Amenity Fees "Blowing in the Wind"
 

Do you think we are getting a good bang for our buck as you watch the countless number of Maintenance Workers blowing leaves along our many roadsides. Where are they going? Stands to reason they are being blown by the wind right back into the roadway from which they came. Guess what? Next day the same guy comes by and blows them away again. Great for the unemployment rate but probably not a very wise use of our Amenity Dollars. Doesn't take a Brain Surgeon to figure out that absent these gas blowers, the wind would cause the same result. How about sucking them up so they can't blow back.

In defense of the system, the roads look great between the time the gas blower goes by and the next big gust of wind comes up.

They only blow the street after mowing is done.

You could apply for a job but I don't think you get an option as to technique, ie suck or blow.

Yoda

From what I've seen, most of the TV workers blow them into piles and bag them up. It's the lawn folks who blow and blow and blow and accomplish a lot of nuttin'.

Don't know if you are aware that your comment is a perfect example of A double entendre (French pronunciation: [dublɑ̃tɑ̃dʁə]) or adianoeta[1] which is a figure of speech in which a spoken phrase is devised to be understood in either of two ways. Often the first meaning is straightforward, while the second meaning is less so: often risqué, inappropriate, or ironic.

Suck !
 

My little rural city of about 2k has sidewalks in the downtown section and every fall a huge vehicle (about the size of the waste pickup rig) drives through the streets sucking up all the leaves so no one slips and falls on the city streets. It sure is an efficient way to get rid of all those autumn leaves :coolsmiley: Definitely a lot smarter than just blowing them around!

Aminity's bang for the buck
 

Canuk69, you are a dream come true....I have been searching for something negative about TV to carp about. Thanks so much.:rant-rave:

It does not take a Brain Surgeon to take a look at the beauty and neat appearance of TV to determine that we are getting a lot of bang for our bucks and we were very luck for it. And, I understand that the aminity fees have increased only very slightly since TV originated.

Ain't it great?:bowdown:

As of last week my Amenity Fee is up 30% in the past 5 years. If you think that's a slight increase just keep on believing it. Beauty and appearance has nothing to do with wasting our money blowing leaves up one day and back the next. It's a nice place but not UTOPIA!

Amenity fees support amenities. They do not support landscaping. Mowing, blowing, planting, trimming, etc., are paid for with funds from the maintenance fee which is paid once a year along with taxes. It appears as a separate item on the annual tax bill.

I think we get a big bang for our maintenance bucks.

Canuk69, if your amenity fee has increased 30% in the last five years there must be an error. You may want to check with the administration to verify that figure.

It seems obvious to me that you have used up all your fun and are getting cranky about continuing to pay.

There must be something you can do around here for fun besides bitch about the un-bitch-able?

TV is great. I love this place. Thank you lord.

Yoda

Hi Canuk69,
I think we get an awful lot for approx. $135 a month. I pay a smaller amenities fee in TV than I do for just a golf membership in Atlanta.

Canuk, did your fees just recalculate? This usually occurs once a year only. We have been here six years and ours have not increased any 30%. As a matter of fact, much to my surprise, the ammenity fee actually went down last calculation (Sept. 2009). Our next calculation will be this coming September and based on the economy, it might even do it again. Everything else in our lives has gone up.

Yes, the maintenance is done through the annual maintenance assessment...not the ammenities.

We get an unbelievable "bang" for our buck here. My son owns a townhouse in Jacksonville and pays just under $200 a month for his. For this they get 1 outdoor pool, 1 rec room, 1 party room, maintenance of a terrace-type yard (you know, the part between the walk and the curb), small shrubs along the walk, and no golf. Back home, the food assessment alone for the country club dining room was $240 a month, whether you ate there or not.

Yep, I think we do pretty good.:a040:

My amenity fees just recalculated. They went up $2.86 a month. Last year they went down $.46

My amenity fees have gone up 20% in the eight years I have been here. The first three years they were frozen.

Think about it - I am only talking $20 in eight years. A small increase for the expanded amenities in TV.

Amenity fees
 

I moved into the TV 14 years ago, my amenity fee's were 99.00 now they are 121.00, not bad for 14 years.

ya just can't make
 

everyone happy. I have only been here two years. Fees are very reasonable. If they have changed at all it aint much. Besides blowing grass clippings and the occasional leaf back into the grass is the Green thing to do. It puts the good stuff back in the ground, mulch. It would really be expensive to pick up all that stuff, cart it off to a land fill and then have a land fill issue in a few years.
Up North, once a year, when all the big trees lost their leaves in the fall we did have that big vaccum truck mentioned earlier. Down here we never have that kind of debris.