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financial provisions necessary to making any ownership, irrespective of any personal sporting
such ownership effective and prescribed on a or recreational choices and individual interests.
secure legal footing, as this ownership would On the need to develop a total and inclusive
require the use of HOA funds. sense of community, Pecanwood’s HOA’s CEO
In broader terms, it has been argued perennially
that there are three pillars which underpin a
successful residential estate, and these are
security, facilities and community.
In respect of security, Pecanwood has embarked
on a revision of its relationship with service
providers. This change will have the potential
to offer enhanced levels of surveillance, while
removing much of the capital cost to the HOA’s
budget associated with this key element.
Facility upgrades, outside of those projects
directly affecting the golf course, have been
initiated and/or completed, so as to ensure
that the core lifestyle attributes that Pecanwood
offers to its homeowners have either been
enhanced or extended.
Finally, in terms of continuing to develop and
nurture a sense of community, perhaps the most
difficult element to capture effectively at any
estate, the HOA’s most important goal has been
to imbue a new sense of total ownership by
individual residents of every aspect and facility
that makes up Pecanwood.
The intention with this approach is that the
HOA wants to create a broader sense of
communal unity and dilute the parochial senses
of ownership which only relate to interest in
specific facilities or matters. This will mean
that while the estate will continue to offer a
range of activities and events that cater to
the eclectic and varied tastes of its residents,
it will be overarched by the sense of total
Francois Schoeman comments that “No man is
an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece
of the continent, a part of the main.
“I feel that John Donne’s eloquent poetry sums
up exactly what makes a community work, and
that in an estate the residents cannot expect to
stand by and watch as major assets adjacent
to other people’s single biggest investment
deteriorate without being an active participant in
developing a solution. If they think that changing
or adjusting to this reality is difficult, then they
will struggle with the results of their inaction,
as this will be much more detrimental and have
far more negative long-term consequences,” he
concludes.
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