[Bogie Shooter]

Originally Posted by justjim

Do you know or do you really care----Having deed restrictions is just one part of keeping The Villages a "nice" place to retire-----enforcement of these deed retrictions without "power of enforcement" appears to be a MAJOR PROBLEM here in The Villages. It appears that the Sumter County Sheriff's office (for the most part) could care less about enforcement of The Villages deed restrictions. As my mother use to say, "forget it son, in this world there are other bigger fish to fry".

Districts 1-5 & Lady Lake/Lake County now have a process in place to enforce deed restrictions. My guess is the rest of the districts will assume the same process as build out continues.
I think you are correct that the sheriff has no authority when it comes to deed restrictions, as it is in most places. The districts have adopted recent changes to state law for enforcement of deed restrictions.
Here is the process now in place.
http://www.districtgov.org/departmen...ct1-Matrix.pdf

[rhood]

Originally Posted by justjim

Do you know or do you really care----Having deed restrictions is just one part of keeping The Villages a "nice" place to retire-----enforcement of these deed retrictions without "power of enforcement" appears to be a MAJOR PROBLEM here in The Villages. It appears that the Sumter County Sheriff's office (for the most part) could care less about enforcement of The Villages deed restrictions. As my mother use to say, "forget it son, in this world there are other bigger fish to fry".

Restrictions are an agreement between the district and the homeowner and just apply to the district and the nomeowner. Both parties agreed on certain things. If either party defaults, the other party can sue. That's "YOUR" power of enforcement. SCSO has nothing to do with it. SCSO enforces laws, not deed restrictions.

For example if your neighbor starts putting yard decorations in their front yard (a violation), you can sue the district for failing to enforce the restrictions that your neighbor agrees to in a legal document.