Restrictive covenants
 

anyone have link to the current restrictions?

Note that they are done by district, and they do vary slightly.

I see two columns of links

Residential Units and Villas,

I understand the Villas relate the villages etc but what are the Residential Units?

Houses other than villas.
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To obtain your Declaration of Restrictions:

•Select the County in which you live
•Select the District in which you live
•Select the Unit in which you live
If you are unsure of your unit number, it is located on your Villages ID card. The U/L number is the first letter of the county in which you live, the unit number and the lot number.

Lake County

Marion County

Sumter County

ok, but without reading them I assume they are the same is not very similar.

I read one of the newer ones and I don't see anything overly restrictive, did I miss anything?

Yes, all are about the same at least by county.
Glad you found them not overly restrictive. Can't say how I would know if you missed anything.

I don't think you'll get into hot water running a home office or web based biz.

As long as Fedex doesn't do daily pickups

Basically, they do not allow a home business where clients would be coming and going from your house on a regular basis - or a business where you would store inventory in your garage - or repair mowers, cars, carts, etc in your garage or driveway. Just common sense stuff.

Home based consulting, web design, and things like that are no problem.

It is not noticed by the "powers" until someone squeals on you. And the squealer remains nameless, too.

There was a thread a while back about someone being prohibited from using his mail box for business mail.

Actually it was Jan (aka Talkhost) the original owner of TOTV. He banned a member who continually attempted to use TOTV to advertise his business. It was rumored that he was probably the one who notified TV compliance of Jan’s use of his TV mailbox for TOTV business mail.

I would guess that it is not in the jurisdiction of TV compliance but the US postal service

USPS doesn’t care. It was deed compliance officials that put him on notice of conducting business in a TV residence.

Here’s a link to the thread about it.

Did they look in his mail box?

I don't think so, they did it thru the corp address being his home address.

In any event can reading be considered doing business in the underlying reason for the restriction I think not.

The interpretation "doing business" by an employee of the compliance office is not necessarily correct from a legal standpoint.

If one had money to burn a Court I think would find for the home owner.

This is petty stuff.

Best thing to do, IMO, is to get a PO Box at USPS or a Personal Mail Box (PMB) at UPS Store or Mail Boxes Etc. for your business.

I forgot what the cost is, but it won't break the bank.

End of problem, end of story.