We opted for the blinds chosen by The Villages so that they would be installed prior to us moving in. The only vertical blinds we received were the ones in our dining room where our sliding glass doors are. All other blinds were the horizontal type blind.
Personally, I don't like vertical blinds. To answer your question, I just went over and used our blinds. While the blinds close fine, they seem to bind when opening and you have to manually play with them to get them open. This has happened the on the few times that I used them. So to answer your question, I would say yes...the vertical blinds don't operate smoothly.
In any case, we never close our dining room blinds so it's not an issue for us since we always keep the dining room blinds open. All the other horizontal blinds work fine.
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