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South Carolina Neighborhood Pushes Back Against Dubious Development

“If other neighborhoods aren’t careful, it’s going to happen to them…”

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dogfan1987 Top fan August 27, 2025 at 6:01 pm

Laurens just approved one of these on the old Watts Mill site. We will have to watch and see how it develops.

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Linda August 27, 2025 at 8:02 pm

This company came to the board and said they were planning on building the luxury townhomes geared at seniors. They then proceeded to build tiny townhomes with all of the bedrooms on the second floor. I don’t know what senior would be interested in that? They have also done a lot of damage to the houses and yards alongside of them from all of the mud runoff, and they completely killed all of the fish and one of our neighborhood ponds. Another neighborhood pond is so full of silt and a lot of the fish have died off there as well. The neighborhood has had to employ a new pond management company to try to bring life back to our fishing holes. This is just some of the frustration that neighbors have with this. We knew some of our walking trails maybe be torn down as that property was for sale, but it was definitely not presented as being mass rental property. This makes me really sad. I am on my second house in this community as are a lot of people and I love it here. The original developer put in houses of all price points with the original plan as people getting a starter home here and then expanding to a larger home as their family and budget expanded. It would’ve been fantastic to have some homes to progress to after that to retire to and bring everything full circle. He would be rolling in his grave if he saw these things.

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Sarah Lewis August 28, 2025 at 5:44 am

I’m a Realtor who lives in CHP. We were alerted to their intentions when the developers Realtor began marketing them as having No Rental Restrictions. That’s not typically something we would promote , unless our target audience is investors.
It’s been clear from the very beginning, that we were misled when told they would build luxury townhomes for senior residents.

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L August 28, 2025 at 8:18 pm

So presumably these are rentals that will cost in the multiple thousands a month to rent, or at least probably $2000 and up at a minimum. Since these homes are within the HOA the owner (landlord) would need to pay dues and abide by the CCRs. Why is this such an issue? If they bring in some folks that don’t keep up the standards then use the CCRs to fine the owner (landlord).

Entering in to protracted legal proceedings that is going to cost the HOA 10’s of thousands is not going to do anybody any good.

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Jill Allison Top fan September 4, 2025 at 9:29 pm

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Jill Allison Top fan September 4, 2025 at 9:29 pm

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Anonymous August 29, 2025 at 5:32 pm

Criminal Charges can easily be brought against these developers and their construction buddies.

They are involved with using ILLEGAL ALIENS labor on their to projects. They can face decades in prison for it

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