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Originally Posted by CFrance (Post 1158671)

We have two cars, and we need two cars, definitely. My husband volunteers for the SBA and has meetings all over the place. I would not drive a golf cart in the 97-degree heat all the way from Tamarind Grove to 466A for grocery shopping. Or to Atlas dog park. And cannot go to Doggie Doo Run Run in a golf cart. It would take us 45 minute to get to our pickle ball group by golf cart.

It would be inconvenient for us to keep a car in the driveway with a cover on it, since we use both cars so much.

I know people do well with two carts and one car, but think carefully about what you may be doing after you get down here.

Location, location, location

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Originally Posted by VApeople (Post 1157681)

When we look at re-sale houses in The Villages, we see that most of them have two car garages. How does this work out for you?

If you own two cars and a golf cart, which one do you park in the driveway?

Do you wish you had a 2-car garage and an additional garage for a golf cart?

We only have a one car carport in our present house. It is not ideal, especially when it snows, but we have adapted to it. We are just wondering how important it would be, in your opinion, to have a 2-car garage plus a golf cart garage when we start house hunting in The Villages.

We have lived here for 20+ years and have always had a problem with the size of our garage. We like our cars garaged, same with the golf cart, but in order to fit the golf cart in the garage as well, we always had to move a car to get to it which meant we barely used it so we finally sold it. If you want two vehicles and perhaps some garage storage, you might have trouble getting in and out of your cars in the garage because the garage needs to be wider. We have owned several homes with two car garages, The Villages is the first place we have found the garage to be inadequate. If I had it to do over, I would expand the width of the garage and add a golf cart garage as well. We miss our golf cart, but at this point we need two cars.

Look for a house with a 2 car garage and a golf cart garage. Several people we know here sell one of their cars and uses the other half of the garage for the gold cart. Most people don't appreciate seeing a vehicle parked on the driveway all the time. Good Luck..

I would have preferred a golf car garage, but if you like the house you won't mind just two car garage.

All of your comments have been very helpful. We are definitely be looking for a house with a golf cart garage.

We have never lived in a 'golf cart' community, but I have played a lot of golf and know that I really don't like golf carts, so I suspect we will always want to have two cars. In case we buy a cart, it would be nice to have a place to put it.

Thanks again for all of your responses.