Still can't tell whether or not you have actually discussed this with your neighbor?

Best of luck in getting this taken care of.

Happens a lot??
Usually 2’. Where did this come from?

Thanks - do you have a number you can share? I have already gone to the Community service center on Morse, and they were of zero help.

This has been going on since July 2021. ARC had my complaint but refused to tell me when the hearing would be. I not only called many times, I showed up at the ARC office within 30 days. They keep saying nothing can be done because it has already been approved. This should be a WTF moment for all of us living in TV. This is a clear cut case of the neighbor lying at the hearing and a total lack of due diligence on the part of ARC.
I did find some help from a terrific person at Brownwood yesterday. We have some things in motion now. Stay tuned, and thanks.

So much drama!
 

So many comments on how to bring legal enforcement into this issue. Why can’t the complainer just enjoy free landscaping with someone else maintaining the area?

Unless the intended recipient ignores the notice of intent to deliver... then you have proof only that the recipient did not receive the letter.

Documents online
 

MM, how can we find these documents online? Are you talking about the forms sent to TV Community Standards dept or the county? Link, please.

Code Comp.
 

Right, I agree.

I would sure love to live next to the “uninformed” citizenry in The Villages. So many have stated just leave it and enjoy the landscaping encroaching on the op’s property. In Florida, squatters develop rights to property/land if owners don’t take action to remove them. I’d hire an attorney if the neighbor is encroaching and refuses to repair encroachment and would also sue for recovery of attorney fees.

If not for the light there would be no shadow
 

Location! Location! wish there were more people like you that are very transparent on what to expect living at the villages'.

Love how on valentines day weekend.. we are divided by dogs and plants... good grief!

Like a good neighbor.. state farm is not there.

Get a survey!!! When I was first living here, my neighbor informed me that my sprinklers were installed on his property. I contacted our builder and he came with a rod that he kept poking in the ground until he found the property line marker. It turned out that my neighbor and I both assumed that the property line was in the middle between the two homes. Wrong, my neighbor had them expand his home when he built and they expanded only on one side toward my home. He then went out further with curbing toward my home. The builder said that he had less than 6 inches to the property line. If you are assuming that the property line is exactly even between your homes, you could be wrong. The builder told me that I could legally have that curbing removed. Most of that grass between our homes is mine, but he mows it anyway. not just his 6 inches. I was not about to have him remove the curbing because I have very nice neighbors who have helped me out on more than one occasion. Great neighbors!

Exactly!!!

Have it all
 

I have my survey, and it couldn’t be more clear that her hard scape is on my property. She lied in the hearing and brought her landscaper to lie with her. This is a case of a dereliction. Of duty on the part of ARC, plain and simple.

Already done done done, thanks
 

Already done done done - this has been going on since last July

Thanks
 

Very safe advice, and honestly my thoughts as well. If TV won’t enforce their own deed restrictions and put ARC on notice about this inappropriate situation , hiring a lawyer and removing the hard scaping will be my next step

Uninformed
 

This is not just landscape - it is hard scaping that I have to walk around to mow my own lawn. If something isn’t done, my next door narcissist will eventually have right to my property.
Please folks, informed assistance only😵*💫

If you locate the property line pull a string from front to back tightly. Get a can of orange marking spray paint and spray inside the string on your side. Post us a picture of that. Take that picture to the proper authorities :boom:

Courtyard Villas have fences.

Good luck getting a property survey .. Try calling around .. We did and came up with zero outfits that were interested .. Let me know if you find one.

Actually, there was lying during the hearing. She also drew out the hard scaping to make it look like it didn’t go over the property line. They bought it and approved it. And BTW - her drawing didn’t show how much space there was between the hard scaping and property line. When I submitted my own landscaping for approval, it got denied at first because I did not show these measurements. Double standard, not following their own rules

Amen - thank you!

She knows. I filed the complaint in July. She lied in the hearing at which I was not notified of it’s existence.

Exactly!!!

I received the survey when I closed this new house. There is no doubt at all about the fact that she lied to the ARC and drew what was convenient to her to have it approved.

This is hard scaping, not just landscaping. It is intruding onto my property. Ever hear of squatter’s rights?

Landscaping woes
 

Pictures are worth 1000 words. Take pics of the area in question when you have your sprinklers on. Then find out when their sprinklers are on and take pics. Be sure to capture your house in the pics. If your water is watering their landscape then you have proof to send to the ARC. There are many ways to dispute but this may be the least expensive.

Post your address...............let ToTV posters swing by and look.

Have a petition available for viewers to sign.

Get a few hundred signatures...........and some fun traffic.

Who is responsible for watering, fertilizing and trimming the landscape; (maintenance)? Would that be the person who planted the landscape or the person who's property contains the landscape? Just wondering.

EDIT: After reading the thread further, I realize now this is hardscape, not landscape.

You go first…. :crap2:

I keep thinking what an interesting screen name you have. Eat Th Mama.

Re your issue, have you spoken to the neighbor? What was their reply? If they are not willing to remedy the error than you have are pretty much forced to push the issue. As stated, fl law requires you to address the situation.