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Originally Posted by jojo
Isn't Harold Schwartz from Michigan, not Ohio as the article says? If so, this could not be an ad published by The Villages.
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According to the book “Leisureville”, Harold was from Chicago but when he and his first wife divorced, she moved to Michigan with her son Harold “Gary”. She then married Clifford Morse and Gary eventually took on his stepfather’s name “Morse”.
Meanwhile Harold and a business partner were buying up pastures and farmland and selling them by mail-order in quarter acre parcels. But when the Florida legislature banned mail-order land sales in the late 1960’s, Harold’s business partner turned the several hundred acre watermelon patch in Central Florida into a trailer park. In 1983 and only 400 homes sold, Harold visited his sister in the huge Sun City Arizona retirement community and was so impressed that he bought out his partner’s interest in the trailer park and transformed the Orange Blossom Gardens trailer park into a mobile home community selling lifestyles instead of just homes.
That’s why I’m convinced that the major ingredient in the “Kool-Aid” drink that convinces so many to retire to TV is in fact aged watermelon juice from those watermelon fields in OBG.