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Originally Posted by Byte1
Interesting how one district has little if any restrictions and others have a long list of restrictions. Personally, at my age I enjoy homes that are personalized and not cookie cutter, military style homes. I may not care for some of my neighbor's preferences, but I really don't think it is any of my business as to what makes them happy, as long as it does not offend me. I have not seen any trucks or old cars on blocks or toilet flower planters, but even those might look OK if done right. Point is that I believe in live and let live at this juncture of my life. I've seen everything here in the Villages, including landscape edging consisting of beer bottles and a cast iron pig. Just stay off of my lawn, especially with your dog that wishes to use my lawn as a toilet instead of yours. Pick up your trash that might blow on my property and we will all be fine.
If you have a complaint about my landscaping, please feel free to complain to my face. I am not going to get violent with anyone that does not like my style. If I feel that your complaint is valid I'm willing to make modifications. Personally, I don't give a rat's @&& if others do not like my style. And I do not care what my neighbors do with their home as long as what they do does not purposely bother me. As far as I am concerned, deed restrictions are there as a tool to keep folks from going to the extreme. And yes, if I don't like it here, I will move. Or, if you don't like my home then you can move.
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Originally Posted by Jayhawk
And this attitude is the very reason there are deed restrictions. There are none among us unless maybe on the far north side, who did not sign off on their district deed restrictions. Just because you "don't give a rat's ass" doesn't mean others don't. And disagreements should ALWAYS be settled in favor of the folks who follow the agreed-upon standards.
It's not just YOUR business, it is everyone's business in the district.
And by the way, keeping dogs off your lawn is not a right you have by deed restriction. But you want to impose your will apparently. You sound like the last guy I'd want to complain to face-to-face based on your comments.
Have a nice day.
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So we have Byte, who offers an opinion about deed restrictions. And then we have Jayhawk, who offers an opinion about Byte.
Personally - I'd rather live next door to Byte. He seems to understand the concept of civil discourse. I'll keep the dog off his lawn partly because that's what he prefers, and partly because trespassing is against the law.
I live in the Historic Section. We have deed restrictions. They're not as strict as most of the other deed restrictions in the community. The only one that I wish we had, that we don't have, is in regards to storage trailers being left in the driveways. I also wish the county had - and enforced - distance regulations about parking near a corner or more than a foot away from the curb. The landscapers will park right AT the corner. If you're trying to take a left, and the entire right side of your view is blocked by a landscapers' truck and trailer, you have to just pray and hope no one's coming.
But that wouldn't be a deed restriction issue, it's a city/county traffic/parking regulation.