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Originally Posted by twinklesweep
...many people come here only having heard about The Villages and go to the sales center for info, right? They get taken on a trolley tour with a driver and a cheerleader to areas of new construction and are led to believe that this is what’s available. Sometimes you can see them rushing out of the trolley to check out a new street for a lot and put their stake in the ground, and from that point on it’s a done deal...
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We came to TV the last week of April 2011 for our first and only LSV. We stayed 7 days at one of the cottages east of the sales office at LSL near the Morse Bridge. We never took a trolly ride. Our salesman Tony Trussler only took us to where we asked to go. I said I wanted to see new CYV's and Cottages. We went to Pennecamp and looked at every model Cottage and every model CYV that was available. After that we were on our own. Two days later I asked Tony if we could see new patio villas. He picked us up and he took us to Buttonwood and we looked at both versions of the patio villa and a couple of furnished models and he drove us around that neighborhood.
Tony is a laid back fellow with a british accent and was probably older than me, mid to late 60's I would guess. He wasn't any cheerleader and didn't try to steer us in any direction or another. We didn't ask to see any resales, those we looked up ourselves and visited them.
We sold our house just a couple of weeks later in May and had to be out by the end of June. Rather than make a second trip, since we decided on a new CYV and we knew the floorplans and communities available, we bought our new home off the internet. We called Tony and gave him a credit card and he put a hold on a new CYV, we closed and moved in July 5, 2011.