[Fastskiguy]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

There are people in the Villages who are just like some people everywhere: Angry, aggressive, unpleasant.

There are people who are angry with their own lives, so they lash out at others who aren't actually doing anything offensive. Such as - reporting someone for a violation on their property, when the violation isn't even a valid one. Example: getting your driveway widened after you received permission from ARC and CS to do so ten years ago, exactly as planned, in the exact correct color, and it was signed off on ten years ago. But someone wants to be angry and get you in trouble so they report it. It has to be investigated, it's a pain for ARC and CS and the homeowner, but it's 100% legit, and the complaining party gets to watch the sh&tshow from a distance, safe behind his wall of anonymity.

There are people on the other side as well - people who violate the rules because they know it'll stir up a HUGE to-do. Like having a little white cross sticking up from their flowerbeds. "It's JUST a little white cross" they say. But if it was such a nothing-berder, there wouldn't be posts here, and on the villages online news rag, and neighbors commenting, and the CS having to inspect, and present the homeowner with fines, and lawyers and hearing dates and what not. The people who leave the white cross up after being told to take it down are doing so because they can, because they WANT the drama. Not because they have any particular affiliation with any religion at all that requires they put a cross in their flowerbed. There is no such religion, it doesn't exist. They're doing it to proclaim "discrimination against religions, freedom of religion, mah freedumbs!"

That's all it's about.

So we have these rules that people /should/ follow, and are only enforced when someone complains. The people who WOULD be angry and loud and obnoxious about how they have their "freedumbs" to express themselves even if it's against their own deed restrictions - are the people who should not know that you're the one who complained. They can be dangerous, unhinged, and vengeful (because they think "vengeance is mine, sayeth the lord" applies to them as well).

The people who have nothing better to do than be angry at the world and complain all the time should also not have the homeowner find out it's them. You don't know why they're angry. If the homeowner finds out and tries to confront them, they could end up with their cat poisoned in their own back yard the next week.

Let the CS and ARC do what they do. Let THEM know who's complaining. But don't "dox" these people. It's dangerous business.

Thanks for the reply. So are there cases of people being harassed with bogus complaints they have to deal with? Like as in the example above of complaining about a cross and it was just a plant?

I thought it was more stuff like "no sculptures in your landscape features" (not sure if that's even a rule) so that you couldn't put a statue of satan sodomizing a cherub or something like that in front of your house. So if you don't let anybody have the satan statue you can't let anybody have a statue of some birds either. Not sure if what I'm asking even makes sense (sorry)

Joe