[graciegirl]

That post about the sales people for The Villages not being real estate agents made it sound like the sales people for the villages are out to get you and that they will hoodwink you in a heart beat..These new buyers, these REAL people are having a little touch of buyers remorse, (as many of us did) and they sound scared. We almost all thought...what have we done??

Than we found that what we had done is buy a place that will bring us much happiness. I would NOT trade the last three years of home ownership here for anything. They are some of the happiest in my entire life.

Having a bond here is pretty easy to absorb if you just add it to the cost of the house in your mind. Our Camellia cost 228K and the bond was 20K...so the house really cost 248K. The costs for the infrastructure are part of the cost of the home in our previous life. They are separated here.

How much would a person pay yearly on a bond that is about 20K...at the rate of 7.25? That is the figure that we are thinking about. And whether we can add that amount as a deduction to our taxes. Sounds like Mak knows and Mak told us.

You can pay the bond off all at once...(The opportunity to pay it all off comes once a year) which we do NOT intend to do because we expect to sell this lovely house and buy another here when we decide to move down for year round living.