[jparsoneau@aol.com]

If you feel so strongly enough that you need to report it. You should put your name down on it. If you’re not willing to put your name on it it’s obviously not that important. And yes, if these trolls are out there, taking pictures I would take a picture of them and post them. Why hasn’t anybody else.
I would also have an issue if I bought a house that is a used Home and Village real estate agent listed it and sold it to me and none of that made me aware of the out of compliance issues. I feel that they have some liability as well.

[C4Boston]

Originally Posted by rockyhyder

Are anonymous complaints serving the best interest of Village residents?

Residents should be restricted to filing one complaint per 90 day period. That would stop the stupid trolls but retain an avenue for legitimate neighborhood issues.

[eyc234]

Originally Posted by JohnN

NEITHER -
Community Watch should enforce the rules and take residents out of it

Everyone would have to be willing to pay for a lot more Community Watch employees and vehicles. Ask residents how much they are willing to pay to have this happen! Also what is going to be the pain and aggravation when 60 or 70% of a street finds out they are out of compliance on something? How about adding a few employees that you can have check your residence for compliance and have them check homes prior to selling or buying for compliance.

[Vermilion Villager]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Not when one person submits 50+ complaints. This becomes selective enforcement.
I say sign your name and you must live in the District where the complaint is filed.

How would you know that? If I understand this correct the reporting system is anonymous... which would mean you would have absolutely no knowledge that one person submitted 50 complaints. Can you shed some light on this and how you get this information?

[Vermilion Villager]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Worth noting that when District 5 eliminated Anonymous complaints, total number of complaints went down.
Maybe the trolls were eliminated……

But did the infractions go down????

[Vermilion Villager]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Can’t answer.
But, maybe the neighbors don’t feel little landscape violations (?) really aren’t violations.
Turning in 50+ complaints across ALL villages were probable WAG guesses any way……..by a troll.

OMG.....you do realize YOU were the one who said it in post #2

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

How would you know that? If I understand this correct the reporting system is anonymous... which would mean you would have absolutely no knowledge that one person submitted 50 complaints. Can you shed some light on this and how you get this information?

Sometimes, no wait, all the time it pays to read all posts before sounding off…………….see post 43.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

OMG.....you do realize YOU were the one who said it in post #2

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by GizmoWhiskers

Not sure how the clipboard people are remaining annonymous but solution... the 40 plus people file class action suit against the enforcement of rules not enforced for the past 25 years.

Complaints ONLY from within the villa neighborhood itself OR each small named neighborhood within the district. Not even whole district.

T V should be doing waivers for any infractions not reported within say 2 -3 yrs from receipt of installation as neglect of reporting. This would stop the current selective enforcement that is happening.

T V should evaluate the infractions for beautification (ie brick boarder wall and flower beds not permitted but would have been approved in the long run vs removal) vs homeowner neglect and previously installed items that lack cohesiveness in the overall theme of the neighborhood.

They check for aggregious offensiveness based on the overall neighborhood aesthetic cohesiveness (when you know you know if something is beyond acceptable).

Is the annonymous status due to emailing complaints? You call on the phone they take names.
T V should disregard ALL emails not properly identified as being unjustified harassment- no name and contact info email is trashed. Homeowners deserve the right to know as discovery as threat for staulking.

T V community standards should be forced to do their jobs. They should be the clipboard people and neighborhoods should have been checking neighborhoods monthly from day 1 by inspecting themselves.

The vigilante vendedeta policing sometimes 25 yrs after installation should be called harassment and staulking and complaints should be treated as such with an eye toward legal basis.

I say to those hit the way they have been by mass email scandal lawyer up. Set a precident, it's about time. This is problem that is the fault of T V start there.

Please let us know What Attorney will bring this lawsuit. For those who have been here awhile, we know the list is Very short, for any practice to file something so trivial, or any lawsuit

[Vermilion Villager]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Sometimes, no wait, all the time it pays to read all posts before sounding off…………….see post 43.

So....you are saying you have a contact in Community Standards....who is giving YOU confidential information in the form of an individual's email address?????? You do know I am going to check this out and verify it first thing Monday morning.......

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

How would you know that? If I understand this correct the reporting system is anonymous... which would mean you would have absolutely no knowledge that one person submitted 50 complaints. Can you shed some light on this and how you get this information?

When the compliance person knocks on your door, hands you the paperwork, you walk out to the area that was a supposed deed violation. Compliance person looks at your White Cross, that is really a dormant vine, and laughs. Then says if we charged $5 to file a complaint, then this person would stop filing 50-60 complaints at a time. Maybe, just maybe get a life.

Have had 3 complaints filed for 3 different houses, each was filed with more than 50 complaints. None of the complaints filed against our property were deed issues. I won, crazy person lost, and poor compliance person had to waste time, gas, and general aggravation.

So yes you know how many are filed, from the compliance person, and on your village websites.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Vermilion Villager

So....you are saying you have a contact in Community Standards....who is giving YOU confidential information in the form of an individual's email address?????? You do know I am going to check this out and verify it first thing Monday morning.......

Do what you want.

The rep from community standards shared this info when he provided us with the complaint. As well as the 5 others on the same block.
An article on the other news site also quoted the same story.
So, no inside info.
For your information, a complaint submitted via email…..the address becomes available to whoever asks.

Further, you may want to visit this link.
VCDD Community Standards

[Nana2Teddy]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

Worth noting that when District 5 eliminated Anonymous complaints, total number of complaints went down.
Maybe the trolls were eliminated……

But did/will the beauty of the villages in that district deteriorate too? I’d sure love to see how that goes as time passes. There’s a home in our village that is hideously covered with yard art of all kinds, and even the garage door is always covered with messages for the different holidays. Apparently no one on that street has complained, so it never changes. I’m just glad I’m around the block, and my immediate neighbors follow the district rules. After living next door for 20 years to a total dump in our former state we love the restrictions here, but it sucks that if anything changes with a neighbor’s property we’d have to be the ones to report it since The Villages won’t take responsibility. It shouldn’t be neighbor against neighbor. IMO!

[Nana2Teddy]

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox

This would get my vote. Maybe the Poll can be re-run with this as one of the options.

Agree!

[Nana2Teddy]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Neither. People complaining should be identified to Community Standards, but their identifying information should be confidential, and not available to the homeowner of the house being complained about.

In this way, there can be a standard of accountability imposed on the people making the complaints in addition to the people being complained about.

If you have to live in the same CDD as the property you're complaining about, that means Community Standards has to know who you are. I think this should always be the case.

This! ^^^