We should remember that this is a rule, not a law, and while even laws can be changed, changing rules is a much less demanding process. This is our community, and if the majority believe this or any rule should be changed, they should work to have that done. If we spent the same time and energy initiating change as we do complaining about the rule or the rule breakers or the rule breaker reporters, on changing things, we might be surprised what would happen. Most of these things are governed by bodies of elected officials...they may or may not read TOTV.

It's guaranteed that "they" read TOTV.

I started a thread a couple of months after joining about "faded/peeling/ugly" street signs...with a lot of posts saying I was just imagining them. :ohdear:

So I went out and took photos. :D

https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...20/index4.html<Poke Here

Within a couple of weeks, a whole bunch of the ones I took photos of...were replaced.


I don't believe in... that kind of 'coincidence.' :ho:

The street signs were discussed on here many months ago and a year ago. And two years ago. The sun beats the heck out of all painted surfaces.

It's not coincidence, it's called scheduled maintenance. Your elected officials don't need to read ToTV to be aware of what they, just like you and everyone else, can see.

1. So you believe it was just pure coincidence that so many of these exact signs, which had obviously taken years to become so bad, were replaced on a pre-planned maintenance cycle...so quickly after the thread?

2. Please read the entire linked thread and its posts, so you can read for yourself that...not "everyone else could see them."


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Hum.....offending ornament.....Pretty much anything nowadays offends someone.

Enforcement of the rules is necessary to keeping this community clean and neat. I personally hate all the junk people put out in front. Keep it in your backyard, if it allowed and follow the rules. Simple.

I fully agree.

haha All of you have been trolled and the funny thing is it was about trolls. You can almost hear the sucking sound of you all being pulled in lol.
Original poster stirs the pot, everyone circles around to help, then the original poster backs out and says 'he was asking for a friend'.
TheTruth had the only post worth reading just about when he said. "FOR ALL OF YOU-think is it really important? Are YOU as perfect as you THINK YOU ARE? If, you wish to look for problems you will surely be able to find them."
If you claim to be sticklers for all the rules... would you not complain and say it was just if you were fined for speeding 2 miles an hour over, how about so much as touching the double yellow?
It's all fun and games until you're the target. Get a life folks, live and let live. You're waaay too busy giving old people like me and TheTruth a bad name.

Rules are Rules are Rules..We all signed on the .......................... line

I’d like it if they changed the rules so only if you live in that particular village you can call in a complaint. If you call in you do have to give your name and address, but that name and address would be confidential.

When moving our stuff down from up north a garden art piece was left in the front yard. A few days later I went to move it into the back and the neighbors asked me not to, they like seeing it when they walked in the morning. A few months later I get the call that the metal statue was not allowed in the front, so I moved it to where I intended it to be originally, in the back where I can see it while sitting on the lanai. However, I know the neighbors weren’t the ones calling it in, they liked it.

These are what would be considered yard ornaments. In the front yard. Village of Summerhill. Bad Request A metal pelican!
This one here uses a park bench AS a lawn ornament - can't sit on it, because it's holding potted plants. And then there's that tipped-over decorative, ornamental planter vomiting up white rocks... Bad Request

Now, I know CYVs are allowed to not have grass. But are they allowed to have garden or yard ornaments? Because this guy in Sanibel has multiple violations! They look terrific too, don't you think? Bad Request

More garden critters right there in the front for everyone to be offended by, this time in Pine Ridge Bad Request

These homes are ALL listed for sale on the OFFICIAL Villages Homefinder website. It looks to me that The Villages has no problem at all with these kinds of decorative touches. If they did, they would have made the owners remove them before using these pictures to advertise the homes for sale, don'tya think?

Maybe the rules should be changed. Or maybe people need to stop turning each other in for such trivial and trite infractions that don't actually violate the SPIRIT of the rules at all, but rather, violate the vague, non-specific, non-defined words.

Edited to add: those "bad request" links are to the actual photos, on the official website. They linked me there just fine when I clicked them, should work for you too.

That is just the villages cop out to avoid enforcing the rules.

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Neighborhood Watch can not do anything. It is not their job. Their job is to open and close the pools and clean up dead animals on the streets. They only watch and are not trained to do anything other than simply just ride around. If called upon they can direct traffic when there is an accident, but only until law enforcement gets on the scene. After that they have to leave.

Not me