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Originally Posted by CatskillBill
When you first open TOTV with the different categories listed, scroll all the way to the bottom part of the page and click on Sticky: Moving to the Villages, under Nuts and Bolts of The Villages.
A wealth of information has been posted on here by Zcaveman. Should answer a lot of your questions. Good reading.
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This is good advice and although it is hard to believe the list of expenses included in your package from the sales office is very close to the real expenses. I have read that time and time again in the four and a half years I have posted on here.
The bond is a price added to a new home for the infrastructure. For instance a designer Camellia will cost about $230K with about a 20K bond making that house (one of the most popular designs) about 250K. That house would cost more with a view lot, or a wider lot, or backed to a wall or to a road.
The amenity fee is aproximately $140 a month whether you live in a home that cost a million and a half or 60 thousand. It is based on cost of living.
The rest is so hard to believe until you get here. We live in a beautiful community with so many things to do that continue through the summer months. We have well over a thousand clubs, and we now number more than 90,000 residents. We have a good base left during the summer and more every day because people just don't want to go "home" during the summer.
Just wait. You will be so wowed. We just built our second home here. I don't like Florida but I LOVE The Villages.
Be prepared to see a lot of young people trapped in older people's bodies and be careful not to be run down by a jogger, bicyclist or inline skater. Don't be hit by a pickleball and be prepared for the political slant in the newspaper.
If you can get though all that, you will have a cold refreshing drink, have the chip implanted and start raving about it like I do.
Welcome to the forum. You will love it here.