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Old 07-27-2012, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by 2BNTV View Post
There is a price to be paid to live in paradise which I will gladly pay when I get there.

I believe dhill parents objected to the word free golf in their advertising when there may be a trail fee which they felt was false advertising.

Everyone knows there is no free ride in life. Nothing is hidden and the Morse's deserve every penny for building a paradise.

Just sayin.......
You're so right 2BNTV! If you've never heard of TV and see the commercial on TV, "Free golf the rest of your life" sure gets you curious enough to check into it more. So I see it as a marketing tool. We visited before the commercials aired. We thought at first each village was truly gated, found out they actually aren't. As we got more and more educated about all the costs and understanding what a CDD is and learned the restrictive covenants, we still loved it.

To be angry at TV about the "free golf" is being trivial, which is best defined by a great Eugene O'Neill quote:

“When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.”
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