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Originally Posted by Jokomo
And it looks like the agreement will include a new, and escalating, reservation fee for most tee times.
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If I recall correctly, free executive golf for life used to be totally free (not counting the monthly amenity fee) if you played using your cart. Since Executive golf was covered by each homeowners amenity fee, it was treated as such, just like using any other Villages amenity, such as a pool, pickle ball court, or walking trail. Then one day, a trail fee of $1 was introduced, which over time escalated to $4. Now it appears an escalating fee increase will be applied based on an inflation index, similar to our amenity fees. Since there is no fee to residents to reserve an executive t time, I am assuming the fee will be applied to the trail fee?
So now a very dangerous precedent appears to have been set. A user fee, with an escalation clause, has been applied to a previously free and very popular resident amenity. What’s next, will there be a user fee applied to residents every time they swim in a pool, use a pickle ball court, or bike/walk on a recreation trail? Perhaps a gps mileage monitor on our golf carts to charge us for using the multi modal paths? The trail fee really clouds the picture on what exactly our amenity fees actually cover. Stay tuned.