Does the developer listen or care? They most definitely listen, to their business consultants. They also care a great deal, about their bottom line. They do listen to the Villages residents, in aggregate, by carefully monitoring the statistics demonstrating where/how they spend their money. Just don’t kid yourselves that they listen or care about individual residents on some kind of personal level. They have extremely deep pockets and aren’t going to panic and make knee jerk reactions to short term market trends, they will wait out market glitches and will carefully make strategic changes to longer term plans as market conditions dictate. This opinion is not a knock on the developer, they are extremely successful and doing what is in their best financial interest. There’s nothing wrong with that.
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