Nocatee: 14th best selling master planned community in the country

[thelakelander]

Nocatee was the 14th best-selling master-planned community in the country last year, according to a new national study.

John Burns Real Estate Consulting looked at 136 MPCs around the country and ranked the top 50. Nocatee, made up of seven communities in St. Johns County, had 313 sales in 2011.

The Villages, an adult community south of Ocala, topped the list with 2,307 sales last year.

Full list: http://jacksonville.com/business/2012-02-01/story/nocatee-national-list-best-selling-communities

[north miami]

seven communities.

trivia question: future total is.....Does total future build out come under " Seven",was total build out revealed at initial FLUM change request?

who here even knows what FLUM means??

[thelakelander]

FLUM = Future Land Use Map.

[buckethead]

Nocatee is my back yard. 100% auto-centric development.

They have dog parks.

You drive to them.

You even are forced to pay the property mgmt to have landscaping done in most communities as opposed to doing it yourself.

I've been in an HOA for 12 years and I wish I had purchased in the land of the free. Nocatee is the land of HOAs on steroids.

I realize some folks like them.

[Dapperdan]

There are definitely pros and cons to HOA's. Typically, if you live ina  HOA neighborhood, it is a cookie cutter neighborhood that has little to no character. That being said, if the HOA does its job, your property should maintane its value better than other properties. This is accomplished by,a s you said, uniform landscape maintenance, the inability of you to paint your house bright pink, or put up a  car on blocks in the yard. SOmetimes, they offer security, amenities, etc. Cons are that some HOA's get power hungery and nitpick at everything. Lein's can be placed on your house for failure to pay the ever rising HOA fees. Defintiely points to consider on either side.

[copperfiend]

There are definitely pros and cons to HOA's. Typically, if you live ina  HOA neighborhood, it is a cookie cutter neighborhood that has little to no character. That being said, if the HOA does its job, your property should maintane its value better than other properties. This is accomplished by,a s you said, uniform landscape maintenance, the inability of you to paint your house bright pink, or put up a  car on blocks in the yard. SOmetimes, they offer security, amenities, etc. Cons are that some HOA's get power hungery and nitpick at everything. Lein's can be placed on your house for failure to pay the ever rising HOA fees. Defintiely points to consider on either side.

I got a notice on my door from my HOA two weeks after Christmas that said I needed to remove all decorations.

The only thing up was a red ribbon above the garage that I had forgotten to take down.

[John P]

Does anyone know what their advertsising budget is? It would be interesting to see how much money they spend getting people to move there per person. Divide budget by number of homes sold.

[Dashing Dan]

If there are good public schools and the prices are reasonable, then houses will sell, even in this economy. 

It would probably help if the development was not so auto-dependent, but I believe that the driver for St. Johns County real estate right now is their public school system.

[duvaldude08]

There are definitely pros and cons to HOA's. Typically, if you live ina  HOA neighborhood, it is a cookie cutter neighborhood that has little to no character. That being said, if the HOA does its job, your property should maintane its value better than other properties. This is accomplished by,a s you said, uniform landscape maintenance, the inability of you to paint your house bright pink, or put up a  car on blocks in the yard. SOmetimes, they offer security, amenities, etc. Cons are that some HOA's get power hungery and nitpick at everything. Lein's can be placed on your house for failure to pay the ever rising HOA fees. Defintiely points to consider on either side.

I got a notice on my door from my HOA two weeks after Christmas that said I needed to remove all decorations.

The only thing up was a red ribbon above the garage that I had forgotten to take down.

Im closing on my first home and we have a HOA. I went online and printed out their bible already. I'm really not one to do anything to the outside of my home, so I'm not TOO worried. The most I will be adding is more landscaping and a fence in the backyard so I looked up their guidelines regarding that. One benefit of HOA's that I like is that the neighborhood will not get run down. When looking for homes, I seen several extremely beautiful homes in very spotty and run down neighborhoods and that was a complete turn off for me. I like the fact that there a standard that must be maintained. However, the down side is, as you experienced Cooperfield, the HOA is worse than JSO. You may sometimes feel like a prisoner in your own home. LOL

[copperfiend]

I like the idea of the HOA. And I appreciate driving through my neighborhood and not seeing boats or RV's parked in driveways but that can be pretty annoying with the pettiness. God forbid you rinse out your trash cans and leave them outside to dry on a non-trash day.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

I like the idea of the HOA. And I appreciate driving through my neighborhood and not seeing boats or RV's parked in driveways but that can be pretty annoying with the pettiness. God forbid you rinse out your trash cans and leave them outside to dry on a non-trash day.

A contractor that I used to work for wasn't allowed to park his $75,000 Range Rover in the driveway because he had his business logo and phone number on the doors.  Hell, he built most of the homes in his neighborhood and still got pwned by the HOA.  This was somewhere off of Pablo Rd. near Mayo.

[duvaldude08]

I like the idea of the HOA. And I appreciate driving through my neighborhood and not seeing boats or RV's parked in driveways but that can be pretty annoying with the pettiness. God forbid you rinse out your trash cans and leave them outside to dry on a non-trash day.

A contractor that I used to work for wasn't allowed to park his $75,000 Range Rover in the driveway because he had his business logo and phone number on the doors.  Hell, he built most of the homes in his neighborhood and still got pwned by the HOA.  This was somewhere off of Pablo Rd. near Mayo.

Alot of HOA are sticklers about that. My mom's contractor that does most of her house work says he takes his business sign off of his truck when he goes in neighborhood's with HOA's because of that. He will only be do interior painting for me so thats not an issue, but he says he's going to take it off anyway.

Cooperfield, my garage will be where I do things in secret.  I would they would up the HOA would not be all up in my house like that.

[copperfiend]

One more HOA story. My HOA got the JSO to include a statement in our newsletter that it is illegal to park in the street because you're "obstructing traffic". The neighborhood has one entrance and is endless cul-de-sacs. So you can imagine the traffic problems.

[Jason]

Things must be hopping in Texas, they have developments all over that list!

[John P]

Oil money hasnt stopped