When people talk about the "Developer" they speak as if the developer still owned The Villages and that they controlled every aspect of life here in our community. While it is true that the "Developer" built the community and still own most of the commercial buildings, a lot of us residents forget that we now OWN the rest of it. When a new housing area is completed, the developer essentially sells the community properties to a CDD and then We, and our respective CDD's & county government, are now the owners of our house and those community properties.
In any other new housing area anywhere in the rest of the country, once all the properties are sold the developer moves on to somewhere else and that is the last those people ever see of them. Here in The Villages, the developer has continued to build into new areas so they have remained visible and involved in the community. But a lot of the Villages residents feel that the "developer" still is running the entire community in a benefactor role. They expect the "developer" to continue being responsible for everything that happens and needs to happen in The Villages. We seem to forget that they are strictly land developers in business to make a profit. They have provided us a FANTASTIC place to live and play, and are continuing to provide things that from a marketing standpoint will make the selling of newly developed areas possible.
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