[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Lovey2

Always said we'd be driving to Disney one day on our carts. They will throw up a small hotel/motel/Holiday inn (remember?) and a gas and charging station about 1/2 way. Good times....

We will be long gone before that happens. Once the sisters are gone the kids will likely cash in and sell out.

[JP]

Originally Posted by Larry chappel

True or not? I have heard Brooksville is at the proposed southern border

I agree with you based on acreage bought.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

We will be long gone before that happens. Once the sisters are gone the kids will likely cash in and sell out.

Why cash in if the place is still making great money.

Hire professional managers and go off and sit on a beach with a drink in their hand.

[Dilligas]

Originally Posted by rustyp

Double today's population that will make The Villages the fourth largest metro area in population in Florida
1 Jacksonville
2 Miami
3 Tampa
4 The Villages

and Orlando???

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Dilligas

and Orlando???

Tallahassee?

[cegallup]

Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus

You read it here first. 44 will eventually separate something called Villages North from Villages South with separate governance in each. Or some part of the north side will be sold off to a developer. Look at the projected geographic size of the monster. It will be way too unwieldy as one unified entity.

It really does make sense to have independent "Villages" (North and South). The "facilities", recreation and entertainment are becoming too congested. Not that it doesn't work now, but would flow and prosper if the Districts had a better picture of their future.

[rustyp]

Originally Posted by Dilligas

and Orlando???

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

Tallahassee?

Ref post #88

[Dilligas]

Originally Posted by Polar Bear

LOL!! Development would stop...anywhere!?! Good one!!

People continue to respond with "they promised ..... ". The Villages Developers assuredly made no 'promises of the future' for anything. A business executive would be foolish to promise. Now someone may have made comments that there were no plans to expand beyond SR44 or something like that. If 'they' promised before acquiring sufficient land, every greedy person in the area would try to buy up the land in order to resell it to TV at a profit.

[Dilligas]

Originally Posted by rmd2

I was told that too.

You both may be correct, in that The Villages sales people find out about expansion about the same time the public does. Their job is to sell homes and at the time you were 'told', that was all they knew about.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Dilligas

People continue to respond with "they promised ..... ". The Villages Developers assuredly made no 'promises of the future' for anything. A business executive would be foolish to promise. Now someone may have made comments that there were no plans to expand beyond SR44 or something like that. If 'they' promised before acquiring sufficient land, every greedy person in the area would try to buy up the land in order to resell it to TV at a profit.

Your right of course. TV will continue to expand as long as they have demand for all the homes they keep building

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by j_vermilya

I wish they could've asked under oath, wasn't the original promise that the development would stop at 44?

There was never such a promise. Statements by sales agents are never admissible under law.

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by algi45

No. The original promise was to stop at 466A! And that we would have a real hospital in that area. And on and on...

Promise?? By whom? When??

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by ribil

That can’t possibly be true! When we bought in 2011 and they were preparing to start construction below 466A, we were told that that “final build out will be completed in 2015”! LIES. ALL LIES.

Who said? If it was not in your closing docs, it doesn't exist. Due diligence is not just a suggestion.

[Aloha1]

Originally Posted by kappy

If all these expansion plans were already on the drawing board, why did all the developer’s friends and business partners and the local newspaper continue to tell us that raising impact fees will slow down growth?

This is a multi county development. North Sumter is only a small of the whole.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

There's actually some positive that comes from expansion. Now, I don't play golf. So I have no personal horse in this race. But up until this month, all those new folks in the new areas were able to drive their cars up to my neck of the woods, and get golf cart privileges free at the Country Clubs. But now that all the bridges are open, there's nothing stopping them from bringing their own cart. EXCEPT FOR DISTANCE! The further south they go, the fewer of them will come up to the northern courses. The further south they go, the more people nearer to 44 will choose southern courses over northern ones, because they'll have more options. And that means the people in the northern half of the Villages will not have to compete for tee-times with the southern half anymore.

That $6 cart rental fee - when they've been getting it free all along...