Regarding bonds. Some sections of The Villages never had bonds in the first place. So no, the seller won't be including the bond cost in the sales price on those. The "Historic Section" never had bonds. There are plenty of "site-built" homes, block and stucco, and wood frame, peppered between the manufactured homes here on our side of the Villages. None of them have bonds, and never did. The city of Lady Lake in Lake County handles that stuff here, and it just wasn't ever imposed. Our side isn't part of any CDD, we have no district government. We're absorbed into the VCCDD just for continuity, but technically our governmental body is the city within the county except for I believe 3 blocks down near Paradise and Aloha, which are considered "Unincorporated Lake County."
If you were to draw a line from the southernmost part of the Historic Section (which is at Griffin Avenue), west to 301, everything north of that should already have had their bond paid off by now. South of that is a small strip that's just north of 466, and many might still have a couple years more before it's paid in full.
Most people who live north of 466, did not purchase their properties as investments. They purchased them as homes for them to live in during their retirement. So recuperating the cost of their bond payments won't be an issue. When they purchased 20-30 years ago, home prices were very affordable. We're talking $60-100k. During that 20-30 year period they've made upgrades, replaced carpeting, had new roofs and HVAC and hot water heaters installed, etc. etc. They probably paid more in improvements and upgrades over the 2-3 decades they've lived there, than they paid in bonds.
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