We have finally gone and done it!
We have been looking for the ‘perfect’ Orlando villa to buy for the past 2 years, and at last we believe we have found it at Bella Vida!
Lee at Kingdom has been superb at helping us find a villa - very, very patient, and it looks like it has paid off.
Bella Vida seems to mean Beautiful Life in Italian and the resort is going to have a Mediterranean look with formal Italian garden and an ‘impressive’ entrance.
So, after looking at the plans, and the site, and the plans again, we have finally taken the plunge and put down the deposit for the largest home on the site, the 6 bedroom Belaire Beach.
At 4185 sq ft under roof, it’s larger than the 7 bedroom villas we have stayed in at Formosa Gardens and they were huge, so with one less bedroom and 200 more sq feet this one should be spectacular!
Our plan is to have the best 6 bed villa in Orlando, so we have managed to add over $130,000 of options at the moment - ouch! Quality apparently costs, if you want the best you have to pay for it. It will be the only 6 bed villa I know with 7 toilets, but it should be worth every penny (anyone renting it when we are not there will be getting a bargain!).
I guess if we were just doing this for rental only we might cut the corners a bit, but where would the fun be in that and it would always bug me, I can imagine being there and thinking ‘we should have gone for the larger pool’ or ‘why didn’t we pay for a better lot instead of being overlooked’
Instead I guess in the meantime i’ll be thinking ‘why did we add so many extras?’
Apparently the contract will be with us next week - scary!
Andy
