Talk of The Villages Florida - Historic District Update

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Originally Posted by andercat (Post 1463539)

Two of the new homes mentioned ( Seabreeze, 3/2 for $249K and Lilac, 3/2 for $307K) are on Orange Blossom Country Club golf course. Where can you get a brand new home on a golf course for those prices? We bought a 25 year old stick built home three years ago on Orange Blossom Country Club course and remodeled it. Our home has only 1250 square feet and we did almost all the labor ourselves. It took us a year to redo our home. Based on what we spent and all our time, I think the price for those golf course homes is very good.

I wish all of you who live there in the historic side would ignore the snobbery of some of these posts. I wish all of you who have not gone to visit the historic side would take a nice long cart ride or a car ride to see how nice the area is.

I think that the developer in buying up some of the older modular homes and replacing them with site built will make the area safer during strong winds.

I cannot see that these replacement homes built by the developer are unfairly priced.

I have never in my whole life heard anyone speak disparagingly about another's home in real life. A person's home is almost their sacred place; Their place of shelter, their place of celebration, their place of safety and their place of pride.

To disparage someone's home and village in this beautiful town takes guts and ignorance ......and anonymity.

Actually, homes in the Historic District are selling for more money than homes in Fenny.

The Historic District is becoming the place to be and home values are rising rapidly. People who get in early on the new site built homes will see a big increase in the value of their property as the transformation takes place.

There will be a number of manufactured homes here for quite a few more years, but new site built homes are being built at a very fast pace.

If you take the time to drive around here, you'll see not only hundreds of site-built homes that have been built over the past five years but also many vacant lots where new site-built homes will eventually be built.

Another thing that a lot of people don't realize is that there was already a number of site-built homes in this section before The Villages began this revitalization effort.

The original goal of The Villages was to replace 250 manufactured homes with new site builts per year. If they kept at that pace, all of the manufactured homes would be replaced in 16 years.

I think that they're actually going faster than that because what they didn't plan on was that many residents would ask them to remove their home and replace it. That was done as an afterthought once a few homeowners approached them about doing it.

That means that within eight years of this project being started about half the manufactured homes will be replaced. We are now into the fourth year of this revitalization program.

I would suggest that people that are interested in coming to The Villages buy here now because the prices are going to go up more rapidly than other sections.

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Originally Posted by njbchbum (Post 1463227)

And how does someone put a price tag on the convenience of access to shopping and necessities along the 27/441 corridor; or to access major travel arteries; or the ability to walk and bike ride mostly flat and gently sloped roadways with the occasional cardio incline challenge; or the peace and tranquility re the lack of traffic; or the gracefulness of fully developed landscaping and beautiful hardwood trees; or the neighbors who place boxes of their citrus at the curb for free; or the uniqueness of the homes that don't offer cookie cutter look-alikes; or the neighbors who wave when encountering others; or where your rarely encounter an attitude of superiority.

Love your post. I would buy on the historic side in a heart beat. Proximity to shopping is important to me. I have rented 3 times (short term) on the historic side. Love the location.

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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1463547)

Another informative post. Thank you for the information.

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Originally Posted by Schaumburger (Post 1464683)

Love your post. I would buy on the historic side in a heart beat. Proximity to shopping is important to me. I have rented 3 times (short term) on the historic side. Love the location.

Schaumburger - You would surely be another great addition to the diversity! :)