Dick Betts REALTOR® The Villages, Florida

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Here we are a few days before Christmas and I got to thinking about how The Villages, Florida has changed retirement.  This holiday season there is so much you could be doing here and living your life to the fullest.  Three Christmas Tree Lighting, Golf Cart Parades, Santacon bar crawls, Holiday ...
12/22/2023
Recently I had a situation where I was working with a seller that was bringing his home to market and had a buyer interested in buying the home.  We got to the point of a home inspection when the inspectors expected mold.  A mold test was ordered and sure enough all five samples tested positive f...
12/21/2023
I have been following interest rates closely as it has a huge effect on housing as we all know.  Using an example of buyers with a credit score around 800, applying for a 20% down loan the highest we have seen in 2023 was 8.125%.  I just checked with Ronda, my lender I work with closely and today...
12/20/2023
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The Villages is golf cart crazy, don’t believe me just go to one of the squares in the evening.  Golf carts pull into the curb so they can line the street with more carts.  Problem what do you do here when temps fall to the 50’s and 60’s on those cold winter nights?  You put the sides down or som...
12/19/2023
The Villages Convertible Club also known as the best "topsdown" club in The Villages, was founded in 2009 by now president emeritus, Jim Judd.  The club is open to any resident of The Villages who owns a convertible.  Yes, I am writing about convertibles just before Christmas, temperature expecte...
12/18/2023
We are seeing more E-bikes running around in The Villages, Florida and wanted to learn more about them.  I don’t see one in my future I’m good with cruising around in my golf cart.  So, what about the E-bikes, looking online I see them from $500 to over $1,500 with speeds up to 28 mph with ranges...
12/17/2023
We do have a storm hitting Florida this weekend and social media is creating some humorous post.  “Florida will be closed for Pressure Washing and Blow Drying until Monday”, “When it starts to rain in Florida this weekend, please stay home!  Y’all can’t even drive in the sunshine”.Yes, we will be...
12/16/2023
Last week I wrote about the land The Villages bought which is in Sumter County that they planned to build 3,700 homes.  Recently they purchased land in Leesburg in Lake County and are presenting to the Leesburg Zoning Commission a plan to build 6,800 homes on that tract of land.Monday I was on a ...
12/15/2023
We are two of them and it is getting easier.  Our trip started being dropped off at Lake Sumter Bus Depot so Groome got us to Orlando Airport, $40 a person.  Next I use a credit card associated with American Airlines so used points and cost us $22 for the tickets to DCA in Washington DC.  Next Ub...
12/14/2023
Christmas and model trains go together as a kid many of us had model trains and at Christmas it was part of what went under the tree.  I had a Lionel Train Set and it went around the tree for years along with little houses and other items to make a village.  In my small Pennsylvania town, we had ...
12/10/2023