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Originally Posted by oldtimes
 If I knew this when we bought here I would have bought elsewhere |
We "probably" would have too, but, thinking rationally, not emotionally, there was no way to know how popular the resort aspect, (all inclusive golf, plus all the lessons, classes, activities open to anyone as long as they are registered renters) would become, here, and any other places we considered. We have relatives who chose a 55 plus life style community in Arkansas, and relatives who also chose a senior life style and golf community in Tennessee. BOTH are now experiencing a number of very unpleasant experiences since one of the communities does have a list of restrictions on owners renting out: renters must also be 55 or older, no rental periods of less than a month, must PURCHASE a separate "gate pass" no matter how short the visit, but, NONE of these are enforced, in fact, the local police do NOT enforce community restrictions and rules, and the community HOA administration never made ANY plan for enforcement of these "restrictions" and employ NO "enforcers"... so as they told us, "it was all smoke and mirrors". They other relative in a Tennessee senior golf community turned out to have no actual restrictions, the administration tells them at the time the development began, they had no idea that sometime in the future there would be Verbo, or AB&B, and other such businesses. So, though we agree, we don't beat ourselves up over our "mistake", it's happening all over, and all over Florida too ! We had friends who moved to Margarittaville near Daytona. Loved it, now they tell us it's just like here, more a resort than the senior, age restricted planned community it represented itself to be. So same there, nightly rentals, weekly rentals ... they don't like it all !