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Old 08-18-2013, 01:15 AM
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Originally Posted by njbchbum View Post
thank you, good doctor. they are indeed golf cart paths - but not what i consider a golf cart trail.

and as far as sneaking into a meeting or to ride on the multi-modal path or take a swim in a pool or use the hot tub or play a couple of after hour holes of golf.....sheesh!

i get where all of the whiners are coming from...but ya know what gets to me - the fact that at our age some cannot shed the cloak of entitlement and share the blanket of generosity.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion on this matter. Personally, I don't believe that people that don't want outsiders coming in and using facilities that we pay for are feeling unnecessarily entitled, not are they ungenerous. If I owned a golf course and found that there were people playing on it without paying, I would certainly take action to try to stop it.

But that is my opinion and you have yours and that's fine.

But the bigger picture here is that if this has been going on, and I've seen evidence that leads me to believe it is, the developer has been allowing a competitor to sell houses based on the fact that those homeowners will have access to the Villages and many of it's amenities by golf cart. Why would any business person allow his competitor to have such an advantage at his expense?

Also, no one said anything about residents ushering people out of our facilities when they find intruders. What was suggested is that one call Community Watch and allow them to do their job.

I've know of a person that lives here full time, is a homeowner and is under age thirty who was told to leave a neighborhood pool. If that person can't be in the pool, why should people that are not residents or guests be able to swim there. Why can't we be more generous to those under the age of thirty?
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