Thanks so much. This seems more logical. Have a lot to learn in the weeks ahead!

Since you're looking at homes in the $500K - $700K range, and you don't care about golf, you'll get much more home on a non-golf course lot. You'll be shopping mainly for Premier homes which start at about $475K. The birdcage on a Premier would probably have concrete pillars and probably look like this, but there are a thousand different designs;

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Pine Ridge is one of the newest Villages that is still being developed along with the Village of Labelle and Dunedin, but Pine Ridge will probably be the largest since it will have close to 2,000 homes. I don't forsee them adding a fourth square just because of that, it's only a 10 or 15 minute cart ride to Brownwood from any of those three villages.

All three town squares are popular. Go to The Villages - Florida - New Home Sales and click on the yellow temperature in the upper right of the page. A popup will open with a live webcam of one of the squares. Click the logo of the other two squares to see their webcam. The square with the better band each night is usually the busiest and also if it's a market night. Mon & Web at SS and Tue & Thur at LSL. Brownwood doesn't have a market night but a Saturday morning fruit & vegetable market instead.

USPS, FEDEX, &UPS all deliver to TV.

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I looked at the new home models available on TV website. One thing that stands out, across the board, is there are few bathrooms in these homes. I understand they are catering to the empty nesters but some want guest bedrooms to have private baths. I model with 4-5 baths is unavailable. I haven’t come down to TV yet so I haven’t spoke to the sales people, but how flexible is the builder when it comes to customization?

To clarify,,, up north when builders are building a section they use a number, section 21or107, here they just give it a name. Pine Ridge is the newest section and supposedly they last. There are 3town squares, for boutique shops,movie, restaurant s,entertainment.