Hello from the Villages in Florida 

We moved to The Villages the end of June 2020- bought a Charlotte bungalow villa in the village of Fenney- sight unseen- via the internet. WE LOVE LOVE LOVE it here. Our only regret is we didn’t move here sooner!!!!

Wow, I am impressed, with all the knowledge you have of the villages.. You know more about the villages then people that live down there. Speed limit is 19. I have been going to the villages for at least 20 years. I have family that live down there. It is the only place I vacation. It is just fun driving around on the golf cart, swimming, shopping, it is very relaxing.

About 30 minutes in, while passing restaurants and hearing outside music, I'm getting nostalgic of my pre-pandemic days of going out. You don't know how I appreciate those memories - thanks for helping bring them to mind, Angela. Take Care 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

We came for the Lifestyle Preview a total of three times, just not all during the winter season.

One of the BEST Videos I have seen of The Villages.

You gave an excellent presentation And love your friendly enthusiastic personality.

Outstanding presentation; I hope to be there next year when I am 62 to check out the one week introduction.

Wonderful presentation. Thank you.

Great video thanks for sharing. Your eyes are probably watering from all the chemicals the new furniture. Opens windows

Great video! Lots of information and very easy to understand what you are saying. Thank you.

Hi there, can’t wait to see this.I won’t move to Florida, but sounds fun.

Great job with the video. I look forward to more!

Great tour of the villages and the house you stayed in is beautiful, we lived for 4 years in a del Webb community south of Tampa, very nice and beautiful weather.

Thanks for the tour ,look forward to tomorrow.

I was in the Destin area in October and November and it gorgeous. Fall is the best time. March brings all of the spring breakers. 😊

Love,love,love Mt Dora. They have wonderful festivals

Great ride!

This was a great video! Very entertaining, as well as informative. Thank you!

I enjoyed your vlog on the villages; good useable information! Thank you

My parents have a home in the villages on a golf course. We just love it. There is so much to do and the neighborhoods and town squares are so pretty and clean. Glad you are enjoying it. The weather sounds perfect. Take care.

Looks fun.I love to visit 😍

What a fun tour! Geez my hubby and I could hang with y’all!!! Y’all look like a fun couple! My hubby plays in a band with a girl and her hubby is our eye doctor. We’ve been talking about them playing somewhere in Florida.. may have to check out that place four their band!

Thank you for this first hand tour.

The cruise analogy is so correct. I felt there is so much to do you can’t do everything but have to choose. We also figure when we move there, we will have fun exploring and getting lost in the golf cart

Thanks for all the great information!

Thanks for sharing, lovely place.

Hi Angela! Big Thanks for this video tour ! I feel like I was there with you, guy, and I saw there all 🥰 You are so sweet. Ifeel like you are my friend Thanks a lot 😘😘

You did an excellent job giving us a tour. Thank you I enjoyed watching this even tho it was almost a year ago.

I live 8 minutes from Brownwood Paddock( but outside of TV) and my mom actually lives in the Lofts there. You actually showed her apartment 😊. We do have an amazing bakery called Miz Kathi’s Sweetery and they have a cafe that I highly recommend. But it’s not reachable by golf cart but not too far. Too bad you’re leaving Friday because the weekends at the squares are unbelievable.

Always wondered what the villages is like and you have helped with that. Great job. Pam

Hi.. We're from N.J. We spent a week in the Village of Fenny this past Oct. We're renting in Alden Bungalows, for the month of April. (the village right next to Atwood) Have a fun week! I'll be looking forward to your next video.

Good Morning Angela! I want to visit the Villages with you all!

like the house tours

Go to the Light House to eat. There’s a outdoor deck on a lake. It’s my favorite. Yummy. I’m enjoying your video. My cousin lives in Feney and loves it. I have thought about the lifestyle tour

Fun! Enjoy your Getaway!

Wow ...houses are great.

Such an adorable couple😍😍😍

Very informative and fun.

I have family in TV and loved it!!

Your hubby is adorable! Y’all are a cute couple!

Loved your video. Not only is Mr. Beasley supportive of you, you can tell your husband is too. You are blessed. Enjoy the remainder of your getaway. Safe travels back to Michigan.

You can hope you would get my luck - one daughter & family lives in Arizona - the other daughter & family in Florida! How did this MiMi(my granddaughter named me) get so lucky??? Lots of sunshine with the people I love.😎💕

Your hubby is so handsome and patient too. You make a sweet couple 😊

One of the best tour videos I've seen. Well done.

Sorry if someone already mentioned this. There are (relatively) very few bakeries in Florida. Publix is one of the best sources for baked goods. Thanks for the tour. Btw the Latitudes Margaritaville referred to may be the community in Daytona Beach.

Hi Bentley! 🐾. Your mom is so cool! 😎

Destinis where we go! It’s about a 5 hr drive from my area in Alabama to Destin. We love Destin! I love Bentley! We just recently lost our shih tzu Layla! She was 16 years old! He also lost our Pomeranian Stan and he was 16. Layla was our 3rd shih tzu. They are so sweet! We are currently looking for another doggie!

I love to spend the month of October in Pensacola. Be careful, you will come home owning a time share!

Thanks for giving us a tour! I love your dress, btw. Safe travels. Debbie

I am glad that Bentley is enjoying the trip too. It looks like you are having a great vacation!

Wow pyramids!

Wow, this is a really good video!

My sister has lived there for about 2 years & she loves it

We are coming next month & they told us $150 for both dogs - which was much cheaper & easier on us than trying to find a place to board them. (We are snowbirds in Ft Myers right now).

Thanks for sharing such a great video!!! My husband and I are heading down next month for our 2nd lifestyle visit our 1st being last August. Although much was closed during our 1st visit we really enjoyed everything we experienced inside and outside TV. I had been doing online research about the community as a retirement relocation destination for a couple of years now and after visiting we are both pretty sure TV would be a good personal fit for us. Not ready to buy yet as I still have to retire then sell our house in R.I., but know that when the time comes we will be purchasing a new 3 BR courtyard villa in one of the new areas since we want a low maintenance house and yard along with a little privacy so these villas fit those wants for us. Enjoy the rest of your trip.

I love your videos

I recommend looking up Skip Smith The Villages ( Sue Smith) , The Villages Florida Newcomers (Jerry and Linda). They live in the Villages and have You Tube Channels. You will be able to find out answers to many of the questions that you might not get from a sales agent. They do answer questions.

We stayed there, I thought 7 days would be boring so we stayed 4 days. I was so wrong, 4 days was not long enough. We stayed in the Charlotte, we plan to purchase this type of house. Can’t wait until we move there

So excited to see your Walmart hauls from my local Walmarts. I shop at both Walmarts in The Villages. Glad to hear you are liking it.

Here!

Sorry, I didn't get to watch this till today. Pipes burst in my attic and flooded my house here in Frisco TX. Power was out for days as you probably saw on the news and I am in temporary housing. I'm distraut. Just now calmed down enough to watch any RU-vid, and yours is the first. Just at the beginning, ready to see the Villages.

Thanks.....What a great job you guys did. We have been looking at the Villages and appreciate the tour.

Looks Beautiful

We have a condo at ocean shores in WA state that is like this. We love it and have 4 weeks a yr. but we can’t bring animals. We also have access to 3 pools 2 outside and one inside, plus a gym and a few other things. Love it!

You are delightful! Thanks for the tour.

This was so informative. I would love to be able to talk my husband into going away for a month in the winter, but I wasn’t sure where to start. Thank you so much for doing this video, it gives me a starting point on making a plan. 🙂 We live near Chicago so we have long winters. I loved the entire video, lol, even the golf cart ride with noise, 🥰

Thank you so much. Very nice tour and tons information. We will plan a preview.

Omg what a kool place I live in fla. and never been there gonna have to check it out!i call golf carts go-go’s also how funny...we rented in a 55 and up community for a yr and had such a great time would love to buy in there are y’all retiring down here?

Hi from Kentucky and “Yes” we have snow!! About 7 inches depending on where you will be passing through and maybe more later this week! Glad you had such a fun trip and careful driving home!

it's to bad they don't have "disc golf" yet because I would consider spending a week down their to check things out...Wisconsin winters are just soooo long

I just found your video...great!

We’re here

Super preview of The Villages. I’ve Visited a similar Vacation spot and really enjoyed it Looking forward to tomorrow

And these are the least expensive stick built properties in The Villages. It’s what I would buy because it’s all I need. They are also the only fenced or walled in properties as well. This is not a basic model. There are several upgrades I see, plus it’s a 3 bedroom unit. I’d buy two. It does get into the 40s in The Villages. It’s started to warm up now in February. I’m doing in depth research on Florida retirement communities and, for the money, The Villages offers the most simply because they are so huge. They collect over $10,000,000 per month in amenity fees alone. The smaller communities can’t compete, but they are also quite nice. Their amenity fees run higher, about double each month, give or take. It just depends on what you’re looking for. If you’re not a golfer or a joiner, another community may suit you better. Also, the homes in other communities tend to be a bit more attractive and a tad less expensive. You can also put your dog in the basket, but it needs a pad of some sort. I see people do that all the time. My large dog would need his own seat. I have small dogs now, but next one will likely be a standard poodle or Newfoundland. Back in July of 2020, you could be fined up to $500 if you didn’t wear a mask in designated areas. Unknown if this was rigidly enforced or not and if it was a Florida law or imposed by The Villages. I would bet the former. There are clinics and hospitals in The Villages as well, a new one either just opened or is currently under construction. All built by The Villages. I believe they have their own Medicare supplement or advantage plan, whatever you call it. That’s one thing to check into before you move to The Villages.

You should work for The Villages! Great demo!!!

Thank you Angela, I think we are going to look into a preview stay. I am just going to have my husband watch your video’s. They are about as informative as it gets! Again thank you and I will let you know what we decide.

Looks like you guys have been having a wonderful trip! Now don't feel guilty that we had no power for 2 days and everything just stopped! No food delivery, no internet (gasp!), and freezing temperatures! No, don't feel guilty............. Love to Bentley!

What a lovely community! Sure enjoying your tour. I love the lifestyle there. Would love to visit there sometime.

I'm enjoy 😉 the different views 😎 of the Villages during your stay. The one thing I would like to know, is what part of Michigan are you 🤔 from? I'm from the Tip of the Thumb(Caseville).

I’ve been debating to go for a while now. Thanks. Love this. Show us more!!

Hey, The first presentation was so good but I don’t see the second one you referred to on your channel.

Wow you are so sweet and your husband just as nice 👍 Thank you - you are CUTE COUPLE W CUTE PUPPY

Was at Atwood also during my lifestyle visit last week.

Thank you for your tour,I enjoy it.

Don't forget the Villages has their own VA CLINIC

Hi Angela, in one of your videos you had said that there’s a separate path for bicycle and walkers and golf carts …..can you tell me where that is please..

See Ticks everyday in NH. Best thing is a tick remover for easy effective removal.

My daughter just moved to the villages she is in a townhouse new complex pool is going to be built

You are so cute. And this video is very informative... thank you. K

I absolutely love your video. I struggle to understand the difference between renting a hotel room at the loft or I believe there was another hotel and renting the house like you did with the lifestyles preview. When you rent a house with the villages in a lifestyle preview do they have sales people similar to timeshares salesman that call you every other day wanting to know what houses you want to look at? And, can you call down there every year and request a lifestyle preview? I struggle to understand how many people are renting with what expectation they have that you were going to buy down there. My wife and I are in our 60s I am retired and she retires in April 2023. It seems as though it would be a blast to rent a house as you did just to explore for the week without a timeshare salesman type person bugging us about signing contracts for a house. Did you get bothered by any sales people? And lastly, correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you had said in the beginning of the video that you rented your place through Airbnb, is that correct.Thanks- David and what is going to be a frigid winter in western New York

Coming up (snowbird in S FL) in April for a Lifestyle Visit or as I call it - try it and buy it visit. Do I need to bring towels and a hair dryer? Looks like a nice place to stay.

Yes you can get the life style... we Have done it 2 times

Hi just wondering how did you get so cute lol keep up the good work I really enjoy you so much

I wrote a previous message before I listened to the video and you answered all my questions so I deleted it! So informative, thank you so much. Do you know if you stay at the hotel are you able to visit all the villages and still get amenities?

New people you said , please be careful Florida gated communities however nice they seem ans glorious are a trap HOA’s neighborhood boards I’m telling you from experience moved from up north those neighborhoods may seem nice but is all a trap don’t be fooled ans do extensive research you’ll realize sooner than later you’ll want to move out and can’t. You can’t do anything to your Home, people will complain about the smallest things, when you have company they’ll know too, they’ll know your every move, even the stuff you buy from your garbage, please please please make sure you dint fall for a trap no matter what people say or no matter how nice and vacations it looks. Assessments will eat you out unable to move everything will complicate. Please be careful I’m talking from experience.Everyone loves everything when it’s new I’ve been thru it I sold and bought into one and I can’t tell you how many time as day I want to move out you can’t garden and all types of restrictions you think your ok with but eventually start popping up later once they know your in. Please be careful if your comming from another state I rented before buying them made the most biggest mistake to buy into something I thought was so glorious. I’m not Debbie downing just please telling you to be careful I try to warn people because I know eventually it will happend it’s just a matter of time. Proceed with caution is all I’m saying and think very hard before you take that step. Florida has a rep to stage things to be glorious.

You are such a good dog Mom. I love how you try to take Bentley everywhere ❤

You are a great tour guide 57:34 Marie

Love this ❤️

And thank your husband for being the driver today

Brownwood is a town square not a village :) and our little maltipoo is named Bentley as well 🙂 and our golf car goes up to 27 mph Lol