Letter to neighborhood committee

Maybe the new committeeman's inexperience makes him believe he has extraordinary rights over my property or naiveté makes him believe all of us are not full time involved in a demanding competitive real estate market. He must believe each of us faces the market only when our houses are for sale and the whole neighborhood doesn’t matter, only what is visible in front of his door.

We have houses for sale now that don’t sell. That should be a red flag that we are not competitors. It should signal we need to take council from real estate agents rather than pull ideas out of out of our shorts. yet new neighborhoods on Band Road and Cottonwood have buyers lined up. They have better roads, higher fees, they cut the grass out onto the county right-of-way showing they are competing for market value. They have more street lights, they are not bankrupt and can enforce the restrictions. They are not petitioning to vote away 7 million worth of restrictions in exchange for nothing, as was done here a year and half ago in the worst piece of horse trading that I’ve ever seen.

Gene Haynes