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Originally Posted by janetlea
Hopefully everyone survived the hurricane. I have a villa with a fence in my backyard that has 5 Village palms tress behind my fence which never get trimmed. This morning I had 48 palm fonds in my yard, on my patio roof and the walkway on the side of my house. I called Property Management this am to complain about the palm fonds that are not mine! I was told that due to the fact they are in my yard I am responsible for the clean up even though the Villages owns the palm trees, kind of understand that but I still filled an complaint and was very surprised when someone from the Villages showed up 1/2 hour later. Every storm I have to clean up these palm fonds but never this many. He was very nice but reinforced that I was responsible for the cost of the clean up but he would make a note to have an Arborist look at the palms to see if they are dying. So long story short called my landscaper who is the best, Vidal Landscaping who came today to clean up my mess. They cleaned up 48-50 fonds and then had to clean out all of my gutters due to the debris from the palms that was clogging them to the tune of $350.00. My question is does anyone have an idea how to follow up on this to maybe recroup what I paid for the clean up and to let the Villages know that the landscaper told me I probably have another 5-10 fonds that are going to come down in the next wind storm. Another clean up bill.
Thanks, Janet
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Congrats! Wecome to TV, where mgmt could care less as they already have you trapped and are collecting your $$$. NOTHING is their problem only yours it's by design. While they could clean up those palms, they won't. They lean on "Sharon Morse love them that way" and other BS. in order to have any chance with them you have to take this out of local court and find a federal law, etc to sue them for. They have local everything wired to their favor, what isn't is the next level up. That's how you hit them.
Your case will be almost impossible because (thinkng back to my HOA days) I don't know of any federal law that would enbale this type of suit, and it doesn't qualify for selective enforcement. Your only other angle would be a class action law suit and I don't think these residents have enough balls to do that.
Good luck, I'm on your side I hate the sight of thse unkept palms.