[Halibut]

Many of the deed restrictions from the 1978 document linked above look very familiar.

o. All Owners shall notify the Developer when leaving their property for more than a seven day period and shall simultaneously advise the Developer as to their tentative return date.

Does anyone still do that?

[chuckinca]

Originally Posted by TVMayor

I was going to post a link, I tested it before posting to see if it would work and it did not. I think the document is a pdf but I am reading it in Firefox bla, bla,bla.

Go to
Search

Click on “Name” first row left side.

Do a search for
Orange Blossom Hills South

"Orange Blossom Hills" is the area in Marion County north of Hwy 42 and west of Hwy US 441/27. Across Hwy 42 from Mulberry Grove Plaza.

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[TVMayor]

Originally Posted by chuckinca

"Orange Blossom Hills" is the area in Marion County north of Hwy 42 and west of Hwy US 441/27. Across Hwy 42 from Mulberry Grove Plaza.

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Now go look up the plot map for “Orange Blossom Hills SOUTH” and you will see it is the property shown in post 21.

Note the restrictions shown in post #26 are for “Orange Blossom Hills SOUTH”.

[bkcunningham1]

Thank you, TV Mayor. Now if you can only teach me how to take screen shots and post them.

[TVMayor]

Originally Posted by bkcunningham1

Thank you, TV Mayor. Now if you can only teach me how to take screen shots and post them.

Start with a key on your keyboard marked “print screen”. Open “Paint” paste screen shot. The pasted picture is free to float, move it to crop top and left of screen shot. Now move the screen shot frame up and to the left using the slid bars at the bottom and to the right exposing a white area outside the screen shot and outside of a dotted line around the screen shot. Right click in the white area to freeze the screen shot. Your picture at this point includes the white blank areas at the bottom and to the left. With bottom slider full right, side slider full down look at the edge of the white on the bottom for a little square, which only appear after you click on the white and make the dotted lines disappear, click on the select tool on the tool bar then right click on square and drag it up to crop the bottom of the picture then do the same on the side. Save the picture as a JPG close paint and you can upload it.

[TVMayor]

[TVMayor]

[delima2000]

This is what I got from lake county when I questioned them about a possible sinkhole forming behind my house. (FYI not a sinkhole) this is the plots behind my house. The villages own on parcel and the others are owned by other people which I have their names just in case a sinkhole happens.

[NoMoSno]

Originally Posted by TVMayor

This property has 10 pages of deed restrictions, no septic tank, (it has no sewers) seller had first dibs on buying it back if owner wanted to sell it, each lot owner would have to build his own house and you have no roads. Not all lots were sold some were bought back as late as 2002 some were sold for back taxes. One was sold for less than $2000 for back taxes. Originally they sold for $10 down and $10/mo. I have not seen any documents to confirm that.

So basically, if you own one of these lots, you are paying taxes on it.
It is not buildable, has no sewer, no roads. If you want to sell it, you have to offer it back to the seller (now the current TV developer?)
Sounds like a bad deal to me.

[delima2000]

On the three lots behind me I have all of the info the taxes on the lot owned by the villages is$79.45. The other lots near me are taxes $119.14 and $99.29. It also states that the lot value is 5400.00 , 8100.00 and 6750.00. Those are only for the lots closest to me.

[TVMayor]

The property Alternate Key #1822203 owned by Villages of Lake-Sumter inc is several lots all of which are not connected and have no history of being sold have a just value of $43,740, tax $636.78.

The lots include

ORANGE BLOSSOM HILLS SOUTH UNIT 3 LOTS 18, 9, 20, 24, 25, |
26, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 45, 46, 47 BLK 26, |
LOTS 11-28 INCL BLK 27, LOTS 39-54 BLK 27, LOTS 21, 22, 23, |
30, 31, 32, 51, 52, 53, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 BLK |
28, LOTS 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 BLK 29,|
BEING IN SEC 18-18-24 PB 15 PG 37 |

[TVMayor]

Originally Posted by NoMoSno

So basically, if you own one of these lots, you are paying taxes on it.
It is not buildable, has no sewer, no roads. If you want to sell it, you have to offer it back to the seller (now the current TV developer?)
Sounds like a bad deal to me.

What we sell here is a life style. For a few thousand you could have a gate key and ID pass and free lawn mowing. That's a joke.

[justjim]

OP, interesting history and information. Perhaps the largest mail-order real estate lots in Florida was Lehigh Acres east of Fort Myers. In the 50's they had approximately 175,000 quarter acre lots for sale. Even today----it's something to see! You can google it for more interesting history and information.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Is there anything that would prevent someone from buying up this property, putting in sewers, water, electric and streets and selling lots?

[njbchbum]

Originally Posted by NoMoSno

So basically, if you own one of these lots, you are paying taxes on it.
It is not buildable, has no sewer, no roads. If you want to sell it, you have to offer it back to the seller (now the current TV developer?)
Sounds like a bad deal to me.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

Is there anything that would prevent someone from buying up this property, putting in sewers, water, electric and streets and selling lots?

Maybe the hilighted statement above and/or money/financing?