Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2107398)

Great way to push you into buying a new house. Did they give you any numbers to back this up?

Originally Posted by thelegges (Post 2107554)

Preowned site can be broken down to areas, and type of build. We have been actively looking for 18 months, and keeping stats.

Yes, there have been more homes in the northern section for sale, the prices have risen to a higher percentage keeping up with home prices south of 466. However, less have large garages, or golf cart garages, age comes in to play, but lots are sometimes bigger, and bonus is bond is close to paid off.

Originally Posted by Bilyclub (Post 2107303)

Yes, and your are way East of Buena Vista. :coolsmiley:

Originally Posted by Boomer (Post 2107369)

I hope anyone who was getting geared up to go back home anyway, especially if they owned a house where they came from, made the decision to get while the gettin’ was good.

Sellers have been sitting in the catbird seat for well over a year. This real estate market has had a bigger emotional component than I have ever seen. Yes, money was cheap, but unlike the last bubble, lending practices have been tightened. This one has been an emotional frenzy.

Something else is going on in this one like never before. Big companies are buying up a slew of houses throughout the country, for cash. They are not just flippers. They are tapping into the rental market. First time buyers have been left out because of that bottomless pit of big company money, doing buy-ups. Rent can be exorbitant, making it much harder to save for a downpayment.

In some places, suburbs are building apartments like crazy, often coupling them with some kind of “Lifestyle” pitch. It’s like younger people are supposed to just give up and live in a rental forever.

What a mess this weird-azz real estate market is, was, and will be.

Enough ranting from me.


Boomer

Originally Posted by JMintzer (Post 2107380)

Your agent is not all agents...

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2107559)

Good friends of ours have recently moved from north of 466A to about 4 miles south. Seems as if as you go south the lots become smaller and houses are closer together. Also it appears as you go south garages get deeper. We live N of 466A and wish our garage was a couple of feet deeper.

Originally Posted by vintageogauge (Post 2107788)

We have friends in Briar Meadows, you can't get much further north than that and the lots are so small you can talk to your neighbor from the lanai without raising your voice. We live south of 44 and our lots are much larger. We also have a friend in Caroline his lot is extremely small and he's on a cul-de-sac. So I guess there are small and larger in all the different villages and a lot of that depends on the series of home you have. Ranches and cottages have smaller lots than do designers.

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC (Post 2107832)

As we drive south on Morse the houses seem very close together same as we approach Fenney.

Originally Posted by MX rider (Post 2107751)

I simply shared our experience. Obviously some, maybe most, do push new as more than a few on here have said.
I'm not blaming them for promoting new to a point. They make more on those sales, so it's understandable why they try to sell those first.

I was just a bit frustrated that she didn't hear what we were saying. Our MLS agent was just the opposite.
A big key to being successful in sales is to listen to your customer.

I've been in sales for over 30 years, so I know a little bit about this.
We're not quite retired yet, only 10 more months.

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee (Post 2107823)

I have a house for sale in Summerhill backing onto 7th tee of Fox Run. PM me for details. I am not prepared to discuss any details on line.

Originally Posted by vintageogauge (Post 2107847)

I started to sell our investment home down here by myself, that lasted about 1 day as it is a PITA, everyone thinks it's going to be a steal because no agent involved. I listed it with an agent the next day and ended up clearing more out of it then I would have on my own. Mark it up 7% or so and let them do the work, they have customers waiting. I would recommend Beth Pope of The Villages Homes. Beth, her husband and daughter all are Villages sales professionals and they work together as a team. You get 3 for the price of 1.

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter (Post 2107835)

We need some accurate measurements.:a040:

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee (Post 2107848)

My home is with a Village Agent. It is, however, tucked away in a corner and gets little traffic. Also the ridiculously small signs allowed to sell a home in TV is not helping. I have to get my husband back to family. I hate to do it, but I might have to walk away and leave the agent to sell it in my absence.

Originally Posted by MX rider (Post 2107751)

I simply shared our experience. Obviously some, maybe most, do push new as more than a few on here have said.
I'm not blaming them for promoting new to a point. They make more on those sales, so it's understandable why they try to sell those first.

I was just a bit frustrated that she didn't hear what we were saying. Our MLS agent was just the opposite.
A big key to being successful in sales is to listen to your customer.

I've been in sales for over 30 years, so I know a little bit about this.
We're not quite retired yet, only 10 more months.

Originally Posted by vintageogauge (Post 2107788)

We have friends in Briar Meadows, you can't get much further north than that and the lots are so small you can talk to your neighbor from the lanai without raising your voice. We live south of 44 and our lots are much larger. We also have a friend in Caroline his lot is extremely small and he's on a cul-de-sac. So I guess there are small and larger in all the different villages and a lot of that depends on the series of home you have. Ranches and cottages have smaller lots than do designers.