Georgia does NOT have a fiduciary to buyers or sellers...this is very, very, very important to remember.
Except if they explicitly promise it, as in this case.
We've been saying that we're somewhat indifferent between the top five (now three - I mean two) choices. Each of the places have some advantages over the others, and we switched the order we were going to make our bids several times because they were all so evenly matched. We'll be perfectly happy if we get either this one we're bidding on now or one other that we have waiting in the wings. Otherwise, I'm going to want to make another trip down to Georgia to find more options.
The place we have the bid in on now has large (for a condo), private backyard. That's more work on the one hand, but it's a backyard of our very own. My spouse would love to plant roses and gardenias, tomatoes and peppers, etc. - something for which there was not enough room in any of the other homes we considered. Also, this place is $25K less expensive, meaning we won't exhaust our excess reserves. It doesn't make it better than the first place, but as W2R said, "there is not just one perfect house but several houses". I also firmly believe that home is made not built, and each house just gives us different tools an opportunities to work with to make a home.
I would, however, like to avoid going to our sixth choice, because that is a big change. The top five were all similar layouts: Master bedroom on the ground floor, two levels, all done. There are another set of condos out here that are three levels and some even four levels, the developers obviously trying to maximize the number of salable units per acre. I really don't want to settle for "vertical living".