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Originally Posted by tophcfa
It is a real issue that didn’t exist several years ago. It’s simple math, the amount of golf holes per rooftop has been significantly diluted since ground was broken south of 44 and it gets worse every passing year. The new golf being built is not nearly enough to rectify the issue, it’s just marginally slowing the rate of dilution.
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We built much longer ago than 10 years. "Winter" was always a little more difficult, but if one were "reasonable" (meaning, no demanding ONE particular course at ONE certain day and time) it was not that difficult to get something similar to the request. Over the years it's just become, yes, beyond frustrating. I'm sure even the Championship (pay) courses do not come close to bringing in the amount of money the sale of a new home does, so you have to kind of figure: if you have self space in your store, and stocking one item brings a LOT more profit than stocking another item that might be a convenience and help to the customers who come in, but on which there is nearly no profit, or even is a "loss leader" item. So golf courses could be an attractive "loss leader" for this business. Also, how would any resident know how many MORE times that traditionally reserved for the villages sales department, are now being held back ? Are even more allotted to the sales department now that the square miles of the V's have grown exponentially. So couple those possibilities with the great increase in people owning "chains" of properties for short term rental, that demographic too has definitely increased since many years ago when the "typical" winter residents were 2 people to a home they either owned (and did not rent out when not occupying), or renters would stay an entire winter. Just so many changes that combine to cause major dysfunction, can't blame ONE thing, except perhaps lack of adequate contingency planning while adding one village after another. Kind of like a Ponzi scheme, they finally collapse but always look very successful until the end ! ?