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Originally Posted by jane032657
I am curious why you were told not purchase by the water or a preserve? I bought on a preserve by Sumter Lake as well as by Live Oaks Park, so I see both and am so happy with our lot. The magnificent variety of birds, views, sounds of the crickets and bullfrogs, the water view to me is fabulous and it must be to all the other people as the view lots on the preserve sell before anyone can get to them to look. They can't spray any more than anywhere else it seems to me because there is not shortage of bugs....Curious what you were told, thanks!
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Your location sounds perfectly lovely.
Many told me not to buy near water or ponds or preserves.
They didn't go "into detail" as I figure it's an unspoken knowledge.
I figured it was critters of assorted variety.
Even in Vermont there are swamps and wetlands as they now call them.
People just know not to build a home or buy a home in such a location.
We've known people in town, two lawyers raising their children for years in a certain home, finally "had it" and moved.....due to unwanted visitations for which they had to set out traps. Later heard that the entire street had "issues".
In our own property, approximately 4 to 5 years ago, we had a huge army of groundhogs invade us.......our little grandson (at the time) explained to me how they all lived under the hill where the shrubs were in "rooms" and "tunnels" and such.........we had bulldozers and cats to excavate and yank out all the old shrubs.........had the entire back re landscaped.......destroyed all the tunnels...........took out the patio and put on a large deck and later a screened in porch over the deck.......haven't seen a single groundhog (which are large rodents) since...........but that have a heart trap got a lot of mileage as hubby would take them away each evening.........some very ornery ones.
I think because he was "feeding them" apples with peanut butter, etc. he got the entire neighborhood to come on down and have a feast........can't believe all of them were living under our hill..........it was a huge army.
AT the time we had crawling grandbabies who would visit and I was concerned that one would come out of the shrubs.........they were brazen. The groundhogs, not the babies.....