the newer the houses become and I would keep an open mind...and do my own looking. When we were looking at resales we asked Jim McLaughlin to show us homes that we, ourselves located on the computer or in the paper. I am turned off by a lot of other peoples choices in things not cheaply changed, appliance color, tile, wallpaper, etc.
Rethink about buying new or newer. It is less maintenance and has all the new light fixtures and faucets and tile, things that make a home look, well new.
I hope you find your dream home. We bought a spec home in Hadley in 2008 and built a new home in 2011 and we looked at a lot of resales too.
Kindest wishes,
Gracie