I think the original intent was neighbors who had to look at others yards everyday could turn them in anonymously. It’s morphed to any one in the Villages could turn in anyone anywhere else in the Villages even if it is 10 miles away on a cul-de-sac they visited once on the day they wandered with their clipboard.
When I moved my final furnishings from up north to here the movers set a yard ornament in my front yard among some boulders. About a month later I noticed it and went to pull it out to put it in the back yard. I was stopped by my neighbors who liked looking at it every morning when they got their paper. So I left it there. Six months later I got a call from community watch saying I needed to move it, as it was handed in on a complaint along with many others in the neighborhood. Now the ornament sits in my backyard, where I can see it from the pool. Didn’t cost me a thing, but my neighbors were very disappointed.
If the complaints were limited to those in the same Village I would find the rules would make much more sense.
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