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Well, I feel this place is my hometown too, and I'd like to see it run the best it can be run. If that means noticing when things are not done right, and encouraging conversation on such topics, so be it. In the long run, that will make the Villages a better place. All in all, The Villages is a wonderful place to live, and we enjoy it here, but it is not perfect. I'm sorry you feel any comments that are critical to The Villages or to the Developer are politically motivated and that we are all so "jealous". You couldn't be more off base. And frankly, it just sounds like someone looking for excuses when reality and the facts don't stand up to independent scrutiny. |
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I think that one of the biggest contributors to the ludicrosity of some of the complaints is a lack of understanding as to how CDDs work and how The Villages is governed. |
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Community Development Districts (CDD's) were never designed to be a vehicle for one individual to gather a handful of friends and family members and call themselves a government and issue tax-free bonds. Correct me, if I am wrong. Until then, we will just have to wait until the IRS totals up the amount of back taxes and penalties owed and keep paying the attorney's fees to protect the developer's bottom line. The last I heard, those attorney fees were close to one million dollars. |
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I can only speak for myself. I have no personal malice toward the Developer ( Villages Lake Sumter, Inc), the AAC, Janet Tutt, POA, VHA. I do have a business interest in every finanical transaction involving residents and me. In this situation I would like to know what financial affect it has on residents and what residents? The financial Loss of this mistake Who created the error? How the error can be prevented from happening again. And what can be done to contain damages? The biggest obstacle I see is that some residents always default to "you just don't like the Developer" I cringe every time I read that statement because it is nonsensical irrelevant and doesn't do one thing to help us keep our financial house in order. If you look closely at the leadership that is suppose to be prioritizing this communities needs you will see and hear that they act as if they were planning activities for people on a cruise line. This is one of the PROBLEMS associated with viewing THE VILLAGES as a VACATION DESTINATION rather than a RETIREMENT COMMUNITY. We have heavily invested our retirement dollars here as the last place many of us will settle. The "You can live like a millionaire on your retirement saving" slogan is fool hearty, naive' and misrepresents the objectives and goals needed to sustain a viable community. Residents might fair better if they would approach this as their home rather than a Disneyworld because it is affecting their common sense and good judgment |
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The elected politicians' "game" is always to shift blame, accuse others, and cultivate lack of accountability and keep nobody identifiable with whom "the buck stops". It makes a much better hiding place for the elected politicians whose #1 priority is getting re-elected, who spend like drunks and are too lazy, inept and glad-handed to own up to the problem so it can be fixed. At least here, the developer IS held accountable to taxpayers because WE decide whether to buy a home and stay here (which feeds or kills all the millions of square feet of commercial real estate that's developer owned), and WE stay on top of the issues in question thru our voices in VHA and POA and right here on this board. |
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Sometimes it takes a brave person to try to change things which we know are wrong.
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Just a suggestion to reduce some of the carping.
Complaints about the developer might be taken more seriously if they had more credibility. IMO, those criticizing any business management team should share with their audience their credentials and backgrounds that qualify them to pass judgement. Otherwise, it all sounds like monday morning quarterbacking, particularly when the posters involved have a history of posts infused with negative ions. |
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I have never in my whole life been to, attended, signed up or gone to ANY political meeting or attended any rally political or otherwise. I have not gone to the squares when any political figure was here in The Villages, did not go when Fox News was here. I don't go to political gatherings, nor do I post that political gatherings are happening or where they are. The last book written by a politician I bought and read and still own is Dreams of My Father and I purchased it prior to this administration. I think it is the only one I bought and read by a politician. I never judge people by how much money they have or don't have. I am a realist...pretty much. I often want to say things that are not considered politically correct. |
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The Morse family and their corporations have done a marvelous job and have rightly become wealthy in so doing. They have provided a retirement haven like no other and their politics are of no concern to me. They are, however, not omnipotent or infallible. It seems to me that the discussion in this thread is focused on the AAC and the rightly criticized failure to give or get important information regarding the sale of the property in question. It is unquestionable that the developers have tight control of virtually everything that goes on in The Villages, so if something is handled poorly, or well they deserve some of the criticism or credit. They are not beyond questioning.
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