TOTV has a new administrator
 

Hello folks,

Effective Friday July, 15, Talk of The Villages will be under new ownership and administration. Tony, Darrel and I have had the pleasure of watching this forum grow from nothing to 17,000 members in four short years. It continues to grow in leaps and bounds every day and it has caught the attention of interested business enterprises.

We have had a wonderful opportunity to work with all of you and I know you are curious about the new administration. The gentleman who will be know as "admin" is Kenneth and has family and friends who live in the Villages. He is also a veteran of forum operation. He will likely be posting shortly to introduce himself to all of you. He will be bringing some great new ideas and resources to this forum family. I know that it is natural to, sometimes, resist change, but this will be good for all. We will be working with the new owner to help make the transition as smooth as possible. None of you should miss a beat.

I think I can speak for my partners when I tell you that we feel like you are all personal friends. We will still be around from time to time to join in the fun and conversation. In the meantime, please continue to enjoy Talk of The Villages and tell all of your friends and neighbors to join in.

We value the thousands of hours that we've spent with all of you.

Best Personal Regards
Jan Kokochak

Huh????
 

I suppose this will be a nice break for you three, but sad for us.

I have been reading this forum for awhile and just recently got on and started to really get to know you. I do hope you do continue to post as I will miss you.

:cryin2:

THANK YOU to Talk Host and Tony and Darrel
 

Thank You to Jan and Tony and Darrel. I salute the three of you for creating this Wonderful Forum. Wishing you all good health and happiness for the future. May GOD BLESS all of You and Yours, ABUNDANTLY

I'm glad you'll still be around....I've come to enjoy you all. I truly understand how much work is involved in keeping a message board up and running and I'm sure a break is something you'll enjoy. Promise us you'll contribute as often as you can.

Welcome Kenneth.

Hope this marks the beginning of the most wonderful, blissfully carefree, healthy, lengthy, stress-free, slow-paced, interesting, productive, fun part of your lives!

Gentlemen, congrats on your success with TOTV!

If TOTV goes straight in the crapper from this point on, we know who you are and where you live................and the girls posse will hunt you down! :1rotfl: :1rotfl: :1rotfl: :jester: Just kidding!!!!!! :wave:

Best wishes in your future endeavors!

Bill :)

Good Luck you guys. Here's hoping the new administration is up to the challenge and to the standards that you've established. Happy trails!!

You three have done an incredible job with this forum - thanks for your efforts and endless hours of keeping thing organized. Look forward to having you join in as a member! Thanks, again.:posting:

sad day
 

what a sad day for us, but I am happy for you to have created such a wonderful resource. I found TOTV when I was only thinking about making the move from VA to this wonderful city. As I posted my many questions, I was made to feel very welcome, and such sensible advice was offered, that it became easier and easier to take the plunge, sell up, and move here. I wish you all well. Kind regards. SHRandell (Sandra)

kudos to the first team! and thanx for all that you have done to establish and maintain this board - but most of all - to bring us all together as a family!

i trust that as wise as your decisions have been in the past, this most recent decision will prove as beneficial and fruitful in our future.

welcome aboard to new admin kenneth!

Verrrry interesting. As an early adopter (March 2007) I've had the pleasure of watching this forum grow from taking maybe 5 minutes a day to read all posts to struggling to keep up with it now. I've met a number of wonderful people via this forum.

Thanks to TH, Tony, and OBD for all your hours of work and diligence in keeping this forum alive and civil.

Change, especially unknown change, isn't always easy. Time will tell if this change in ownership will have a positive, neutral, or negative impact on the members experience. Welcome, Kenneth... Congrats on "inheriting" a thriving, active forum. I will be interested to see what your plans are for managing or changing the forum in the future. I have no doubt you will be given a fair and hospitable welcome from the members.
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Dear TH, Tony and OBD,
Thank you and kudos for creating and growing this fabulous forum. One need only spent a minute or two in an unmonitored Internet forum to appreciate the ongoing work it took to keep TOTV the safe and friendly place it is. I owe many friendships in TV to you and I cannot begin to express my gratitude for that!

Please stick around. We've come to see you as family.

All best wishes that the happiest days of your life are ahead of you.

Love,
P

Thanks, all.

And I still think Boomer is an English major.

... and I still think you have a huge crush on her.

Just sayin'

say it ain't so
 

:cryin2: I am going to miss you guys...take care and stay tuned in!:cryin2:

oh, by the way...

would you just drop us a line someday if the Developer sends you a check for x millions as a quiet, gracious way of thanking you for providing the conduit of so much information and enthusiasm which was a key factor in convincing hundreds, maybe thousands to check out TV and end up here. It would be a classy thing to do since TOTV has been so important in helping him earn xxxx millions. Some of us think he might be classy, but we're not sure.




....I'll just wait here for the good news....

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:agree: What "P" said!

After four years, I will miss you guys so much! You've been great. Talkhost, Darrel and Tony ... thanks for the memories.

Welcome to Kenneth .... I hope you enjoy TOTV as much as the members do!

Welcome Kenneth! What a wonderful opportunity you've have bought into. Please, please, please. Don't change a thing.

Darrell, Jan and Tony thank you guys for taking the leap of faith it took to start this forum, and thank you for the hours of thankless work you have all put into Talk of the Villages. I hope you have each made a bundle. May God bless each of your paths as you part from this wonderful baby you bore and raised and may He see fit to bless you each in your separate lives. I sincerely thank you for your vision and hard work. Bail ó Dhia ort. B.K. Cunningham

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

I have enjoyed reading and learning so much these past years. Your creation has enhanced my life and that of so many others. Many of the things I have learned right here on this site has helped me in so many decisions I have made relative to my purchasing our home in TV.
Good luck to all of you guys and thanks again.
Be well.
:BigApplause:

Shocking!!!!! Kudos to y'all....Jan, Tony & Other Brudder Darrell (OBD). :eclipsee_gold_cup: So sorry to see you leave :crap2:

This website has become the backbone of TV and it would be nice to get some recognition from the developer for what this site has done for the developer's sales, however, don't hold your breath.

Welcome to our new leader Kenneth and best of luck in your endeavor. See yah around and we'll leave the light on for yer....:gc:

Most of us are such dedicated members to TOTV and hope it remains with the high standards we have become accustomed to.

I can only echo what the previous posters have said. TOTV has given me a wealth of knowledge regarding TV that I would not have had otherwise. Thank you for your service to TV's frogs, snowbirds, snowflakes and wannabees. :thumbup:

And welcome to Kenneth. :wave:

Thanks TH, Tony and Darrell
 

In the weee hours of the morning, this forum has been my babysitter....Sooooo appreciate all your hard work and I know that you have left us in good hands....Look forward to your posts in the future..

Agree, thanks for your hard work and efforts in making TOTV a valuable source for future Villagers.

Thanks
 

Found TOTV about 6 months ago and our transition to TV has been easier and more fun ever since. We have found quality contractors and services, become aware of the many issues affecting the community and become aware of various entertainment oppurtunities. As things change we are apprehensive, and optimistic at the same time. Thanks to all who were involved in the creation and administration of this forum and to the new operators, please keep up the integrity and quality that you have inherited:BigApplause::BigApplause:

Best wishes to you three. As a relatively new poster and soon-to-be owner of a home in St. James, TOTV has been a true wealth of information. I have learned so much about TV.........gained "online friends" who I hope will be lifelong friends.......and enjoyed a little "fluff" along the way with some fun threads.

My wish, Kenneth, is that this forum will continue to bring us information....have a little fun with it as well. I would like for those who love to tear down the developers to cool it. The solution for those who are not happy in TV and love to be so negative is simple....move. There is no utopia....but from what I've seen and what I'm looking forward to.......this "TV place" is pretty darn close!

Thank you.........you three administrators.......for all the positive things you have done to enlighten past, present and future TV-ers as to whatz goin' on!

Thank you for developing and all your work on this site.:BigApplause:

Thanx to those who made it, continue, to work 24/7.

btk

Thankyou
 

:thumbup:It is a fun site. Spending much of my life in the world of IT, I can appreciate the effort put in to give us such a platform. Thank you.

I can add, I had NEVER posted on any site before TOTV. You never forget your first :D.

It is now part of my daily routine!

As a very new member to TOTV forum I haven't had the opportunity to get to know any of the administrators, but want to add my thanks to them for a wonderful site. I am still a TV wannabe and because of this site when I become a FROG I will feel like I am coming home not to a strange unknown location. I really really look forward to that day! Thanks for all you've done and the atmosphere you've created here!
Suzanne

Take care you guys! You will be missed. And, of course, best of luck in your future endeavors.

Kenneth, welcome aboard. Hope we get to know you soon.

Thanks TH, Tony and Darrell for developing this website. The information from other villagers is very helpful and I really appreciate having such a forum to keep up and catch up things happening here.

Best of luck in what ever you plans are for the future. Hope you now have time to have some fun.

We all will miss you terribly. Good luck in everything you do. You three have made this the most awesome forum!

I've had some differences with you guys in the past 4 years but overall this site has been very valuable to Linda and I.

thank you all!

Ditto that Russ. You're not alone by a long shot! Dispite that, and even if they did treat some us like Charlie Brown at times, they did do a great job in developing the forum and nuturing it's growth... and at times I'm sure it wasn't an easy job to accomplish!

Awww Russ, we forgive you. j/k my friend from Western MA.....couldn't resist this temptation to respond in kind.

Must agree with you on this, that this forum has been so very valuable to Bill and me, as well.

From a native of Northeastern MA. Hugs, barb :highfive:

I just wandered over to the computer to see what I've missed today, and found this thread. I want to add my thanks to the outgoing administrators, and to welcome Kenneth. As a new owner (Feb 2011) and part time resident, TOTV makes me feel connected to the neighbors.

Ditto.

It's time for a well deserved rest for all of the admins that make this forum a must read for all of it's members. Thank you for all your hard work and the fountain of information it has provided.

The Deal
 

The deal was cut in a dark, damp 12 by 12 cubicle. An old, palm bladed Casablanca fan hummed and spun slowly in the seedy, secret back room at Crispers. The fan sliced through the smell of stale cigar smoke as it gently moved the thick musty odors captured in the confines of this windowless cell. The only light was a single, soon to be banished, 60 watt incandescent light bulb. It dangled from a cord, spliced together with electrical tape, attached by duck tape to a water stained ceiling. The only entrance to the room was guarded by Darrel. His mirrored sunglasses eerily reflected the contraband light bulb swaying slowly to the beat of the Godfather theme coming from Darrel's iPod. Those shades covered the cold, beady, calculating eyes of someone you did not want to cross. He muttered softly, with hints of anger about the government, light bulbs and someone named "Granny State".

In a dark corner of the room, barely visible on a bar stool, sat Tony. The butt of the 9mm stuffed under his belt could barely be seen under his unbuttoned leather jacket. But, you knew there were deals on the table that he would not allow to be refused. The creepy moose head on the wall, over his shoulder, begged more questions than answers.

Jan sat quietly at the green, felt covered card table under the revealing glow of the outlaw bulb. The half full, or was it half empty, bottle of Kentucky bourbon, a single glass, a dirty ashtray and ugly cigarette burns were the only evidence of action on the table. He was thinking about the big score and the new Gold Wing that was in his future. Suddenly, as the stranger entered, his old cop instincts brought him back to reality. He instinctively patted his hip for the ever present piece.

The dark, menacing figure passed under the watchful, focused eyes hidden by Darrel's sunglasses. Tony spread open his leather jacket. The stranger carried a thick, black briefcase. Was it filled with money? Was it a bomb? Was it an Uzi carrying case. Was it filled with Mary Kay cosmetics?

Who was the mysterious buyer?

Was he an agent of the developer seeking to secure the only independent media voice in The Villages?

Was he a shill for the Villages bashing Orlando Sentinel seeking to expand its
agenda driven news empire in the wicked heart of Disney World for adults.

Was he there secretly representing the interest of a banished TOTVer seeking the ultimate revenge

Was Jan's bottle half full or half empty?

Wait.....could it be........is Fumar the new administrator?

To the founders of TOTV - Thank you for the memories. Thank you for providing an exceptional venue for the exchange of ideas and healthy, stimulating cerebral exercise. .

To the new administrators - Hang on and enjoy the ride. Good luck.