Several newsletters and notifications have been sent out in the past asking that all residents please follow certain procedures for entry to the property when the gate is active. These policies were designed to maintain proper vehicle flow and minimize wear and tear on the equipment. While a majority of residents have complied, the number that hasn’t has caused several issues with illegal entry and maintenance problems. We are now able to program the gate operation to eliminate some of these issues. Woodlake has changed the way the drop-down gate/barrier arm works when entering the property. Now when you enter the property and there is another vehicle in front of you, you must wait until the car in front of you goes through the gate and the barrier arm comes all the way down to a complete stop before using your vehicle entry pass. If you use your card or Click-to Enter while the barrier arm is in motion it will not accept the command to open and you will have to back up and start over. These changes were made to help prevent problems that were caused to the barrier arm being stopped while in motion and reversing direction. The timing of the barrier arm dropping once a car has past has also been accelerated to prevent more than one vehicle from entering at a time.
We continue to have problems with residents putting unauthorized items in the garbage and landscape dumpsters. There are eight garbage dumpster enclosures throughout Woodlake and they are for household garbage only. No appliances, bedding, furniture, etc. is allowed. We also have one landscape dumpster which is used for landscape debris only, no appliances, bedding, furniture, etc. is allowed in this dumpster either. All appliances, bedding, furniture, etc. must be taken off the property by the owner or tenant. We must pay an outside contractor almost every week to remove unauthorized items. This is a cost that is passed on to All owners and results in higher regime fees and rents. This is literally taking money out of your pockets. If you see anyone putting any unauthorized items in or around any dumpster please call the on-site office at 843 689-3366 and let us know who it was and what villa they came from or get the make, model, color and license plate number of the vehicle. There is a $50.00 reward offered for information that results in an offender being caught and fines paid. Further, no Owner or Tenant shall send any employee of the Property Manager out of the complex on any private business and shall not direct any employee to do any kind of work on the property without first asking the on-site superintendent or the Property Manager.
