Hi L and L,
I'm not sure why you are having this issue. Google Earth does zoom into TV. What are you trying to find in TV on GE?

I don't feel that Gary Morse or any of the other Morses are greedy....just savvy. Greedy is when you take everything for yourself and give nothing in return. As for businesses failing, that is the fault of the business management and/or supply and demand. Otherwise, all of them would fail...none would succeed.

Not a single other person or family has taken the risk and put up the money like they have. They did not do any of it with a guarantee. It's called speculation, and in the instance of TV, it has paid off and paid off big. I can only hope that they continue. For us, this has been and continues to be a blessing. If anyone can find something else better, then go for it. The door is always open....we're not going anywhere.

A big "Thank you" for all they have done and continue to do. Have they made mistakes? Sure. Do any of you know of anyone who hasn't? If so, I'd sure like to get in line and meet whoever it is and find out the secret.

No need to use Google Earth, just use the Sumter County Property Assessor's website http://www.sumterpa.com/GIS/Search_F.asp

Type Morse into the "Name" box and you'll get links to Gary Morse, Mark Morse as well as various others -- click on the GIS map link, then zoom in and you can see the various parts of the compound -- plus lots of data such as square footage etc. etc.

Wow Bike. :wave:I told L and L that I thought of all of us that you two might know the family personally. They said no.

I feel like a snooper looking at this, but it does work. They have a BIG YARD!!

The Google Earth map is easier to navigate though. You can zoom closer if you really want to be noisy, or zoom out further and browse all around TV.
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And, I remembered stating, "there would be one state I would never want to live in, and that is Florida". And...here I am. Amazing.

Ah yes, my words exactly, Ms. Bird:wave:

I have a book titled The Villages Then and now the author is Lee King and it was published in 2006. I purchased mine at All Booked up. It is a very interesting book. The information below is from that book.

Perhaps this will let many know a little more about H. Gary Morse.

In the early 60's Harold Schwartz and Al Tarson were purchasing land in Central Florida for $150.00 an acre and sellling it for $295.00 for a quarter acre and were doing this via mail order transactions. The mail order business collapsed and the two partners were left holding several hundred acres north of Lady Lake. In the mid 80's Al Tarson sold out to Harold Schwartz. Schwartz then visited Dell Webb's Sun City in AZ. Schwartz then decided that he could do the same in central FL. Up to this time Orange Blossom Hills mobil home park had operated at a loss for Schwartz. By this time Schwartz was 70 years of age and he sent his son Gary Morse to operate the endevor while Schwartz remained in Chicago.

Morse who is Harold Schwartz son from a previous marriage and was adopted by his stepfather in the mid 40's at his mothers instance that he take the stepfather's non-Jewish sounding name as she feared the Nazis would invade the US.

In 1983 Gary Morse a sales force of one sold 97 homes in Orange Blossom Hills that had only 50 homes when he arrived. The next year Morse had so many homes under construction that they had a cash flow problem and he called his Father is Chicago and asked if he should slow down sales. Mr Schwartz said keep on selling and build me one. Mr Schwartz then moved permently to Orange Blossom Gardens.

They haven't looked back since.

I reccomend this book if All Booked Up still sells it. The above is a sample of the information it contains.

Smiling faces; couples holding hands
 

When we came on our first visit in the 90s, we were so impressed with smiling faces and couples holding hands everywhere.

This is a special place and I thank Harold and Gary and the rest of the Morse family for making The Villages a happy place to live.

Just wish there was an indoor pool or two for those who wish to swim for therapy year round. That's my only missing link.

I love The Villages and the people who live here and those that make it special.

My sentiments exactly mzmom3; well put....b

I would love to meet him & express my gratitude for affording me the chance to live this dream!!:bowdown: :BigApplause:

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Shadow, you crack me up!:pepper2:

I agree, TV is "Paradise Found" aka " The Bubble" - as close to perfect as life can get...how lucky are we to enjoy our waning years surrounded with so much fun & beauty...thank you...8-)

According to the article in the Orlando Sentinel on Mark Morse and the Montana hunting issue, Mark is 50 which would make his father Gary around 75.


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