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Originally Posted by rjrobart
If looking in Spanish Springs you're looking at an area that's the oldest in the community of The Villages. That said the older homes are actually built better than today's homes. I was just told us some are new homes aren't even coming with ceiling fans. So what else are they cutting out. My feeling is up to pick the community or the village where you want to be closely associated with. If you want to be fairly close say to Sumpter Landing, then pick something an area where you're comfortable getting to the Village of your choice by golf cart. Roofs can be replaced, or a contingency can be put on the sale. Style open floor plan, and of course the work you need to have done to bring it up to speed of your liking. You can negotiate on existing resales, but not on new home being sold by The Villages. Line up your pros and cons, and negotiate. You'll find it. Patience is a virtue!
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Please explain what you mean that "older homes are built better than today's homes". I asked another poster the same thing and I got no reply. My experience is that the construction quality has not changed much in the past 25-30 years of Villages construction. My house, built 9 years ago, did not come with ceiling fans, but the electric boxes were installed, and I was able to buy ceiling fans from the builder and they installed them. But, this has absolutely nothing to do with construction quality.