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Old 05-10-2015, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Laurie2 View Post
May I offer an analogy. -- Well, I guess it is not exactly an analogy because it is not truly analogous, but it works for me......

This is how I see our house here in TV.....

It is like living in a corporation.

Owning our house is like owning stock in said corporation.

The corporation pays its stockholders a dividend.

That dividend is what is referred to as "The Lifestyle."

And as anyone who understands dividend-paying stocks knows -- if a corporation that has always paid a dividend decides to start cutting that dividend, that is when the stockholder starts to rethink the investment.

So far. So good. -- For us. For now.

Now, if you really want to take a close look at the innards of TV, maybe somebody here will post that diagram of all the things owned in TV by the developer. It looks like a web. A really big web. I saw it here on TOTV a long time ago, but I have no idea how to find that diagram. I do know that it was OK with me because it showed the developer has an ongoing investment to protect even after the alleged build-out is allegedly over. But to protect that investment, the developer has to take some sort of care of all us golden geese.

Honk-Honk Laurie
Some information about holdings by the developer would be found here ->

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