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Originally Posted by Freedomtalks
(Post 538079)
Gail Lazenby, Supervisor for District 3, said it best, "For the past 20 years signs were allowed because it was in the Developer's Best Interestto allow signs and not stop them from being used." And now it is not, so........ you can draw your own conclusion. What I don't understand is we have somewhat set our standards over the last 20 years. The VCDD has been allowing For Sale and For Rent signs but they have also been forcing residents to remove "Don't Poop On My Lawn" or " Curb your Dog" signs all along. If a complaint is received they have gone to homes that had had some construction and is now completed and told the owner to remove the sign.
Now all of a sudden we are not allowed to go back to that. WHY???? Is it because it is just a way for VCDD to once again try and intimidate us into voting the way they want you to vote, for the Developer. I think that what the AAC and the Districts are doing right now is absolutely the best thing for the people of TV. They are not "Drinking the Kool-Aide" that is being spooned fed down their throats by the VCDD staff and they are making up their own mind. Don't get me wrong What the Developer has created is great, but he took all of the advantages of creating the VCDD Districts and made a lot of money from them, us and now he has to accept the other side of our self governing, as it should be.
What the Daily "My Name is Morse and I Approve This Message" Sun did not print is the 2nd
message that Ms. Parr delivered. And in part it was........"What are you all going to do when I am not here anymore to deal with these problems. My children are working in the business some but we won't be around forever so what are you going to do when we're gone?" ARE YOU KIDDING ME. What a slap in the face to all of those who serve on the AAC and the District Boards. I bet they didn't realize that they didn't have the brains to figure all of this out. Well, they do and by voting how they have they are showing that we can govern ourselves.
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The bottom line is not "rights being stolen from The Villagers", IMHO, but maintaining the Villages atmosphere and beauty. The people spreading the hysteria about eliminating real estate for rent or sale signs off the lawns and putting them in the windows are primarily outside real estate agents, flippers and landlords.
The footing is not unequal for outside real estate agents; organize, pony up the money to collectively publish a weekly magazine/brochure with all of your listings and keep it updated. Place these in the stores on perimeters of The Villages or your offices. More importantly, get one major website for all outside realtors of The Villages listings and keep it updated daily. Yes, this will require spending some of the nice profits independent realtors make from home selling. But I can understand why Mr. Morse is not anxious to have outside realtors riding on his coattails since he is the one who has willing spent HIS money to build The Villages. This doesn't mean a realtor can't have a successful business here, they just have to spend some of their profits too. Anyone who knows anything about real estate is aware a sign in the front yard of a property is the cheapest advertising a realtor can use, never mind what the neighbors think. If homes are selling south of 466A without signs in the yard, they will sell in other areas of The Villages using the same method. The Villages Real Estate teams have to employ the same method of signage and there is no advantage to them in that area.
I'm not interested in supporting rental businesses or flippers in The Villages but they can employ the same methods for advertising. This is the year 2012 and if you aren't using the internet for your business adventures, you're missing the boat. The younger, computer savvy crowd is the generation now perusing the "for sale" websites when looking for property in The Villages. A sign may also be used in the window.
For the people renting out their private home or selling their own home, get a good sign in the window and use the great "for sale or rent" by owner websites and place an ad in the Daily Sun. We sold our first home in The Villages without a realtor or yard sign and had great success employing the above mentioned techniques. (We did put a sign in a window.) We have sold 6 homes over the years and not one was because of a yard sign. The homes sold through advertising in the newspaper and internet, the same methods we used to find the next home.
We also had the luxury of witnessing a former neighbor endlessly tie balloons to a light post at the entrance of our neighborhood and on his yard sign, "house for sale". He seldom took down the balloons, even when they were half or completely deflated, leaving a real eyesore in the neighborhood. Only took him two years to sell with that sales method, :shocked: I would like to see open houses limited to 4 days per week, per home.
We aren't losing all of our freedoms because signs must now be posted in a window; super cheap advertising may over for outside realtors, professional renters and flippers but homes can still be easily sold and lots of money made without yard signs. I don't live north of 466 but I have a dog in this fight, that may be the area of our next move. :icon_wink:
