I agree, not nice to be snarky to newbies. And the Developer essentially
is the Villages in that he controls and gets paid for everything from the media to real estate sales, to trash pick ups. He is most certainly the force behind the tax exempt bond offerings that are being investigated by the IRS, since he created the development districts in the Villages in order to issue the bonds . There is an informative article in Business Week that offers more information:
Billionaire Morse Behind Curtain at Villages - Businessweek