Beware of Solar Trek
 

People beware of who you hire to do you work on your house.
Solar Trek owned by Patrick Altire send out two employees to my neighbors house to install pool heating system on there roof.
The lots are close to begin with and well mark on the lot dividing lines. I ask 7 time to Please keep there activities on the property they are working on. After the 7th time i was told to go "F" myself.
The Police were called and they were trespassed off the property. As the deputy's were writing the trespass warning the one individual trespassed right in front of the deputy. To say the least the deputy wasn't amused. After the police left they continued to trespass on the property. After a google searching on both the individuals trespassed, they had records and continuing charges in courts across Florida for Heroin, trafficking, fencing of stolen items, robbery, etc...
The owners of these companies don't care who they send and the safety of the communities. Unfortunately my neighbors are elderly and very nice but new to the villages and they think we live in a gated safe community. I tried to tell them its a community with gates and open to every bad behaved criminal to pray on the elderly.
Watch out people!

My experience was different. There were no problems during installation. The system works as expected.

Solar Trekdid a great job at my home and the employees were very nice and courteous. Gave them a very generous tip.

Well folks I'm glad you had a good experience i hope nothing came up missing.

Nothing was missing. great crew

Glad to here nothing was missing. Always get the employees names of who they are going to send out, Google is a wealth of information.
I certainly would not want anyone on my property facing criminal charges for Heroin, fencing stolen items or open warrants. Sumter county Sherriff website if full of these people warning the village residents of this.
Have a nice day!

What’s your issue with the property line?? They trying to do a job and you make is as difficult as possible because of a property line ?? What a tool

Solar Trek installed our roof system. Showed up on time, did a great job, and were courteous.

Hey Mister, give us our ball back.

Right? I can't imagine sitting in my house watching workers who dare step across the line onto my property, then wasting the time of law enforcement to have them trespassed? I bet this made a great impression on the new neighbors, I'm just thankful the OP isn't my neighbor.

warning
 

Reckon that's going on their permanent record?!

We used Solar Trek for a service call. We were very happy with them. They were prompt, courteous and the charge was fair. We would definitely call them again.

LOL, Seriously, all they were guilty of is walking across the property line and you started a fight and called the police. Good grief.

Certain post here is what i expected , i was just trying to warn people of the bad contractors that work in the villages and take advantage of the elderly.
My new neighbors were very thankful for the information being new to the villages.
The same ones in this post with the wise comments are probably the same people that act entitled, what they failed to realize, its all about respect for peoples property. Such a shame!

Give the guy a break. His property, his stand.
" Get off of my lawn" !!!

There probably are bad contractor that work in the Villages and take advantage of the elderly. What the majority of the posters are telling you is that Solar Trek does not seem to be one of them.

Tip??

I'll bet they were speaking Spanish and had dark skin too. Another of case of working while Spanish. Solar Trek just replaced my pool solar pool heater and did a great job.

You seem to get off starting these types of threads. I remember you posting someone’s criminal record not too long ago. Can’t find it so I’m guessing it was deleted.

"ex"
 

If nobody hires "ex"-cons, what do you reckon their other options are? Whether certain individuals deserve to be "ex" would be a different question. . .

I had Solar Trek do my solar heat for my pool a few years ago and they did a great job. The installation crew was very professional and courteous and cleaned up after themselves. Now I would really like to know just what this particular crew did that would warrant this post? Because walking on the neighbors grass seems like just normal being just how close each house is to each other.

The property for which you were so concerned contains an easement allowing ingress and egress for contractors.

The only thing you knew about these men was how they looked and how they sounded. Anything else came after you called the police. I agree with some of the others.

That IS a good warning. Several years ago we had our home robbed when we were away. They took mostly tools. I always had the feeling that one of the local grass-cutting crews tipped them off when we were away for 3 days. 20 years ago The Villages was practically crime-free. Today it seems like crime here is increasing. We need more cameras in neighborhoods to deter crime. An older community needs sophisticated crime deterrence equipment. Retirees DESERVE to live in safety.

Funny the cops didn’t know that - they have to deal with those types of calls often enough to know the easements.

If they come back can you ask them if they can get me a deal on a new computer.

A really good neighbor would have worked with their elderly neighbors to get their job done quickly. A true neighbor would have allowed the workers access to get at the job easier. How can you know what criminal records people have. You can't even know workers names. I think this is all made up to scare elderly villagers. Shame on you.

Who is going to pay for these cameras that you "deserve"?
Do all retirees deserve "sophisticated crime deterrence equipment?" What about those workers who happen to have black marks on their record? Do they deserve to live in safety when they retire? Are you going to pay for it?
By the capitalization of DESERVE, it sounds like that entitlement attitude that plagues The Villages.

Well said. I'm glad that I know my neighbors well enough that I know that they are better people than the OP. I know that they would help me just like I would help them.

I encourage you to move to a place where you FEEL safe. Why stay here where the wolves are nipping at your heels?

Here it is:

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...ml#post2229179

Chellybean

Good luck in finding one. I would search on google for the owners name.
They are not regulated by DBPR. my neighbors 4 out of the last five they had were convicted felon's and one served repeated jail time over 20 year period.
Install some cameras also.

"Retirees DESERVE to live in safety because they grew OLD while they worked hard to provide goods or services to their communities. This is a RETIREMENT community (and a very large one) where residents pay EXTRA for the SAFETY of having like-minded neighbors around them AND it is IMPLIED that there will be enough Police and state-of-the-art crime prevention methods (such as stationary cameras and drone cameras) to INSURE that aforementioned SAFETY.
..........As to who pays for it ......we all do. For example, we go out to a restaurant that pays RENT to The Villages Management and Ownership. The residents then EXPECT that part of that money would be funneled back into Police patrols and state-of-the-art crime prevention equipment. I don't see any big mystery in "Who pays for it?"

Personally, I think that owners who cut their own lawns should get a discount on their activities fees. If only handicapped residents hired workers to cut their lawns, then the number of outside workers would drop and I BELIEVE that crime would drop, the number of speeding trucks with trailers would drop, and the main residential streets would NOT be littered with the workers parking their trucks practically in the middle of the streets.
........Basically, the fewer lawn maintenance people from outside The Villages, the better. I would also suggest that more rock yards be allowed (and ENCOURAGED) because that would decrease water usage and there would be less fertilizer usage, which would help keep the lakes cleaner instead of the yucky green color they currently have.

it’s seems that you in Chellybean see crime everywhere in the villages where most of us don’t . I wonder how you both functioned in the real world when everyone you ran into was a suspect that had to be checked and workers had to be filmed

I think you are in the wrong retirement community. There must be one somewhere with a moat…………..

That is completely a WRONG STATEMENT There is no easement PERIOD for contractors!
Unbelievable!

I disagree with everything you just said.

I find certain other post to actually be unbelievable. Can you guess which ones? Still waiting to get my ball back.

Yup, my father said you cant fix stupid!!!
LOL

Um, you missed my point.