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Originally Posted by John_W

Gates and driveways. If you own two cars, you may NOT want to live in a CYV, however you will have no problem taking out your car or golf cart because of the driveway. We don't have two cars and I don't know of any of my neighbors on our street of 13 villas that have two cars. One car and one golf cart is all that most people will need. Remember, you're downsizing when you move here, you no longer work. The outside world is for entertainment. Whether it's golf, the gym, pickleball, the pool, movies, or some club or rec center activity. We love our location, it's 3-1/2 miles to LSL and 3-1/2 miles to Brownwood. Pick your location before choosing the house.

The gate, in the photo the driveway to the right is my neighbors. I walk around the edge of my landscaping and there is my gate. I may use that gate once a month to go into the backyard. Most times you just access the backyard from the house through one of our three sliding doors. The gate on the left side of the photo is my neighbor's gate to his backyard. He walks around and up that little sidewalk and he's into his yard. No big deal for most people.

Here is a front yard that has no grass, cannot do that in a single family home. The white River Rock along the street was where the grass use to be. We had removed, less maintenance and easier to keep neat. This is a Durham model, 2 BR 2 BA CYV. The house was originally a pale yellow, like the one on the right. We gained permission three years ago to be able to repaint in one of 20 different colors. I chose the most different, that was the green. The other choices mostly consisted of gray or 18 shades of brown. As I mentioned with the inside, I don't care for brown, that's why I used blue on the inside, and one color throughout to make it seem larger. This photo is six months old after we just had the front landscaping refreshed.



Here is a more recent photo since our landscaping has really taken off recently. The landscaping was done by Terrascape on Hwy 301.

Very nice John, I wish we could paint our houses different colors in my villa’s.