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Vol. XI N E W S L E T T E R, Viki Strandberg, editor - [email protected] October 2015 For More Information Visit Our Website www.MyCasaDelLago.com FROM PRESIDENT BOYER’S DESK Is it Time to Clean your Roof? Please check. October is the start of roof cleaning season and from the A BIG Thank You! looks of it, many homes need to have it done. Ask for a We had a huge Bar-B-Que Party crowd on Sept. 12th quote before you agree with any contractor. Be sure who were well-fed and enjoyed lively conversation, that they are both licensed and insured. Cleaning the drinks, burgers, side dishes, desserts, and music. Our roof tiles can be done using two methods – pressure Clubhouse Committee volunteers went all out to create a washing or soft washing. Using a “soft wash” roof Bar-B-Que party that brought out over 150 community cleaning service uses low pressure application of neighbors, families, and friends last month. Thank you chemicals to kill and remove dark mold, keeping the roof to all of the volunteers who contributed their time and clean longer and increasing the life expectancy of the talent in hosting this event. In particular, thanks go to roof tiles. Using high pressure cleaning service works by Judie, Phil, Debbie, Fred, Kim, Reba, Carol, Carolyn, blasting the mold off the roof tiles but can wear down Joyce, Tom, Mary, Jerry, and others that stayed to help the roof surface and remove color from the tiles. Soft with the party cleanup. Wow! Wash is a gentler and becoming more popular. We are soft washing our clubhouse roof in October. Soft Wash Upcoming Board Meeting Wednesday, Oct. 7th roof cleaning by “Shine Window Care” (call 239-275- It’s time again. Our Board of Directors, for both the 3037) has recently quoted us $350 for any single story Homeowners Association and the Master POA will meet home in our neighborhood and $400 for a two story and vote on drafts of the 2016 Budgets Wednesday, home. For Traditional high pressure washing we have October 7th, beginning at 7PM. Following the meetings, been quoted $300 by “Professional Home Services” (call copies of draft budgets will be mailed to all 239-433-4554) for a single-story home. homeowners. Final approval of the 2016 Budgets will occur at a future Board Meeting to be held Wednesday, HOA Financial Update through August 31, 2015 Dec. 2, 2015. All Homeowners are invited to attend all Total HOA Income August year to date was $340,905, of our Association Board meetings. The Board of Total Expenses year to date were $348,344. As a result, Directors will also review a proposal to amend the we have spent $7,445 over budget year to date. We Association Documents and Rules and Regulations expect to be under budget by the end of this year. As regarding Leasing Homes in our Community. We hope of August 31st, our Reserves Accounts are standing at you will mark this date on your calendar. $249,272, which is 15% higher than last year. Community Garage Sale Saturday, October 31st Test Your Home Security System If you have security monitoring services, please contact your alarm company and let them know you want to test your system. Once they know this will be a test, they will not dispatch the police to your house when you set the alarm off. A test is needed to see if the monitoring We will open the front entranceway gates on Saturday, company actually gets a signal from your home. October 31st from 7:30AM (at sunrise) to 4PM for anyone wishing to hold a garage sale. Since security is Grass & Sprinkler Damage a concern for our gated community, the HOA Board Please let your family members and visitors know that established a policy of designating three times a year they cannot park with any tires on the grass. Repair for Garage Sales (the last Saturday in February, June, expenses for damaged sod or sprinkler heads will be and October). The next date is the last Saturday in charged to those homeowners as necessary. February. The purpose of this newsletter is solely to provide information for residents of Casa del Lago. Schoo Management, Inc. and the Deer Lake HOA Board cannot be held responsible for its accuracy. Any misrepresentation is purely accidental and will be corrected. 1 Poker Group Forming! Men or women interested in joining a Poker group to be held at the Casa clubhouse should contact our neighbor, Doc Fenner who wants to organize this group. You may reach him by email at [email protected] or by phone at 832-444-7713. Tips For New Homeowners: 1. If you need a new gate entry code, clubhouse replacement key card or entry gate clicker, contact me FROM THE LANDSCAPE COMMITTEE at [email protected] or 415-1633. There is a $10 charge for clubhouse cards and $20 for gate clickers. Wet Weather Problems! As the rains have continued late into our rainy season and even beyond, our lawns 2. Mailbox repairs and replacements are maintained and have become saturated. This makes it difficult to mow paid for by the Association. Contact me for repairs. evenly or even at all. The heavy mowers may seem to be going too fast at times, but they may be trying to get 3. Cars parked overnight on the neighborhood streets out of a very soft area, in order not to sink in. WILL BE TOWED at owner’s risk and expense without Scheduled for October: turf fertilization, palm warning. So please keep vehicles in your garage or fertilization, and trimming of shrubs. If you have some driveway and off the streets between midnight and 6AM. plants you do not want trimmed, tie a red ribbon around them. There will be a sign in our entranceway advising 4. Our community website contains lots of useful you of trim weeks. information: www.mycasadellago.com Royal Palm Vines Not Recommended: some homeowners have chosen to plant vines around their Have a Happy Halloween! Royal Palms. Please make sure you maintain them neatly, to keep the uniformity of our row of palms. Do George Boyer, Deer Lake HOA – President not allow vines to grow higher than 6 feet. Phone: 415-1633 [email protected] Halloween decorations: make sure wires are not left Deer Lake Homeowners Association, Inc. – President out in the lawn, where they could get mown over. Mowing is usually on Fridays, so you may want to pull in Dog Owners, Please be Considerate! standing decorations during that day. Next meeting: Monday, November 2, 2015, 8 AM, Clubhouse. The meetings are open to all homeowners; come and ask questions. Send landscape concerns or compliments to : CLA manager Bill Clark, 239-634-0089, [email protected] or homeowner volunteers Donna Cressman, 415-1633, [email protected], or Roxana Lugo, 917-749-8414. MANAGEMENT COMPANY INFORMATION Schoo Management, Inc. 9411 Cypress Lake Drive, Suite 2 Fort Myers, Florida 33919 Office: 239-481-4700 President Bob Gelles – 281-4701 (cell) [email protected] Assistant – Julie Harper 481-4700 [email protected] Our Website: www.MyCasadelLago.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The purpose of this newsletter is solely to provide information for residents of Casa del Lago. Schoo Management, Inc. and the Deer Lake HOA Board cannot be held responsible for its accuracy. Any misrepresentation is purely accidental and will be corrected. 2 KEY CONTACT INFORMATION: 2. How many teeth does the average adult have (including wisdom teeth)? George Boyer, President: 415-1633 a. 22 [email protected] b. 23 Phil Poston, Vice President: 275-6742 c. 32 [email protected] d. 34 Carolyn Gilbert, Vice President: 277-5743 3. Which actor is NOT from Canada: [email protected] a. Pamela Anderson Jeff Holiman, Treasurer: 727-415-7260 b. Fred Astaire [email protected] c. William Shatner Rob Cooper, Secretary: 337-6700 d. Dan Aykroyd [email protected] 4. In which war was the Battle of the Bulge? Charlie Kelly, Architectural Review a. World War I Board Chair 274-3871 [email protected] b. World War II Donna Cressman, Landscape Committee Chair c. The Vietnam War 415-1633 [email protected] d. The War against Obesity Debbie Wiegert, Clubhouse Committee Chair & Rentals 5. How much does one cubic yard of sand weigh? 313-5698 [email protected] a. 1.3 drams Jack Chancellor, Hurricane Committee Chair b. 1.3 pounds 936-5695 [email protected] c. 1.3 stone CLA Landscaping, Bill Clark d. 1.3 tons 634-0089 [email protected] 6. It is estimated author Barbara Cartland sold how many books? a. 2,000,000 FROM THE CLUBHOUSE COMMITTEE b. 20,000,000 c. 200,000,000 ASA DEL LAGO d. 2,000,000,000 S A FREE EVENT ASA DEL LAGO 7. What is the world’s 2nd largest country? a. Canada b. Antarctica c. Australia d. Brazil 8. Burt Ward was chosen as Robin on TV’s Clubhouse Committee Volunteers Needed “Batman” because he was: Volunteers needed to help plan clubhouse a. The grandson of the producer events – if you are interested please email me or call me b. A brown belt in karate at the phone number or email below. We need help c. The only applicant under 18 with planning the events as well as helping to serve and d. Once the world’s youngest professional clean up. ice skater at the age of 3 Now is a great time to reserve the clubhouse for 9. Who was featured on the first cover of “Playboy” those holiday parties, birthday parties, showers etc.