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Originally Posted by Whitley
Really? Seriously? you moved to the Villages because they have deed restrictions. OK. I do understand it playing a part. In NY we had one man angry at the local government architectural review board.He wanted double pane storm windows with the woodenseperators snapped on so it looked like multiple panes. The ARB would only accept actual individual panes held in by the pins, putty and wood. He found something that was not addressed in the docs. You had to have your home either natural cedar, stone, or painted using colors in existence in 1903 (year the town was founded). It did not say you needed to pick one color. He painted each cedar shake a different color (total of 9 colors so it was an assortment of 9 repeating colors. Deed restrictions may have been good.
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Yes, me too. I like the deed restrictions. They help, to a certain extent, for you to know what to expect of the community. Cut grass, trimmed bushes, no psychedelic colored houses etc.
But… no one told me about them either. I was given the specific deed restrictions AFTER I signed the documents, in fact, after closing. It did not bother me only because my parents already told me what it was like to be told what you need to do in TV.
When one says, no one tells me what to do with my property, really, what about property taxes? Right away someone is telling you what to do. Personal freedom only goes so far. However, I can understand the surprise of someone who has never lived in a deed restricted place to suddenly, without warning, be facing it. I recommend one try it for a while. They might get to like it.