Rooms full POA meeting
 

I attended the POA meeting last night to be seated in a large room watching a meeting on a screen. At first, I thought I was watching a rerun of a previous meeting. As the main room was totally full, I and others were seated in the annex which was also totally full. A man from Realty Executives tried to calm the fears of some that the resale worth of their homes was slipping. If you have a Courtyard Villa you’re a lucky one. Newer houses are sold faster than old and sales in the winter months no longer account for the majority of sales.

Today, I am off to the VHA golf cart safety clinic. So far, I have enjoyed attending meetings conducted by both organizations.

I have returned as the VHA safety clinic was full and there were no other rooms to sit and watch. I wasn’t the only person to be disappointed and turned away. In three days I will try again to register for pickle ball 101 after two other unsuccessful tries. I told my wife that we should have rented our house this season to avoid the cold and then return in the summer to be able to do things.

POA & crowds
 

You must be mistaken. The developer would not overbuild. The amenities have just become waaaay more popular.

By "seeing what over-building has caused", I assume you mean the success of their development?

Rooms full
 

Sure the amenities are popular. However, I don't consider shopping center parking and roadways to be amenities. Those sort of things are infrastructure issues. I'm sure community developers have formulas guiding them on how much recreation and service facilities to build per capita. But they sometimes put the cart before the horse. It might be peace and quiet in your part of the TV, but from 446A and south, it's a jumble, and yet new home construction continues.

Yes, I know, it's "the season." Still, I can't bear to think what life will be like when more and more of those rental-property owners retire and decide to become full time residents.

Seems by their work ethic and employment within their company, they are in fact here on a daily basis.

Hi polar bear: The success of the development does not necessarily mean success for residents? Remember like in the world of investment for every winner there is a loser. its nature

I understand the beneficial financial affect from the increase of population growth; albeit most of it does not inure to residents. This is especially so with amenities which are utilized by renters whose rent benefits owners, some of whom purchase homes solely for rental income. It also alters the concept of a "retirement community" to one of a vacation destination.

I do not raise this issue to argue but solely as an observation of my world view.

And yes, I too love The Villages

Personal Best Regards:

I just wait and read the bulletin..........

Something to consider
 

This is an excerpt from the Jan 2016 Village Voice, page 2, by Elder Gray...
"2016 Predictions for the Villages"
Item 6 reads
6. The Villages will run out of new home inventory this year and commence selling off any remaining
lifestyle homes. The need for a lifestyle program will end as will the program itself.

Here's the thing; due to our age homes are becoming available all the time. I think without the lifestyle preview program they will become harder to sell (not much but a little).

I'd like to see the VHA come up with some sort of replacement lifestyle program on an on-going basis.

Thoughts?.......

Two questions (I'm a newbie):
1) what is the Village Voice
2) who is Elder Gray and why will I be interested in what he (?) predicts

I respect your position, but I must disagree with some of it, particularly the "for every winner there is a loser" portion.

Development and life are not zero-sum games. And I don't think it's generally "nature", for life in general, that for every winner there is a loser. Some things are that way of course...sports, some investments, other things, but definitely not development. Homeowners, businesses, contractors, government bodies, utilities...many more people can be happy when it is done right than those who will not be happy. And those who are not happy can easily find something else that does make them happy.

Also, I don't think people who choose a development rate their happiness on whether or not there is financial gain from growth of the development. But I do believe growth of the development and financial gain of the developers is a pretty solid indicator of the success of the development...and I do mean by that the satisfaction of most residents. If the residents weren't satisfied, the growth and financial gain would be very short-lived.

Village voice is the VHA newsletter and Elder is a contributor

What's the big concern about how much your house is worth. Where are you going next ? In fact if you don't have a homestead why do you want to see an increase in values. You like higher taxes? Even if you plan was to move up to another house the value of that house rises as yours does thus no net gain. And we bash the renters ?

Personally I am not concerned. I have no children to leave any estate to. Just looking for thoughts.