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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Why wouldn't ID cards work, at least for the vast majority of homes?
If a rental includes amenities then the owner turns in his/her ID card and a card is issued to the renter at one of the sales offices. The ages of the occupants can be tracked.
If an owner is a snowbird or other part-time resident then they maintain their ID card. Either the age can be tracked through the card or the home could be considered to be unoccupied and not part of the 80/20 count.
This might leave out short-term rentals but would it really make the count grossly inaccurate? Do the HoPA rules even require these to be counted or would they be considered as unoccupied? Even if they are counted, are there enough short-term rental properties to significantly affect the 80/20 ratio?
I've read claims of numbers like 1,000 rental properties or 3,000 rental properties listed. OK, but with 70,000+ homes in the Villages, if all 3,000 were required to be counted and all 3,000 were short-term and all 3,000 were rented with no one over 55 in the party that would still only be 4% of the homes, far from the 20% limit.
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I don't know all the rules. If a snowbird lives in The Villages for 4 months every year, is that a fulltime resident, or an unoccupied house? And, how does The Villages count the number of snowbirds? They don't register as snowbirds or even tell The Villages when they leave town. Are there long term renters who don't have an ID card? Shouldn't the 80 percent data and methodology be public information? That would answer these questions.