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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
"May not be perfect" is a gross understatement. There's a HUGE GAPING FLAW that makes it a broken system, not merely "not perfect."
If you buy a home that was already out of compliance, and didn't know that, and there's nothing from any inspectors saying it was out of compliance (because they don't include compliance issues in their reports), and the sales agent never mentioned it, and you are new to The Villages and don't know about the online deed restrictions availability....
you could live in that house for 10 years, with no problem. And then out of the blue you get a knock on your door from Community Standards, saying your driveway is out of compliance, or your landscaping is out of compliance, or the color of your house is out of compliance. And YOU have to bear the cost and burden of changing it.
Even though it was like that when you bought it, and you lived in the house for 10 years without any complaints at all.
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The majority of home purchases are presumably through sales agents working for the developer. It can't be too hard for the buyer to insist that the purchase contract includes the condition that everything is in compliance and if it is subsequently found not to be then The Villages Realty is responsible for putting things right. If they refuse to include that condition then that is a red flag.
Let us not forget that the vast majority of the 60,000+ homes in The Villages are in compliance and it is only the few that aren't that we hear about.