[Bilyclub]

As far as I can tell District 9 has voted to allow the Lofts at Brownwood into District 9.
Does anybody know what the agreement is? Is District 9 not getting the amenity fee in exchange for access to one pool, one pool table, one fire pit, and a shuffle board table?

[Topspinmo]

Lofts residents has full access to villages amenities, but village residents can’t access lofts amenities. Golden deal for the developers.

[Goldwingnut]

To be perfectly clear, neither District 9 nor any other residential/numbered District receives any Amenity Fee, and never has. The residential/numbered Districts do not own the amenities nor the contracts. these are all owned by either the VCCDD (north of CR466), SLCDD (between CR466 and SR44), or the developer (south of SR44 and The Lofts), and the respective owners of the amenities receive the monthly fees paid by the residents; from which they pay their operating costs and expenses for owned facilities, and in the case of the developer owned properties they also have to pay taxes on both the property and income.

The amenities provided at The Lofts are open to all residents of The Villages, just as all amenities in The Villages are open to residents of The Lofts.

This is no different than the arrangement for amenities in the areas south of SR44.

District 9 does receive a maintenance assessment for the 11 acres of property that the Lofts occupy in CDD9, no different that the maintenance assessment paid by any other resident of CDD9. These 11 acres of property being privately owned do not receive any maintenance services from the CDD, just the same as you or I receive no services specific to our properties from our respective CDD. The CDDs provide for the maintenance of the common/CDD owned areas within their boundaries from the annual Maintenace Assessments.

The question of whether The Lofts belongs a part of CDD9 instead of the commercial BWCDD is open to debate, I am a proponent of the latter but the CDD9 Supervisors have decided differently.

[perrjojo]

Thanks Goldwingnut. It’s always nice to have facts, not opinions. I always say, don’t tell me what you think; tell me what you know.

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by Goldwingnut

To be perfectly clear, neither District 9 nor any other residential/numbered District receives any Amenity Fee, and never has. The residential/numbered Districts do not own the amenities nor the contracts. these are all owned by either the VCCDD (north of CR466), SLCDD (between CR466 and SR44), or the developer (south of SR44 and The Lofts), and the respective owners of the amenities receive the monthly fees paid by the residents; from which they pay their operating costs and expenses for owned facilities, and in the case of the developer owned properties they also have to pay taxes on both the property and income.

The amenities provided at The Lofts are open to all residents of The Villages, just as all amenities in The Villages are open to residents of The Lofts.

This is no different than the arrangement for amenities in the areas south of SR44.

District 9 does receive a maintenance assessment for the 11 acres of property that the Lofts occupy in CDD9, no different that the maintenance assessment paid by any other resident of CDD9. These 11 acres of property being privately owned do not receive any maintenance services from the CDD, just the same as you or I receive no services specific to our properties from our respective CDD. The CDDs provide for the maintenance of the common/CDD owned areas within their boundaries from the annual Maintenace Assessments.

The question of whether The Lofts belongs a part of CDD9 instead of the commercial BWCDD is open to debate, I am a proponent of the latter but the CDD9 Supervisors have decided differently.

Yes, thank you Goldwingnut for people like you who actually know what they are talking about, not just wildly spreading fear and misinformation.

Once again, I have to ask why on earth do you people who continue to spread unsubstantiated rumors about TV continue to live here, if you do; why not cut your losses and move on where you can be happy.

Get it through your head people .... when you buy into TV you are buying a house and a piece of land and that is ALL you own.

[champion6]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

Lofts residents has full access to villages amenities, but village residents can’t access lofts amenities. Golden deal for the developers.

Only 50% correct.
TRUE: Lofts residents have full access to villages amenities
FALSE: but village residents can’t access lofts amenities

[Bilyclub]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

Yes, thank you Goldwingnut for people like you who actually know what they are talking about, not just wildly spreading fear and misinformation.

Once again, I have to ask why on earth do you people who continue to spread unsubstantiated rumors about TV continue to live here, if you do; why not cut your losses and move on where you can be happy.

Get it through your head people .... when you buy into TV you are buying a house and a piece of land and that is ALL you own.

So questions are not allowed ? It's a fact that District 9 took in the Lofts.

[Goldwingnut]

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[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee

Yes, thank you Goldwingnut for people like you who actually know what they are talking about, not just wildly spreading fear and misinformation.

Once again, I have to ask why on earth do you people who continue to spread unsubstantiated rumors about TV continue to live here, if you do; why not cut your losses and move on where you can be happy.

Get it through your head people .... when you buy into TV you are buying a house and a piece of land and that is ALL you own.

We are new here and have learned a lot in the six month we have been here.

Have heard things and come here to find out how true and what others think.

And in these times when we are forced to be home more than one would like it is good to hear all kinds of opinions and thoughts and great that folks who are knowledgeable can tell us more.

[champion6]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

Lofts residents has full access to villages amenities, but village residents can’t access lofts amenities. Golden deal for the developers.

Originally Posted by champion6

Only 50% correct.
TRUE: Lofts residents have full access to villages amenities
FALSE: but village residents can’t access lofts amenities

Originally Posted by Goldwingnut

I think you need to check again Champion6, you are working from old information.

Hmmm. What do you mean? What am I missing?

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by Bilyclub

So questions are not allowed ? It's a fact that District 9 took in the Lofts.

rumors not so much

[Madelaine Amee]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

We are new here and have learned a lot in the six month we have been here.

Have heard things and come here to find out how true and what others think.

And in these times when we are forced to be home more than one would like it is good to hear all kinds of opinions and thoughts and great that folks who are knowledgeable can tell us more.

Looking for answers to questions is fine and this is a great chat line for doing that, especially when we have Goldwingnut and Champion 6 to correctly answer inquiries. But, in the case of the Hacienda threads where people who live in the immediate area were terrified of what might happen to their property values and whether they were going to lose a golf course, the rumors and misinformation heightened the fear. There are meetings weekly held by knowledgeable people working for the Developer who can answer with accuracy many of the fears that people have, instead of drawing out the people who see everything the Deveoper does as a conspiracy.

[Jayhawk]

Originally Posted by topspinmo

lofts residents has full access to villages amenities, but village residents can’t access lofts amenities. Golden deal for the developers.

WRONG. Again.

[perrjojo]

Originally Posted by champion6

Only 50% correct.
TRUE: Lofts residents have full access to villages amenities
FALSE: but village residents can’t access lofts amenities

That was the original concept but it was changed.

[Marathon Man]

Originally Posted by champion6

Only 50% correct.
TRUE: Lofts residents have full access to villages amenities
FALSE: but village residents can’t access lofts amenities

I saw it. The second line is saying that all residents WILL have access. Some are reading it wrong.