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Old 02-18-2024, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by JeanBean View Post
To the person(s) that called community watch:

Next time, consider using common sense. Do you think a homeowner in the Villages would choose to place an overstuffed piece of furniture on their lawn for decoration? Before you pick up the phone to complain, please ask yourself if it may be out there for trash collection on the next day. Thank you!
Putting stuff out the day before, especially stuff that might have some value but isn't worth either selling outright or hauling to Goodwill, is a pretty common practice: there are folks who drive around TV looking for just such things. Sort of a cottage industry: I've seen the same truck cruising our Villages (assumedly) looking for such stuff several times. Discarded chairs are common. I've left everything from a used flat-screen TV to used Lanai furniture to a really ugly planter that was here when we bought the house. Not a bad deal: we help the locals and don't impose on the contracted trash collectors.