Lynnelf, It was your destiny to become a Villager. Congratulations and may your home construction, closing and move in go smoothly. It's nice that you are just a hop, skip and jump from TV so that you can watch your new home going up! :wave:

KYWildcat, Woo Hoo! In 31 days you will be a Villager. Congratulations. Hope your closing and move in go smoothly. :wave:

Gary,

I am the band director in Mishawaka, Indiana. This is my 35th year there. Two more years until I retire. My wife and I will be coming down for the first week of April during spring break. Our Villa is in Tamarind Grove, so we are neighbors!

Hope to meet you soon!

Tom

Shaumburger,
Thank you so much for the kind comments!

Hope to see you in April. I don't miss the Indiana snows!!! Have a great remaining school year.

Gary
gacrisp47@gmail.com

I just wanted to thank "Keithwand" for inspiring this thread. :)

I was just reading his comments on another thread and thinking of this post!

We were all reading his threads leading up the the "WOW" factor and waiting for it!!! *laughing* It's always fun to watch and read when someone gets to see what the big "fuss" is about! :)

AngieFox;

You are a smart lady. :)

I hope you get done moving in so you can fully enjoy frogdom.

Our friends told us about The Villages and I started to do all the research myself. I fell in love with all the information they provided to us. Glen kept telling us living in The Villages was like living an adult Disney World so that got our attention right away. Last December we came out with them as they were having their closing. We saw many models and our real estate agent, Wesley took us around. At that point, I knew in my mind we were going to purchase a lot. We bumped into other folks who kept telling us don't wait until there is nothing left to buy. The right thing to do was to sell our house first, then go back to Fl and buy a lot. Of course, we didn't do it that way. We bought a lot on our first trip to TV. We hope to put our house up for sale in about 2 weeks and pray it sells fast so we can begin building on our land.

Of course you didn't do it that way... None of us do!!! :a040::MOJE_whot::a040:

How the Villages found us
 

Boy, I have been reading these comments and laughing, sniffing, and thinking yep, yep!

Several years ago friends told us about the villages. "Disney for adults" they said. We thought nothing can be that good, it had to be a one time shot. Finally in February 2011 I had to go to Miami for work, talked my husband (who was already retired) into coming with me and driving down from Smyrna, GA. First we went to Tampa to visit friends and check out retirement communities near the water, didnt like anything. Next went to Miami, I worked we talked about the negatives of Florida; noseeums, hurricanes, heat, etc. decided for the heck of it to go home up 75 and as we saw signs thought, Eddy loved it maybe we should just stop by. We spent one afternoon with our agent, Ron Delk, and spent the evening on the square. LOVED IT!

A few months later we booked a LSV for September, meanwhile we kept looking. We went to Hilton Head and left there telling our friends, we will be neighbors when I finally retired. I ALMOST ASKED MY HUSBAND TO CANCEL THE LSV. Decided heck, it would be a nice mini vacation. You all know the rest. We wanted a lake lot so we would have to wait for it.

We got the call on 11/30 while we were in the hospital room with our newest granddaughter being born. Explained to our daughter we had to get home to make decisions. It was too hard, with too many concessions, even Ron said when it is this hard it is not right. We were miserable.

January 5th we got another call, we took the lot, listed our home January 10th, got a contract on 2/5, close on march 30 and move into a rental in Duvall on April 1 while our house is being built. We can't believe how easy it went this time. Ron was right, everything just fell into place. See y'all on April 1.

No one was more negative to 55+ communities in general more than my wife and I based on our experiences of my parents being in Sun City. Not for us we thought.

We could not believe it when our friends said they were renting for a month in January 2012 and asked us to visit. What were they thinking by renting in TV?

We visited for 2 nights and 3 days; met friends of theirs for brunch; visited the clubs and rec centers and were BLOWN AWAY.

We came back in Feb. on the LSV and purchased a lot to build on.

March 2012 (last week) picked out everything for our house and the closing date is 6/26/2012.

Up and until our visit 3 months ago we had no idea we would be moving to TV.

Hows that for visitng and drinking the "koolaid" everyonr talks about?

Anotehr resicual eeffect of drukning the koolaidd is yu strat slurring youre typing!!! :jester:

:pepper2:

Bill :wave: