[Wiotte]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

There are currently 32 properties showing availability for Feb/March 2018 on just one site villagershomes4rent so I wouldn't go so far to say there is a shortage. There is a lot of competition with more and more people renting homes here. If price, location etc are not competitive even high season is not a lock. I doubt all these homes will be rented at this late date.

Give those landlords a call to see if they are still available. Chances are they’re not. That’s
what my tenants would tell me when I rented out. They were very happy I answered their call or email.


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[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by Packer Fan

This has been the same every year, until about the first week of February, then they are all gone. I get calls all year just asking even through I show rented on 2 homes. Every year the rents go up. Wish they would rent that well in the off season!

Could be but it seems a bit late to be reserving your rental for Feb/March at this late date.

[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by Wiotte

Give those landlords a call to see if they are still available. Chances are they’re not. That’s
what my tenants would tell me when I rented out. They were very happy I answered their call or email.


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Sorry no time for that, I just put in a search for Feb/March 2018 and that's what came up. A professional rental website should be able to update availability instantly but who knows.

[Wiotte]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

Sorry no time for that, I just put in a search for Feb/March 2018 and that's what came up. A professional rental website should be able to update availability instantly but who knows.

It doesn’t. You pay the fee to list and that’s it. It’s up to the landlord to update. The website owner does nothing.


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[GoodLife]

Originally Posted by Wiotte

It doesn’t. You pay the fee to list and that’s it. It’s up to the landlord to update. The website owner does nothing.


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Thanks, did not know that as I don't use that site for my rentals. Not a big fan of websites that don't keep info up to date.

[dirtbanker]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

There are currently 32 properties showing availability for Feb/March 2018 on just one site villagershomes4rent so I wouldn't go so far to say there is a shortage. There is a lot of competition with more and more people renting homes here. If price, location etc are not competitive even high season is not a lock. I doubt all these homes will be rented at this late date.

Several factors could come into play here. Those homes that are available:

Could really not be available, just as a previous poster suggested a landlord that does not update his listing (think of the several item you call about in the classifieds that have already been sold).

Something happened to the tenant that prevented them from being able to travel (I had a guy break his leg 6 weeks before he was supposed to arrive, he was in his late 70s and was not projected to be healed by then, so he cancelled his trip).

The homes might be in areas not convienant to the squares or could be less home than the renter's standards (only a select few would want to rent a trailer home next to a golf cart grave yard).

If you have a quality home to rent, in a clean village, located convienantly to the square, January February and March are never an issue.



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[dirtbanker]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

.... on just one site villagershomes4rent...

That website...
I had a few homes on there and had been listing with them for probably 5 years. I decided to take one of my homes out of the rental and move into it. So I notified them that I would not be renewing that listing when it was to expire. They insisted that I still had to pay for the listing, because I could use the other listings (the ones I planned to renew) to get renters in the home I planned to move in.
So you have done business with me for 5 years and now you want to insult my business integrity over a listing fee on one of the homes that I said was not going to be used as a rental?...I canceled my other listings. My homes have been rented no problem since...and they can go pound salt!


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[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

We moved here in 2012 and there was nothing south of The Sarasota Driving Range. So yes, it is very impressive.

[John_W]

Originally Posted by geofitz13

We first visited TV the second week of January, 2016. I believe it was a few weeks later when the plans for Fenney were announced. Now, a year later, it is unbelievable! Golf courses, rec center, hundreds of homes... all in under a year!
Is it just me, or is anyone else impressed with the speed of the development down there? And they are already starting homes in De Soto!

We first came to TV in April 2011 and Buena Vista ended at the Turtle Mound traffic circle, you could not go all the way to the red light at 466A. There was nothing south of 466A, the first homes for sale were opened in August 2011. I went there on a caravan put together by salesman Tony Trussler, who thought we might be interested even though we had already moved into Tamarind Grove. By August Buena Vista had connected to 466A and you could go east on 466A to Morse, but Morse only went to the first traffic circle. You either exited onto Pinellas or went back up Morse. You turned onto Pinellas and there was nothing but sand in every direction except for about 5 or 6 furnished models on Braddy Ct. You turned right on the second right turn which was Asher Ct and then right on Braddy Ct. and proceeded to the cul-de-sac at the end of the street to the models.

That area south of 466A was basically finished by 2015 until they bought the land in Lake County which became Pine Ridge, Pine Hills, LaBelle and Osceola Hills. Which added Belle Glade Country Club, several executives, 2 Rec Centers, a Shopping Center, etc.

[diane reynolds]

To me, it is disgusting. Rampant development and no requirement for new homes to have solar panels. Money making rules The Villages.

[billethkid]

Originally Posted by diane reynolds

To me, it is disgusting. Rampant development and no requirement for new homes to have solar panels. Money making rules The Villages.

Really?!?!?

The other 99.6765349% disagree!

[rlcooper70]

Fascinating response - "a reflection of the degradation of the middle class" is interesting.

I offer to you that if people chose a life style (including the size of the retirement home) that they can afford then they will be happy. And all of use (65+) had an opportunity to accumulate some money (major economic expansion since 1980) and those who chose to focus on it have bigger houses ... and that it is the next generations whose pensions and retirement will be affected. Our generation is just fine.

[twoplanekid]

Everyone should take with a grain of salt the announcement today in the Village Daily Sun that “New Home Construction Soars in 2017 in Villages: Growth up 93 Percent, Value at $446M”.

I believe the paper was talking exclusively about Village growth in only Sumter County for this comparison of 2016 to 2017 as total sales in the Villages remain about the same for that time period. A newbie might not realize the Village growth that took place in Lake County during this same time period. So, their picture of growth could be distorted. It’s not growth up 93 Percent for the Villages as a whole.

It’s sometimes difficult for the news media in the headlines to present an accurate picture of what is happening.

[perrjojo]

Originally Posted by diane reynolds

To me, it is disgusting. Rampant development and no requirement for new homes to have solar panels. Money making rules The Villages.

I’m wondering at what point development should have stopped? The Villages had its first 400 homes in the 80s. Should Harold Schwartz have stopped then? When is enough enough? I think it is when people no longer want your product. As long as there is demand, TV will grow. BTW, any homeowner is free to add solar panels and many have done so.

[Chatbrat]

At the average age of people living and or moving into TV, solar panels IMHO is pure stupidity unless you have a contract from GOD to live to 110--the break even point $$ wise is in excess of 30 years & a lot of solar panels will not last in the Fl sun