This was great! It gave us a lot of insight in planning our move. Thank you. We really appreciate the time you put into this. I have watched other TV expense videos but it love that this was specific for the courtyard villa. That is the style of home we will be looking to purchase because of our pets. Have a lovely week!
Hey Susie! Good to hear from you as usual. Glad that the video gave you an idea of some of the cost you may incur when you guys finally get here! I can't wait to hear all about your courtyard villa! Have a good week as well! (last week of school/work!) Then summer, here I come!
Hey John! That's awesome that you're here from the UK! The couple next door to us, the wife is from England and the husband is from Ireland. We love their accent! How's your visit so far? What fun things do you still have left to do? Yes, it's possible you may have seen me around. Please let me know if there's any questions you may have about TV! Thankful each day I get to live here :)
@@GracejoyTV Thank you! 🙏 We are cramming in as much as possible, Augustine 1912 and The Sharon last night. Savannah Centre last Friday and Crystal River the day before. We will need a vacation to recover from our vacation. 🤣🤣 You and your family take good care. 👍
Indeed! Looks like you made the most of your visit! Good to hear! My coworker went to The Sharon last night for the Jersey Boys, right? Take care as well!
Hi Cecelia! Thank you soo much for your feedback. I really appreciate it. I am learning how to deliver my content as soon as possible and as clear and succinct as I can :) Thanks again!
Thanks for a down to earth view of monthly costs. It appears to be regular costs that a normal couple would spend just living in the world. The main line item I see is many people don’t like the idea of the HOA monthly fee. However, having lived with one for thirty years, I do find the advantages of it and feel yours is well worth it. 🎀
Hi Mary! You're welcome. I think Our monthly cost may be more than the average Villager because of the mortgage since we just bought it a little over a year ago. Our previous neighborhood in Harbor Hills (Lady Lake) had almost the same cost for the HOA. Of course in The Villages, they call it an Amenity Fee and there's definitely more choices in 'amenities' here for sure!
Thanks for the info. Subtracting that we don't have a mortgage or car payments and we have electric cars we can deduce that it would cost us about $1,700 if we would actually move there. If that's true I could retire tomorrow, lol!
*⏩ Hi Gracejoy,* Thank you for this information. Btw, did you know that *T-Mobile has a phone plan for customers age 55+?!* (Only 1 person needs to be 55+) Service (unlimited data) for 1st phone is $55, for 2 phones is *$65 TOTAL.* I've had it for a couple of years now. *You might want to check it out!*
Hey my friend! Yes, I did hear about that recently that T-Mobile has plan for those 55+ so I need to put that in my To Do list this summer to call or go to T-Mobile to inquire about such plan! Thanks for reminding me! You're awesome!
@@GracejoyTV We are planning to visit soon and we're also interested in a villa with fenced in backyard (we have dogs). It's good to have these costs in mind going in. From everything that I've read and seen, The Villages sounds like a great place to retire to.
Thanks for posting what your expenses are. It's hard trying to figure out if we can afford the dream or not. We know the list TV provides doesn't include everything. But isn't there a CDC fee or something? (Maintenance for public areas) Right now we are trying to shovel thru the last 22 yrs of collecting stuff - plus the crap we have been hauling around the country (military) for 15 yrs prior. Just got rid of 11 boxes of books we've been hauling around - and looks like we will have at least 5 more boxes!
Hey Susan! You're welcome. I thought if I could help even just one person get some idea about the expenses involved about living here, then I would be happy! I believe the Amenity fee includes the maintenance for public areas but I am not 100% sure. Wow, you got a daunting project! Awesome job for getting rid of 11 books so far! Yes, I had to painfully get rid of some of my beloved book collection as well as virtually all my classroom teaching materials when we decided to downsize to move here in The Villages. Keep me up to date with your progress and thanks for watching!
@GracejoyTV. Hi Grace, I looked at the Lady Lakes you posted, thank you. The homes and land are way too much for my husband and I to handle😅. The courtyard villa seems more of our speed. Thank you so much for the price estimate on your current budget. Are you an RN? I am an RN, but I'm not working since Oct 2020, due to illness.
Yeah, I agree; many of the houses at Harbor Hills in Lady Lake are large and in big lots. Our courtyard villa now is half the size of our house there! Lol. I'm a teacher and currently just finished my 13th year of teaching! Yay for summer vacay! That's awesome you're an RN. My brother is a traveling nurse :)
Thanks for the info! Very interesting! Amy new home improvements lately? Your lanai has a/c right? That must be a savings from your previous home that was much larger I assume! Great video! Are you off during the summer? You can live the retired life during the summer? ☺️
Hey Laura! My friend! Thanks so much for watching as always. I really appreciate your support! Yes, small home improvement a couple of months ago. Just added some rocks/pebbles to the existing around the courtyard villa. Yes, we are thankful for the savings on the home maintenance here. Yes, off for the summer (wohoo!) I can live the retired life and enjoy The Villages even more! Time to look up summer events and happenings!
Great video Grace Joy - lots of great information. We just got home from our lifestyle visit. Husband is determined to figure out how he can find employment down there so we can move before retiring (I retire in 10 years but I am fully remote working so goal is to move within next 5 years). Keep up the great work with your videos! I really enjoy them so much.
Hey Robin!! Tell me all about your lifestyle visit! What was your highlight and one low point. Good to have a determined husband! And yes, good plan to move before retiring so you can enjoy more :) I think a move within the next 5 years is doable! Thanks soo much for always leaving kind and encouraging words! I always appreciate it! I am having more courage is sharing the Villages lifestyle even though I am not quite at the retirement age yet. Just so grateful that I get to live here with my husband!
@@GracejoyTV Lifestyle visit was great! We did 36 holes of golf in 2 days, must have put about 100 miles on the golf cart lol. The highlight for me was the magnolia trees. They are so beautiful and smell so good! The low point - we weren't able to see any alligators lol. I think it was too hot and the water levels were so low I think they didn't need to come on shore to warm up. We did see a lot of different birds including the nest of a sandhill crane - that was really neat.
@@mavisrobin wow! Sounds like you made the best of your lifestyle visit! Yes, the magnolia trees are beautiful. I'm sure you heard about all the rain we had this past weekend that brought quite a few of the gators up and out of the ponds and lakes around. Glad you saw other wildlife though!
It might have been helpful if you had mentioned how large a mortgage you still have. Many folks moving here sell their old house and use the money toward their new house, so I think your mortgage payment may be inflating the actual monthly cost for most people.
Hi David, we use X-finity for our internet service. I'm not sure if they are the best in The Villages. We had a previous account with them when we lived in Lady Lake (Harbor Hills) just outside of The Villages.
I just turned 43. My husband is 55. Blessed to be able to live and experience how retired people live! Pretty inspiring to me to see how people who worked hard all their lives and saved for retirement are able to enjoy their retirement years. Most people are friendly and majority take pride and take good care of their home and property. We had a house in in Harbor Hills just outside The Villages but needed to downsize when Covid hit. We cut down are costs by living here (believe it or not) and now even closer to where I work. Our neighbors (husband and wife both still work full time). They are friendly and look out for us. The Villages is not a perfect place but I choose to be grateful. Cheers!
Your cost list is comparable to what the TV website shows for a courtyard vila....in terms of items excluding mortgage/car payments, food, CATV, phone, misc. personal items. Do your "property taxes" = $198 include fire assessment & fire district? You have no estimated monthly costs for car maintenance/repair/registration. Personal grooming and clothes not listed. How about appliance repair and replacement? How about power wash, exterior painting (if not vinyl siding)? Is all your exterior maintenance covered by TV? You show no monthly costs for health care, insurance costs, co-pays.....or dental/eye costs? How about golf cart purchase/maintenance? If you have an older home, then roof replacement costs need to be accounted for on about a 10-12 yr cycle. Given inflation, I think your monthly food costs @ $200/wk and household items at $50/mo are rather optimistic. If you do the TV recreation center fitness club membership, then it's going to run about $60/mo per couple. Your home insurance at $56/mo seems rather cheap. Is this for a 2022-23 policy renewal, including wind damage? I've read that FL insurance rates are very high. As they say.......your results may vary.
Hi Larry, thanks for your comment. I will have to ask my husband if our property taxes include fire assessment & fire district. Are those usually included in the property taxes? No, we did not estimate our monthly car maintenance. The numbers we showed was everything for the month of April 2022 when we did not do any car maintenance. Actually we wash our cars but we do that ourselves on the driveway. My husband cuts his own hair (keeps it bald) and I have not shopped for clothes in months! I guess we are really low maintenance! Appliance repair, we did have to get our fridge serviced but that was 2 months ago. We have not had our house power-washed this year yet. As far as yard maintenance, we have zero-scape! Health insurance is covered by our employer. Our roof was replaced less than 2 years before we purchased our home. And exterior painting was done about 2 years ago also. Gym membership (Anytime Fitness) is through hubby's insurance. Best wishes to you Sir!
We just purchased a new 3br Avondale model courtyard villa in St John. We went with an Allstate bundle for home with 375k replacement value, $1k deductible, sink hole and catastrophic ground collapse, coverage for our 2019 Ford Escape, and coverage for our 2021 Yahama gas golf cart and this will cost us $241.50/month. We have no mortgage but do have these expenses in addition to property taxes which have not be calculated yet by Sumpter County as we have not yet closed on our home. Our amenity fee is $179/month. Ad Valorem taxes which includes fire and water assessment is $206.67/year. CDD maintenance assessment is $506.78/year. Our bond is called a CDD debt assessment which total is $31,936.56 which can be paid off in full or in annual payments of $2,349.39 x 30 years. If the house is sold before the bond is paid off the new owner inherits the balance. There are pros and cons to purchasing both pre owned and new homes. After doing many renovations to our 32 year old R.I. home to get it sell ready we wanted no renovations to deal with off the bat, plus the model courtyard villa we purchased has a straight driveway and golf cart garage whivh is what we wanted and these models can only be found in the newer areas of TV which is where we wanted to live anyway. We like the nature focus of the new areas and wanted to be near Lake Okahumpks which access point is in our village of St John. There is the perfect place for just about everyone in TV, but you have to do some research to find your sweet spot and hope a home to your liking and price point is or will be available to purchase when you are ready to buy.
@@nightengale2123 Feedback from Hawaii. TV cost of living web page estimates home insurance as between $70-100/mo depending on home model. For comparison our home insurance for hurricane and regular homeowners combined is $132/mo. Our auto policy is $80/mo/per car (2 autos). So, we are at $212/mo total (vs. your $241). No golf cart, of course. Property tax for us = $715/mo. HOA & sewer combined is $337/mo. I figured the the bond + Sumter County tax assessment total for a $950K designer home we were considering to = $568+/mo (possibly more like $700/mo for our purchase price). Electric here runs around $200/mo (we have 18-panel PV, but no net metering) for about 450 kW/mo from grid. Propane cost runs about $30/mo (3-4 gal/mo + $11/mo service fee). CATV (Spectrum) has risen to $199/mo for cable + upgrades, internet, landline. Ting cell phone is cheap at $35/mo (2 iPhone 12s). I did a complete spreadsheet of all costs and our comparables when relocating from Hawaii to TV. These would go down from $9,000/mo (HI) to about $6,000-6,5000/mo (TV). About half of the cost savings comes from eliminating a mortgage....the rest in other items. However, the one-time cost of relocating to FL when considering car/home furnishings replacement, rental period, and home start-up would run in the neighborhood of $100-150K depending on various factors. You are quite correct in stating..." you have to do some research to find your sweet spot and hope a home to your liking and price point is or will be available to purchase when you are ready to buy." We expect to do a Lifestyle Visit in October to make a decision.
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Excellent. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
This was great! It gave us a lot of insight in planning our move. Thank you. We really appreciate the time you put into this. I have watched other TV expense videos but it love that this was specific for the courtyard villa. That is the style of home we will be looking to purchase because of our pets. Have a lovely week!
Hey Susie! Good to hear from you as usual. Glad that the video gave you an idea of some of the cost you may incur when you guys finally get here! I can't wait to hear all about your courtyard villa! Have a good week as well! (last week of school/work!) Then summer, here I come!
True to cost living.. excellent, nice video
Thank you. Yes, true to our cost of living. Of course, everyone's will be different. Thank you for watching!
Thank you for this! We are here from the UK and thought we may have seen you out and about. 🇬🇧
Hey John! That's awesome that you're here from the UK! The couple next door to us, the wife is from England and the husband is from Ireland. We love their accent! How's your visit so far? What fun things do you still have left to do? Yes, it's possible you may have seen me around. Please let me know if there's any questions you may have about TV! Thankful each day I get to live here :)
@@GracejoyTV Thank you! 🙏 We are cramming in as much as possible, Augustine 1912 and The Sharon last night. Savannah Centre last Friday and Crystal River the day before. We will need a vacation to recover from our vacation. 🤣🤣 You and your family take good care. 👍
Indeed! Looks like you made the most of your visit! Good to hear! My coworker went to The Sharon last night for the Jersey Boys, right? Take care as well!
Nice and detailed information. Thanks.
Thank you my friend! Glad it was helpful!
Enjoyed your video and information you provided. Your presentation was clear, succinct and informative. Thank you!
Hi Cecelia! Thank you soo much for your feedback. I really appreciate it. I am learning how to deliver my content as soon as possible and as clear and succinct as I can :) Thanks again!
Very informative. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for a down to earth view of monthly costs. It appears to be regular costs that a normal couple would spend just living in the world. The main line item I see is many people don’t like the idea of the HOA monthly fee. However, having lived with one for thirty years, I do find the advantages of it and feel yours is well worth it. 🎀
Hi Mary! You're welcome. I think Our monthly cost may be more than the average Villager because of the mortgage since we just bought it a little over a year ago. Our previous neighborhood in Harbor Hills (Lady Lake) had almost the same cost for the HOA. Of course in The Villages, they call it an Amenity Fee and there's definitely more choices in 'amenities' here for sure!
Very helpful.
Glad to hear! Let me know if you have other questions that I can try to answer :)
Thanks for the information
You’re most welcome!
Thanks for the info. Subtracting that we don't have a mortgage or car payments and we have electric cars we can deduce that it would cost us about $1,700 if we would actually move there. If that's true I could retire tomorrow, lol!
Hey Allison! That’s awesome that you don’t any mortgage nor car payments! Come on down and retire early!
I'm getting closer and closer ❣️
@@allisonleger9270 that’s awesome! You are probably closer than I am 😩
@@GracejoyTV well at least you're living there I'm still living in Jersey 🥹
*⏩ Hi Gracejoy,*
Thank you for this information. Btw,
did you know that *T-Mobile has a phone plan for customers age 55+?!* (Only 1 person needs to be 55+) Service (unlimited data) for 1st phone is $55, for 2 phones is *$65 TOTAL.* I've had it for a couple of years now. *You might want to check it out!*
Hey my friend! Yes, I did hear about that recently that T-Mobile has plan for those 55+ so I need to put that in my To Do list this summer to call or go to T-Mobile to inquire about such plan! Thanks for reminding me! You're awesome!
⏩ @@GracejoyTV *I just called and they switched my plan over the phone. Took about 5 minutes.* 😉
My friend just took a short trip to Europe and his T-Mobile phone didn’t work. Something to keep in mind if you hope to travel.
Love your videos.
Thank you so much!
Thank you very much for posting this cost break down. This is exactly the information that I've been looking for!
Glad you found the video helpful! Are you moving to The Villages soon?
@@GracejoyTV We are planning to visit soon and we're also interested in a villa with fenced in backyard (we have dogs). It's good to have these costs in mind going in. From everything that I've read and seen, The Villages sounds like a great place to retire to.
So informative. Thank you!
Glad I got to help. Appreciate the comment!
Thank you 🙏
You’re welcome 😊
Awesome job, thank you so much!
You're welcome Peter :)
Thanks for posting what your expenses are. It's hard trying to figure out if we can afford the dream or not. We know the list TV provides doesn't include everything. But isn't there a CDC fee or something? (Maintenance for public areas) Right now we are trying to shovel thru the last 22 yrs of collecting stuff - plus the crap we have been hauling around the country (military) for 15 yrs prior. Just got rid of 11 boxes of books we've been hauling around - and looks like we will have at least 5 more boxes!
Hey Susan! You're welcome. I thought if I could help even just one person get some idea about the expenses involved about living here, then I would be happy! I believe the Amenity fee includes the maintenance for public areas but I am not 100% sure. Wow, you got a daunting project! Awesome job for getting rid of 11 books so far! Yes, I had to painfully get rid of some of my beloved book collection as well as virtually all my classroom teaching materials when we decided to downsize to move here in The Villages. Keep me up to date with your progress and thanks for watching!
@GracejoyTV. Hi Grace, I looked at the Lady Lakes you posted, thank you. The homes and land are way too much for my husband and I to handle😅. The courtyard villa seems more of our speed. Thank you so much for the price estimate on your current budget. Are you an RN? I am an RN, but I'm not working since Oct 2020, due to illness.
Yeah, I agree; many of the houses at Harbor Hills in Lady Lake are large and in big lots. Our courtyard villa now is half the size of our house there! Lol. I'm a teacher and currently just finished my 13th year of teaching! Yay for summer vacay! That's awesome you're an RN. My brother is a traveling nurse :)
Thanks for the info! Very interesting! Amy new home improvements lately? Your lanai has a/c right? That must be a savings from your previous home that was much larger I assume! Great video! Are you off during the summer? You can live the retired life during the summer? ☺️
Hey Laura! My friend! Thanks so much for watching as always. I really appreciate your support! Yes, small home improvement a couple of months ago. Just added some rocks/pebbles to the existing around the courtyard villa. Yes, we are thankful for the savings on the home maintenance here. Yes, off for the summer (wohoo!) I can live the retired life and enjoy The Villages even more! Time to look up summer events and happenings!
Great video Grace Joy - lots of great information. We just got home from our lifestyle visit. Husband is determined to figure out how he can find employment down there so we can move before retiring (I retire in 10 years but I am fully remote working so goal is to move within next 5 years). Keep up the great work with your videos! I really enjoy them so much.
Hey Robin!! Tell me all about your lifestyle visit! What was your highlight and one low point. Good to have a determined husband! And yes, good plan to move before retiring so you can enjoy more :) I think a move within the next 5 years is doable! Thanks soo much for always leaving kind and encouraging words! I always appreciate it! I am having more courage is sharing the Villages lifestyle even though I am not quite at the retirement age yet. Just so grateful that I get to live here with my husband!
@@GracejoyTV Lifestyle visit was great! We did 36 holes of golf in 2 days, must have put about 100 miles on the golf cart lol. The highlight for me was the magnolia trees. They are so beautiful and smell so good! The low point - we weren't able to see any alligators lol. I think it was too hot and the water levels were so low I think they didn't need to come on shore to warm up. We did see a lot of different birds including the nest of a sandhill crane - that was really neat.
@@mavisrobin wow! Sounds like you made the best of your lifestyle visit! Yes, the magnolia trees are beautiful. I'm sure you heard about all the rain we had this past weekend that brought quite a few of the gators up and out of the ponds and lakes around. Glad you saw other wildlife though!
It might have been helpful if you had mentioned how large a mortgage you still have. Many folks moving here sell their old house and use the money toward their new house, so I think your mortgage payment may be inflating the actual monthly cost for most people.
Hi Walt. We purchased the villa in 2021. The mortgage is based on $255k loan financed for 30 yrs at 2%.
Know why one never sees a negative comment about the Villages? They delete them, investigate carefully.
There’s quite a few negative comments and haters actually. But thanks for watching the video anyway! I wish you the best!
Hey Rose..... Who is "they"
Can you advise what internet service works best in The Villages?
Hi David, we use X-finity for our internet service. I'm not sure if they are the best in The Villages. We had a previous account with them when we lived in Lady Lake (Harbor Hills) just outside of The Villages.
You mentioned how much your mortgage payment is but not the price you paid.
Hi Kathy, our villa is based on $255k loan financed for 30 yrs at 2%.
Did you move to the villages to keep working. Seems to me you're defeating the purpose of retiring if you need to work.
I just turned 43. My husband is 55. Blessed to be able to live and experience how retired people live! Pretty inspiring to me to see how people who worked hard all their lives and saved for retirement are able to enjoy their retirement years. Most people are friendly and majority take pride and take good care of their home and property. We had a house in in Harbor Hills just outside The Villages but needed to downsize when Covid hit. We cut down are costs by living here (believe it or not) and now even closer to where I work. Our neighbors (husband and wife both still work full time). They are friendly and look out for us. The Villages is not a perfect place but I choose to be grateful. Cheers!
@@GracejoyTV Thank you for your response. I considered moving to a retirement community here myself but just haven't done it.
Your cost list is comparable to what the TV website shows for a courtyard vila....in terms of items excluding mortgage/car payments, food, CATV, phone, misc. personal items. Do your "property taxes" = $198 include fire assessment & fire district? You have no estimated monthly costs for car maintenance/repair/registration. Personal grooming and clothes not listed. How about appliance repair and replacement? How about power wash, exterior painting (if not vinyl siding)? Is all your exterior maintenance covered by TV? You show no monthly costs for health care, insurance costs, co-pays.....or dental/eye costs? How about golf cart purchase/maintenance? If you have an older home, then roof replacement costs need to be accounted for on about a 10-12 yr cycle. Given inflation, I think your monthly food costs @ $200/wk and household items at $50/mo are rather optimistic. If you do the TV recreation center fitness club membership, then it's going to run about $60/mo per couple. Your home insurance at $56/mo seems rather cheap. Is this for a 2022-23 policy renewal, including wind damage? I've read that FL insurance rates are very high. As they say.......your results may vary.
Hi Larry, thanks for your comment. I will have to ask my husband if our property taxes include fire assessment & fire district. Are those usually included in the property taxes? No, we did not estimate our monthly car maintenance. The numbers we showed was everything for the month of April 2022 when we did not do any car maintenance. Actually we wash our cars but we do that ourselves on the driveway. My husband cuts his own hair (keeps it bald) and I have not shopped for clothes in months! I guess we are really low maintenance! Appliance repair, we did have to get our fridge serviced but that was 2 months ago. We have not had our house power-washed this year yet. As far as yard maintenance, we have zero-scape! Health insurance is covered by our employer. Our roof was replaced less than 2 years before we purchased our home. And exterior painting was done about 2 years ago also. Gym membership (Anytime Fitness) is through hubby's insurance. Best wishes to you Sir!
We just purchased a new 3br Avondale model courtyard villa in St John. We went with an Allstate bundle for home with 375k replacement value, $1k deductible, sink hole and catastrophic ground collapse, coverage for our 2019 Ford Escape, and coverage for our 2021 Yahama gas golf cart and this will cost us $241.50/month. We have no mortgage but do have these expenses in addition to property taxes which have not be calculated yet by Sumpter County as we have not yet closed on our home. Our amenity fee is $179/month. Ad Valorem taxes which includes fire and water assessment is $206.67/year. CDD maintenance assessment is $506.78/year. Our bond is called a CDD debt assessment which total is $31,936.56 which can be paid off in full or in annual payments of $2,349.39 x 30 years. If the house is sold before the bond is paid off the new owner inherits the balance. There are pros and cons to purchasing both pre owned and new homes. After doing many renovations to our 32 year old R.I. home to get it sell ready we wanted no renovations to deal with off the bat, plus the model courtyard villa we purchased has a straight driveway and golf cart garage whivh is what we wanted and these models can only be found in the newer areas of TV which is where we wanted to live anyway. We like the nature focus of the new areas and wanted to be near Lake Okahumpks which access point is in our village of St John. There is the perfect place for just about everyone in TV, but you have to do some research to find your sweet spot and hope a home to your liking and price point is or will be available to purchase when you are ready to buy.
@@nightengale2123 Feedback from Hawaii. TV cost of living web page estimates home insurance as between $70-100/mo depending on home model. For comparison our home insurance for hurricane and regular homeowners combined is $132/mo. Our auto policy is $80/mo/per car (2 autos). So, we are at $212/mo total (vs. your $241). No golf cart, of course. Property tax for us = $715/mo. HOA & sewer combined is $337/mo. I figured the the bond + Sumter County tax assessment total for a $950K designer home we were considering to = $568+/mo (possibly more like $700/mo for our purchase price). Electric here runs around $200/mo (we have 18-panel PV, but no net metering) for about 450 kW/mo from grid. Propane cost runs about $30/mo (3-4 gal/mo + $11/mo service fee). CATV (Spectrum) has risen to $199/mo for cable + upgrades, internet, landline. Ting cell phone is cheap at $35/mo (2 iPhone 12s). I did a complete spreadsheet of all costs and our comparables when relocating from Hawaii to TV. These would go down from $9,000/mo (HI) to about $6,000-6,5000/mo (TV). About half of the cost savings comes from eliminating a mortgage....the rest in other items. However, the one-time cost of relocating to FL when considering car/home furnishings replacement, rental period, and home start-up would run in the neighborhood of $100-150K depending on various factors. You are quite correct in stating..." you have to do some research to find your sweet spot and hope a home to your liking and price point is or will be available to purchase when you are ready to buy." We expect to do a Lifestyle Visit in October to make a decision.
@@GracejoyTV The term is xeriscape. Congratulations on your move.
Quit eating out! This seems high go on a budget.
Thank you for your input and thank you for watching!
This is horrible, what a waste of money
Thanks for watching the video!
So overrated and not worth it.
Sorry you feel that way. Thanks for your opinion and for watching the video! Best wishes to you Sir!