[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Two Bills

Your posts are probably the biggest threat to house sales in The Villages.
Surveillance drones, suspicious people spotters, Mossad experts from Israel to spot terrorists.....
You make the place sound as dangerous as Downtown Beirut!

Like I said in other posts, I had my house broken into and burglarized to the tune of a $5 k loss. Maybe that has NOT happened to other people, but if and when it does, you tend to harden your attitude toward safety. Even the original Disney World needs profilers and many Police. Sometimes the magic kingdom becomes the tragic kingdom..

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

That's a good comment and I will try to remember to take a spare pacemaker battery with me as I walk around the neighborhoods.

Actually, changing a pacemaker battery is a bit more complicated than changing one in your TV remote

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

OK, I'll be glad to think as you so nicely put it. I do not know what the ABSOLUTE cutting-edge capabilities of drones are. I can imagine a time (maybe now, maybe in the future) that there are helium-filled drones or just large helium-filled balloons with cameras and several retaining wires - that basically act as a portable tall tower with say 10 cameras pointing in 360 degrees of view. This would be a more practical use of helium balloons than iust trailing ads for beer brands. Observing crime and encouraging safety by just the mere presence of such equipment. you could have physical towers with cameras. I was just "spitballing" out suggestions. Anyone is free to make better suggestions than me, but knocking down my suggestions without having one of their own is basically juvenile ! Corporate psychologists agree with the method of GROUP "spitballing" suggestions (and NEVER dismissing ANY suggestion OUTRIGHT as unacceptable. Then later they arrive at the best SOLUTION to a problem. Obviously, we are in the "spitballing" phase about how to prevent a neighborhood from gradually deteriorating. Many, many residents that I have talked to that have lived in The Villages for a long time (like 10 years) will invariably say that there has been a deterioration in friendliness and safety in the last 3 years or so.

Personally, I do not care about white crosses or such "ticky-tacky stuff. If volunteer residents are driving around the streets with clipboards........I don't care .......it is ALL good as long as they are concentrating on a level of problems ABOVE the low-level "ticky tacky" variety. That would probably be a duplication of effort because that is what (I assume) the Community Service people are doing.

And since I just thought of another suggestion.........the Community Service people could have 360 degree cameras mounted on their vehicles that send video signals back to trained monitors - because the drivers of the Community Service vehicles at concentrating on driving and looking forward. And the vireo could be recorded if needed in a legal case.

It’s so obvious that you have read this "1984 by george orwell" and thought it was a true story.

[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Actually, changing a pacemaker battery is a bit more complicated than changing one in your TV remote

Maybe for you...

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Maybe for you...

But definitely easier than programming a 1980's VCR

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

Aside from the obvious Orwellian implications of that suggestion, let's focus on the part in bold:

The powers that be did not want to get involved in which lawn ornaments are acceptable and which aren't, which is a matter of taste, so they banned them all. People like to think a little white cross is acceptable---what if someone displayed it upside down because their religion is a bit darker? What if the bird was a large pink flamingo instead of a tasteful brass heron? How about a statue of their favorite political figure? The problem is that there is no universal agreement as to what constitutes "the low-level "ticky tacky" variety".

As I see it, the main problem is the vast differences in deed restrictions between different Villages, and even different units within a village. Some standardization would have been helpful.

I agree with most of that post. The Villages have a whole crew of lawyers and experts available to them and SHOULD (?) be able to come to a list of what is insignificant (ticky tacky) and that which reaches a level serious enough to make a Village look like it is deteriorating. I saw a resident's yard get written up for overgrown grass and The Villages had a commercial lawnmowing person cut it and give the residents the bill. Now they are more diligent about cutting their lawn. I believe that a Community Service person wrote them up. So, I imagine that they have some guidelines as to what reaches the level that requires The Villages to act.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

I agree with most of that post. The Villages have a whole crew of lawyers and experts available to them and SHOULD (?) be able to come to a list of what is insignificant (ticky tacky) and that which reaches a level serious enough to make a Village look like it is deteriorating. I saw a resident's yard get written up for overgrown grass and The Villages had a commercial lawnmowing person cut it and give the residents the bill. Now they are more diligent about cutting their lawn. I believe that a Community Service person wrote them up. So, I imagine that they have some guidelines as to what reaches the level that requires The Villages to act.

Maybe. It's also possible that overgrown weeds, grass, peeling paint and mold on siding is in a different category than lawn ornaments

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

I agree with most of that post. The Villages have a whole crew of lawyers and experts available to them and SHOULD (?) be able to come to a list of what is insignificant (ticky tacky) and that which reaches a level serious enough to make a Village look like it is deteriorating. I saw a resident's yard get written up for overgrown grass and The Villages had a commercial lawnmowing person cut it and give the residents the bill. Now they are more diligent about cutting their lawn. I believe that a Community Service person wrote them up. So, I imagine that they have some guidelines as to what reaches the level that requires The Villages to act.

They don’t do that!

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

Like I said in other posts, I had my house broken into and burglarized to the tune of a $5 k loss. Maybe that has NOT happened to other people, but if and when it does, you tend to harden your attitude toward safety. Even the original Disney World needs profilers and many Police. Sometimes the magic kingdom becomes the tragic kingdom..

We too have been burgled once, and another attempted break in with just damage.
We did install CCTV around property, movement sensors, razor wire on all boundary fences, dogs patrolling, and have hourly visits from Armed Response Security, but those two incidents did not make us paranoid about security!

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

There is no "Villages Rule" regarding the 80% must be over 55...

It's a FEDERAL LAW...

Per HUD:

The Fair Housing Act: Housing for Older Persons | HUD.gov / U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

I just read that act and it said that to qualify for over 55 status AT LEAST 80% of residents NEED to be over age 55. So, that means that The Villages COULD be 95% or 100 % to qualify. In my opinion, the nearly 100% would be, personally, preferable to me because age 30 workers could easily commute to work from the nearby non-Villages. I suppose there could be an exception for an over-55 resident that needed nearly full-time care by one of their children in order to continue to live in their home. But, that would be only a small % of residents.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

It’s so obvious that you have read this "1984 by george orwell" and thought it was a true story.

I respect what you are saying. But I am sorry that I don't see HOW trying to solve a neighborhood problem by "spitballing" for a solution........is such a Fascist Orwellian concept. It seems like "name-calling", which is known to close minds and polarize situations and ends up PREVENTING any SOLUTIONS.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by JMintzer

Maybe for you...

That DID make me laugh............thank you !!!!!!

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter

They don’t do that!

OK. I wonder who does then. And I wonder then what they ACTUALLY do. Maybe there was an article in The Village paper once upon a time, but I missed it. I am sure that the Community Service people do SOMETHING more than just ride around and smile.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

OK. I wonder who does then. And I wonder then what they ACTUALLY do. Maybe there was an article in The Village paper once upon a time, but I missed it. I am sure that the Community Service people do SOMETHING more than just ride around and smile.

22 rambling posts on this thread…………

[Jerseygirl08]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Actually, they have done way worse than that, they have made the whole thing a sham by deciding to selectively enforce deed restriction violations. We’re coming after you if you have the audacity to put a little white cross in your garden, but if you’re disrupting the entire neighborhood by running a revolving door short term AIRBNB operation out of your home we’ll look the other way. What kind of a message does that send? Either enforce all violations or let people do whatever they want.

I agree 100% with that statement. If they are going to enforce deed restrictions, ENFORCE ALL OF THEM; don't pick and choose which ones will be enforced.