Cherokee Village / Parlago Lakes (Conway, Hot Springs: real estate, health insurance, gated)

[Timtheman]

Fellow Users,

This whole thread has been excellent. It would be a shame to see it fall away. There's so much on these posts to talk about. Someone please pick up the ball!!!!

[gigu59108]

Hi all,

I have no clue as what Parlago is doing. What I do know is that Cherokee Village is a "best kept secret" type of place as Bella Vista and Hot Springs Village gets more attention and press, and many people like it that way.

It is growing slowly and more and more people are buying in Cherokee Village. They are coming for a few simple reasons.

It is less expensive than the other two forementioned. The tee times on the golf courses are whenever you want to show up. The lakes in Cv are crystal clean (cleaner than over in BV or HSV). If you have ever seen people, young and old, male and female, wading and standing in the lakes chatting, or see boats go by with people cruising, tubing, waterskiing, or fishing, it is just a postcard picture you cannot imagine, and without the crowds of BV and HSV.

Quality, direct lakefront lots and homes and quality, direct golf course frontage lots and homes are getting more expensive everywhere in the southern United States, and as such, prices for those in Cherokee Village will steadily and slowly climb over time as well, but will still be less expensive than BV or HSV, or for that matter, lake and golf in North Carolina, north Georgia, Tennessee, or other popular areas that are in the south.

My cousin bought a lakefront lot in Tennessee not really near any town to speak of, the lot is fair and a good 100 feet of lakefront and paid close to $300,000! No house, just the lot! His neighbor bought a lot, again, no house, just a lot, in a new development not built yet in North Carolina, and his lot is up in the mountains with beautiful views and over an acre, but not on any water or golf course. They just advertise mountain homesites with a future clubhouse, and hiking trails and such, and he paid over $145,000! You have got to be kidding me.

You can get more for your money in Cherokee Village and Cherokee Village is a real town with real people already there, not something in the future that you hope gets built soon and the developer doesn't go belly up first!

Remember, buying lots like that in those new developments that have not been built yet is a speculation, not really an investment. Buying good, quality lake or golf front in Cv is an investment, not a speculation. There is a big difference between an investment and a speculation, and I'm not willing to speculate with my hard earned money.

George

[Timtheman]

Thanks Gigu,

You are on the money all the way. It is a "best kept secret." The main issue with CV has been hit on in some of the other posts -- namely, economics in the area need a hand. It is hard for non-retirees to make a decent living. However, the area is sweet as can be. As you say, for sheer beauty, features, and value, it is beyond belief. What it needs are folks committed to the orginal vision of the place Cooper had in mind, which was mixed in income and united about community. Maybe some other posters can speak to the "founding father" of the place and what he had in mind.

[easyasabc]

To gigu59108,

Very good post, and it also relates to another thread I just read entitled "Moving to Hot Springs".

You are so right on Hot Springs Village and the lakes over there. The rebuttal from a few on that thread seems to be nothing more than a local realtor in HSV trying to make sales. Every time I read his posts, I picture him behind his desk and glossy brochures selling somebody from Illinois or Wisconsin on the virtues of overcrowded lakes and the "village people".

Our lakes may be smaller, but they are clean and perfect.

Very funny. Cherokee Village is the best kept secret. No doubt in my mind.

Signed,

gs
(easyasabc)

[Royearl]

I am a 6 year resident of Cherokee Village. I agree that it is still the best kept secret for retirement folks from across the country and people just wanting to move to a place thats a quiet, beautiful, and friendly.
What seperates it from HSV and Bella Vista is its under development. John Cooper designed all three communities, but HSV and BV grew faster, I believe due to their location and more amenities. I hope in time we grow to the point that we too have more amenities, but not to the point of the overcrowding that BV has. We are lucky that we are off a main hwy, and do not have one running through it as in BV. As for the gated community of HSV, that speaks for itself. It does not even sound like Arkansas. It does sound more like the snobby, controlled, and unfriendly enviorments most move away from to come here. We in Cherokee Village welcome all people from all walks of life. We don't lock anyone out. It is affordable for all. All who do come here need to realise that this was designed as a retirement community, and that they need to respect the clean, tranquil, beauty of the area, and the laws we have in force to keep it that way. We are not there yet. We need more code enforcement to keep the area as it was designed. We need a hospital in the quad city area. We are in need of a county-wide animal control facility. We have just developed a five county economic development commitee in hopes to bring better paying jobs to the area. I believe these things will come in time.
As for the so called big developers, they need to out themselves as to who they really are. I believe our residents would be suprised if they knew who they were. The city should also make them help in building infrastructure to support their visions, with the profits they are making. Come check us out here in Cherokee Village, and you will agree this is a best kept secret.

[loonyrich]

Hey Royearl, how are the medical facilities there? What is the ambulance response time? How far to doctors? How far to hospital? We are looking at the area hard and that seems to be one area that we have not seen much talked about. Found one blog that talked about CV losing its hospital-- whats up with that? We hope to come spend some time in the area this summer.

[loonyrich]

Well I answered my questions by finding another thread and reading it thru. Thanks to all.

[chickadee_red]

Cherokee Village sounds great to me. My hubby and I are in our mid to late 50s. My problem is I want to move out of California to someplace more laid back and work in to retirement. Sounds like Cherokee Village doesn't have any job opportunities. My hubby starts drawing his military retirement in a couple of years.. but I still need to work.. secretarial/clerical type work. I've put up living in bay area (near San Francisco) these last 20 plus years as jobs are plentiful. But long for rural setting.. like I grew up in just south of Oregon border. Even that area of California has changed. Is it the times that we live in, or is it area related? Are there any communities out there that neighbors still know each other and actually stay put long enough to become friends? We are definitley not the pretentious 3 piece suit type of people.. or property rich Californians. We met a couple from AR while site seeing at the Grand Canyon last year... After chatting with them, I thought... THOSE are MY kind of PEOPLE!

[kennykingquiz]

I just saw the new Parlago website. They are still around, but not sure what they are doing. If you look at the new site, it violates one of the crucial rules of good website design and marketing. It is full of dead links and the laughable "site under construction" wording.

Those who designed the site or the Parlago marketing team are without some marketing genius if this is how they start. What's next, half built homes?

Whatever happens with Parlago and Ed Washed up McMahon aka Erick Chips Estrada is anybody's guess, but it will make the golf and lake money people even more money. Cherokee Village will have two classes of people. The money class on the golf and on the water, and everyone else.

Parlago will just help to add to the value of the golf and lake people, even though Parlago doesn't have any golf or lake lots if I heard right. They just have the regular in the woods lots like I and the other have-nots have. Maybe the people who buy the Parlago houses will be the in betweens, the new, 3rd class, I'll call the in between class.

I guess I should have bought one of them good golf or lake money lots 5 years ago when they were cheap, oh well? Then I could be one of them, the golf and lake money people.

Kenny

[Royearl]

Hey Kenny, you don't sound like one of those folks anyhow. More like one of the village commoners, such as myself. I do believe they own plenty though. The problem is nobody seems to actually know who they are. Its probably because they are in bed with Daggett, King Ron Real Estate, and SID. This small group of the "good-old boy" buddy system are the ones that are going to see the big money. Two years ago there was a group came in and bought plenty of Omaha area lots and some entire roads of lots, several hundred, plus 20+ homes. They are also the ones behind most of the new building, but I think they are so hidden behind different names, they may actually be Parlago. Who is to say. My main concern in the village, just being in an average neighborhood, is that we need more code enforcement to keep the older homes in good repair and the neighborhoods clean and free of loose aminals. The average folks need to make sure they don't get walked over by these folks any longer.