[champion6]

Originally Posted by Talk Host

We have been recently informed by the Deed Compliance office that we can't use our home address to receive TOTV related mail. I guess, they feel that it implies that we are conducting business from our home.
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We were turned in by one of our members.

Hmmm... TH, how on earth would a member know the mailing address that you are using for TOTV business correspondence?

[Talk Host]

Originally Posted by champion6

Hmmm... TH, how on earth would a member know the mailing address that you are using for TOTV business correspondence?

It's possible to find out any information from public records.

[Talk Host]

Originally Posted by Lone Traveller

I've read thing on this forum that imply TV is not happy having TOTV around. Could this just be an attempt to shut us down?

I really don't believe that to be the case.

[Becky]

I guess I can't figure out how someone knows what mail you receive. Don't think my neighbors or anyone else around here knows what mail I receive. Seems to me BogeyBoy is right about this. Who cares what mail someone gets?

Becky

[Talk Host]

Originally Posted by Becky

I guess I can't figure out how someone knows what mail you receive. Don't think my neighbors or anyone else around here knows what mail I receive. Seems to me BogeyBoy is right about this. Who cares what mail someone gets?

Becky

If you check the public records for coporations, LLCs or any other type of business, you can learn the mailing address of the company and the principals of the business.

In regard to "who cares what mail someone gets, " a person makes it their business to find out this type of information when they set out to cause as much trouble, heartache and problem for somebody as they can possibly muster. The same type of person who sends over 60 threatening emails. The same type of person who promises the police that they will discontinue the "cyber stalking" immediately, then continue the next day. There are all kinds of people out there with all kinds of motivations. We all have our crosses to bear.

There are a couple of questions I would have if I were you. (a) Is this selective enforcement since others are conducting business in the villages (b) how would anyone know what mail you receive at your home without an invasion of privacy and (c) does receiving mail alone necessarily constitute doing business.
A simple call to an Attorney asking for a legal position seems to be in order.

[Becky]

Sounds like someone needs to MTOB (their own)! Who has time to check all that info and why do they care? They need serious help. I'd be inclined to check with an attorney for the stalking! Scary!

Becky

[rshoffer]

I am sure this places me in a minority but there are a number of things about living in TV that I do not like. (ok, I'm ready for the "love it or leave it responses"). This big brother, paternalistic mentality is repugnant.

[rshoffer]

Originally Posted by champion6

Hmmm... TH, how on earth would a member know the mailing address that you are using for TOTV business correspondence?

Open up a post office box in Lady Lake.

[Talk Host]

Originally Posted by rshoffer

Open up a post office box in Lady Lake.

Funny, you should say that. We did have a post office box in Lady Lake (for six years) to avoid just this issue. We closed it three weeks ago and forwarded our mail to this address in preparation for our move. This all happened inside the past three weeks.

[rshoffer]

Originally Posted by Talk Host

Funny, you should say that. We did have a post office box in Lady Lake (for six years) to avoid just this issue. We closed in three weeks ago and forwarded our mail to this address in preparation for our move. This all happened inside the past three weeks.

Sounds like you have a number of good reasons to move.

[Keedy]

Talk Host...You are moving away from The Villages? It make me sad to see good people leave. It is still my number one wish to move down south and probably to TV. Are you moving far away?

[Talk Host]

Originally Posted by Keedy

Talk Host...You are moving away from The Villages? It make me sad to see good people leave. It is still my number one wish to move down south and probably to TV. Are you moving far away?

We are building a new house East of Tampa. We wanted to be a little further south and a little warmer winter climate with a larger piece of property.

[diskman]

Originally Posted by Talk Host

We have been recently informed by the Deed Compliance office that we can't use our home address to receive TOTV related mail. I guess, they feel that it implies that we are conducting business from our home. As a matter of convenience, we listed our home address for mail that we get for Talk of The Villages through our corporate name. The compliance office has told us that we can't do that and we have to move the address out of the Villages. We can't do business inside the Villages. IN our case, our server is in Canada, the business office is in Pa. and the IT office is is Tennessee. We just get our mail here. There is absolutely no vehicular traffic at our house, no meetings, no transactions, just a piece of mail now and then. 90% of our correspondence is by email.

It was indicated to us that there is a "crack down" under way.

One has to wonder how many business are actually run in the Villages and when will the Compliance Office lower the boom on people who are picking up a few extra bucks from home. I'm guessing there are thousands of people using ebay, doing taxes, selling merchandise, cutting lawns, installing carpet, house watching and so on.

We were turned in by one of our members. If a neighbor turns you in, you gotta stop conducting your business, I guess.

It kinda gives me the willies to think that we have to be careful about who knows what, for fear they will report you to the authorities. Any thoughts?

And, yes, I know it is spelled out in the deed restrictions. My only defense was that the business is conducted elsewhere and that we just get mail our here. I was told that using my home address to get my business mail is forbidden.

Here's what you do. You go to one of those mail box places and get a box, then for a small service charge they will put your mail in another envelope and send it to your personal address addressed to Jan.

[BobKat1]

Originally Posted by Talk Host

We are building a new house East of Tampa. We wanted to be a little further south and a little warmer winter climate with a larger piece of property.

You lucky guy. We have some good friends who built a beautiful home in the Weeki Wachee/Brooksville area a couple of years ago and they love it. They looked at all of the communities in the Central FL and decided they wanted a bigger property, and liked the fact that their housing $$'s went a little further too.