Talk of The Villages Florida - Change to buying lot/build time line

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 453102)

We didn't want to be locked in until we SOLD our property. Then if you didn't...in say a years time........Having the lot and KNOWING we had to sell would have been far more worrisome to us. We sold, had the same choices for lots that we would have had really if we had reserved one, and had no problems. We didn't want to own TWO properties. You know you have to PAY on the lot after you put the hold on it.

While all these things were unfolding, we were making plans and choices, and had narrowed down the choice for our final home to two models and then had the choice to build in either Pennecamp or Laurel Valley or if we had waited two weeks in McClinney. So three areas were available with a variety of lots and choices when we sold. We had already decided what we wanted in a lot and in a house. We pulled the trigger, easily found a rental...and here we are.

The prime and expensive view lots are the only ones that if they are on your plans need to be bought...they go fast.

Sounds like a good plan (which did work for you). We would do the same thing once we decide to put our home on the market.

Nothing is selling in our price range. Beautiful homes "around the corner" up the hill from us on two acre lots, huge colonials, are NOT selling; some have been on the market for 4 to 5 years or more. These are fairly new built GORGEOUS homes. Even lower priced homes are not selling.

With everything that has happened in the financial realm of our country, many of the younger couples can't get mortgages. Older folks, like us, no longer want the big homes and all the STEPS....or levels.

I wouldn't mind leaving this house EMPTY and buying in THE VILLAGES now.
This way we wouldn't have to deal with realtors who just bring people around in the beginning and then stop. A friend and neighbor across from us just took her home off the market........flat...nothing. We've sold quite a few homes in our day.....and quickly at that.........but times have changed.

The realtors do not hide the fact that it's a tough market and nothing much is selling up here.

We could also rent this house to a young doctor's family as we are near the hospital campus........but hubby doesn't want to rent it out.

Times are not what they used to be. As beautiful as the Villages truly is, often it's easier to stay in one's own comfortable home....spring is right around the corner......actually it's been a very mild winter and our green grass is still showing. Hardly any snow this year and what did fall, melted immediately. Definitely climate change.

Gracie, unless I am thinking of someone else, didn't you build a first home, then sell it and rent......before buying the latest home?