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Originally Posted by Roaddog53
An interesting fact is TV NEW home sales are DOWN nearly 10% since April throug their own admission in the weekly flyer. PRE-OWNED homes are UP 2% for the same timeframe for a total TV market down 8%. The breakdown is 52% new sold and 48% pre-owned. Add in realty sales and pre-owned sales far outstrip new homes. Obviously pre-owned is selling and where are they going? Yes some are are their second home, but many are leaving. An outside community from TV said last month, five Villagers bought there. Yessss you can read into it it is summer and sales are down or all kinds of other reasons. Bottom line, new homes are much lower in price now. They can sell 185-300k homes ok, but the higher ones take much longer and not as many. If you don't golf for into lots of cliubs there ARE Other alternatives. Better value for the price, lower taxes, etc. each has to do their own homework.
Perhaps the baby boomer gen is ending.. Perhaps the next gen does not have the retirement funds, who knows. Maybe people are tired of the take it or leave it attitudes. I have always said when ANY COMPANY treats THE customer with arrogance (by the way, we are the customer) because they are too busy, they have awaiting list, or poor statements of "hurry and buy! we will be built out in 2 years and than there won't be any homes" since 2008, we won't build no more patio villas, That company is not focused on who their market is. It will some day catch up with that business. Maybe it is now.
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So we can assume you don't live here? If you don't then you have no skin in the game here or an understanding of this place and your posts are useless. If you do live here then we can assume you made a terrible mistake or are realizing you made a mistake and will move to one of those "better value" places. People live where they live for personal reasons and they move from where they live for personal reasons. I know a few families that left because they missed their family's and one because they had serious health issues. I'm sure others have left because the lifestyle didn't suit them or the cost exceeded their means. Comparing this place to ANY COMPANY is silly since this is the only product available here. In fact, it's the only product of it's type and scope and size and integration that can support over 100K people. We all make our own choices, I ask that you respect that and try not to make assumptions that suit your agenda.