To the Editor:
I recently received a complaint about a recent garage sale we had.
My 90-year-old mother was recently sent to us from upstate New York along with a United Van Lines truck filled with her belongings. We were at our wits end as to what to do. We posted a garage sale the Wednesday before The Lynnhaven community sale to try to cut down on some of these things and then joined in on the Lynnhaven sale on Saturday. Everything else was donated to charity.
In turn that following week our next-door neighbor that we had never had problems with turned us in and filed a complaint against us. Too many garage sales, balloons, signs etc running a business. etc.
Wouldn’t you think a good neighbor would have knocked on our door and voiced a complaint before going to such extremes.
Is the Villages really the friendliest hometown or just a melting pot for complainers that don’t have anything better to do with their time?
What I’m trying to say is if you’re going to let someone file a complaint against another resident, The Villages had better be enforcing their own rules and regulations they certainly don’t seem to be doing.
For example the guy that has had the turkey display in his yard for 14 years featured in the Wednesday, Nov. 26 Daily Sun. Just ride around the entire Villages and see balloons, yard sale signs, open house sign with balloons, yard ornaments.
Linda Chapman
Village of Lynnhaven
