Are Outdoor Decorative Flags Allowed?
 

We are getting rid of STUFF to be ready for a move to TV (someday soon we hope). We have a collection of holiday outdoor decorative flags. Are these allowed to be displayed and do people display them for many holidays or just maybe Christmas?

I really don't remember, but I have seen some around. Mine sit in a drawer and each holiday, I swear I'm going to get the appropriate one out. After 3 1/2 years, I haven't yet... :)

Enjoy your flags -- they're allowed in all villages so far as I know (as long as they're seasonal). However, don't be surprised if you end up selling them in a garage sale once you're here cause they can be a pain in the neck when we get a surprise rain or wind storm.

Outdoor Decor
 

Attached to the violation notice we got for our lawn being too high (we prefer a lawn not a carpet or putting green - it makes more oxygen!) was a list of dont's from the developer.

We've seen lots of flags as we ride around, and lawn ornaments too (which the list said were banned)
"lighting must be attached to building" but we have seen walkway lights....
And here's one we'd like help with -
"no clothes hanging out, no clotheslines, no poles..... TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW"

Anyone have an idea what that means?
We were curious so we looked it up and this is interesting

http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/consumer/...d_a/rights.htm

http://www.ccfj.net/HOAFLclothesline.html

While we don't intend to flaunt our whitey tighties and over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders on the front lawn, we would like to do what we have been doing for a half century - discreetly hang a few things in the sunshine - the freshness is incomparable.

We've already passed the test of the solar panels on the roof.
Because our meter is now running in reverse and we are "selling power back to SECO" we are wondering about that ban on running a business from a Villages home ;)
L&L

I question why some folks have moved here. Read before you buy!!!

Get one of the drying racks and put it in your lanai if screened. Gives that fresh, clean smell. (If acrylic, put outside by the door but be sure and hold things down with clothespins -- the wind will happily play with your clean clothes.) Just be considerate and pull in when dry.

clotheslines
 

That's a good idea
we use those racks inside up north in the bad months when we are not 'there'

We have also seen lines in garages - and that would dry 'em fast - as our garage is one of the hottest places in Florida it seems.
Why , it's so hot in there one would want to go into a sauna to cool off.

Now, as far as drying the acrylic clothing by the door.......;)

L&L

Depends on your cov. In ours flags are not allowed, except for holidays then it can only be displayed for 30 days. They lump those flags under the title of "signs" and you can only have one no bigger the 12"X12" and displayed in a front window. That is why even the home alarm signs are not allowed. You can just dispaly the little window sticker.
So since we are in a CYV, we are putting our little outside flags in the back yard where only we can see them.

Army Guy

Thank you for those two links, Larryandlinda

It would be useful if you could put up more info on the solar panels - how much they cost, who installed them, how you arranged with SECO to sell back power, how much you sell back each month, etc. etc.

Florida State Law Says...
 

TV cannot restrict the use of outdoor clotheslines or solar collectors--I am very much in agreement with the "green" thinking of our state legislators. The following information is kind of long to read but I think every citizen of Florida should be aware that the Florida Senate passed a statute in 2009 prohibiting HOAs and their Covenants from restricting the right to hang clothes outside, or to install solar panels:

"A deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or similar binding agreement may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting solar collectors, clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources from being installed on buildings erected on the lots or parcels covered by the deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or binding agreement. A property owner may not be denied permission to install solar collectors or other energy devices by any entity granted the power or right in any deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or similar binding agreement to approve, forbid, control, or direct alteration of property with respect to residential dwellings and within the boundaries of a condominium unit. Such entity may determine the specific location where solar collectors may be installed on the roof within an orientation to the south or within 45° east or west of due south if such determination does not impair the effective operation of the solar collectors."
http://www.flsenate.gov/Statutes/ind...3ESection%2004