[PR1234]

My hubby & I are in TV until 1st of March and are SO thankful that we found out about this place! How did YOU first find out about The Villages? A lady that used to work for me was on a airplane and she said everyone talked about it non stop....so I Googled it and the rest is history

[mac9]

Saw an advertisment for it on a golf show about 10 years ago and sent away for the brochure and tape.

[villages07]

Was starting to research 55+ communities in Florida and 2 different friends knew people that lived in this place called "The Villages"...did a little research, came down in Feb 06 and did a Central FL tour of 55+ communities with the last stop being TV....and, the rest is history. Nothing else came close to what TV had to offer.

[F16 1UB]

In 2005, while having a deck installed at our KY home, the contractor said he had a place in Springhill, FL and we may find it to our liking. We went there for a week, looking, looking, more looking. Actually thought it was quite a nice area. Then friends in Pompano Beach said they were selling out and moving to TV. They moved, invited us down, SOLD!!!!
Now if we could just sell our KY home because this p/t visiting stinks.

3-6" snow by Wed temps hovering around 30. Ya think we wanna move?

F16

[Sidney Lanier]

Close friends of ours (fellow New York retirees who were living in a lovely spot in south FL) recognized that one day the TWO of them would be ONE of them, had heard about the great sense of community in TV, and came for a month on a LSP a year ago May. Found a place, bought it, closed in August and moved in. We were on our way to an annual trade show in Orlando early in Sept (my wife is a travel agent) and they asked us to come a few days early to see their new place.

We arrived on Labor Day '07 and I was immediately struck with that lightning bolt accompanied by that voice that said, "This IS the rainy day...." And that was it; the next day we were sitting with a TV salesperson. Assumed we were looking for a Patio Villa as we're snowbirds. Left after a couple days to the trade show and then as always went traveling after that.

After we got back my wife started researching online about TV--and there is WEALTH of info available online; it's pretty amazing.... We returned in mid-October with appts with TV salesperson, MLS salesperson, and some FSBOs to look at. Meantime our friends also took us to meet their neighbors who HAD to sell (in real estate parlance, "highly motivated sellers") and we ended up buying their home privately and now own a small Designer home that cost us barely more than the upscale Patio Villas we had been looking at, with bond fully paid and many extras. We swear by resales!

A few months later other friends from up north were visiting and asked about the trolley they had seen. "A tour," we explained, "want to take it?" "Sure!" they replied. I said, "Well, I'll join you; we've never been on it, never did a LSP, never went through what others who want to consider TV usually do."

We're here and without a doubt very happy with the product that's been developed here. I walk out early in the morning to pick up the newspaper in the driveway, look around me, and still can't quite believe it!

[BarryB]

5 years ago a friend was here for a visit. He gave us the TV video. Came here in 07 for LSP the video doesn't do this place justice. We have been here for a whole 2 months now

[MMC24]

Close friend had visited TV and told me about it. My wife and I had been visiting other 55 and older communities in the Arizona and New Mexico Area trying to find one we both liked. Contacted TV Sales Office to arrange a lifestyle visit. We drank the kool aide and the rest is history. Moved in about 2.5 years ago. We love it here and can't imagine living anywhere else!!!!

[Safe Home Watch Mary Edwards]

Our son is a salesman,and sells the trim work for all the different buildings in TV.He said mom&dad you got to go see this place,their is golf carts everywhere.Well to make the story short we did visit. We bought a lot, 90 days later settled on our new home Sept.08 in The Village of Hemingway.We did lived on a golf course,with large Marina,had a great little Home Watch business. We gave our business to our neighbor and packed up and moved here.Still have our house In Punta Gorda Fl.for sale??? Life is so short not to enjoy every moment and we found the right place to do it in TV.

[annie2]

My husband saw the advertisements of TV during The Masters.

He sent away for the package and then March 2008 visited for an afternoon with my parents (snowbirds in Clearwater), ended up staying the night in a "cottage" (hee hee).

Booked a Lifestyle Preview in June 2008 (what a blast) and watched sales and listings until we found our perfect home.

Became happy homeowners at end of December!

Can't live here permanently yet but will visit as often as humanly possible. We are from Canada but my husband is American (Indiana).

Gracie Girl - I feel like you when you say that you can't possibly describe to friends back home, how wonderful this place is and how happy you are to own a piece of it. They just don't understand and they are begining to think I am a bore.

[rshoffer]

The golf channel

[Peggy D]

Heard a broadcast from TV on an oldies radio station and told hubby we needed to go check it out. We did, and the rest is history...

[Floridagal]

We lived in South Florida 5 years ago and decided we wanted to move but didn't know where. My son was visiting his in-laws that live here and told us to come up for a visit as he thinks the found the right place for us.

Well we did and the rest is history.

[SABRMnLgs]

My wife and I lived in Oviedo and a maybe 2-4 times a year I had to drive from Orlando to Leesburg as part of our x-ray route coverage. While in Leesburg one day someone mentioned TV to us and I drove the extra 16 miles to take a look.

[Donna]

Friends of ours from PIA Pa. have a house in TV..They begged us to come for a visit, told us how great TV was..

I didn't want to go to a retirement community, thought it was too old for me..

Well, we booked the lifestyle preview, bought a house a day later!
We love it there, and can't wait for the day we say to the snow, sleet, cold, and gray skies of PIA Pa.,>>That's all she wrote!

[Halle]

I heard about TV from a friend I work with. Her parents moved there from Ohio in 2003, when she went to visit them she couldn't stop

talking about how wonderful it was and thought that I should check it out for my parents.

We did a Lifestyle Preview with my parents in October of 2007.

Well long story short, they didn't buy a house but we did. We thought we would just be snowbirds but now we plan on being full time

once we retire. These Alaska winters are too long and too cold.