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Originally Posted by beady

We bought our house in September. When we contracted our Village agent we told her right up front we would also be working with an outside agent as well. We had done extensive research on the TV web site of new and resale homes. We actually gave her a list of the properties we wanted to see. We did the same with our independant RE agent.
They both worked really hard and showed us just what we asked to see, each made suggestions and some were good enough to look at. In the end we bought a resale, mostly because we really liked the house and it's location and the realistic price.
It is a buyers market and you have to be informed, more so in TV because TV is promoting their properties and overpricing resales. The independant brokers and sellers are far more realistic about the market and pricing
It is truly a case of being well informed.

I know the listing price is just a starting price, but, I have been looking at Villages, and outside realtors listings, and until just recently, the outside realtors listing price was consistently above a comparable listing thru the Villages listings, and still are higher now, but the difference has got smaller, so I don't understand all the talk about the villages resales being so much higher than the outside realtors. Now, if the villages aren't willing to negotiate on that price as much, then I can see where they could get lower.