Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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A distinction without a difference. "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears..." [emoji527] George Orwell |
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We are also struggling with the snowbird or full-time FL resident question which would make a difference in the house size/price point. Decisions...decisions...decisions... |
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Sadly if you do not plan on buying for a year, I would only go to structured open houses. We are looking to move again, and have known our VLS guy almost 5 years. I try to go to homes that have a open house, and only ask his aid if there is a house that might not be on the market long. The home we currently live in had just been put on the market and we made an offer the same day
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Totally agree with VillageIdiots re: open houses this early in the game. The purpose of a realtor/agent is to help buyers buy. If the only thing you want to do at this point is look, you can very easily do it via open houses.
You can come for a few days (you said you're doing a Lifestyle visit). What we did our first visit: Check out the Villages Homefinder's webpage and look at locations that seem the *most* interesting to you. Then the first thing you do after getting to your lifestyle rental and putting your bags down, is open up the copy of the Daily Sun that comes with the visit. Check out the Open Houses section of the paper. Locate any and all open houses that are located within the top few areas that peaked your fancy when you looked at the Homefinder page. If you liked 4 different models, then select at least 4 homes to look at the first day - one of each model. You want to get a feel for what it's like to walk from the kitchen to the porch, from the bedroom to the living room, from the driveway to the lanai, etc. etc. What it's like to "be" in the home. The flow, as it's called. Does it feel like you're constantly rounding corners to get from point A to point B? Does that appeal to you, or does it make you claustrophobic? Also look at the specific neighborhood each of those 4 properties are in. How close to the rec center or neighborhood pool? How close to a road OUT of the Villages? How close to the postal station? What is the condition of the *worst-kept* property in the neighborhood, and will you be comfortable living in close proximity to it for many years? The next day, do the same thing for another of your top-picked locations. And so on. You want to see a variety of places, but you also need to see a variety of neighborhoods. After a couple of visits doing the open house gig, we selected a Villages real estate agent who helped us pick out or actual home. We picked ours because we wanted the older part of the Villages - we didn't want to have to wait a few years for shade trees tall enough to actually provide shade, and we wanted fewer restrictions on what we could and could not do with our property. But we also wanted an area where - regardless of the lightened deed restrictions, the neighbors still took excellent care of their properties and decorated them with care and thought (no tacky pink flamingos, but an 18-inch granite gargoyle welcoming visitors to the front steps was a fun touch of whimsy). We were hoping for a site-built but circumstances caused us to change our expectations. We ended up with a really nice manufactured home in an absolutely lovely neighborhood with excellent neighbors, in bicycle-riding distance to the pool. |
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Minor technicality, but, though there are such things as buyer's agents, the purpose of an agent is typically to help seller's sell, not help buyer's buy. The two, hopefully, go together, but it's not an unimportant thing to keep in mind. They work with the buyers and need the buyers in order to deliver for the sellers, but they, technically, work for, and get paid by, the seller.
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