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Old 09-04-2014, 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by redwitch View Post
Think of TV as a community with gates, not as a gated community. The gates' main purpose is to slow vehicles down.

If this was a gated community, we would be responsible for all street maintenance. I'd hate to imagine what the amenity fee would be like.
You are so correct on all points!

Even as a non-gated community,
we're paying over a million dollars a year for our "keystone cops" to man the gates,
in addition to the gates' maintenance, the electricity, etc.

I can think of better ways to spend a million bucks!
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