Wonder if the OP will ever come back on here

Rent then buy
 

If you would like to come down and rent for a month and let us shown you around so you can make a knowledgeable decision. Give us a call. Team Craycraft at Next Home Sally Love Real Estate. We have a company we work with on rentals. 859-983-1440 or 859-983-0129.

Buying outside of TV you will not have all of the amenities, clubs and the ease of golf cart transportation. There are very good reasons that homes outside of TV are cheaper they don't have what TV have.

There are patio villas and courtyard villas. Could you provide more detail on which series you are talking about and the issues? I'm looking too. Thanks.

2 Bdrm Courtyard Villa for Sale
 

Located in Crestview Villas, village of Buttonwood. Crown Moulding throughout, wood flooring in living areas.
Granite countertops Kitchen/bathrooms
Enclosed Lanai, floor to ceiling sliding windows with screens. Expoxy garage floor. Painted concrete & back wall.
All appliances, new BBQ. All electric garden tools, 2 vacuums, pressure washer.
And it’s Turnkey fully furnished, fully equipped kitchen. Comes with Electric Club Car Golf Cart and a Honda Accord Ltd automobile, 4 cylinder great on gas consumption. Used in the last 5 years as a snowbird home
Price $409K
Contact by email (leroux53@yahoo.com) for photos.
Call Norman 1-514-238-3260

your wisdom and due diligence is more precious than pearl
 

What I have read in the past 5 years on this website from residences living there was not what I expected. That is why you must do your due diligence before you think of buying there. You have to remember there is no free community travel which a great deal of seniors need, they have to take private fee transportation, in this large community, renter problems, amenity problems, HOA rules, and alot advertised and about it is smoke and mirrors so be very careful

To start we do not have an HOA, we have excellent amenities, you can drive a golf cart everywhere and I have lived her 10 years and I'm very happy. You come on to TOTV to bash TV. I don't understand your reason for all the negative posts. I don't think you have ever visited here, and you have no intention of moving here. Why are you wasting your time posting nonsense? Time for you to move on.

Do you live here? If not why are you here? Obviously you have no interest in becoming a villager.

New House
 

Do not buy a new house unless you are up for 3 months of fixing it.Bought new in January and still working on it. Buy preowned 2-5 years old that someone else has fixed

I really don't understand why someone who claims to have decided not to live in The Villages hangs around so much. It's like peering in the window, wishing you could be inside but knowing you never will. I'm beginning to think that it was not a decision but an inability to live here.

Really?

As many others have reported, they had subs out fixing the minor things on mine the next day.

We live on Linden Isle, in the middle of the turnpike, Coleman prison, the mining area, and the new construction. We rarely see or hear noise from the turnpike, prison, or mining/construction activities. We hear birds, frogs, walk the nature trails, watch the alligators, dance in the streets at block parties, and enjoy the peacefulness. We came from a smaller town and enjoy the reduced traffic, quiet, and smiles. Essential stores and amenities have been constructed in this area, so we are pleased. It is a trek to HD or Lowes, but that keeps us from starting new projects. : ). We dance, drone, and ride bikes. No golf yet. A lot of fishermen like our area. Definitely find a place n of 44 if you like activity and traffic.
(Leave us alone.)

FYI Not quite true. During the 2008 + recession most prices regressed in TV though not as drastically as elsewhere in Florida. We looked at dozens of resale homes in 2010 and 11 and often looked up their price histories. We found homes were being sold at prices well under what they had originally been purchased for pre-2007. We could have bought one particular pool home north of 466 for under $250k that had been purchased in 2006 for $340k.

Lady lake has NO BOND

Not a bad thing to listen to some of the advice here. Also keep in mind that several others buy here, resell for profit, and then buy in another village. Some of the new areas can nearly double in a little over a year from what I've heard. You don't have to zero in on an investment but I've heard some have moved 5 times here. Maybe the rich ones, but it's not out of the equation to move at least once by selling and affording an upgrade. But check with the realtors, a lot of them know. There's an area that I've heard recently that some of the residents want to sell and move there. Not sure exactly the place. DeLuna is really nice though, I picked up a fridge early this month from someone there and the village is impressive. Right off the 301.

You may also want to think about moving within cart distance of your go-to stores/eateries/gas stations/doctors etc to save yourself shorter trips on a regular basis. Where I lived before moving here everything was 5-15 minutes away. Work, stores, airport, gym, bar, doctor, dentist. I didn't log too many miles.

Almost any village will work. If you can rent for a year. Maybe in several locations.
VH4R Home Rentals in The Villages Florida The Villages Rentals
My guess is new will be younger neighbors and resale older neighbors more set in their daily activities.

Thank you everyone for your answers. We did go the Villages in March. We are now going back in August and staying for about a week. After living on Long Island our entire life, we need to decide if moving is even the right thing for us.

I did love what we did see in March.

From a non villager with an axe to grind?

Please Try showing respect for people that have different opinions than yourself
 

With all respect if not for the light of different opinions about the villages there would be no shadow, please be respectful and Curtis.

HUH? BTW who is Curtis?

That's a matter of opinion. You'll get just as much noise/air pollution or worse if you live in an area with traffic like if your house backs directly onto Morse for example compared to a quarter mile to the turnpike.

Not after 8 30 pm when vast majority of us are home

Your opinion has no value. You have never been here, and you always post negatively about TV. You need to move on. I will never be Curtis, but I can be courteous.

Rent first
 

There are lots of other considerations when picking a neighborhood (Village.). Since turn-key rentals are very available in the summer, why not rent - perhaps more than once - before you buy? After renting in three different places, we ended up in a 20 year old Village and have been very happy with our selection.

You know you have a one year warranty, right? There’s fixing things that are broken (warranty) and fixing things to your liking - planting, landscaping, decorating, etc. Yes, a pre-owned will have a lot more of the second done, assuming you will like what the previous owner did.

Why would you want my opinion? I don’t know your preferences and vice versa! Isn’t that is what a sales person is about??

We rented for 4 years. North Briar Meadow has it all! Quiet too!

If you haven't, try the ignore user option. For me it improves the experience here significantly.

A salesman first interest in selling. Hopefully individuals will give an unbiased opinion

I am kicking him to the curb.

Home
 

Visiting our new DeLuna Villa end of next week. COOL!!

Buy in The Villages ?
 

Recommend you take your time. Try to rent in TV for a month or more to actually see what's going on.
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Restaurants can be hard to get into especially Jan. to April (Winter Times) as the "Morse Money Hungry Moguls" are now more concerned with making money from home sales for the new buyers now south past Interstate 91.
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This is totally unlike what Harold Schwartz and Gary Morse had done to build "The Villages" being Spanish Springs, Lake Sumter, Brownwood, Stores (Town Squares) Rec. Centers and Shopping for people's convenience and enjoyment in the Southern part of The Villages.

This is why we moved out 2 years ago.
living there from 2009 to 2020.
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Not saying it is not a nice place to live. We were tired of all the traffic bringing people north of 44 for their enjoyment and dining.

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Looking to buy
 

If and when looking so you know, The Villages Salespeople are told to sell new homes at The Moguls' requirements.
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Perhaps pick a Broker other than "The Villages Salespeople" to shop used homes.

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Two years ago……..makes your opinion worthless.
Money hungry moguls….,….. give it a break!

Spanish springs
 

We live in Spanish springs and won’t move because we are so close to all of the shopping

Best shopping seems to be around 466 area just north and west of Sumter Lake.
There's even more shopping near Spanish Springs but it is an older area and more congested with other cities around.

What do you mean ?

Between 466 and 466A!!

There is no shopping west of Lake Sumter Landing.
There are no cities around Spanish Springs.

You've been gone two years and you are still hanging out, lurking, on TOTV. Regret is a bad thing. Please try to move on.