New buyer

[dkrhardy]

Hi all,
We bought our house on June 18th and will close on July 27th. After all of the mover headaches, we should be moved in on the 30th. We are moving from Montgomery AL to the Village of St. James. We have visited The Villages 6 times over the last couple of years and we also have several friends that are residents. So, we feel we have a fairly good grasp on what we are doing. We found the floor plan we love about 2 yrs ago and have been waiting for my official, forever, retirement. We sold our home here at just about the same time, so we were able to press on with the next stage of our lives.
That is probably more info than you want to see in a 1st hello, but ............
We will be going through what all of you have already done, but we do look forward to getting settled in.
Don & Kaz

[swrinfla]

Welcome to TOTV and TV.

You'll find everyone on this site will cheer your decision to join us all here in what Gracie likes to call "Lower Paradise!"

SWR
:beer3:

[Redrok]

Congratulations. We have recently closed on our home in Charlotte but must wait a couple of months for our furniture to be built. Isn't it exciting!!

[dkrhardy]

Congratulations. We have recently closed on our home in Charlotte but must wait a couple of months for our furniture to be built. Isn't it exciting!!

Thanks! Exciting, yes. Nerve wracking, more so!
D&K

[graciegirl]

It is a bit like giving birth...getting here.

But this baby is worth it.

Welcome and hugs. You have made the right decision.

[CaptJohn]

:welcome: to the TOTV forum. About time to start an Alabama club in TV! :laugh:

[gomoho]

Closed on our home in Hadley almost a month ago - today was the first day I felt like I was home and not overwhelmed by logistics of everything. Might have had something to do with my first experience at the driving range. I think I might just like this golf that everyone else here is so obsessed with!

[asianthree]

:welcome:

[2BNTV]

:welcome: to TOTV.

Congrats on your new home and best wishes as you start living the dream. :smiley:

[wendyquat]

:welcome: you are going to love it?

[dkrhardy]

Closed on our home in Hadley almost a month ago - today was the first day I felt like I was home and not overwhelmed by logistics of everything. Might have had something to do with my first experience at the driving range. I think I might just like this golf that everyone else here is so obsessed with!

1st - thanks to all of the welcome posts!

2nd - gomoho - you came to TV without a love for golf? There are many things to do, for sure, BUT !!!! ???

My DW (Darling Wife) and I share a love of golf. She loves tennis and I love big old RC planes. So we have quality time together as well as some personal time apart. We plan to explore pickle ball and .......?

Don & Kaz (Kaz is short for Kazue. Most folks cannot pronounce her name - Japanese)

[Schaumburger]

dkr -- another welcome from a TV wannabee! May you and your wife have many happy times in your new home in TV. :welcome:

[JohnN]

St James and TV is great, welcome aboard

[Pturner]

:wave: Don and Kaz,

I'm so excited for you! May the rest of your life be the best of your life.

:pepper2::clap2::a040::beer3:

[Golfer in Sanibel]

This will be the best decision you have ever made.

[dkrhardy]

We visited/rented for the last few yrs, 7 visits total, with the last one in Dec, we did some solo visits to the "neighborhoods". We found one area that looked pretty good, we thought it was Tamarind, it was not. Saw a CYV that fit our "plan", and went to see if the door was ... uhm ... open. Yep, unlocked. It was the floor plan we liked, mostly finished. We paid NO attention to the address. Months later, we did a over-the-phone purchase followed up with a visit to do papers, and guess what! That was the same house! Meant to be, eh?
Don & Kaz

[asianthree]

We visited/rented for the last few yrs, 7 visits total, with the last one in Dec, we did some solo visits to the "neighborhoods". We found one area that looked pretty good, we thought it was Tamarind, it was not. Saw a CYV that fit our "plan", and went to see if the door was ... uhm ... open. Yep, unlocked. It was the floor plan we liked, mostly finished. We paid NO attention to the address. Months later, we did a over-the-phone purchase followed up with a visit to do papers, and guess what! That was the same house! Meant to be, eh?
Don & Kaz

:bigbow: good job

[dkrhardy]

Just gotta get this in print! 19 more days! And only 17 to closing!
Don & Kaz

[kfeasel54]

Congratulations on your new home. We too are closing on 7/27, which also happens to be our 10th wedding anniversary - must be meant to be... Unfortunately, we are not retired yet, so we will be renting our home for a couple years until our retirement. Enjoy your new home and the fun and excitement that TV will briing you.

[dkrhardy]

Congratulations on your new home. We too are closing on 7/27, which also happens to be our 10th wedding anniversary - must be meant to be... Unfortunately, we are not retired yet, so we will be renting our home for a couple years until our retirement. Enjoy your new home and the fun and excitement that TV will briing you.

Thank you! Are you doing a face-to-face closing, or like us, via overnight FedEx? We are having the movers pack on the 28th, load on the 29th and unload on the 30th at TV!
Don & Kaz

[10-Top]

Congrats from another Alabama wannabe! We are putting our house up for sale this week and hope to be living permanently in the Villages by the end of the year. I agree w/Capt. John that it is about time for an "Alabama Club"...count Jennie and me in!

John & Jennie P.

[getdul981]

Congratulations. We have recently closed on our home in Charlotte but must wait a couple of months for our furniture to be built. Isn't it exciting!!

Wow! You're having your furniture built? Congratulations on your new home.

[Redrok]

Wow! You're having your furniture built? Congratulations on your new home.
Built? Maybe I mean shipped from "who knows where".

We bought American Drew and were told the factory will start building when they received the order. Same story from Lazy Boy. I haven't researched where either factory is located.

Can't wait till I somewhere to sit and play. Did I say play, I mean LAY :0

[burbank3160]

Been here since 2000. Can't believe I am not on vacation. Still wake up every day and say "I live here." Good luck and don't worry about the little things.

[stuckinparadise]

Congratulations! My husband and I also live in Alabama (Dothan) and will be moving into our house in Tamarind Grove in one year. We are so looking forward to the rest of our lives in TV. Good luck to you both.

[dkrhardy]

Dothan, eh? We will honk as we drive through in 2 weeks and 2 days! We take 231 down to 10, so we'll pass your area. North or south side? That's so we know where and when to honk! :beer3:
Don & Kaz

[Mimivillager]

Welcome
We are in Amelia and have been here for 4 yrs. and loving it.
You are lucky to have sold your home. It took us 18 months back in 2008.

[dkrhardy]

Countdown continues ... 2 weeks from yesterday is mover's pack day. 2 weeks from today is the loading and departure. 2 weeks from this very moment we should be on the road! 2 weeks from tomorrow is the unloading! Then the work begins. We have been waiting for a loooong time for this and now I'm dreading all of the new house work. Only a little!
Don & Kaz

[dkrhardy]

Sorry, can't help myself! 2 weeks from today we will be unpacking boxes! Soooon! :2excited:
Don & Kaz

[Down Sized]

If you want some practice before you move in two weeks, come by Monday and help me move in my house.:pepper2:

[dkrhardy]

2 weeks from right now we will be eating delivery pizza! :censored:
Don & Kaz

[dkrhardy]

11 more days!
Don & Kaz :2excited:

[njbchbum]

2 weeks from right now we will be eating delivery pizza! :censored:
Don & Kaz

PLEASE do yourselves a favor and do NOT eat delivery pizza from anywhere around the villages! it really might make you wonder if you have made the right move! ;)

[tommy steam]

Hi all,
We bought our house on June 18th and will close on July 27th. After all of the mover headaches, we should be moved in on the 30th. We are moving from Montgomery AL to the Village of St. James. We have visited The Villages 6 times over the last couple of years and we also have several friends that are residents. So, we feel we have a fairly good grasp on what we are doing. We found the floor plan we love about 2 yrs ago and have been waiting for my official, forever, retirement. We sold our home here at just about the same time, so we were able to press on with the next stage of our lives.
That is probably more info than you want to see in a 1st hello, but ............
We will be going through what all of you have already done, but we do look forward to getting settled in.
Don & Kaz

Best of luck!

[dkrhardy]

PLEASE do yourselves a favor and do NOT eat delivery pizza from anywhere around the villages! it really might make you wonder if you have made the right move! ;)

We will be knee deep in boxes, and my DW (Darling Wife) will have us both so busy that a decent meal will be out of the question. She loves Papa John pizza, so that will probably be our 1st "meal" after the moving in starts. We have our phones, but I wonder if there will be a phone book in the house. I doubt it, new construction! And if I look up the phone numbers now I'll have just enough time and confusion to lose them in a box!
Don & Kaz

edit: 10 days until we are IN the house!

[jnieman]

We will be knee deep in boxes, and my DW (Darling Wife) will have us both so busy that a decent meal will be out of the question. She loves Papa John pizza, so that will probably be our 1st "meal" after the moving in starts. We have our phones, but I wonder if there will be a phone book in the house. I doubt it, new construction! And if I look up the phone numbers now I'll have just enough time and confusion to lose them in a box!
Don & Kaz

edit: 10 days until we are IN the house!

580 U.S. 27 Lady Lake, FL 32159
(352) 350-2015

Hi Don!
The closest Pappa Johns is in Lady lake on the corner of 441 and Rolling Acres road. We get pizza from there all the time and it is excellent!
Just a few more days and you'll be here!
Judy

[dkrhardy]

Morning Judy :wave: - so we can call you for the phone number? I have you on speed dial, I'll have an easy time of losing PJ's number in the move! :p
Don & Kaz

[graciegirl]

Welcome. You can come to our house for pot luck! (The old meaning...but it could be worse than ordering) ;)

I know you are so excited and we all know just how you are feeling. Need anything, holler!

[dkrhardy]

Welcome. You can come to our house for pot luck! (The old meaning...but it could be worse than ordering) ;)

I know you are so excited and we all know just how you are feeling. Need anything, holler!

Thanks for the offer. We are not too sure when we will arrive and with 2 pups in tow, and having driven for 8+ hrs, we would NEVER think of meeting someone for the 1st time like that!
DW says that we will probably get there late enough, on a Sunday, that everything will be closed. Might have to stop at a drive through someplace before we enter those gates!
10 days. :coolsmiley:
Don & Kaz

[jnieman]

Morning Judy :wave: - so we can call you for the phone number? I have you on speed dial, I'll have an easy time of losing PJ's number in the move! :p
Don & Kaz

Yes, you can call for the number even though that particular day I'll be in Michigan. Coming back the next day. Now, I hate to say it, but if you had an I-phone you could store all kinds of numbers in your phone! ha ha I know what the chances of that are!

[dkrhardy]

Yes, you can call for the number even though that particular day I'll be in Michigan. Coming back the next day. Now, I hate to say it, but if you had an I-phone you could store all kinds of numbers in your phone! ha ha I know what the chances of that are!

OK, I'll put PJ's in my phone contact list. I forgot that you were going up North! Have a safe trip!
Don & Kaz

[dkrhardy]

9 more days until we are there!
Don & Kaz

[jgbama]

:welcome: to the TOTV forum. About time to start an Alabama club in TV! :laugh:

You bet CaptJohn. . . we're about a month behind Don and Kazie. Moving from Montgomery too. Got to go where my golf buddies are going!!:laugh:

Folks, y'all will love Kazie. Don... well he takes a little getting use to. . . (just kidding). They will make a welcome addition to the Villages family. I guarantee! :spoken:

Will miss our weekly golf games here in Montgomery, but can't wait to resume that in TV!!!!!!!!!!!

Good luck "my buddies"!!

John and Linda

[dkrhardy]

5 days to closing, 7 days until we arrive.

jgbama - you just need to get you and Linda down there so we can resume our golf outings!

Don & Kaz

[TimeForChange]

What village did you buy in? We close on 7/31 in Village of Charlotte. We are originally from AL many years ago.

[dkrhardy]

We bought in St. James. We close on Friday, only 4 more days. We juggled the movers and they are packing on Thursday, loading on Friday morning. So we will hit the road and be there Friday evening sometime. So that puts us in our home 2 days earlier than we thought we would be!
Don & Kaz

:coolsmiley:

[dkrhardy]

Well, we have survived the move from hell. Lots-o-damage, but what the heck ... just stuff. With one exception, something of my Fathers that cannot be repaired or easily replaced.
BUT, we are here, all of the boxes empty and gone, golf cart was delivered, new furniture delivered, pictures hung, almost done! Whew. We even got in a quick 9 holes of golf the other day. Only things left are the lanai kick-out, landscape work, and a water softener. But I won't be doing any of that! Shoot, all it takes is a credit card or a checkbook. :icon_wink:
Don & Kaz

[WVMtnBoy]

Welcome to TV and to the TOTV. You'll love it here!

[CaptJohn]

Well, we have survived the move from hell. Lots-o-damage, but what the heck ... just stuff.

Tell us more! Sounds like an interesting story. What movers did you hire or did you do it yourself? Details, details.

Oh, and congratulations on settling in (somewhat).

[dkrhardy]

Loooong story, best told over a cold beverage. We used a "local" mover that came highly recommended, and they were not cheap.
After 7 visits over 5 yrs, we were really ready to get here.
Don & Kaz