A couple in The Villages facing $10,000 in deed compliance fines claim they were harassed by their neighbors and had 24 cameras pointed at them.
The saga of the problematic property at 4540 Pearlman Way in the Village of DeLuna dates back to a 2025 deed compliance hearing when neighbors raised concerns before a special master at the District Office at Brownwood. They said the homeowners, Steven Walls and Debbie Gammon, had greatly deviated from the landscaping plan they had submitted to the Architectural Review Committee.
They claimed the resulting work at the couple’s home flooded neighbor properties, had suspicious chemicals draining into the nearby pond and created a lot of hard feelings. The home was the subject of another deed compliance hearing earlier this year.
Now Walls and Gammon are claiming they are the victims and they are asking that $10,000 in fines they are facing will be forgiven by the Community Development District 12 Board of Supervisors. The board will consider the matter when supervisors meet at 1 p.m. Monday at Everglades Recreation Center.
In an email this past week to The Villages District Government Director of Resident Services Matt Armstrong, Gammon laid out her case. She also described problems in an Opinion piece previousl published in Villages-News.com.
She claimed that the neighbors began harassing them in May 2025. They said neighbors called the police and reported that Walls and Gammon were playing loud music. When that didn’t work, she claims neighbors filed six complaints with Community Standards about weeds, dead grass, a small statute, a pool enclosure that was too large, pool lights and their landscaping.
“No one ever told us that if a neighbor became angry with you that it could cause this type of backlash and harassment,” Gammon said in the email.
They paid a landscaping company $2,000 to try to bring their landscaping into compliance.
When the landscapers tried to work at their home, Gammon claims two neighbors stood on the edge of their property in what she claims was an attempt to intimidate the workers, one of whom was Mexican and the other who was African American. The police were called, but they found no wrongdoing. One of the neighbors placed an oscillating sprinkler on his property so if constantly rained down on the landscapers as they tried to perform their work. The landscaping company owner asked the couple for an additional $1,000 to perform the work, due to the alleged harassment.
Gammon also claims a neighbor pointed a total of 24 cameras and spotlights at their home, including the master bedroom.