[Talk Host]

We have been recently informed by the Deed Compliance office that we can't use our home address to receive TOTV related mail. I guess, they feel that it implies that we are conducting business from our home. As a matter of convenience, we listed our home address for mail that we get for Talk of The Villages through our corporate name. The compliance office has told us that we can't do that and we have to move the address out of the Villages. We can't do business inside the Villages. IN our case, our server is in Canada, the business office is in Pa. and the IT office is is Tennessee. We just get our mail here. There is absolutely no vehicular traffic at our house, no meetings, no transactions, just a piece of mail now and then. 90% of our correspondence is by email.

It was indicated to us that there is a "crack down" under way.

One has to wonder how many business are actually run in the Villages and when will the Compliance Office lower the boom on people who are picking up a few extra bucks from home. I'm guessing there are thousands of people using ebay, doing taxes, selling merchandise, cutting lawns, installing carpet, house watching and so on.

We were turned in by one of our members. If a neighbor turns you in, you gotta stop conducting your business, I guess.

It kinda gives me the willies to think that we have to be careful about who knows what, for fear they will report you to the authorities. Any thoughts?

And, yes, I know it is spelled out in the deed restrictions. My only defense was that the business is conducted elsewhere and that we just get mail our here. I was told that using my home address to get my business mail is forbidden.