Posted on 02/08/2015 9:27:33 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Committees are now drafting bills to be presented in the March session of the Florida legislature. If enough citizen input is received demanding regulation of single family residences in Florida’s gated communities and regulation of drug-re-hab centers now being located in private neighborhoods (which may or may not be gated), relief just may be coming for oppressed homeowners, their families, their children!
About ten years ago, the Flower Pots bill was successfully passed which regulated only residents of condo communities. However, the State of Florida was reluctant to do anything about giving protection to those of us who own and maintain our own homes in gated communities; protection, that is, from the same Condo Commando mentality that made life miserable for condo dwellers. Hopefully, Florida lawmakers will draft and pass legislation that can exemplify for the entire country just what is needed to protect long suffering homeowners from heavy handed tactics of Home Owner Association (HOA) boards of trustees, the legal firms they hire and the management services they engage to “control” residents, many of whom are elderly, sick, or too beaten down to fight back.
We all become aware of the tensions bubbling just beneath the surface of these Potemkin villages when some sick veteran is put through the HOA meat grinder when he tries to fly the American flag in front of a home he fought and sacrificed to make safe. But here are important issues Florida’s lawmakers need to address first: 1. TERM LIMITS now are vital to stop the ingrained and perhaps, self-serving mindset of HOA board members who are returned to office by select cliques which they accommodate in a quid-pro-quo of political nastiness that shuts out other homeowners. One HOA just had their lawyers deem it perfectly acceptable to hold another election when...
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In the analogy between Christian bakers and gays your position is the same as the gays. You want to sic the government on someone to force them to sell you something they don’t want to.
You would have to sign that contract to make your analogy work. You don’t have to.
If you didn’t you could make your own pants or buy pants from someone else who doesn’t make you sign such a contract.
Yeah the developers who control the development use HOAs.
The “desireable” properties meaning the extreme high end are actually the ones NOT in a HOA.
I find that very hard to believe.
Can you cite the State and the law restricting viewing the HOA contract?
If you think desirable means paying thousands of dollars in property taxes every month.
There are also some municipalities in South Florida that every bit as strict as HOA’s.
There was an epic thread on the net some years ago about a guy that got booted and then dollied the car into the garage for a long term re-work. When they came back he said they could leave the boot there or remove it but he was not paying.
It all got so nasty that the thread was pulled after the tow truck people and HOA started getting calls at home.
Evidently restraining orders were flying like snow. It was called “Dollyman” or something like that.
Man, you need a plow truck, not a snow blower.
Wow! I just don’t get where HOAs think they can do whatever they want. Luckily we don’t have an HOA where we bought.
You can buy land.
Anyway, I find this whole discussion hilarious because on this site are so many people who complain about people who want to buy certain kinds of housing that are regulated out of existence by government.
No, that has nothing to do with having an HOA.
It was a Contract between the Landowner and his Tenants. I would say Lease, but a Lease has a time restriction.
Had a chance to question Don. tonight and found out that belonging to this particular association was an $20 a month elective. Which my biddy buddy did. But it was run more like a co-op buyers group for maintainence and construction work. And because less than 70% of the owners belonged to it when this Senior Housing trailer park was sold the new owners changed it to general no age restricted and jacked up the lot rental.
Not true at all.
The people adding HOA to the deeds whether the future buyer wants it or not is the problem
Good points! I would also add, Get on the HOA board and change things from within.
Who are these “people” who are adding HOA to the deeds?
Future buyers are not the owners of the property. They have no rights because they do not own the property and have nothing whatsoever to do with the property
Well said!
Especially “Maybe the worst horror stories are from those places run by retirees with more time on their hands than they know what to do with.” so true.
and future buyers should not be forced to keep that restriction in the deed when they do buy it
Anyone STUPID enough to buy a house with covenants on the deeds and part of an HOA gets what they deserve.
I know that sounds flippant but its true, you voluntarily agreed to buy a “property” that let other folks decide what you could do with and how you could use it.
I’m in a semi-rural area, but to gain standing with the county we had to form a Neighborhood Association. This was to solve a single issue regarding a guy selling water (we’re all on wells). It was a good sign that nobody wanted to be president, so we cut cards. Once the problem was solved, we ended the association.
Well, OK then, if I buy a property with an easement or any other encumbrances on the deed I should be able to get rid of those if I want ... that’s what you are saying.
an HOA is not a government so it is not the same thing, it might as well say the homebuyer must join the Boy Scouts
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