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Originally Posted by Stu from NYC
If they cashed out for say 5 or 10 billion they would be sitting pretty.
Anyone who would buy this place would want to make money but keep growing and making more money not destroying TV.
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Not at all true. Look over your own stock portfolio, or if that's not your investment preference, just take a look at the list of companies. I don't know if they will sell of course, but that line of reasoning; why would an individual, or family, take public and lose control of something they built and were so proud of ? Well, let's see, Tesla, Anheusers, Busch's, Walton's, Heinz, I mean it would take several days to list. It's the point of entrepreneurship for most, Standard Oil/ Rockefeller Foundation, generational wealth. So, not saying this will be the fate of The Villages at all, but certainly the "norm" is to go the IPO route with an entity of this size and worth... and remember, a lot of the worth is in land, not on "paper". Okay, just my perspective is all.