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Originally Posted by EPutnam1863
The total judgment is $215,500 for the plaintiffs with which the defendants do not agree, so they are consulting with their attorneys to see if it would be worthwhile appealing. I doubt very much the judgment includes attorney's fees and other court costs. Appealing would cost them much more in the long run, so they may be better off to just cough up the money and be done with it. Yet on the other hand, that would be admitting they did wrong in the first place.
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EPutnam: the majority as reflected on this site seem to be enamored with the developer and anything"even remotely connected to "the villages". Why? A developer by any other name is a corporation that is going to get as much from you as the traffic will bear and at the least possible costs. In this case the residents pay all the bills to put this place on the map and they paid dearly.
I am not an attorney but for many years,on any given day I oversaw hundreds of lawsuits across the country.
I explained on these pages early on that LLC was in violation of federal laws and they would have been wise to strike an immediate compromise.
Some posters are dismissive of the award to the plaintiffs but the facts are that they won this lawsuit.
What concerns me is that The Villages (Developers) lawyers have been very cavalier with
our money and the costs of defense for this case must be staggering.
It then begs the question exactly how should the amenity fees be defined and thus applied?
One poster claimed the definition was to cover comfort, convenience and passion? My rebuttal was then a resident could claim convenience, comfort and passion for a call girl and the amenities fees would cover it.
On a serious note lawsuits keep popping up here and they are a result of the (The Villages Lake-Sumter, Inc, (TVLSI) ( the Developer's) decisions but the TVLSI shifts the burden on residents.
There is not one organization here that has the guts and the know how to face up to this entity.
I just hope that if the district does continue LLC it does so in such a manner that residents are not caught up applying amenities fees to them in any way and that the legalities of this operation are separated and independent of residents being financially obligated.