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Originally Posted by ureout
Gracie, Sorry I have to disagree with you. I think we are more than capable of taking care of ourselves. With the talent we have here and the people who really love to stay involved we can make it wok.....a great example is that we do it now on the north side of 466 we took that huge settlement we won from THE OWNERS (by the way which was won by retired lawyers who live here against a huge law firm in S Fla.) and have put it to good use.....I don't see any frivolous spending on what each and every person wants. I think we should ALL have a say in what happens. I for one do not like to be dictated to.
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In our younger days we lived in a golf course community, it was a public course and we enjoyed it but it was put up for sale and we didn't want to see it become a bunch of homes so....a hundred or so homeowners bought the course. These were folks who we played golf with for years and thought a couple of thousand dollars each, we are in. What a disaster. We soon learned that common sense is a rarity. Meetings were dominated by know it alls and funds were argued about. Some women wanted to enlarge the ladies locker room and hire a masseuse, some guys wanted to get a loan and redesign the whole course with a golf course architect. There were those who wanted to use private carts on the course and those who didn't. There are those who wanted to turn the hamburger beer concession into fine dining.
WE all finally got out of it and sold it to someone who did build houses on it and we all lost about a thousand bucks each but learned tons about a group of homeowners coming to agreement on what money should be spent on.
And the suit of which you speak..profited those attorneys about four million bucks personally, if I remember correctly and the now president of the POA fifty grand, not that was the reason for the suit. No one can say quite clearly what the reason for the suit was because they aren't allowed to talk about it if they were involved. But we do hear a LOT of opinions. Some must be true, but who knows??? Since I have lived here, the last six years the south side of 466 is maintained perfectly.
Here is a link to that suit from the Orlando Sentinel from March 2006 when it happened.
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...es-fees-lawyer