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Originally Posted by rubicon
gmcneill: if there are such areas available I assure you the Developer will put a house on it. "The Village Lifestyle" is what the Developer sells and so that "Lifestyle" costs people a hefty premium. But what you discover is that people who purchased outside TV benefit from that "Lifestyle"..They have access and utilize the golf cartpaths, golf courses, town squares, etc without paying amenities, fees , etc. What I hear in defense of this is "well they can't use our rec centers or pools, etc. I'll make book that they can and do. If I am wrong the cost of amenities still don't justify what is given in return. I have met folks who left TV and moved down the road for that reason.
Finally "Selling the Lifestyle" is so profitable that is my understanding the Developer has developed a seminar for other Developers on how to sell "The Lifestyle" concept and getting a hefty price for it.
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Your understanding of a seminar for other developers sounds pretty far fetched to me Rubicon. I respectfully disagree about the developer "putting a house" on
ALL available property. First, the area was all planned out at the beginning. AND there are acres and acres and acrea of nothing but beautifully maintained green space along the roadways, my favorite being the area around Buena Vista and Stillwater. To me that area reminds me of my vision of heaven, the other one.
I grant we could have a lot of things that we don't have, many have mentioned indoor pools, more dog parks, charging stations for golf carts, separate golf cart paths all over, separate walking paths all over, separate bike paths all over,someone to police the saving seats, etc. etc. etc. We have so many things here for our $135 a month and yet we want more, more, more. We could have more but
someone has to pay for them.
We have things so nice that others come into our campus and try to use them. I think our ambassadors do a fairly good job of checking pool passes and definitely checking ID's on the golf courses. They are told not to be challenging or rude to anyone and I haven't run into those behaviors from the ID checkers at all.
I do agree Rubicon that you can get bigger homes and larger lots for the same money outside The Villages. But. Not many choose to do that. And if they do they want a different set of things for themselves that brought me here to Florida that I said I would NEVER live in and brought me to the happiest part of my life.