[Charlton Dude]

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[mrsanborn]

3 hours

[swimdawg]

Originally Posted by mrsanborn

3 hours

We Wheatfield people don't take long to make up our minds.

We know a good thing when we see it.

[Dirigo]

Twelve years.

We close on our house "up Nawth" on Nov 10th.

We arrive in TV tomorrow to look at houses Mon and Tues and visit friends.

With any luck we'll be living in TV by the holidays

[pooh]

Only a few hours, really. We just came for a look around....but, you get here, rub your eyes because you can't believe what you see...and before you know it, you're hooked...and begin looking for your new home....

[ladydoc]

Originally Posted by pooh

Only a few hours, really. We just came for a look around....but, you get here, rub your eyes because you can't believe what you see...and before you know it, you're hooked...and begin looking for your new home....

Ditto..there was no logic or deciding or rationale to it....we bought on the second day.

[GTTPF]

We came to visit for 1 day in late Feburary and knew within a few hours TV is where we wanted to live. We set up a lifestyle vsit for 9 days for late July to see how hot it would be. A piece of cake compared to NJ coast with 95%+ humidity. During the time from Febuary to July We did a lot of research. In July we picked out a lot and set an appointment with the design center. Our house is being built right now. Never any doubt!

[John_W]

I grew up a Floridian but lived in Maryland since 1989. I knew I wanted to return and if it hadn't been for TV I would of probably chosen Pensacola.

I saw the infomercial in 2003 and received the DVD and brochures. In 2008 I got another DVD packet but this time a Villages sales agent called later asking when I was retiring. That's the first time I started thinking of a date. In 2009 I began writing down the prices of every new courtyard villa and cottage for sale on the internet.

Now possessing several pages of new home prices in April 2011 we took a seven day LSV. With our salesman Tony Trussler we toured all the cottages, courtyard villas and patio villa models. We decided it was between a Cabot Cove patio villa or a Woodlawn courtyard villa, but now it was time to return to Baltimore and sell our home.

We listed our home for sale in May and it sold the next morning, 18 hours later. We hurriedly scheduled a second LSV and began seriously looking at the cottages, patio and courtyard villas for sale on their website. We selected a new Cabot Cove patio villa with vaulted ceilings, white cabinets in Bayport Villas in Buttonwood for $140,000.

I called Tony to see if we could skip the second trip and buy the home over the phone. As we were speaking I flipped over to the Woodlawn courtyard villas and noticed the price on the six available in Tamarind Grove had been discounted $6,000. This caught my attention because these are concrete constructed with privacy fenced yards. While I was still speaking with Tony I refreshed the page and the Woodlawn that we ended up buying was dropped another $6000. At this point I asked Tony if the price was for real on the Woodlawn on Nautilus Lane and he said yes, I gave him my credit card and with $2500 we made the purchase sight-unsight.

Unlike designer homes or cottages, villas have no choices available, what you see on the website and what it contains is what you can buy. As it turned out, we were very pleased with the colors, the cabinets and the neighborhood and had we come in person we would of made the same decision. However had I not done three years of homework, I can't imagine how things would of turned out.

[jblum315]

3 days

[LvmyPug2]

Over 5 years. In 2006 I read something on the web about a " Disney for adults". We decided to check it out and stopped for 1 day as we headed to Miami for a cruise. We immediately booked a LSV for later that year and started planning and dreaming of the day we could join the fun. Even though we knew it would be a few years before we could retire, I spent many a cold and snowy Saturday looking at real estate on the net. We made 3 more visits over the next few years. Finally after all this time we close on our home in St James next week. Can't hardly believe we are finally going to become frogs

[getdul981]

We had talked about moving to FL for several years. Began looking around the Orlando area in 2009. A friend of ours from Orlando brought us up to The Villages in April of 2010 and we came back twice and bought a piece of dirt in May 2010. Went back home to VA and put our home on the market. Got it sold and moved down here in October 2010. Moved into our new hose in Pennecamp in December 2010. We are now in our new, new home in St. James. The house in Penneamp just didn't work out for us, so we moved to St. James. Hopefully, this will be our last move!!!!

[memason]

A co-worker introduced me to TV in 2004, as he was building a new home here. We decided to come for LPV in 2005. All I could say was, "This place is unbelievable". Too good to be true... I was too young to think of retiring, in 2004, so we came for another LPV in 2008. Still too young, but I was on a mission to find out just what was wrong with this place... I was from the midwest, so if it's too good to be true...you know the rest. Well, I still couldn't find anything wrong, but on the drive down to Florida [in 2008], my employer called and asked me to move to Europe for a couple years...So, I did. We had our third LPV in 2010 and this time, we bought in St. Charles, then flew back to Europe for 7 more months.

I've stopped looking for what's wrong with this place... I've decided, if it's too good to be true, it must be The Villages!

[Yorio]

I'll first tell you the decision of my friend who went with his wife who was initially not interested in even visiting TV. It took them 4 days after seeing TV and came back with a furnished designer home. It started with my rave about TV as they were visiting Orlando on business. This was about two weeks before their curiosity peaked when I mentioned TV. They bought the place before we did. Some posts mention bringing the check book. How true this is.

As for us, we did three visits to our friends place each year mixed with two LSP the latter of which we brought in-laws. They will move in 2013 when they retire. They saw and they loved the place. For me convincing my wife took a while but once she agreed, it took about a week. Good luck. Incidentally, the friends we used to visit looked from North Carolina down to Florida visiting dozens of retirement community and settled on TV. They had sizable boat before, so thought they would retire by the water but didn't and have not regretted the move to TV. They are in their second bigger home now.

[villagegolfer]

We had decided to move to Hilton Head Sun City back in 2006 but we had to wait until 2010. In 2008 we discovered The Villages. We were worried that TV would be too big and thought we would prefer the much smaller Sun City.
We decided to take a LifeStyle visit in 2009 anyways. We were hooked right from the beginning. Sold our house in October 2010. We purchased a new CYV over the phone before we took the 3 day drive down here. When we arrived we changed our mind on CYV model but bought another one in the same neighborhood.
No regrets.

[Yorio]

Originally Posted by getdul981

We had talked about moving to FL for several years. Began looking around the Orlando area in 2009. A friend of ours from Orlando brought us up to The Villages in April of 2010 and we came back twice and bought a piece of dirt in May 2010. Went back home to VA and put our home on the market. Got it sold and moved down here in October 2010. Moved into our new hose in Pennecamp in December 2010. We are now in our new, new home in St. James. The house in Penneamp just didn't work out for us, so we moved to St. James. Hopefully, this will be our last move!!!!

We've moved to Pennecamp and was curious to read that Pennecamp did't work for you. Is there something I don't know about.