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Old 01-09-2025, 05:32 AM
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Call Community Watch 24/7 at 352-753-0550 and report these people
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Old 01-09-2025, 05:39 AM
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Or.......You can just slam the door in their face
Of course without injury so they do not call Morgan and Morgan. 😂
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Old 01-09-2025, 07:08 AM
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Of course without injury so they do not call Morgan and Morgan. 😂
On the other hand, if they are injured by a slamming door that means that some part of their body is on the inside of the inside/outside boundary of my house, so technically I could shoot them as home invaders.
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Old 01-09-2025, 07:52 AM
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I had a roofing scammer offer me a free inspection on a three-year-old roof. I told him I did not want an inspection or his card, and he went away.
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Old 01-09-2025, 08:51 AM
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I had a roofing scammer offer me a free inspection on a three-year-old roof. I told him I did not want an inspection or his card, and he went away.
With roofing crooks have to tell them numerous times to go away and make sure there is no ladder against our home
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My Jehovah's Witness line in NY went something like this: Praise the Lord! My lord Beelzebub promised he would deliver 2 virgins for sacrifice at tonight's midnight celebration of the third rectification of the Drules and Azoths. Please come in for a "drink". Their exits would set speed records.
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Old 01-09-2025, 09:14 AM
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Today, starting early, I have had two pushy sales reps come calling at my door. The first was 'Deluxe' wanting to wash my windows, and the second was "Freedom Forever" wanting to install solar panels on my roof. So much for the non-soliciting policy of the Villages. They were really pushy and did not take the first three 'No's if not more.
Every new neighborhood has this problem. We placed a no solicitors sign. Don’t answer the door, or call the police for anyone behaving in a threatening manner ( exactly what the police told us to do). Technically there is no solicitation permitted in TV from what I understand.
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Old 01-09-2025, 09:33 AM
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Every new neighborhood has this problem. We placed a no solicitors sign. Don’t answer the door, or call the police for anyone behaving in a threatening manner ( exactly what the police told us to do). Technically there is no solicitation permitted in TV from what I understand.
That may have been the case when the Villages was a truly gated community with private roads. It no longer is.

Florida statute 501.022 requires a permit for solicitation of sales at a consumer's home BUT there are several exclusions including one for certain religious organizations.
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Old 01-09-2025, 09:43 AM
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I am not sure why this is considered a problem. I occasionally get solicitations at my front door. It is typically vendors working on a neighbors house; landscape folks are the most common. I just say “no thanks”, wish them a nice day, and close the door. No drama is required.


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Every new neighborhood has this problem. We placed a no solicitors sign. Don’t answer the door, or call the police for anyone behaving in a threatening manner ( exactly what the police told us to do). Technically there is no solicitation permitted in TV from what I understand.
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Old 01-09-2025, 10:17 AM
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Today, starting early, I have had two pushy sales reps come calling at my door. The first was 'Deluxe' wanting to wash my windows, and the second was "Freedom Forever" wanting to install solar panels on my roof. So much for the non-soliciting policy of the Villages. They were really pushy and did not take the first three 'No's if not more.
No Soliciting in the Villages!
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Old 01-09-2025, 10:44 AM
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Just report them to both the villages and to the police, we aren’t supposed to have door to door solicitors
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Old 01-09-2025, 12:37 PM
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No Soliciting in the Villages!
Get off my lawn! ~Villagers
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Old 01-09-2025, 12:46 PM
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Get off my lawn! ~Villagers
‘Or pay the $3000.00 annual bill I have to to upkeep it…’ lol…
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Old 01-09-2025, 12:47 PM
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[QUOTE=GATORBILL66;2400040]No Soliciting in the Villages![/QUOTE]

So City Fire outside bar is closing?
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