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Originally Posted by Boomer
Oh fer goodness sake, has this thread ever jumped the track.
I don't look for a whole day and a half and now I see that what was intended to make more people aware of the existence and importance of the POA has now turned into a back and forth about a paper in the driveway.
I hope this diversionary stuff can settle down a little before the whole thread runs amok.
Please, can we get back to the POA as an organization that watches out for us.
(Yes. I know -- all too well (from reading TOTV since almost the beginning) -- that there are those among us who do not want new readers to even know about the POA. Heaven forbid! Cover it up! The Enemy! The Enemy! How dare the developer ever be questioned!!!! Shut them up! Shut them out!)
Some of this comes from those who have been here for a long time, are nicely settled in, cozy and ensconced, and feeling all will be well for the remainder of their time here. That is a very nice feeling to have and I certainly do not begrudge anyone that delightful comfort zone.
But what I don't get is why some need to bash the POA and to begrudge new and future residents any awareness of its existence. Why the "Us vs. Them" mentality? Why must some see the POA as a rivalry? A threat? I don't get it.
(In Post #13 in this thread, I regaled any readers with the tale of our new roof. We were surprised and impressed to get that letter saying we were on the list for a replacement roof. I called the POA and thanked them for their good work WITH the developer in getting that shingles problem taken care of. (I would have quoted myself here, my post #13, but that would have been gauche. But you can read it there if you want to. I did not say one single bad thing about the developer. But, c'mon, all us people who got those new roofs a few years ago could never have done that by ourselves.)
One of the things I have appreciated the POA doing has to do with sinkholes. I am not up-to-date on that issue right now so I don't know if it is on the back burner or what. But you can type a topic into the search box on poa4us.org and find some archived info.
There have not been a lot of sinkholes, but when a sinkhole happens, it is devastating to the homeowner. Even though catastrophic coverage has been there, the investment in the home is never the same.
(In my sweet, little fair mind, I always thought there could maybe be some form of self insurance through TV. If the home were to be taken by a sinkhole, the cost would be reimbursed, the lot filled in, the homeowner could just move on. If the risk of sinkholes is not that big and if most people bought into the private insurance, it seems like TV would make a lot of money and the homeowner would be well-protected. But, like I have said before -- I have no idea what I am talking about -- just a thought. And, no, I am not working on that. I just think too much.  Besides, surely somebody has looked into that possibility. It sure sounds like a win-win to me. There must be some reason it can't be done. )
Anyway, if you are still reading this dissertation and if I have any credibility at all -- who knows -- I hope you will consider my opinion which is that the POA is important to homeowners. All homeowners.
If you go to poa4us.org, scoll down, and look to the left, you can click on the bulletin and all the archived ones, too. Free information. Right there. (And, oh yes, there you will find the aforementioned "Bulletin No Throw Form" too. How convenient is that.)
Boomer |
Great post Boomer, and you have tons of credibility with me...which may not make you feel warm and fuzzy, as so many think I am a bit crazy, but your post is a good one, valid and based on facts.
We appear, over the last years, to have welcomed in our midst (on this forum) a number of folks that can only be called "elitists". Also, those folks tend to "preach" and if they have an listening skills, they have long ago been tread on. Even when these type say they "understand", they are peering at many from their perch and frankly often say things like...."we all agree", when we do not at all. They refer to "us" as if we joined their "club" which we did not.
Everyone in The Villages does
NOT agree with the many things said on here. Not wanting to be preached to or spend time arguing, OR having the "gang" come and get you just are silent.
Bullying by individual or by group seems to be the 'in thing" now days.......makes things difficult to have any discussion on.
Thanks for a reasonable and well thought out post.
I have been here for NINETEEN years and have always seen both sides, and anyone who arbitrarily says one is right and one is wrong....well, they are not interested in anything but a "win" in that discussion....that is it. The fact that some on here posted that they didn't thing they could even mention the name of the POA tells you a lot about the mood