For those who live within the corporate limits of Wildwood, there are really only two things you can expect from them: Police protection, and street maintenance. The newer villages being built inside the Wildwood city limits will eventually have their streets (except those wholly within the Villa sections) turned over to Wildwood. But, Wildwood does not provide many services commonly associated with a municipality. They will not provide things like fire protection, water & sewer, trash pickup, parks, etc.

If you take a look at a population growth chart for Wildwood, you will see incredible growth the last five years. The median age is over 58 while Ocala's median age is around 39 which tells you that many of Wildwood's residents live in TV. Around 2006, Wildwood annexed about 5000 acres of land hoping one day that TV would develop it. That is happening now. They had the foresight to do it in advance because trying to annex parts of TV that are already populated would not succeed. I applaud them for their forward thinking. No doubt it has increased their tax base considerably. As the percentage of Wildwood's residents who are Villagers continues to grow, at some point, it is likely that those Villagers in Wildwood will demand more for their tax dollars than they are getting now. I suspect that one day the city's elected officials might even be comprised of several Villagers. That might be the only way to get anything done. In fact, I bet there are several in Wildwood that are afraid of such an outcome.

Actually, south of 44 in the Wildwood areas of The Villages, Wildwood owns the Villa roads as well. Whether that's good or bad is yet to be seen.

In the villas communities north of 44 in Sumter County, the CDDs own the villa roads and treats them with rejuvenator every 5 years to help the roads last longer, and mills and overlays (resurfaces) them on a 20 year schedule. Will Wildwood do likewise, that is yet to be seen. If you're paying Wildwood city taxes, be actively involved in your government to ensure you get the services you are paying for, if you don't, you won't.

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simple answer for taxes don't pay em lose your house and stand outside hollering but it's the principal of ...

Easier
 

Just run Villages citizens for council members in Wildwood. Villagers will vote you in hands down.

According to Wikipedia, in 2020, the population of Wildwood was 15,730. In the non-Villages area, I would expect that at least 20% would be under voting age and in the Villages area, 100% would be eligible to vote.
I would think the Villages has more than half of the voters in Wildwood. Since Wildwood isn’t giving us much for our taxes,
the town should hold a referendum where the Villages area can secede from Wildwood.

Every VLS has knowledge of every village, it’s on the paperwork, if it’s a preowned, and if new available for the asking. Maybe we just have been around long enough or due diligence of our money and what it’s paying for.

Our VLS gave us the run down in all the utilities, taxes, bond, how much water was in the prairie behind us, and yep sat on the empty property we about to buy and build, recorded the turnpike (4streets away) volume different times of the day. Then our friends did the same to get a second opinion.

So maybe we just have a great VLS, that knows we trust him. Although not perfect, why not tell the customer, if they ask? After all average move is 2.5, we are on #4.

Wildwood
 

The city of Wildwood is on track to be the largest city in the area.

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They should but don’t. We found them happy to get our deposit check on the lot and then didn’t see them again after the design appointment! I guess not having paperwork on a house because it isn’t built yet is a valid loophole in knowledge. Great input!

Do you plan on running?

Our VLS gave us bond, compared houses on view lots at our 2700sf giving us estimates on taxes, water, TECO, Seco, and a ball park on cost for build.

He was within 5% on water, TECO,, Seco. Estimate on build was off by $40,000. We added 3 bath, most expensive grade of tile, for floors and baths, up grade appliances (told us not to buy W&D), and higher grade quartz.

All in all questions asked, answered and then some. Then again he is our third agent. He has sold 3 of our houses, and we bought 2, with him

When the houses were being built on our street in Osceola Hills in 2017, some of the workers parked in front of our driveway, blocking us from leaving. I called the Wildwood Police and they sent an officer out to tell the workers to move their cars.

It was kind of funny. They were working on 5 or 6 houses, but as soon as the police officer drove down the street, the workers all seemed to disappear inside the houses being built. They never parked in front of our driveway again.

You are paying Leesburg for utilities not taxes.
Wildwood is your city that you pay real estate tax too.