Excuse me for being one of the 'outsiders' making a comment here. My wife and I stopped to talk to the woman with the sign when we visited Daybreak for the second time to look at model homes. She was very nice, very complimentary of Daybreak in general, and was simply upset about an issue involving empty homes around her property (she referred to them as 'rentals'[?]) not being cared for. Even the woman we spoke to at the information center - an employee of Daybreak - said that she had a legitimate gripe.

Anyway, what we later found out to be a real shocker re: HOA issues was that the HOA fees for the Garden Village (55-plus) are projected to eventually be around $300. We were told that they would be around $100 to start but that as additional services (unspecified) were added, the HOA would be charging more - perhaps within three years.

Since the 55-plus Garden Village was the reason we became interested in Daybreak in the first place, this fee revelation plus the discussion with the woman at the round-about plus the Ivory Homes rep telling us that models for Garden Village were delayed (we had come all the way from CA because models were scheduled to be ready by late June) added up to a very discouraging day at Daybreak for us. You might say it 'broke our day'. (Sorry - very bad pun, but I couldn't resist.)

I have to admit, however, that I have never known a housing development of any kind that had an HOA that made everyone happy. Maybe it's going to take some time for Daybreak to find the right people/agency to do the job right.