Oh the horror of it all!
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And please renew your golf club memberships!!
I’ve never understood the allure of wanting to move to a place where strangers are walking that close to your house all day long, hitting balls through your windows.
So, am I supposed to feel some emotion about this.
Outside of the fact that a gold course is the waste of a perfectly good rifle range, so what?
Or the Bob Newhart routine about Abner Doubleday on the phone with a game making company, trying to deal with the other end of the phone talking about games they want to sell are for 2 couples, that take an hour or less to play to completion. The world has changed, and the dinosaur houses on dinosaur courses have to accept that.
Like many of my generation I tried to take up golf because I was told it would be helpful to my career. I never really cared all that much for it but was I suppose passable on a Par 3. I couldn’t care less about playing golf now and the idea of living on a golf course just seems sort of stupid. The few people of my acquaintance who do have always had issues with strangers wandering around looking for lost balls or even broken windows. I think they should just let it revert back to nature or make a private greenway out of it and tear down the structures pertaining specifically to golf. That or develop it with more houses.
Does this mean public courses are now even more crowded then ever? I haven’t golfed in 20 years, but would like to get back into it now that I’m retired....
I’m the “World’s Worst Golfer”, so I could probably play that course, now that it’s in total ruin.
They should plow up the courses and build Section 8 housing. Problem solved.
That sounds like California in general.
Golf is declining. Tennis long ago lost it’s draw. Swimming pools are liability pits. Football and soccer are too dangerous. Don’t buy near a flood zone...
Were are going to have to build communities around video games.
I have a friend who got even worse treatment. He bought a house on a golf course in South Carolina, and even paid an extra $50.000 for a membership in the club. The developer went bankrupt. The friend not only had a dry ugly brown field in front of his house, he was out the $50 grand. At last check, the disposition of what’s left of the golf course was still in doubt. It could become more houses, further reducing the value of the homes around it.
I don't know what any of these people are complaining about. If nothing else, your closed-down 117-acre golf course is 117 acres of real estate that can be sold off for something else. Many of these associations have giant assets on their hands that can make their members a lot of money, if they play their cards right.
A number of communities in our area are facing this problem including the community that I live in. Some are finding they must buy their golf course and are finding their home owner’s fees increase from $150 per quarter to over $300 a month. There are a few communities where their home owner’s fees are over $1000 a month (but that includes trash pickup). It is almost impossible to sell one of these homes. In our community the golf course is privately owned and the HOA voted NOT to even touch this. Fortunately they’ve found a buyer who is going to reopen the course.
Ten years ago most of the residents did not think this would be a problem.
Oh the horror. Turn it into a park or woods.
Everybody knows never buy a house on a golf course. Well maybe not everybody.
I’m pretty sure that this is the epitome of a first world problem.
Golf?
I’d rather rebuild a 289 HiPo.
Choices, choices, choices . . .
Build high density, 4 story concentrated apartnent buildings on the former golf course. Attract welfare loafers with gibmedat freebies. Just hope the gubmint does not shut down.