One would think that most of the STRs are investment properties, financed by mortgages. I would be surprised if in Florida a government lien does not have first priority for collection, so legal cost of enforcement could be supported by liens placed against the offending properties, which would invalidate the first mortgage liens, and make those mortgages immediately collectible. Quite an incentive to get out of the STR business if the District governments would actually start enforcing the deed restrictions.

Why have lifestyle visit. Yes ZERO. You know what the say want in one hand and ——- in the other.

Sounds to good to be true. But if it is, bring it on!

really? a boon to the developer who will be the only one left with short term rentals for prospective buyers is the end result of this desire.

Most of our rentals have been under 6 months, and most have been looking to buy in the villages, or are family to someone in the villages for holidays as a typical house can't hold more than the owner's immediate family comfortably.

One rental was from an NFL wide receiver who was being treated for brain concussions at the local brain treatment center, also a family member of someone in the villages. .

So now you are forcing holiday family gatherings into hotels, of which there are so many?

how nice of you. . .

NIMBY runs rampant, without any understanding of the impacts. . . . and we have had repeats from people very nice, the neighbors all loved the 70 year old couples. . . who visited friends in the Villages for several months in the winter. .

The Lifestyle visit is a "taste"... It's the bait...

You don't really know what living in TV is until you actually live here for a while.

A week just doesn't cut it...

Our lifestyle visit was actually stying with friends for a week. I was immediately smitten. My wife, otoh, wasn't so sure. So, a year later, we rented for two months. That was the assurance she needed...

During that two month stay, we made an offer on a home and it was accepted. That was just over 3 years ago...

Oh, and who says anything like that?

Excellent points...

They do:bigbow:

They are starting to tick me off!

Take a deep breath.....carry on

Just starting? you have a lot of patience.

Are you positive it isn't them? :shrug:

You and your wife's experience very closely resembles how my wife and I came to be homeowners here in TV. Visiting friends, then renting, then buying. I was pretty much sold many years ago when I first drove up Morse from 466A (before there was any Villages development south of 466A), and seeing the golf courses on either side of Morse. My wife wasn't sold on the place until many years later, after we rented a couple of winters. Now she loves it and occasionally will even tell me I was "right". (Wow! just wow.)

One really learns a lot by renting for a season or longer. I got past the "honeymoon" delirium, but still found it worthwhile, and my wife moved past her misgivings about the place to deciding it was a good place for our winter migrations. We sort of met in the middle.

In addition to the big question about whether TV was right for us at all, we learned a lot about what kind of home, neighborhood, etc. we'd want to buy into.

That kind of rental experience fits well into the overall TV model. I certainly wouldn't want to be next door to a revolving door **** rental unit.

Dealing with "patients" for close to 40 years tends to give one "patience"... :icon_wink: