Sometimes people buy the villa instead of a home for the sheer lack of privacy. We could afford both , but I was adament about the privacy. If the homes had fences maybe more would be sold. Just my opinion.

Hate fences. That's why they have options here....if you need privacy they have the home for you. I also don't think that selling homes here is an issue, they can sell what they build.

There is another new Bridgeport for sale in Fenney with a major change to the kitchen area. It looks almost identical to one that sold several months ago along 468 in Fenney. The outside area is also unusual with a large pergola and large non-enclosed seating area. These houses in Fenney are interesting in that they are unique/different than other models of the same name up north in TV.

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They are not pretty, expensive, and put multiple holes in your roof! No thanks!

In 2009 I watch the house behind us go from a vacant lot to under roof in only 5 days. The huge empty property in front of us was quickly filled with 67 houses in bearly 2 months. I am impressed. Tell a builder up North that and they would never believe you.

You are talking about the framing, not the finished home. Before that was the underlayment, the attachments to the infrastructure, the surveying and placement, and after that is all of the other things that happen when a house is built. A Villages home is not EVER completed in five days. They give you the date of closing when you sign the papers to buy. Ours was about three months and it had been done for a week or so. We watched it every day. It is our second new home in The Villages.

Framing is a term used in stick built homes. In the panhandle of Florida the under roof phase is what we called being 'dried in'. Your framing is completed, normally about 10 days on a larger home, your roof trusses have been set, plywood nailed down and exterior windows and doors set in place, so basically work inside can go on even on rainy days.

The OP said within 5 days, that's probably not framing because even here it will take a week or more to frame a house, but he was watching a masonry home go up. Of the 88 homes on Odessa Circle in Tamarind Grove I've watched over half of them go up on my daily walks. Almost all are masonry and they can lay the block normally in a day and half on a designer home. You'll know it's going on when you see about 15 cars and trucks parked out front of a home site, the next day the walls are complete. I had heard years ago that a normal masonry designer will take about 57 days from start to finish, and I think that's about right.

Is natural gas available for homes in Fenney?

Yes, natural gas is available in Fenney....positively for designer homes....not sure about the villas.

Villas have gas also, they are using flash hot water heaters now which hang on the outside of the homes, in the Patio Villas you get to look at your neighbors HW heater when you sit out on your front porch.

But you also have more storage in your furnace closet or wherever they used to put the hot water tank, fair tradeoff in my opinion.

Also, they are far more efficient than traditional hot water tanks.

Was with a Villages Realtor the other day in Fenney. He took me to this house as I was interested in the Indigo & Silverbell floorplan. The home is out of my price range but he wanted me to see some of the changes they are making. He said that the design staff is trying out new things from comments by buyers. If the changed floorplan sells quickly, they try it again. I really liked what I was hearing from the rep about design. It will however cause me to wait a while longer on my purchase to see what other new design changes come along!

All homes have gas AVAILABLE. Not all homes are being outfitted with gas appliances. Even some lower priced designers.

The box for the water heater is so small, it is hardly noticed! I do wish they would put a HW booster in the master bath. It takes forever for hot water to get back there.