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Originally Posted by manaboutown
What means the most to the developer is how much it is banking in profits. Oh wait, it owns the bank, too!
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True, but, it would appear to me, and this is just my opinion, I know nothing - that the developers are in it for the long run (over 20 years now) many (most?) senior developments I visited before coming here looked 40 years old after 2 or 3 years.
Many (most?) others are in it for a quick buck, and then leave the residents to clean up after them.
Here the dev's put in place a system to turn over control to residents in an orderly manner, and it works well.
Also, I can clearly see improvements that have been made, like wider golf cart paths, wider roads, etc. over the years in each new section they improve from what they learned in the last section.
With all that said, I guess what I see in this thread is a number of people that feel if something isn't perfect, then it is awful. And it is has ANY problems, the the developers are a bunch of crooks.
Maybe the truth is someplace in the middle - the developers are human (I think - maybe shape shifting lizards?) and so are not perfect, but they are doing better than any other senior community I have visited.
Think about the great deal the folks over at Top of the World get. They OWN their homes, they just don't OWN the land they are built on. They have a 100 year lease. Hmmm... really? That doesn't sound like a very good investment - LOL!