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Originally Posted by SpicyCajunPugs
There has been so much different info coming from multiple sources and sales reps that it is crazy trying to help others who want to make plans for a custom lot and home. I would say that everyone may have to settle for one of the current available lots, ones that in the future don't sell, or plan on buying a spec or existing home. We feel lucky that we took the plunge as we would have never found both the lot, model, stretches and other changes that we wanted without having to pay a huge amount after the fact. The Villages, like any smart and profitable business, will make changes to make the most profit and to ease the burden of design appointments...that is not a problem, but reality and fact, so prepare for your future and specific desires accordingly.
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I don't know if they make more profit on spec homes but it is easier for them. When we bought our first new home here in 2008, they were only building and selling spec homes, BUT the choices in those homes were amazing. There were bumps and extensions and choices of views and upgrades or lack of upgrades and these things made some homes very affordable and some much more expensive. It was pretty close to customizing and the finishing touches were done by their design staff so there wasn't any uglies going on.
We paid $229 for a Camellia with back privacy that bordered on Odell center and it came with a standard refrigerator, no ice maker, no granite, no stainless steel appliances and tile and carpet and the pillars. Our next door neighbors on the same day bought a Lantana with a golf course view with linoleum and carpet, no granite, a HUGE lot for $325. It too was a spec home. We were gonna upgrade the stuff we wanted but got too busy with other stuff.
We loved it for four years and were talked out of it by posters on this forum and built our present year round home here but didn't have time for the design team and just had them build one exactly like the furnished model at the time.
We also again got the benefit of their great designers and we could see what we were getting and have again been very pleased.
I don't work for the Morses. I don't know the Morses. I am old and we have had homes built for us many times in our lives and some were custom.
This is the best experience by far.
I don't think that you should panic if you can't do a custom build. Many people are living happily in homes that Gary built. I think Jack is history.
This Is the House That Jack Built4
