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Originally Posted by buggyone
I cannot understand why so many homebuyers do not even want to consider resale homes.
A resale home has quite a few advantages: price is negotiable, bond is a lot smaller or even all paid, established landscaping, you see what the completed area is like instead of surprises, home also has a one year warranty, upgrades are already installed, etc.
Always use a Villages agent plus an outside agent as neither can show the other's properties.
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We looked at quite a few patio villas resale's and they were more expensive than new homes. $10-15 thousand more but they had no bond whereas the new had bonds so it ended up being a wash.
We chose new because we wanted move in ready and did not want to move and gut a house, which is what the resale's would have needed. In the long run it was cheaper for us to buy new seeing as we would not spend money on renovations other than granite and new appliances. Most of those resale's needed a lot of work.