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Old 11-14-2007, 02:34 AM
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Default Re: Conversion to Home owners associations

If the great majority of active homeowners in The Villages have the same vision, for a quality, professionally managed community, they can make it happen. What happens in a smaller HOA or condo situation typically is that there is a vocal minority, or maybe even a majority, who want to cut costs, want to do certain things themselves that should be left to professionals, who want to be penny wise and pound foolish to save a buck...and the place slowly declines in the midst of continuing acrimony.

There's a trusim in the realm of condominium management...a complex is never as well maintained as during the period of intial sales and control by the developer. From then on, the penny pincher unit owners take over and operations and maintenance decline.

It seems to me that there is great momentum among Villagers to maintain a pristine, optimally maintained, professionally run community, no matter what form of government or management is selected to do it. The residents will demand it and, as Captain Kirk would say, they will "make it so."
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