One of our neighbors, who USED to leave the gaarage door open, saw a snake in the garage last week. As I said, they USED to leave their garage door open.

Seems kinda careless to leave easy access to your home. We may live in The Villages with a false sense of security but there are creeps everywhere.

See, you CAN fix stupid!

Okay, then I'll say I'm stubborn - and I know you can't fix that. Garage door is left 1/3 of the way open to allow heat to escape.

'S okay, Gomoho... you be Stubborn and I'll be Stupid!:beer3:

With all due respect, how do you fix paranoid?

Two fingers of scotch on ice around 5PM!

I was gonna say Dr. Phil, but Bogie has a better idea.

Good answer----of course, it's 5 o'clock somewhere!

If you want to cool the garage, open the window.

Great post. Those who think The Villages is completely secure because we have those gates in place that anyone can get through, are just not too smart. And we have some posters, probably affiliated with the developer, that will try to downplay any crime, because they are concerned it may negatively affect housing sales. I do think most people use common sense and realize there are burglaries that take place, and take adequate precautions. We all get lax and it doesn't hurt to be reminded every now and then to lock our front doors and keep the garage door down.

It isn't completely secure but I would be one of those people who think this place is more safe than most places in the U.S. I come from 73 years of living in places that are low crime and I think this is similar to those places.

Of course we should use common sense. Common sense is looking out the window and not seeing strangers walking around the neighborhood. Common sense is knowing if a yard crew came in to the house to rob it, they wouldn't get very far. Common sense tells you that almost everyone is NOT working but keeping our eye on our stuff and our neighbors stuff and dogs pooping etc.etc. Common sense and gates that anyone could enter doesn't even enter the equation. I don't think robberies, burglaries and vandalism occur much here. We all ride around a lot in our golf carts and we all are watching what is happening and a good many of us are telling what happens here. We come from the ethical generation and most of us are ethical, responsible and aware. That is how we were able to have the smarts to live our lives so we could retire to a great place like this.

A lot of people are positive about this place in a most genuine manner and they are not paid for it. There are some documented cases of moderate thinkers slightly to the right who are honest and fairly smart.

I don't need common sense - I have to big dogs (aka pooping machines).

We had a contractor do some work not too long ago, and he mentioned he had left a piece of equipment at a client's house by mistake. When he went back to pick it up the next morning, it had gone missing. I have friend who works at one of the pro shops who mentioned that they had part of a golf display stolen, and they ended up catching the guy because he had come in and paid his green fees, then when the clerk went out back for something he had committed the theft, but they caught him on video. There have been instances of golf club thefts from carts at the country clubs when people go in for lunch.

This isn't scary, violent crime, but it obviously happens, in spite of most residents being ethical. And it is not being "negative" to bring up these points, but it is being "helpful" especially to new residents who aren't aware that this type of thing happens. When our foursome plays golf we always try to park our carts where we can see them when we go in for lunch. Some people have bought locks for their bag of clubs, and even locks for the golf carts themselves, since there was a rash of golf cart thefts a few years ago. There is no reason anyone should feel threatened by bringing these facts up.

I absolutely agree with every word in this post.