New buyer who posted probably got a great deal because of the property next door and now wants it cleaned up and taken care of to raise the value of her property. You bought what you bought. I don't for a moment believe you didn't know what was next door. Sorry, no sympathy from me.

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This is very interesting to someone that has intentions of buy a home at the village
 

My questions are still these:
1). If the developer is the only one who can enforce deed compliances before a board is put in place, which can’t be done until every property is sold in that village., why hasn’t he been enforcing these major property violations as n this case and others? My neighbor has had letters sent to her in October 2019, January 2020, and now April and June of this year. How many chances do you get? When does an actual resolution and the property cleaned up occur? She also hasn’t paid her taxes as of 2020. She has strung these people along and they actually kept believing her. 🙄.
2). Why can’t the yard be taken care of, the owner billed for the cleanup now and a lien put on the property if failure to pay occurs while all this other paperwork to file a lawsuit against the property is going on? The bottom line is get the property cleaned up immediately.
3). It still mentally is a disconnect for me how those of us can be paying amenities fees, sewage , irrigation fees and such to SSU, which I have learned is a government entity of The Villages, but the developer hasn’t turned us over yet to TV proper. Clearly someone got an F in math class when they talked about the associative property of math where a=b and b=c, therefore a=c. Not in The Villages. 🙄.
4). Why are real estate agents promoting villages south of 44 when there will be no Community Standards for those villages for two years if the developer doesn’t enforce it for them, because no board can be established yet?
Pay attention folks south of 44. Write your complaints to all I’ve given you above. Meanwhile attend that meeting on July 8th.[/QUOTE].

From this tread which very transparent makes me think twice and it should make other buyer think again before purchasing a house at the villages.

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From this tread which very transparent makes me think twice and it should make other buyer think again before purchasing a house at the villages.[/QUOTE]

You seem to be posting your complaints everywhere and it's not going to stop anyone from buying a home in the villages or even think twice about it. You are bashing the villages south of 44 yet all villages had to go through the same process, it's nothing new. You should be happy that your neighbor is cutting their grass,(yes, I drove passed it again today and the lawn has been recently mowed, not coming back from the dead as you noted in one of your other posts.) maybe they have a contract to take care of the weeds too and unknown to the absentee owner the contractor is just not doing it. Maybe the owner is ill and in a nursing home or maybe she passed away and the home is in probate, who knows. She has owned the home for over 3 years and surely one of the neighbors knows what happened to her if they are willing to talk to you. There are several homes like this in Fenney and each one has a different reason for neglect, everything is not black and white when it comes to enforcing the deed restrictions. You have written dozens and dozens of posts for this one single home with weeds do you not have anything else to do. Be thankful you don't have a bed and breakfast next-door to you with God knows who being your neighbor every few days, be glad you don't have a neighbor with 3 or 4 dogs barking all day long, be thankful someone is not cooking up meth next door to you, there are a lot of things you can be thankful for living down here yet you constantly complain about your neighbors weeds. There is a lot more to life than complaining.

Great Phone Number
 

Thanks for the phone number. All the neighbors will be happy to know this. I will call them tomorrow. Someone (??) is paying to have the grass cut weekly so you'd never know anything was really wrong. No home to pick from really when I was looking. Full price only was the rule of thumb, (probably still is) and I was going thru a divorce so my choices were limited. I assumed that because I would now be in "The Villages" that there would be an HOA to handle these things, but no such luck. I'll run this race myself.

OK, this is getting even more confusing. Which is it????? "Unsightly and getting worse", or "you'd never know anything was really wrong"?????
And why would you have to "run this race yourself"???? None of your neighbors are unhappy with the appearance of this property???? And it has been like that for years????
IF this was a legitimate post, I wish you luck with your quest and a quick resolution

Well… I know the street where my parents lived on quite well. Familiar enough with the area that I would buy a property without coming down to see a house in person if I couldn’t. I know what most of the homes there already. But it is possible that someone passes away or gets sick next door etc etc. and I wouldn’t know about it. OP might be in the same position.

It's pretty apparent you bought a house here not knowing there is no HOA and things are done differently. Although it's a pretty common practice to turn developments over to the residents only after all the properties are sold.

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My Final Answer!
 

Community Standards came out and told me that they had issues with this homeowner before and the family wants nothing to do with it, period. Comm. Standards has zero authority to do anything other than (are you ready for this?), cut the grass! Yep, that's all they can do in these matters. I assumed "The Villages" had more authority than this, but I was wrong. Nothing more to be done or said so I will be putting my home up for sale and getting out of The Villages. Very disappointed but lesson learned. Trust no one!

I am confused. The grass is being cut, when you bought your house, you didn’t know anything was up with the neighboring house.
You have 3 posts here, you seemingly bought your house months ago and you are now selling
When you bought your house, houses were selling like hot cakes and you had few options - i guess except for renting an apartment near Brownwood or renting one of the many houses for 2 or 3 months until you found a house you liked.

If family members don’t want anything to do with the property, someone still has to pay taxes on it. We all know the county will claim the home 2 years after the delinquent date and then resell it for what it is owed. You’ve got yourself a deal! Pay the 10 grand and resell it for a fortune! Tax sales are June 1 of the given year.

You see, you have been blessed in your choice to move to the Villages once again������. Now you have a Ggggreat life style, nice home and warm winters along with some extra “coin”in the poke.

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Thank you for sharing your fortunate news with others. Maybe give at least 10 percent of your take to charities?

Good luck with your search! Don't forget to do your due diligence next time and avoid any potential for disappointment!

Another satisfied customer:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

PS: Please let me know the address of your house and the "unsightly" property next door----I'll buy them both (for the right price)

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How do you know that the "developer" has not imposed numerous accumulating fines on this property? There is a limit to what can be done with homes that have been abandoned or are bank owned.

The new properties always take a "while" before deed restrictions are enforced. I am a person who so dislikes people who MAY have their own agenda, stirring the pot.

It works. It will work and it has worked. I think the dumbest thing done so far is the group that sued the developer and got just what THEY wanted.

I like the way that the developer runs things. Yes I do.

Signed Grace, the old.