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Originally Posted by villagerjack
The Villagesis the most successful residential development in the world. The primary reason is because the developer maintais Control over all the amenities and various other rules are in place to ensure that residents have fair and unfettered access to all our activities. A resident ID is issued to a resident. It could not be more clear.
We previously lived in a Dell Webb facility and South Carolina and left there to buy into Villages. The primary reason we left was that the Facilities like tennis, pickle ball, croquet and other sports were turned over to the control of the various clubs i.e. tennis club, pickle ball club who then form teams and basically what happened was if you did not belong to one of those teams your access to these facilities was severely limited. As a snowbird, we did not want to join teams but we did want access to these facilities which we came very difficult to do. To add insult to injury the teams begun to havetournaments and outsiders were permitted to play tennis while a resident like me was locked out.
When this happened very few snowbirds were attracted to the SC Sun City which resulted in very slow sales and a decline in housing values. That particular Sun City began in 1995 with build out of about of about 8600 homes. 20 years later they still have 900 homes to sell.
The Villages has the most successful formulaof any facility of this type in the world and that is because the develope has control All rules are for the benefit of owners and not outsiders. I dread the day whenresidents will be able to call the shots because left to their own imaginations there will always be ways for people to say that this is not fair or that is not fair and changes will be madewhich will in my opinion destroy the most successful model for senior development in the world.
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Well said and I couldn't agree with you more. TV is probably the best of the active lifestyle communities and that has alot to do with their policies. However, I do support Joe and all other singles in our community looking for some concessions that would allow them to escort their male/female dates for certain events or activities. Perhaps their may be some compromise that all can accept. Good luck!