Many residents are remodeling or adding great rooms to their homes.

"Especially with real estate values going through the roof and borrowing rates low, many residents are adding on to their homes."

Many residents have added floodlights to their lawns and houses.

To prepare for bad weather, residents change the oil in the boat engines and add antifreeze.

The residents of The Lawrence School would add another 1000 to this.

But, the residents added, such noises are common in the area.

Yet for all the camaraderie, most residents add that they are not necessarily close friends.

Another resident added: "Every night there was loud music and screaming."

One resident added: "It's a pretty well-to-do area around here so we don't get much police activity at all.

Three residents said the community had generally accepted the home, but added many people felt it had lowered their property values.