Activation of mailbox and telephone
 

Moving to the villages pending hopefully in late January if Covid and snow allow.
How do I activate my name for mail delivery to my mailbox??
Also, how do I get a landline telephone number assigned ??

Welcome.

You should get a MB key at closing. Mail addressed to your name and street address will go to your mailbox. Once you close, give it a few days and then send your self a letter/postcard to test the system.

Landline phone? Does that still exist in new construction? You will need to contact the landline phone company to contract for service. If a re-sale, ask the current owner who they use.

I agree with above, except not sure there are any real landlines anymore, most are Voip through your cable company and you will get a phone nukmber when you arrange for cable service.

Just bought a new home last summer. There aren't any phone outlets in the home nor wires for phone service in the low voltage cabinet in the garage. If you want a landline, I think your only option is as stated above. Get a phone line from your internet provider. It will be VOIP and will be down anytime the
internet is down.

We moved into a new house and it has phone lines and outlets wired in. We don't use them but they are there.

Are those phone or ethernet outlets?

According to the electrical diagram for our house they are telephone. Plus you can also see all the wired pairs in the low voltage box.

Tv Service
 

I can get you a streaming service which is one quarter of the price of the cable companies. It’s a great service which includes many channels including movies and sports.

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Have a home in the TV that's 13 years old. No landlines!! Throw that PRINCESS phone away.

Love my landline, but it is getting expensive

What the other people said about mail. There still are landlines because we have one. You call the provider that's here. I think we have CenturyLink. We're still pretty "old school" with technology etc. Don't even have a (gasp) smart t.v.----yet---nor do we subscribe to NetFlix and similar offering.

We took the Move as an opportunity to drop the landline. And everyone had our cell numbers anyway. However, my cable company does offer home phone number in their packages.
Welcome!!

You might consider something like this, but use cordless telephones for extensions. Then you still have service if cable or internet is out of whack. https://www.amazon.com/Cell2jack-Cel.../dp/B089984QRT

You will also need to go to the post office and put in a change of address card for all mail to be forwarded to your new address. Your new address will automatically be connected to your mail box. There are some people here that still have physical land line phones. We have a friend in Village of Tamarind Grove that does not have a cell phone and only a land line. You just have to get with a local service provider. Probably around 90% of the people living here have kept their same cell numbers from previous locations.
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Go to ladylake post office get change of address. What every service you get will assign you 352 land line number. IMO if you have cell phone you don’t need land line and you will be getting 20 spam calls a day minimum.

If you “build” your home, you can certainly have the house wired for conventional phone lines……. If that’s the case, the only company <that I’m aware of> that offers a true “land line” is CenturyLink. There may be others but I doubt it….

Get a magic jack. Connect to your cable modem. Or just use cell phone

Activation of mailbox and telephone
 

When my title search came back, Peninsula Land and Title had to call me for my home address because my (correct) address at the Villages had been returned to them twice as "Return to Sender" "Not Deliverable as Addressed" "Unable to Forward".
As for my current landline, I am bundled with Comcast.

We just moved in the end of October and it's a new build and it doesn't have a phone jack in every room but it had 5. One in each bedroom but the front, it had two and one in the living room.

We set our LL service through Comcast so it's part of your cable service and I would bet the same would be true for Spectrum. As part of my paperwork with my accepted offer, I got a list of utilities for our home. In our case CenturyLink was an option so if you only want POTS line you could still do it the old fashion way. POTS=Plain Old Telephone Service

I read on another thread what some Villagers do when they first arrive. They establish a land line and give the number to EVERYONE who is NOT a family member, close friend, and maybe their doctor(s). They keep the ringer off to the landline phone and when convenient for them, check the messages left on it. What a great idea to keep nuisance calls at a minimum!
When we arrive at the Villages this is exactly what we will do, coupled with changing our cell phone numbers and only giving it out to close friends and relatives. Also, there are apparently laws in the works to limit the spam / robo-calls that we all endure.
Although I have not checked it out, a person from my work has a robo-call screening feature on his cell phone. When I call him, a recording requires me to give my name before I can be connected to him. I suppose that those in his contact list do not have to go through this step.
And of course there is the do-not-call registry and we should all be on it. If you are not, go to: National Do Not Call Registry