Why are people in TV selling their homes?
 

Why are people selling in TV?

Same reason as anywhere else - sometimes they are choosing a different size or style of house, or they are moving to be near family.

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Why are people selling in TV? Is it expensive to live in TV?

Expensive??
 

My hubby and I are coming up and staying Mon and Tues at the comfort Inn Suites to look and see homes??? Being on fixed incomes, how expensive is it to live in TV?

All info is welcome

Not sure what you're after?? People sell for the same reasons they sell elsewhere. To move to a bigger house, to move to a smaller house, to move to a different part of the country, because life changes and they need to move closer to families or health care providers. It's as expensive to live in TV as it is to live anywhere and expense is relative. Will you have a mortgage? You have to pay utilities, insurance, groceries, ameneities fees, taxes and maybe a bond. I think you will find that many people in TV live on a fixed income but again what does that mean? everyones fixed income is different

If you go to TV web sight there is an average break down on expense ....It really depends on the size of home and lot....I can tell you I have a patio villa south of 466 ....My monthly expenses there is average of 440.00 per month for everything including property taxes...I have no mortgage and this helps alot...I also still work and only use it for vacations ,,,My wife is retired and she goes there a couple months a year, so we rent it in the winter and we get enough to pay for all insidentals for the years...

I find this link to be accurate:

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...art-1-a-17717/

I think very few people move because they cannot aford living in TV.
If they do, they did not exercise careful control of their expenditures or they didn't plan carefully.

Some move because they want to upgrade their homes or decided they preferred a different neighborhood within TV. Some may be due to ill health or death in the family. Some people may go back to their hometowns.


Best wishes for a great visit.

I found out living here is cheaper than when we lived in Michigan. We have been here just over a year and still have money left over at the end of the month and we are on a fixed income. You have to do your homework as to where you want to go and that kind of house you want. We bought a resale in the lady lake section of the villages and have no bond and we had to get a mortgage since we took a big loss when we sold our house in Michigan but it was well worth it to move to the villages.

A lot of people sell in The Villages, because they are buying or building another home.............in The Villages. :-)

people are BUYING here in the villages .Selling 300 houses a month.
Someone told me at there closing was 60 people that day .
Who selling ? maybe people who wants to build and selling there place .I was told you move 3 times here in The Villages

Ditto to all of the above. However some folks move from TV because its newness wears off and they come to believe that the amenities hold no value for thm and hence the amenitity fees are an unnecessary expense.

So you need to assess your lifestyle and see if it is a good fit here.

To add my two cents worth - Define expensive?

Depends where you are coming from, what housing you currently have, what income level you are at.

To some, as an example, $50K per year is a good salary - to others this would not cover their expenses where they currently live.

Read the section that 2BNTV suggested. Look on the website for homes.

Good Luck!

As others have said...it depends on where you are moving from, what you like to do and your spending habits. There are many many things you can do here at little or no expense but there are also things you can spend your money on every day. It is also very common for folks to spend more money the first few months they are here. There are many one time expenses getting settled in and then there is the feeling like you are on vacation. We found that while we were in "vacation mode" we tended to go for drinks and/or dinner more often than we had in our previous community. Once we settled in and realized this was our "regular" life and not a vacation, our spending dropped.

As many have stated a lot of the resales are due to people moving within the Villages. I have gone to dozens of pre-owned open houses and have heard many say they are buying a larger home in TV, a smaller home in TV, a villa rather than their current house, a home with room for a pool............

I have also heard quite a few people, or their realtor, say that they decided to move closer to family. Also have heard of many who move because of failing health to be closer to family or healthcare facilities they have confidence in.

Another reason is that in a community where most residents are 65 and older, there is a fairly high mortality rate compared with normal communities. One or both people die and the survivor or their estate decide to sell.

As far as cost of living, I don't live in TV yet, but my research indicates that the living costs are quite reasonable in comparison with the midwest where I have spent all my life. If you are coming from one of the coasts you would probably find it very reasonable. If you don't have to carry a mortgage I would think you could buy an inexpensive home and live very nicely on a very modest income. You simply have to do the research and be very realistic about your wants and needs. Good luck!

This link
 

should be very infomative

Nuts and bolts of The Villages - Talk of The Villages

The first few years I was in my first TV home, a courtyard villa, about half the street moved out. About half of them bought other homes in TV, from patio villa to designer to premier. The other half left TV to go to AZ, TN, SC, other retirement communities in the area and apartments.

One woman said moving to TV was the biggest mistake of her life and went off at a high rate of speed to buy a penthouse in Clearwater Beach.

Unfortunately, people that leave TV rarely post on this forum, so we can only speculate. TV is not for everyone. You will see brand new homes listed for sale, fully furnished, golf cart included, quick close possible. Obviously, something did not work out.

I see a lot of homes in "new" Villages for sale on VLS. I always wonder what would make people buy their dream home and then sell it a few months later. I think it's probably due to health problems and/or missing family and friends back at home. We'll never know because people exiting The Villages aren't posting on TOTV.

We attended an open house by owner last year. It was a relatively new designer with 2000+ sf. We talked to the owner and they had purchased the home with the understanding that her mother would live with them and contribute to the costs. Her mother's health declined and she had to go to assisted living, and as a result they could not afford the home they had built and were trying to sell it and buy a patio villa. As they used to say "there are eight million stories in the naked city".

This question is subjegative! It depends on your life-style. We're from the midwest, we find it's cheaper here for sure. We don't have a mortgage so it's just our amnity fees, the taxes and electric etc. bills each mo. Don't know what you're looking for re: your question. So in looking you'll have to talk it over with your agent.

We have a new neighbor in our (NEW) village who sold their less than a year old home to move to a spec home in our village.

This one may be in some way more what they wanted than the one they had. The up side is that you can sell your homes here without too much effort and the cost of moving is way less expensive here than it is up North.

Hi, we just bought and had our design meeting last week. Not even hurricane Sandy kept us from our meeting, and we are in point pleasant beach n.j.
I truly believe that the houses here are selling at a very respectable rate compared to most other areas, so as they say....the reason people sell is because they can...:a040::a040::a040:

We met a couple the other day who bought an Iris in January and just sold it, they were not happy with this model. They would like to build a stretched Gardenia if they can find a lot for a reasonable price.

I live on a street in Pennecamp that is just over 2 years old and 5 homes have sold just in the last 4 months. None sold before then. We are in designer homes. 1 moved to a Premier, 1 moved to another designer but with a golf course view, 2 moved to be closer to their grandchildren and family, 1 couple split up sold and moved to 2 villas. All homes sold in under 3 weeks.

My wife's parents are now on their 3rd home within TV. Originally they rented when they first came down a number of years ago over in what you call the "Historic" section, then they built a ranch in one of the villages just north of 466, then they sold that and built a designer in Belvedere. What's that old Tommy Roe song?? Everybody's Three Times In Love? Worked for them.

Other posts have correctly mentioned the many reasons people sell their homes in TV. I have been told by agents who have been in real estate many years that the "normal" is that 5% of homes in a retirement community will be for sale. You can do the math----that's a bunch of homes.

Was talking to a friend of a friend the other day. He's selling his home and moving to another retirement community close to here. I thought that was kind of odd and asked him why. Here's his story:

He's into animal rescue (dachshunds). He has three of his own and frequently has six or more in his home at any time. A friend of his also in the same organization was reported by a new neighbor for having more than two dogs and was given two weeks to either find a new home for the dogs or for herself. That was his breaking point. Rather than take a chance of being forced to move or stop doing something he loved, he opted to move. He doesn't sound too unhappy about having to move.

So, some sell their house to upgrade or downgrade but are staying in TV. Some leave for health issues (I'm including the need to be closer to family since that's a mental thing). Some leave because they're unhappy here but I think those are few and far between. Some leave because of financial setbacks. And then there are reasons that make you scratch your head (like being upset that someone might report you for breaking the rules).

Someone reported a small caramic frog my wife placed in the garden and she was forced to move it. A few months later after extensive landscaping we were reported again for two twin birds set inside the landscape. This was the final straw. My wife wants to move now and we fight about it all the time. It looks like my wife will win the battle and after next summer, I might become an ex villager. So sad that people can be so shallow and need to report their neighbor.
With all the activities available, don't these people have anything else to do with their lives.

This is the least expensive place we have lived in over 40 years.

I have to disagree with you on this one. If you break the law pay the cost. What is a silly rule to you may be why your neighbor bought in The Villages knowing he/she would be protected from folks like you. Some folks think big plastic pink ornaments in the yard are nice, where the next guy might like to work on his car in the drive way keeping it up on blocks for a few months. What is small to some is a big deal to others. I am just saying.

They were not pink flamingos. They were not visable from the street. If you want to go by rules, i could report all my neighbors for one thing or the other, but I don't. I am a perfect neighbor. I go out of my way to be nice and lend my golf cart to anyone who needs it. While I'm in NY when my bushes were getting overgrown, I flew down from NY just to cut them. IF YOU WANT TO CALL THIS A LAW, maybe I shouldn't be a villager. How many golf carts go over 20 MPH. How many people water their lawns more than twice a week. Dont get me started Golfnut. If we have to live in fear of everyone being a spy maybe my wife is right.

Moving because you can't have lawn ornaments seems more of an excuse than a reason. Didn't you read the restrictions before you bought? I would not have moved to TV if the deed and architectural controls had not been strong. Drive through the communities that surround us. In general- quite tacky. IMHO

Tommy,

I am so sorry to hear this. I think I remember you saying that your wife didn't fall in love with The Villages as deeply as you did. I feel so bad that this happened and in many instances small and "appropriate" ornaments don't seem to bother people who live close by. We moved into our brand new house in Hadley and returned after the summer to find that our neighbor had dozens of ....I don't know if I can spell the word that East coast people use, tstachkes? in their front yard. Lots of urns and some other stuff that was a bit different than what most people like. They were reported and our neighbors were very angry. They barely neighbored much after that.

I have to say that it was a relief to have all that stuff taken down.

I am so used to living with deed restrictions but for many it is a first and I am glad you mentioned it only if it keeps someone else from moving here and being bitterly sad over the fact that they cannot decorate their yard without permission from the ARC. (Architechural Review Committee) There are less restrictions to ornaments in yards in some areas north of 466 and it appears that the Morses learned as they built southward how strong to make the restrictions.

I hope that we have a chance to meet Mrs. Tommy and somehow make her see that the people here are worth the aggravation of this really minor thing happening in the scheme of things. We would hate to think of losing you both.

Very kindest wishes,
Gracie

AS you know Gracie. I am the poster boy of The Villages. It just get frustrating when you do see stuff more serious than a four inch frog that can't be seen from the road. As we all know, as we head toward Spanish Springs we see all the Pink Flamingos, dogs near fire hydrants etc and this is fine. The dead restrictions also say ornaments in front yard. our were in the back yard. My wife is giving it one more summer. She is the one with the pension so I have to give her a vote also. Gracie, you know I love this place but ...

"Neighbor bought in the Villages knowing he/she would be protected from "folks like you". That was not very nice. I would not want the villages to protect me.

Whe some people won't sell
 

First I won't sell because like many here I was use to a capital gain. Now it is likely that unless you buy down that it is possible. Secondly, being on fixed income I do not desire to spend additional monies just to move to another city or Village here . Third I did buy wisely when moving here and have more house than I need, a lovely location and excellent neighbors.

Fourth, I love TV rules because some people just seem to have very bad taste. The northside appeared not to have as many rstrictions early on. If you go by some of those homes you get a flavor of that bad taste.

I lived in cities with no restrictions which resulted in fences being constructed literally against their neighbors fence. I lived in communities where neighbors informally agreed not to erect a fence and to use landscapping to define natural boundaries.

We had that same agreement in with enighbors when we lived in the Minneapolis area but eventually people moved out and those moving in erected ugly fences that destroyed the beauty of our back yards.

Recently played golf at Eagle Ridge and was startled to hear roosters crowing nearby. I love the sound of a train going by but roosters Ugh

There are many things I do not like about The Villages but deed restricion and covenents is not one of them. In that I am thankful

The End

I am a big fan of deed restrictions. My issue is the small frog was not visable unless you were on the front porch. Its just that some people have nothing else better to do with their lives.

It's true that after a few years, some residents become "disenchanted" with the lifestyle, or miss the folks back home. We rarely hear about them because they don't post on TOTV, and they are soon replaced with new wrinklies who love TV.

In Tom's case, perhaps his wife's disenchantment with TV isn't really about lawn ornaments. Some people find that "living in each other's pockets" is exciting and delightful, and others find it claustrophobic, and don't like having to comply with covenants and restrictions. Each to his own. We enjoy living in TV, but I totally understand that it isn't everyone's cup of tea.

Tom, I'm so sorry. I know your wife has never been a fan of TV but this time I understand her frustration. To complain about a 4-inch frog is petty. It sounds like something more than just reporting of an infraction; it sounds like someone is seriously angry at you and/or your wife and is indulging in some pretty nasty vindictiveness. Here's hoping something can be worked out and you can find a way to stay. TV would be the loser if you were no long a resident.

Thanks Dee. As you know I am the poster boy of the Villages. I want to stay. We agreed to give it one more summer. Here to hoping things change.

Why people move from TV?
 

That SUCKS!!!! People are People!! The man is doing a GOOD DEED not ABUSING anyone..SAD:22yikes: