[Arctic Fox]

Year-rounders should consider themselves lucky, compared to our Snowbirds.

Assuming they are here for five months, they pay $500 per month and are here at the busiest time when the facilities are most crowded.

Yes, it is their choice, but they must think it worth the money, so our paying $200 per month and having half the number of users for most of the year seems like a dream to me.

[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by FloridaGuy66

This is honestly an extremely rare occurrence. This us around #102 on my list of concerns involving TV.

Any statistics to support that assertion?????
Personally, I have no idea how common or rare it is. How is it that assertion can be made?

[DarrenandKathy]

Have been asked for ID almost every time we have been to either Tierra Del Sol or Santiago pools and The First Responders Rec Center,so yes they check.

[Ignatz]

And I think there are now more threads on this issue than the number of people who think it’s an issue worth discussing

[westernrider75]

[QUOTE=asianthree;2420783]I guess we are one of the few that has an employee on site everyday, at all the courts, pool, shuffle board and beach facilities open to close. As soon as you park they are right there asking for ID before you exit your cart or car. Many of us are everyday players, that employees wave as they drive in. Maybe it’s a south of 44

[Nanshe]

You also have people on the pickleball court (I assume they were residents) telling an outsider that it’s ok to play, they never check ID’s

[nordic tug]

Originally Posted by AMB444

We pay for pickle ball, rec center and pools, etc.


But TV is not checking all that often to make sure they are residents.

What should be done to make sure the $$ we pay each month doesn't pay for these people coming in to free load.

May be gate locks with ID card readers like they have in hotels, with all the growth around TV this will only increase as other issues related to population increase. Friendliest Home Town needs to get on the ball with security!

[rsmurano]

This post will do nothing to reduce the use of our amenities. 99% of these people won’t be reading this, they don’t know about TOTV.
It wouldn’t put a big burden on the rec center personnel to get out of their chair a couple times a day to check ids. They already have to tend to the water and balls a couple times a day, have them take 30 mins out of their busy schedule of manning the phone to check ids

[BrianL99]

Originally Posted by AMB444

You should get on Nextdoor. com and get into your "group" for your neighbors. Everyone is talking about this. Paying CDD per month but not keeping track of outsiders coming in to take it for free? This has got to stop at some point.

That subject has been a topic of conversation on social media, forever, I'm not surprised it finally showed up on NextDoor. In a year or two, the "drone issue" might make it to NextDoor.

[Beyond The Wall]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

As this has been suggested numerous times, it would be interesting to see the count of turnstiles needed and the cost for implementing the plan. Two turnstiles at the neighborhood pool, one at the family pool, two at the pickleball courts, and another two at the tennis courts make seven turnstiles at just the two facilities nearest to my home. Multiply that by the hundreds (?) of facilities around the Villages and you're talking about real money.

PLUS, the passes I get for my guests do not have chips in them so how would they work with the turnstiles? Put a barcode on the passes and a reader at the turnstiles? Pay for chipped guest cards and the infrastructure to constantly modify the database? Change the rules to say that I must now accompany my guests when they go to the pool?

I suggest manning the family pools or any other system at these and see if that helps.

Most neighborhood pools have the same people there most days. I have seen them call when people who they don’t know, are at the pool. Within minutes, someone shows up to check. The “ smart ones jump in the water . They do not get checked. They should all have to get out of water. In inconvenient for residents but you can’t have it both ways.

This type of problem is also evident in the squares. As more apartments are built , more and more use by non residents. I know the entertainment is not an amenity, however it is one of the first item realtors show you when touring.

Changes are here and more coming. You have to adjust your protocols to the times.
They adjusted during Covid.
Again, just don’t do it at every place. Pilot programs, different ways at different venues and facilities. Find out what works.

[Marmaduke]

I concur. We presently live in a very large, absolutely gorgeous community, as snowbirds.
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We have all of the perks but we have a maned entrance.

Residents are issued a one time charge ($15.00) transponder that we attach to our rear window to enter the residents side.Otherwise, we can use our ID and stick out arms out the Winslow, which no one does. Why would we be so cheap?

A 24/7/365 manned gate keeps things honest.

Simply, we all were issued picture ID cards at no cost and they are needed to SWIPE to gain access to the POOLS AND
Courts.

Guests are more than welcomed, they are required to have a guest ID AND they are required to stop at the desk for the arm band, color of the day.

No interlopers at all. A mixed generational community next door to our community has TRIED, to no avail. The word is out on our community not to even try it.

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Nanshe

You also have people on the pickleball court (I assume they were residents) telling an outsider that it’s ok to play, they never check ID’s

How did you know the person was an outsider?
Maybe if this concerns you so much you should start asking some clarifying questions of these (assumed)residents & outsiders.

[mpcolonel]

All the rec centers have staff that’s their job to go out and check. I’ve been checked at canal center

[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by Marmaduke

I concur. We presently live in a very large, absolutely gorgeous community, as snowbirds.
w
We have all of the perks but we have a maned entrance.

Residents are issued a one time charge ($15.00) transponder that we attach to our rear window to enter the residents side.Otherwise, we can use our ID and stick out arms out the Winslow, which no one does. Why would we be so cheap?

A 24/7/365 manned gate keeps things honest.

Simply, we all were issued picture ID cards at no cost and they are needed to SWIPE to gain access to the POOLS AND
Courts.

Guests are more than welcomed, they are required to have a guest ID AND they are required to stop at the desk for the arm band, color of the day.

No interlopers at all. A mixed generational community next door to our community has TRIED, to no avail. The word is out on our community not to even try it.

How many pools? Rec centers?

[biker1]

It sounds like a gated community, is that correct? If so, that is a different animal than The Villages, which is not a gated community. It is easier to control access via one gate to the whole community.

Originally Posted by Marmaduke

I concur. We presently live in a very large, absolutely gorgeous community, as snowbirds.
w
We have all of the perks but we have a maned entrance.

Residents are issued a one time charge ($15.00) transponder that we attach to our rear window to enter the residents side.Otherwise, we can use our ID and stick out arms out the Winslow, which no one does. Why would we be so cheap?

A 24/7/365 manned gate keeps things honest.

Simply, we all were issued picture ID cards at no cost and they are needed to SWIPE to gain access to the POOLS AND
Courts.

Guests are more than welcomed, they are required to have a guest ID AND they are required to stop at the desk for the arm band, color of the day.

No interlopers at all. A mixed generational community next door to our community has TRIED, to no avail. The word is out on our community not to even try it.