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Originally Posted by Road-Runner
I've seen 'pool crashers' become a severe problem over time at one of our previous communities. It started slowly, but as others heard about the lack of security many more began using the pool, the tennis courts, etc. until the community funded cameras and a security guard to randomly check for IDs. Either the amenities are for the sole use of the residents who pay for them or they aren't. I vote for non-Villagers to go elsewhere.
Has The Villages considered using the same Gate Cards to enter pool areas and pickleball / tennis courts? It would be a significant cost initially as well as ongoing maintenance, but likely cheaper than hiring several full-time personnel. I've seen this done at apartment complexes.
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Problem with this idea: people who live alone, get more gate cards than they need. In addition, you can read right here on this forum of people who find it easy and inexpensive to bypass the need for those cards, with stick-on thingies they can get on Amazon, or from any of a half dozen people in the community. You stick it on a laminated card that has no significance to you at all, and use it to get in and out of anything requiring that gate code.
Because - it's so readily advertised here, boasted about how EASY it is to do, and how it's not a big deal since those gates are for traffic control and not security, those gate cards don't provide any security at all.
They could have, once upon a time. But not anymore, because those few folks who worry about raindrop stains on their fine leather upholstery just refuse to open their windows to press a red button or pass a card across a card reader. The same mentality as those who would never pull a weed out of their own garden because they wouldn't want to break a fingernail.
You wouldn't need full time personnel. You'd need part-timers.