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Article: Dispute Over Control Lashes Heritage Harbour; Owners at Annapolis Project Fight Developer
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- The Washington Post
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- May 18, 1991
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Chuck Foltyn had a vision of the future when he moved to a
retirement-home development near Annapolis in 1985: a relaxed,
hassle-free world where he could manage his own affairs and not have
to worry about such incidentals as cutting grass and shoveling snow.
But before he had unpacked, some of his Heritage Harbour
neighbors set him straight. The developer, Houston-based U.S. Home
Corp., was making decisions about such basic services as
grass-cutting without consulting homeowners who paid monthly fees to
have the sprawling development maintained, Foltyn said.
"I was appalled by the element of control" by U.S. Home, Foltyn
said. He immediately joined the Heritage Harbour Homeowners