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My husband and I owned a courtyard villa in Mission Hills and loved it. The villas in there are block and stucco (noise was never an issue), our home like most of the homes in Mission Hills was stretched an extra 200 square feet, Mission Hills has its own pool, the homeowners in Mission Hills were fantastic and it was a very active village. We were fortunate to have a corner lot and were able to expand it. We owned our villa for two years and decided to sell because the homes went up so much in value compared to other homes. We were able to sell without a realtor and even after factoring in cost, upgrades that we did and came out with enough money to purchase a spec Gardenia and have a large pool built for less than what our courtyard villa sold for. Don't know if that can happen in today's Villages market, but, purchase wisely. Every home that we purchase has to be sold eventually.