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55+ communities, especially TV are unique in retaining and increasing their value vis a vi regular working neighborhood communities like in the NE corridor. The only concern I have is that as prices climb into the $350K - $500K average range it prices many baby boomers out of the market decreasing the potential buying pool. After all not everyone is in that top 10% in wealth, assests or income to be able to afford higher priced homes.
Can we experience a housing bubble in TV? I don't know but the housing market in the US is still shaky and people have lost a lot of equity and money which they may never recoup - that also impacts the pool of people who would like to sell and move here.
Then again this builder knows more than me about his market and has a successful track record thus far.

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Originally Posted by graciegirl (Post 918338)

I'll say. We have a lot of real estate transactions behind us, most of us. I was very skeptical when we first made a visit here some will remember my first posts as to what the developer was like and was he on the up and up because I sincerely doubted that any place could be THIS good.

Now I cannot praise this place and all the processes associated with it enough. It is my feeling that it is run better than any like size municipality in this country. I am constantly amazed by the order and neatness and the constant painting and cleaning of structures here belonging to The Villages.

I could go on and on, and have gone on and on, but for me, this is the very best time of my life. The worry and work that used to be my life is in the past and I can share time with my peers; enjoy them, argue with them, debate with them, laugh with them, eat with them, learn with them. As someone's adult child said; This is a college campus without the pressure.

Over the years I have read threads just like this saying that sales were falling off and that the developer was in trouble..always at the same time of the year.

But in the awful downturn in this country in the past six or so years, at the worst the country was seeing, The Villages at one time was selling TEN percent of all the homes sold in this country.

NO. I don't work for them, never met them. I just think they do it right.

To me and mine, this is PARADISE........let the naysayers leave. Some never get tired of complaining. :crap2: