Trading Up Within TV
 

This is a question for TV residents that have purchased a second home in TV.

What was the reason for the second purchase. Was it because you did not feel secure with the cost of living in TV during your first purchase and then found that you could afford more home? Was it to acquire rental property? Was it because you found the location or neighbors to be a problem?

We just moved into our second home in TV. We moved because the new home has a pool and the one we moved out of did not. Both are "older" homes, similar floor plans, North of 466. It was hard to leave the neighborhood because it and everyone were so nice, but find our new neighborhood to be the same.

It was an easy move because we never really moved into the first house. We still had another home in South Florida and when it sold, we bought and moved into the house with the pool.

I love the privacy of our corner lot courtyard villa with the surrounding 8 foot high wall. My wife is campaigning for a house with a golf course view, with assorted mooks retrieving lost balls in our yard. We'll probably move. Enough said??

We love our Camellia purchased 18 months ago but we are doing some investigative browsing at open houses for a bigger house for when we sell our house in Cincinnati and move down here permanently...probably next year.

We have this house all furnished and the one in Cincy all furnished and we will have to do some major weeding out.

Boy Howdy. I don't even like to think about it.

I think we will try to sell our "beachy" Camillia furnished.

And what a terrific unique and artistic find. It doesn't get any better than Gracie's house. I just hope she stays close to Amelia. I like stopping by.

Garage too small for full-time!
 

We bought a villa, planning to be snowbirds. After the first week we decided we didn't want to go back north! Loved the villa walls, but couldn't cope with the 1+golf car garage.

What was the reason for the second purchase. Was it because you did not feel secure with the cost of living in TV during your first purchase and then found that you could afford more home? Was it to acquire rental property? Was it because you found the location or neighbors to be a problem?

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None of the above. We moved in January, primarily to get a third bedroom and a larger garage.

We bought a two bedroom Courtyard Villa in 2007 on a golf course, and totally loved it, especially for the dogs. Our neighbours were great. Since we are seasonal residents, we thought a two bedroom would be adequate for our needs.

It wasn't long before we realized we needed more garage space. Most CYVs have small garages. We couldn't park our vehicle in the garage. It was full of golf carts and bicycles and a motorcycle and lawn storage items.

But more importantly, we also realized that we need a three bedroom to give us both an area for "personal" space. Now Fireboy has a mancave where he can use his computer and watch his huge TV. For some reason, he just doesn't want to watch The Bachelor and The Housewives of Orange County.

Now we have a three bedroom Wisteria on a golf course. It isn't a huge house, and at first I really missed our CYV. But now I love it, and I'm enjoying the split plan. We have invisible fencing for the dogs and it is working out very well. The neighbours are great.

I sure hope we don't get the moving bug again. I don't have to tell most of you ....It is expensive and stressful to move.

Occasionally home owners will trade down. Sometime less is more.

Wife insisted we move where there would be open spaces behind us.

Peeping chuckster

Sorry Fumar.......:laugh:

Our second home was also a larger home with 3 bedrooms with an added golf cart garage- When you are here full time the extra storage space is needed. We have no regrets.

Someone once told me that the average Villager moves three times within the Villages in his or her lifetime.

Thanks to everyone for all their replies and information. It appears that there are numerous reasons why Villagers trade up or down with no clear pattern. We are a bit concerned about buying larger than we need but do not want to under size either. As KathieI said, we do not want to spend time cleaning rooms that we only go in to for cleaning but also do not want to find that we need more space after we buy.

Batman911, you are right on. Space is a hard thing to get right but most of us are use to basements for storage and work spaces. For us the perfect house has been a relatively small 2 bedroom ranch but a larger corner lot and long two car garage with golf cart garage. BTW we only have one car along with the required golf cart. Guess what the rest of the garage is for.

Gosh, after reading this post and some others, my Wife and I must be the only ones who do not hang onto things! Makes me feel weird, ok, no cracks from those that know us!! In both the houses we presently own, the garages are empty except for the car & golf cart, clubs and tool box. All we store are our tax records under our bed in a box, which we will store in the attic in TV. Otherwise we have nothing except what you see!

Army Guy

We have a 3 bedroom CYV. Started looking at larger homes and the two that we were interested in we talked with the owners about why they were selling and both of them were going to downsize into a CYV! We decided to stay in our CYV and get rid of stuff.