Ira, I'm pausing the video to suggest that you don't need the music but if you prefer to have it at least turn it down, it's very distracting. Thanks for the great information and effort.

The information was good, however the background music was too loud and I found the loud music to be distracting.

The new 159 per month amenity fee is only for new sales and resales. The people currently living here have a cap which I think is 155. My average monthly bill for Amenity fees/water/sewer/trash runs about 220. 151 of that is my amenity fee so 69 covers the rest. We have electric only and that runs about 120 on average. I pay about 150 for cable and internet through Comcast, I do not use Comcast for cell service either. You save 40 to 50 a month on taxes if you have the homestead exemption.

Please kill the Charlie Brown background music. Distracting

Thank you for your honesty IRA. You let us know not to depend totally on the estimated monthly cost that is on the Vi👍llagers site. Even though they have the disclaimers at the end of the total cost it's better to hear it directly from someone like you who actually lives there and works there

The main variable for electricity is the size of the home. The homes Ed references are 1530 and 1590 square ft. For those 1,200.00 annually for electricity, +/- 10% is on target.

Hi Ira, thank you for the valuable information. Yikes, a $500 water bill! There are cheaper places to live, but the lifestyle and the activities are what draw so many people to The Villages. If someone is going to stay home and watch TV all day, they should find a cheaper place to live.

Ira, I have 2 designer rental houses south of 466A. There numbers seem about right to me EXCEPT the Amenity/Sewer/water/trash, cable, and power. My amenity/water bills average about $240 a month. Power Bill on both all electric homes average $100 a month, and renters set the temp wherever they want. Basic cable and internet are $125 a month. Just got my property Tax/amenity maintenance bill and it was $2898 of which 775 was fire and amenity maintenance. This is for a $250k house with NO homestead. Several big misses in my opinion. Lawn care/mowing/exterminator fees are about $90 a month. Also, you have to pay termite bond of $150 per year. Their insurance number is high though, which is weird because it is the villages own insurance company! Figure $600 a year for a stucco house and about $750 a year for wood ( I have one of each). This is from 4 years of ownership on one house and 2 on the second. One a Jasmine, the other a Wisteria. Oh, throw in 75 bucks a year for power washing too. I think any way you look at it, it is a good deal.

love how every prop is rent free and free to own because no-one ever enters the prices!

I was board to death waiting for you to get to the topic of the Video, you go off on so many tangents. Get to the point in your videos and at the END mention your other videos and provide links in the description.

Nowadays everybody's a video producer....but the music, oh my.

Is there any bingo hall in the village's

Ira, do you know if there are any tax brakes for someone on disability.

You know I sold my home for 479k I st Louis To live in the Villages . We looked houses in the 350k to 400k Range. I could not believe the after market coast . I have class A motor home 400k Cornerstone Park beside my home . To many. Rules

So to be safe..Im figuring about 2x what the website says as cost of ownership------ Thanks Ira and others for your insight

What’s with the annoying music 🙈 this guy goes off topic it’s like listening to a politician 🙄

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