Excuse me, I was president of our HO association for two terms. We had a good conservative board.
You must think all homeowners are choir boys and girls. Wrong. Many will flout every covenant and evade every responsibility they can if they're not dealt with legally and promptly.
And then they cry and whine that THEY'RE the victims and the association board is the perp. And people like you fall for it.
One jerk, an attorney of all things, painted his house day-glo lime over a weekend hoping he'd get away with it. He thought wrong.
Leni
Assuming this story has any validity to it, you don't see anything criminal in selling a $300,000 dollar home for $3,500 to collect an $800 debt?
Idiot.
Your particular HOA may have been quite a good one. Ours is and I’ve found them to be quite pleasant to deal with when some of the neighborhood Nazis get their dander up (self-appointed community busybodies who love nothing better than to stroll the neighborhood and report any possible offender who might have left his Christmas lights up longer than a week past New Year’s).
However, there are plenty of HOA in our county that have quite the opposite reputation. I haven’t heard of one as egregious as this particular story sounds, but they are staffed by the Barney Fife type, jumping on the homeowner over every single neighborhood Nazi’s complaints and sending out letters, fines, and nastygrams.