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Old 08-13-2023, 01:03 PM
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Originally Posted by villagetinker View Post
AH! That makes sense, that our entire area has separate irrigation water and potable water supplies. I appreciate the original post, as the quoted price was ridiculous.
Yes, $700 is mind boggling figure. Lived in many communities, this is absolutely THE most "dangerous", cut throat, environment we've ever lived in. Not limited to, but have noticed in our neighborhood females are especially targeted. Just had two neighbor have ice makers replaced for very similar GE refrigerators. Had different repair "services", our recently widowed neighbor paid... wait for it.... $230 MORE than the other neighbor for the same repair/replacement. Another was told $16 THOUSAND dollars for the same capacity/SEER AC/gas furnace for same model home, as the another paid $6,480 for. It's like an "open season" and it's very sad that while the usual thinking is, "buyer beware", a community should have some kind of ethically based trades people and businesses. The Villages seems especially over run with "anything goes" for even very simple services which are made to sound dangerous, or very complicated.