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Originally Posted by Rainger99
I have been here about two years and my wife is talking about moving. When we got here, we both agreed that we didn't want to back up to a lanai so we back up to a wall. Now, she is talking about getting a house with a view.
The Villages website refers to Home Golf Front Site, Golf View Site, Water Front Site, Water View Site, View Site, and Preserve Site.
Can anyone explain the differences between a Golf Front Site and a Golf View Site and a Water Front Site and a Water View Site and a regular View Site? Why isn't there a preserve view site?
Any pros or cons for these various sites?
I have seen complaints from people that live on golf courses - noise and golf balls in their back yards. Do people with view sites think that it is worth the premium price?
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I agree with other posters, ‘front’ means directly connected and ‘view’ means you can see over whatever is connected (like over a road).
We bought a golf front home on a water hole as we like golf and water. We love it, have had it since 2011 (having moved from a non-view home we bought just the year before).
We love to watch the golf and birds at the pond. You can see and hear carts, golfers and course workers but the sound (I won’t call it noise) is usually just in the background. We do have a cart path behind us and we don’t mind that. Occasionally a ball in the yard (I get about 6 a year) but one has never broken a window (that would be a pretty impossible shot). Extremely rare for a golfer to go into the yard or address us on the lanai but we are social people and don’t mind that (just took exception the one guy in 12 years that actually lined up to play his ball from where it laid well into our yard).
Golfers do start early and go until dark, course workers start even earlier. It doesn’t bother us, we don’t get up at the crack of Dawn and don’t hear anything unless the windows are open (and even then, the body gets accustomed to some background noise).
So, we’d say, it’s well worth it for us. We paid a lot premium of $145k and it’s also been a good investment (but we aren’t going anywhere 🤩).