AMENITIES UPDATE 

THE COMMUNITY POOL WILL BE OPENED ON MAY 3, 2024, AND WILL CLOSE ON SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 

IMPORTANT NOTICE (WHEN THE POOL IS OPEN FOR USE):

Please remember that The Estates Board of Directors decided to purchase identification badges with ID numbers for entry to the pool area. All of The Estates homeowners must display the badge when using the pool area. Anyone not having or displaying their badge will be asked to leave the pool area. If you are new to the community or if you have lost your pool badge, please contact Elysia Bonner at 404-835-9255. Replacement badges are $100.

While official restrictions are no longer a hurdle to the pool opening, we all still need to be smart and safe. The Association is not liable for any diseases you, your family, or your guests may be exposed to in any of the common areas owned by the Association.  As always, use the pool at your own risk, but for everyone’s safety, please read below and adhere to these precautions: 

• The pool is open daily from 7:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M. during the pool season.
• The pool is for homeowners and their guests use only. Each home is allowed no more
  than 4 guests per visit. Homeowners must accompany their respective guests at all
  times.
  
• Put the umbrellas down after use to prevent them from being damaged by the wind and
  storms.
  
• Smoking is not permitted in the pool area or around the clubhouse amenity.
  
• Homeowners who are delinquent in financial obligations to the Association cannot use the oool facilities.
  
• No glass is allowed in the pool area.
  
• No pets are allowed in the pool area.
  
• Children under the age of fourteen (14) are not allowed in the pool area unless they are
  accompanied by an adult homeowner or a member of their immediate families who are 18
  years of age or older.
  
• The pool area cannot be reserved for private use. Homeowners who wish to host
  children’s parties at the pool must first obtain permission from The Estates Homeowners
  Association by contacting Elysia Bonner at 404-835-9255.
  
• Each homeowner/guest must clean up and dispose of any trash generated by him/her
  prior to leaving the pool area.
• Radios, CD players, tape decks, etc., are permitted at low volume. Earphones must be
  used if a resident objects.
  
• Proper swimwear is required and decent behavior must be adhered to at all times. Please
  remove all hair accessories before entering the pool.
  
• Children needing diapers are required to wear swim diapers which are covered by plastic
  swimming pants at all times while in the pool. Swim diapers alone are not permitted.
  
• Do not open the pool gate for anyone under 18 years of age or any other adult without a
  pool key, unless you can verify current residency in The Estates. Management reserves
  the right to deny use of the pool to anyone at any time.
  
• Skateboards, roller blades, bicycles, scooters and motorized vehicles are not allowed in
  the pool area.
  

Homeowners and guests must abide by all pool rules. Failure to do so will result in pool privileges being revoked.

Tennis Courts, Basketball Court, and Playground are open and are subject to State and County Covid-19 social distancing guidelines.  With that being said, this comes with great caution to you and your family as you use these areas.  We will have signs posted (note below) in each area that warn anyone who comes to use the amenities, that they are using them at their own risk. We will not be cleaning or sanitizing these areas.  We ask that you would help us out with this.  Please remember that social distancing is still in play here.  Keep 6 ft. away and limit the amount of people in one area at any given time.  

Thank you for your patience as we navigate these difficult times.

The signs will read as follows:

ATTENTION

USE OF THE ESTATE’S AMENITIES IS AT YOUR OWN RISK.

YOU ARE PROHIBITED FROM USING THE AMENITY IF IN THE LAST 14 DAYS YOU HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH, OR HAVE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH, ANYONE DIAGNOSED WITH OR SUSPECTED TO HAVE COVID-19.

PLEASE CONSIDER YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES AND SURROUNDINGS. WASH YOUR HANDS OR USE HAND SANITIZER TO COMBAT THE SPREAD OF THE VIRUS.

PLEASE BRING YOUR OWN CLORAX or LYSOL WIPES. WIPE ANY, AND ALL, STRUCTURES THAT YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH.

THE HOA DOES NOT SANITIZE THESE AREAS.

YOU ARE USING THIS SPACE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

OUTDOOR LIGHTING OUTAGE – If there is a street light out near your driveway/home, contact Cobb EMC and provide the number from the light pole, or the house number closest to the pole, in their online request form and Cobb EMC will come out and replace the bulb.

24-HOUR SURVEILLANCE – Effective July 2019 our amenity areas will have 24-Hour video surveillance. Hopefully, this change will help protect our common areas from vandalism that we experienced this summer. 

VANDALISM AT OUR POOL AREA –  Last summer there were two incidences of vandalism at the pool. In the first incidence, chairs and umbrellas were thrown in the pool and toilet paper was thrown into the trees. In the second incident, there was extensive damage. In addition to chairs and umbrellas, tables, and garbage cans (with garbage) were thrown into the pool. The cement umbrella base was carried to the men’s restroom and used to puncture holes in the sheetrock, and then thrown in the sink. The Paulding County Sheriff’s office is investigating, but there were no witnesses and the vandals have not been caught.NOTICE OF MEETING: