WTB 4 BR or 3 BR + Den!!
 

We are prepping for our move to TV (yay!!!) and are beginning the house hunt. We would ideally like a Mason or Woodside with a 2+golf car garage and gas cooking. If you are preparing to list, let me save you the hassle of staging and showing! Please comment here or DM me. Thanks!!

Very few 4 bedrooms have been built here. Apparently little demand.

Not true. The woodside model is very popular and is the most common home to have a 4 car garage attached to it. Needless to say they are more expensive due to the square footage but they sell very well down south. The Ivy model is even more expensive and is larger than the Woodside, the 4 bedroom Ivy is also in demand and when listed and priced right they are sold immediately, the new ones are usually sold the same day they are released and that is why you don't see them advertised very often.

I totally get that! I think most people at this age are looking to downsize, not make a lateral move.

Going by what village realtors have told me including the fellow who sold us our house when we asked about a 4 bedroom.

Have an MLS realtor sending us listings of 4 bedrooms but only get them from her about every two weeks.

Do think most people want to downsize but if both our kids would come at same time with our grandkids we would not have enough room.

Right now there are 10 Woodside's with Pending Sales and only 1 available. There is one super expensive Ivy and 3 others for sale, 2 of them have only 2 car garages no golf car and they will sit for quite awhile, the other has a lanai facing a main street and next to a neighborhood rec. area with pickle ball, etc. Most of the 4 bedroom homes are sold instantly. TV seems to aim mostly in the $350,000 to $450,000 designer homes, the 4 bedroom modes are much more expensive and there are fewer buyers that can afford them. Moving down here without a basement is downsizing enough for me, we have 4 bedrooms and I wish we had an oversized 4 car garage.

We originally looked at 4 bedrooms, I think it was the Putnam at the time but then my wife asked why when we were trying to downsize. We went with a smaller 3 bedroom 2 bath which is easy to care for.

A four bedroom vs a three bedroom with a den is the difference of a closet in the den.
Since it is a non load bearing wall adding a closet should not be very expensive.

As I'm sure you are aware, homes are selling quickly. Saving the realtor commission?
Both the buyer and the seller can't save the same commission.

That is a good way to explain the commission savings and it's true. A seller will list without an agent so that he or she can save the commission and would be throwing money out the window if they lowered the price by the commission amount. Buyers generally don't save much on a for sale by owner home.

Thanks so much for the added details! It’s really not an attempt to save money as much as it is to find a house, as the bigger ones are a rarity. We need that 4th bedroom or den for an office, so that’s why either would be great. :-)

We used an apx 15-20 column spreadsheet and graded each of the 34 houses we looked at, 1 thru 10. A lot of the time the higher scored homes did not last a day before they sold. Scoring based on price per square foot (including bond), taxes, amenities, location,,etc. Fortunate we found a house not yet on the market that for us was a perfect 10. We bought it on the spot. Do your diligence! Good luck!!!

4 car garage needed
 

I too am having a difficult time relocating. We are two relatives sharing a house therefore two master bedrooms would be ideal. That leaves us only one bedroom. If used as an office/craft room, we cannot have guests visit, but more important than the extra bedroom is A four car garage with a preserve or water view in back. We just missed out on a veranda spec home because it sold within one day.
If anyone knows of such a house 5 years old or less, more than 2100 sqft., please let me know.

As for having extra bedrooms for guests, it’s called a hotel.

All good choices. But with all other things being equal I would definitely recommend four bedrooms, even if you intend to use one as a den.

If there’s anything that virtually all Villagers moving down from up north do, is that we bring too much “stuff”. Without a basement or large garage you will quickly discover that you too have moved with far more stuff than you’ll ever use. That extra closet will be worth it’s weight in... stuff!