Trying to figure out your other name. :blahblahblah:

Thanks for posting. :1rotfl:

Someone should write out a pledge of allegiance to the developer for which it stands.:bigbow:

Gotta love TOTV. It's like the old Monty Python routine, " (receptionist) Good day sir. How can I help you? (customer) I'd like to have an argument, please."
Some folks just would rather find fault and tell you what they don't like than say one word about what they do like. OP wanted to have a thread that let folks express their appreciation for what we have here, rather than the usual liturgy of what is wrong. Like the old Thanksgiving tradition of telling what you are thankful for rather than bitching and moaning about all you find fault with.
Sorry, OP, just one thread without complaints and sarcasm was too much to hope for. Better luck next time.

🙈🙉🙊

And we all pledge just prior to the start of entertainment at each square.

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This is not the takeaway I implied in my little story about the experience, but I guess the response above helps to make my point.

I had no intention of bad-mouthing anything and had given no such impression, but to be told immediately by a sales rep that a lockstep mentality was necessary made it sound like a cult.

It was a darned weird first impression and my “takeaway” was that rep had been so effectively programmed that she was not somebody I wanted to do business with. Why was she trying to control a narrative that I knew nothing about? Made me wonder if something was going on that nobody was supposed to talk about. Whatever she was trying to do, it was strange, and definitely not my style. (shudder) But I guess it worked on some people.

Boomer

PS: Bought a few years later from a rep with an actual personality and who did not seem to be battery-operated.

The buyers should know, by looking, what they are buying

Dude..lol it's been years since I've been called that

yes I understand the OP's wishes but this is an OPEN forum,
I didn't LIE about what happened. I just told the truth for those of you that were not here pre 2008 and do not know the HISTORY of how TV's really did become an amazing place to live.

Again it's not because the developer watched over us ready to fixed all of our problems that arose. It was because they were sued and made to change there SOP's on what and how our amenity fees were used .

I don’t understand. Apparently this place sucks so much, you need to have a new house under contract within a hour of it being released by the developer, and new houses are under contract within 2 to 3 weeks. And people hate it so much, they move 3 or 4 times, within the villages. They are not selling and moving someplace else, they are selling and moving 0.5 miles away.

Houses appreciated like 20 or 30% in the last 12 months

(DISCLOSURE: My numbers may not be 100% accurate, but they are close)

As I read this thread people are not saying this place is bad just not perfect.

Did find it very interesting that the developer was sued to make them put the money we pay for amenities into the amenities.

Very paranoid aren't we.

Paranoia #1: I never said you lied.

Paranoia #2: My original response was directed at VAPeople, strike a nerve with you??

chilout

IMHO the developer's financial rewards are the accolades that matter the most. The proof is in the pudding. Success is its own reward. That the success has run at least three generations is remarkable. The family's ongoing work ethic and creative genius is amazing and rare.

As I see it Harold had a history of being a great promoter but the trailer park in the watermelon patch was just not cutting it. He convinced his son Gary to come down. Gary was the genius who built on Del Webb's Sun City concept, adding some Disneyesque features, and Voila! The Villages was born.

Yeah and the residents in the villages are paying for the beautiful job of maintaining it not the developer.

Funny how people do not really understand how this place works and where our amenity dollars go. Landscaping is generally done very well.

So………and your point is?

I think her point was that residents thank the developer for this and it is the individual districts paying for it out of our amenity fees.