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Originally Posted by Harry Gilbert
Those of us that are younger and potentially have 30+ years left ARE watching this issue before deciding on the Villages. I know I don't want to pay for someone else's mistake.
And as far as bashing the Morse family, some take it personal. This isn't personal. This is business. And quite frankly while they did a outstanding job with the business some of their decisions have been questionable
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Hey! It doesn't matter that you are younger or 73 like me...by the way...here in this place, 70 is the new 40!
We aren't idiots any of us. We are investing the biggest hunk of money in our lives, most of us in our home. We all or mostly all knew about the ongoing IRS investigation and tried to make some sense of it. But many very monetarily conservative people chose to live here.
This isn't a baby game, we all can make our own decisions. I am glad we bought our first home five years ago and are still enjoying it every bit as much today. We are in our sixth year of joyful living that I personally did not expect to have in my golden years.
And of course there are all kinds of risks buying in any neighborhood, anywhere. Our quite nice neighborhood near Cincy that we left has a few houses not kept up as spiffily as they once were and that neighborhood at the age of 25 isn't quite as pretty as it once was. Meth labs spring up in toney suburbs, drugs are creeping into suburbia, things ain't what they used to be and there are no iron clad guarantees.
There is risk in any thing we do.
And no one can tell anyone what they should do.
I think the Morses run things like any good business does, they try to take advantage of any kind of situation that will pul money in the coffers, but they have risked that money time and time again. I would have quit with my first ten million and bought a house here and just stopped. They probably aren't angels but I don't think they are devils either...and fortunately I was not born yesterday. I am quite old as you pointed out.
