[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by ducati1974

To the people who are liking the new site: what you are missing is that they used to have one button to see NEW PRE-OWNED LISTINGS only. Now you have to weed thru all the pre-owned listings to find which ones are new. Extremely tedious! The way we found our house was to only check the new pre-owned listings each day and not get confused with what we've already seen.

There is a way to choose Pre-Owned NEW LISTINGS. See screen snapshot below.

When Search Homes page comes up:

- Choose "Pre-Owned" Homes under "-Search"

- Unfiltered Pre-Owned homes come up

- Then, under "-Newest Homes Released" choose "Our Newest Homes:" __ (no. once filtered)

When I did that (in photo below) 13 came up, and I looked at them and they say "New Listing" and they are indeed Pre-Owned New Listings.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...1&d=1379989671

[ricthemic]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

There is a way to choose Pre-Owned NEW LISTINGS. See screen snapshot below.

When Search Homes page comes up:

- Choose "Pre-Owned" Homes under "-Search"

- Unfiltered Pre-Owned homes come up

- Then, under "-Newest Homes Released" choose "Our Newest Homes:" __ (no. once filtered)

When I did that (in photo below) 13 came up, and I looked at them and they say "New Listing" and they are indeed Pre-Owned New Listings.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...1&d=1379989671

too busy now to try your suggestion. please tell me if i want to search new pre-owned houses in specific villages with one click
can I? If not, IMO it is NOT a good change

[maryanna630]

Ecactly!

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by asianthree

if i wanted to spend 15 minutes to look at the preowned just listed i would use an mls...just saying

There are two separate systems ... MLS and VLS. As a general rule, the two systems don't cooperate and the agents cannot display or sell each others listings.

I'm sure The Villages will soon fix the VLS web design .. they must be getting a flood of complaints. And there are a lot of VLS agents who make a lot of money selling pre-owned homes.

[Ragman]

Originally Posted by ducati1974

To the people who are liking the new site: what you are missing is that they used to have one button to see NEW PRE-OWNED LISTINGS only. Now you have to weed thru all the pre-owned listings to find which ones are new. Extremely tedious! The way we found our house was to only check the new pre-owned listings each day and not get confused with what we've already seen.

Click on pre-owned homes and then our newest homes. Takes about 2 seconds. Two clicks instead of one. You can also search new homes by Village.

On the new site they are listed vertically and you can pull up all the newest pre-owned homes instead of scrolling back and forth.

After using it some I think it is a vast improvement over the two old sites.

[cbh1975]

I like that you can sort by model name. Actually I like that they've started to include the model name for pre-owned! Yes! That's a good change IMHO.

[Schaumburger]

Originally Posted by ilovetv

There is a way to choose Pre-Owned NEW LISTINGS. See screen snapshot below.

When Search Homes page comes up:

- Choose "Pre-Owned" Homes under "-Search"

- Unfiltered Pre-Owned homes come up

- Then, under "-Newest Homes Released" choose "Our Newest Homes:" __ (no. once filtered)

When I did that (in photo below) 13 came up, and I looked at them and they say "New Listing" and they are indeed Pre-Owned New Listings.

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...1&d=1379989671

ilovetv, Thank you for posting this guide to finding the newest preowned home listings!

If anyone from The Villages Web Development/Marketing departments reads this (which is doubtful I know), I would make two suggestions. 1. Under the price criteria add a sort feature for sorting by both high to low price and low to high price. 2. After the street address, list the village the home is in - what village a home is located in is important. For example, on two new preowned listings -- I don't know what villages the listings on Thurman Street or Dalecroft Trail are in until I click on "View Details For VLS#__________."

[Barefoot]

Originally Posted by Schaumburger

..... After the street address, list the village the home is in - what village a home is located in is important.

I agree .... I think the two most important facts are price, and the village in which the home is located.

I would also think it would be confusing for Newbies to try to find the latest VLS Listings of resale homes! The web design needs to be simple and user friendly. Even if it is a tab under Pre-owned Homes, "our newest homes" doesn't imply "resale homes".

[Schaumburger]

[QUOTE=Barefoot;751528]I agree .... I think the two most important facts are price, and the village in which the home is located.

I would also think it would be confusing for Newbies to try to find the latest VLS Listings of resale homes! The web design needs to be simple and user friendly. Even if it is a tab under Pre-owned Homes, "our newest homes" doesn't imply "resale homes".[/QUOTE]

with Bare. The redesign is not as user friendly for newbies searching for resale homes. On the search page, the preselected radio button is for new homes -- was that done on purpose??

[gomoho]

I really, really, really don't like change!!!!

[cbh1975]

1. Under the price criteria add a sort feature for sorting by both high to low price and low to high price.

Just over to the right of the "sort by" box is an arrow. Click on that and it will change the sort from high to low to low to high.

They could have made it a more prominent color. The pale grey on white background is a bit hard to see.

[FoPAA]

Originally Posted by Spectreron

Just click on "Search Homes" on TheVillages.com and they're all there. You can see the new, pre-owned, or both at once and you can still search by price, model, etc. The site is actually easier to use than the previous version IMHO.

As for newbies, they aren't used to searching the old way so they have no preconceptions. I think they'll find it easier to find what they're looking for - I do.

[westcoastsunshine]

Originally Posted by asianthree

the website has changed you no longer can look at the pre-owned homes by the villages one by one or new additions...now you get the open houses...hope this will change soon..i like it the old way

I hate this new site...confusing and frustrating.

I hope they go back to the old one.

Wcs

[stroglass]

I don't like this change i want to buy a house next month but this is making the hunt really hard

[ilovetv]

Originally Posted by stroglass

I don't like this change i want to buy a house next month but this is making the hunt really hard

The hunt closer to purchase time is what the TV sales reps are for. One can't buy a TV listing without a TV rep, so go ahead and call for one.

There are probably 150 of them, and the rep will search for what you want specifically.