[graciegirl]

It would be interesting to know among the posters just who are property owners.

It does make a big difference. If many of us have saved and planned and sacrificed and bought a home here, in many cases it is the biggest investment we have and will ever make and that fact alone makes a BIG difference in our opinions.

I think that property owners feel differently than people who WANT to live here, visit here for the season by renting and not owning and those living outside the gates.

If you live here, day after day and year around, you find that this place works, is more than just maintained, facilities are painted regularly, things are repaired without hue and cry, the Village watch makes their rounds through the villages at three in the morning. The flowers are changed in public areas each time their season changes and lovely color and trimmed bushes are the norm wherever your eye falls. If you own here the good businessman behind the curtain is protecting your personal ownership and may not ask you first but generally comes through with decisions that make this the nicest place to live I have ever experienced or even visited.

I have seen the Morse organization make a couple of lulu mistakes in my view in the six years I have been here, but for the most part I think they deserve the respect that I feel towards them.

A good amount of criticism of the Morses in my opinion is based on not what they do but the fact of their being very financially successful doing it and the contributions that they make to certain organizations.

I could be wrong and frequently am. Let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.