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Originally Posted by Fred R
I have regrets. That is the reason I sold last week. A year after I bought my home I went to the Rohan dedication and heard the Village rep say " this is the last rec center we will ever build. Then the next year, Fenny popped up. Then information about the land purchase near Wildwood. Then in 2017 the deal with Leesburg for another 8000 homes. Then I saw where Morse family was selling homes in Fenny for as little as $161,000. With another 22,000 homes coming on in the next 2 years I figured unless you owned for 5 yrs or more you would always compete with the builder forever. Put the home up August 1, sold it, and now rent for 4 months a year for a lot less than owning. Owning here is not inexpensive, no matter what the powers at be tell you. Some of us aren't as rich as many folks here. I guess if you sell a home in the East for big money, prices here are reasonable, but not for a middle class guy from Ohio. No, I enjoy visiting here, but wish I had not purchased. I'd be about 10 grand ahead if I had only rented.
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We too are from Ohio & I agree with you exactly. My thoughts are a lot of people haven't lived here long enough to see the real Florida life or like you said Fred they're richer than some of us. We also are looking for another home in Ohio. Yea, I agree I hate the cold in the north but like a lot of people I have my reasons not to stay here. When we moved here one of the first things the sales office told us was, "If you want to sell your home here in a couple of yrs. it'll sell in a heartbeat", not true. With 20 or 30,000 homes up for sale here all the time your home isn't all that easy to sell. Other than that & not getting into a bunch more neg. comments TV isn't a bad place to live, but then again the ones that love it here, we don't know their life style where they came from maybe they lived in a rough neighborhood. I'm going to enjoy it here as long as I can. I look at TV as an extended vacation.