My wife is the reason I'm here in a condo. Never would have thought to do it on my own. I thought I would miss having my own home with the big yard and separation from neighbors, etc. But I don't miss it at all. No yard work. No snow shoveling. No cleaning gutters. And on and on.
My advice though is to pick your condo unit carefully and to buy pre-construction if you can as you then have a lot of control over the interior design such as where the lighting, ceiling fans and such go. Let's just say that I will never say "I don't have enough outlets" ever again!
I told the wife that if we were to get a condo, it had to be a rear facing unit where I didn't have to look out at a parking lot and have people gaping in all the time (I'm not a window treatment kind of guy - I prefer the sunshine coming in). So I have a unit facing the woods out back and all I see is trees, deer and a lazy brook running through it. No nosy neighbors walking around out back except a rare dog walker. Also, when we go away, I no longer have to worry about the place. Community is gated and you need a key fob just to get into the lobby of the building.
Plenty of condos occupied and for sale here at the Lake of the Ozarks.
Wife spied an empty one that’s been for sale for almost a year. $250 K.
Interior would need updating. Front is on the lake. Right side is wooded. Back is garages and parking. Built in 1991...