Interesting. It is my understanding that it is private property, owned by the Developer.

barebones1191
Member Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 34

Property Owners Attorney

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I am a little unclear about the developments that happened but it is my understanding the Villages Developer tried to assess the property owners for sinkholes in ponds on his land and the property owners filed suit and was successful. I am looking for information on this issue along with the name and telephone number of the attorney that represented the property owners. We have a similar situation in Stonecrest and need your help. Thanks!

The OP lives in Stonecrest. Oh. I see.

Yes the developer set up that we Villagers were responsible for maintaining retention ponds on his private land, i.e, Nancy Lopez golf course. CDD #4 was also charged with maintaining landscaping along the right of way on CR42. I believe that also applied to commercial properties at Mulberry Grove as well. Contact The Villages Property Owners Assn. at poa@poa4us.org. They can provide complete details and direct you to applicable articles from the monthly Bulletins archived at their website. The POA, not the HOA, has done a superlative job in standing up for the residents and has some truly dedicated people working in our behalf! Send me a private message if you'd like some more 'unofficial' info on the developers shenanigans over the years.

I believe that the post you are responding to was posted to show that the OP lives in Stonecrest. This was an old post dated 2011.

It was not a current request for information on how to sue a developer.

Nope, don't need any additional information. OP never responded to requests as to what village he/she resided in...........I found the answer in an old post.
Besides if you want to bash the developer, you can start a new thread.

Private property with public access similar to Lowes parking lot.

I believe EdV showed that it was built by the Spanish Springs CDD (or the same thing with a more formal name) using tax free bonds as if it was a public municipality to provide public access to their shopping area.

The IRS thinks differently. If you also feel it is a private bridge, the IRS might be interested in discussing it with you.

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It is most definite a public access bridge.

the gate discussion has a variety of opinions,so I thought I'd throw mine into the hat....Stonecrest residence do use our our golf paths to other areas other than town sq.,they use our recreational facilities also , the people outside the Village know how to work the system, or what door to go in that's not supervised etc. I know someone that told me that about 15% of the people who play at her pickelball ct. are from outside the Villages. Now for Villagers who use that gate on the E. side I would suggest not to allow any one to follow you in after you've used your card, or if their waiting in a cart outside the gate and say they forgot their card,9 out of 10 their" tellin ya a story ". I actually don't want people riding free on my dime. ya"ll got the gate,now protect it.

I can easily see how this could happen on the pickleball court. We've been playing for two years, and only once has a rec employee come out and check for ID's. Since the pickleball courts are extremely crowded during the winter, with lines out the door waiting to play a game, you'd think the rec workers could walk a lousy 50 feet and make sure everyone's legit.

If what your friend says is true, that really ticks me off. The arrogance of some people amazes me!

If you can't be nice, play in your own yard.

If you want to play in The Villages, buy here before it get's danged expensive.

You can still at this moment buy lovely homes for as little as 70K, but please don't if you are gonna be taunting and scathing.

Many of us were taught as children to respect other people's property.

It should be a non issue.

You get what you pay for unless you are lazy.

Then you get what we all pay for.

That doesn't mean the handicapped or the very needy.

Welcome to TOTV. You make some rather rash statements that I don't see how you can back up as fact.
-have you seen Stonecrest residence using the golf paths?(not sure why they would be on the golf courses)
-have you seen Stonecrest residece using our recreatioal facilities? (how did you know they were from Stonecrest)
-have you seen people from outside(how did you know they were from outside) sneak in an unsupervised door? etc. (specifically what else)
-The someone who told you about 15% of the players on the pickelball courts are from outside the villages, how did "they" come up with this figure?
(there are hundreds of pickleball players, 15% is an unbelievable number)

Bogie, I don't know about the other statements, but the pickleball one... when you play, you are sitting with people between games, and you start chatting and get to know them. Personally, on a crowded pickleball court I wouldn't be telling TVers that I was from Stonecrest, but who knows. If someone is arrogant enough to crash a pickleball game, I guess they would have no qualms bragging about using TV facilities when they don't belong.

The 15% figure is hard to believe, though.

"I know someone that told me" often turns out to be an untrue rumor.