[Traveling lady]

Originally Posted by village dreamer

its going to cost us .... $225k to tear down and replace the water tower and windmill in brownwood. the wood is all rotten. just tear it down . somebodys brother inlaw is making a lot of money.

If this was put up by the developer’s contractor, using inferior products, the developer and the contractor should be required to replace them.

[tvbound]

Originally Posted by Traveling lady

If this was put up by the developer’s contractor, using inferior products, the developer and the contractor should be required to replace them.

The common denominator in a lot of things like this (premature road degradation being one), was the developer using sweetheart-deal/sole-source contractors. Since the developer was able to hand over most of the maintenance once the infrastructure was built (at highly inflated valuations), I predict a drip-by-drip of similar premature failures - in coming years.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by NatureBoy

My $0.02 since I'm going to be a Villager in a couple months so I need to get some complaining practice in:

One would expect structures like this to use pressure treated lumber and/or be made of materials that would last more than ten years. If The Developer built this as part of the decorations for the square, and then turned the maintenance over to the CDD (or whoever), I think the CDD would have a legitimate gripe that The Developer did not build them properly, in accordance with industry best practices, i.e. did a lousy job and should have known better. The dollar amount is probably not high enough to get too many lawyers involved, but it seems fair that the original builder (The Developer) should bear the burden of replacing it.

On the other hand, if there was some sort of maintenance that was required/expected to keep the structures healthy, and the CDD didn't perform that, then the fault is theirs.

Now, do _I_ want _my_ tax dollars going to replace something that is purely decorative? Not really. I'd rather see the money go into something functional - someone mentioned shading.

You won’t be off the koolaid for at least 3 or 4 years.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by stone8735

We have a multimillion dollar woodshop. Let's have those guys do all the work

Two multi-million workshops.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

We need vote to just remove or replace, the boards don’t speak for majority of villagers, but have special interest involved IMO. If majority want to pay and spend the money then rest who don’t has to suck it up. I never go to brownwood so naturally I would vote to remove and be done with it.

You just don’t get a vote on everything in life………

[ScottFenstermaker]

Originally Posted by village dreamer

its going to cost us .... $225k to tear down and replace the water tower and windmill in brownwood. the wood is all rotten. just tear it down . somebodys brother inlaw is making a lot of money.

I believe that the Developer sold the water towel/windmill to his Brownwood Community Development District. In other words, he sold it to himself at a price and under terms and conditions that he determined. Now Villagers are responsible, through their amenity fees, to pay for replacing the rot.

I'm sure that further details will be available in The Daily Sun.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by ScottFenstermaker

I believe that the Developer sold the water towel/windmill to his Brownwood Community Development District. In other words, he sold it to himself at a price and under terms and conditions that he determined. Now Villagers are responsible, through their amenity fees, to pay for replacing the rot.

I'm sure that further details will be available in The Daily Sun.

That will be as soon as they hire a living breathing editor who is allowed to do their job.

[ScottFenstermaker]

Originally Posted by Stu from NYC

That will be as soon as they hire a living breathing editor who is allowed to do their job.

Their editor is doing his job, which is to publish exactly what the Developer tells him to. BTW, I was being sarcastic about the Daily Sun in my last post. There is no way that The Daily Sun will publish anything that reflects unfavorably upon its owner (the Developer) or upon The Villages.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

You just don’t get a vote on everything in life………

When I’m paying I should. But that would eliminate nepotism, favoritism, and brother in law….

[crilemd]

J , M and J...isn't anyone happy just being able to live here...all I hear on this listserv is Bitch, Bitch Bitch...GET OVER IT PEOPLE....NOONE IS FORCING YOU TO RESIDE HERE...we are ALL free to return to the SH some of you apparently came from...we just lease our space here until our lease runs out...enjoy what's left
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QUOTE=Rsenholzi;2092260]Are you kidding me? They are the ones making the money . We are the retired ones living on a fixed income. They use a shoddy company to lay in the piping under the roads in the villas and we have to pay for it. They are making money from the businesses in the squares- not only from the rents but additional money from a percentage of what they sell and we have to pay for the upkeep. They keep trying to taking parking spaces from the squares for their rental apartments and who loses out - the people who visit the squares to keep the businesses running because during snowbird season there is no parking. Movie Theaters disappeared during COVID because people couldn’t go and movies weren’t being made so they closed 2 of them! Their plan - to make more apartments and lose more parking on the squares. Mark my words - their plan is to close the squares so they don’t have to pay for the entertainment. They already refused to renew the contract with the police so there will be no police presence in the squares- another thing we are losing. They don’t care about the people - all they care about is lining their pockets with the green stuff[/QUOTE]

[HRDave]

Oh My Gawwwd people! Quit complaining. It’s like every friggin’ week there’s one more thing to bitch about.
Chill and just enjoy yourselves or flee to cheaper areas. I came for the fun environment. Not for the cheap cost of living. 😎

[JoMar]

Originally Posted by Rsenholzi

Are you kidding me? They are the ones making the money . We are the retired ones living on a fixed income. They use a shoddy company to lay in the piping under the roads in the villas and we have to pay for it. They are making money from the businesses in the squares- not only from the rents but additional money from a percentage of what they sell and we have to pay for the upkeep. They keep trying to taking parking spaces from the squares for their rental apartments and who loses out - the people who visit the squares to keep the businesses running because during snowbird season there is no parking. Movie Theaters disappeared during COVID because people couldn’t go and movies weren’t being made so they closed 2 of them! Their plan - to make more apartments and lose more parking on the squares. Mark my words - their plan is to close the squares so they don’t have to pay for the entertainment. They already refused to renew the contract with the police so there will be no police presence in the squares- another thing we are losing. They don’t care about the people - all they care about is lining their pockets with the green stuff

Yet you stay

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by ScottFenstermaker

Their editor is doing his job, which is to publish exactly what the Developer tells him to. BTW, I was being sarcastic about the Daily Sun in my last post. There is no way that The Daily Sun will publish anything that reflects unfavorably upon its owner (the Developer) or upon The Villages.

Should have added the world independent to the editor's position

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by ScottFenstermaker

Their editor is doing his job, which is to publish exactly what the Developer tells him to. BTW, I was being sarcastic about the Daily Sun in my last post. There is no way that The Daily Sun will publish anything that reflects unfavorably upon its owner (the Developer) or upon The Villages.

You think? You learned that since Oct…..

[Transplant]

Maybe replace with solar panels.