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Mejahu:
Perhaps a bit more to your original question - the covenants place restrictions on the home-owner with regard to yard ornaments (in newer areas, none are allowed, except seasonal), modifications to your home (must be approved by a committee of residents and Developer appointees - unless you're planning really serious stuff, usually not too big a deal), landscaping plans (ditto), placement of satellite dishes, etc. In other words, matters designed to maintain the superior outward appearance of TV as a whole. Individual stand alone home owners have a degree more flexibilty than villa owners (who have, as I understand it, very little choice in what they can do with their street-side facade).
Steve