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Originally Posted by Topspinmo

Do you know the difference between residential and commercial table? Residential tables are adequate for home use where play is hardly active. Commercial tables are made for heavy use everyday Day of the year.

Compared to golf complainers, billiards players are Boy Scouts. Pool halls are fine, they just could be whole lot better for the same money spent.

there going to raise the rate and there nothing we residents can do about it.

I really have no idea the differences between a residential and a commercial table. My pool playing was limited to liberty ports during my time in the Navy and was more focused on the beer and girls that were there. I've never even been in any of the pool rooms at any of the Rec Centers I've been to in the last 5 years. My experience and interest in pool is of little relevance, what is of relevance and interest to me is that there are dissatisfied residents with the current conditions. As I've said, bring the concerns to the PWAC and AAC so they can attempt to address the issue, complaining here is a completely useless act.

With respect to the rates going up, unless the suppliers and contractors lower their rates and the employees will take a pay cut, the cost for running amenities will continue to go up and those costs will have to be covered. There is only so much behind the scenes austerity measures that can be applied before either rates have to go up or services decreased. On the plus side for the residents, the amenity rate can only go up by the CPI annually, regardless of what costs increase, this is also a down-side as the CPI has little relevance to the actual cost increases that are being seen, eventually something will have to give. Nobody is getting rich or their wallets lined on the amenity fee increase, the developer doesn't see a dime of the fees collected north of SR44, it all goes to the SLCDD and VCCDD for the SLAD and RAD funds.