[QUOTE=CathyandSteveG;1094744]I have kept up with this thread and i want to share something.
I don't live in the villages....I have visited...I research...and i participate on this forum.
Yesterday...we went to look at the only 55 and over lifestyle community in Missouri called Heritage of Hawk Ridge. It is a Dell Webb Pulte community. There is a 9 hole par 3 executive style golf course, a 10,000 sq ft. clubhouse, a pro shop and a grill, an outdoor pool and 2 tennis courts, a fitness center that had a weight machine and 2 treadmills. There are 14,000 residents. There are 6 models to choose from. The HOA fee is $235 per month and this includes lawn care and snow removal.
This is pretty much what I found in other Florida retirement communities before buying in TV---a single golf course , a single clubhouse with a restaurant, and all activities are only what is offered at the clubhouse. Grocery, gas, shopping all miles away, usually in highly congested traffic.
Del Webb Missouri---9 holes for 14,000 residents??? = 1 hole/ 1555 people.
TV---609 holes = 1/123 full time and 1/189 high season---and we complain about getting a tee time? Plus, their golfing season is much shorter so when you calculate rounds/year it is even worse. But, while the amenity fee is higher, it does include SNOW REMOVAL!!!! yuk---I'd much rather deal with dog poo, roundabouts, saved seats at the squares, a few illegally cut trees, tight fairway lies, buses picking up people in the square parking lots, garden gnome tattletales, cart paths not striped, and all the other "complaints" we see on TOTV so often.
88 days until we move in FT, and counting
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