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My HOA Dollars at Work?

This is what a retention pond should NOT look like.

Waterford Lakes is a fabulous community. I own a property in here. The Association is very good at sending notices when there’s an infraction. So, why don’t they do anything about this eye sore?

Let’s break this down…

First of all, I’m not a big fan of the chain link fence around a retention pond at the entrance of a community. If you’re going to put up a fence, at least build a nice iron one.

Second, an unmowed, weed infested ::: was that a mole cricket that just ran over my foot? ::: fungus-growing thatch of straw that someone, somewhere calls grass doesn’t really scream, “BUY IN HERE!”

This leads me to the most obvious, and most distressing, object of my wrath…an umbrella in the pond. I am not exaggerating when I say that this umbrella has been here since I bought the house almost 2 1/2 years ago. Does nobody else notice this? Is my neighbor’s patchy grass worth noting but an umbrella is easily overlooked? Granted, you don’t see the umbrella sometimes when the water’s high. It’s just a teaser, though, because as soon as the drought that’s been plaguing us returns, so does the umbrella.

All you realtors out there…you know this retention pond (or one like it)…how do you even begin to sell a house in this market when you enter a subdivision and see…THIS?