I spoke to a caretaker yesterday that came over from Empty Nest to PM. We had been concerned as we have not been receiving regular updates on our home in TV. I emailed the person who was our caretaker since May and heard from this new person who informed me our caretaker retired. We had not heard from him since our visit in June when I called to complain about the lack of cleanliness of one of my bathrooms. (but that is another issue).
Also, if you look at the TV website they have only been advertising the Creekside Cabanas for the preview plan for quite sometime. I asked the caretaker if they were owned by the Villages and if they are still utilizing other privately owned resident homes anymore. We have not had anyone in our home since April and while we expected to not see much in rental activity during the summer we thought perhaps there may be an occasional rental. The caretaker was not sure if there were changes and suggested I speak to the owner during the week. He also indicated that we may not have rental activity until February and March (January possibly). We joined the program in November last year and had activity in Nov, Dec, Jan, April and we were filled Feb and March.
I have seen numerous posts in TOTV regarding lifestylye preview visits all summer so the thought has been that they may not be using the homes. It sounded to me like things are changing so as an owner I expressed concern that we had not heard anything or have felt we had sufficient contact like we had been having prior to about June.
One change we were happy to learn about is PM is going back to one caretaker which will stay with the owner. They have been rotating about every three months and we found that frustrating as it was hard to keep track of who was keeping an eye on our home.
Has anyone else experienced changes, concerns, etc? I was given the owner's name but not sure if I should post it here. I plan to contact him early this week if I do not hear from him as I requested.
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