Posted on 02/15/2015 9:08:46 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
Using Agitprop and elements of the Delphi propaganda method (3), lethal Home Owners Associations (HOAs) are moving north out of huge Miami-Fort Lauderdale territories up along Floridas I-95 corridor to take over more and more personal property rights of unsuspecting homeowners in gated, HOA communities. And the effects are not pretty! Resetting the default position. . .exploits the structure of the choice to encourage a more desirable option, says Cass R. Sunstein, author of the book NUDGE. (1) Employed by the Obama Administration as a regulatory czar, it was Sunsteins job to have the American people do what the government wanted them to do, all the while believing it was actually their own idea!
A heuristic is a term applied to getting a student or other type of governmental human unit to do what government wants them to do by programing certain choices involving quick decisions and empirical thought processes rather than theory based decision. Most conservatives should be quite aware of the United Nations inspired Agenda 21, Seven/50 attempts to take over private property of unsuspecting Americans. Choice Architecture, a devastating term developed by Sunstein and co-author Richard Thaler, is defined this way: If you want a person to reach a desirable outcome and you cant change the heuristic shes following, then you have to meddle with the choice architecture, setting up one that when matched with the given heuristic delivers the desirable (for govt) outcome, writes the former Obama czar. (2) Nudging HOA residents along the path of cessation of private property rights plays into big government agendas!
Remnants of Agenda 21 are destroying the peace of neighborhoods and towns in South Florida. All along the coast, citizens and local governments are being traumatized by the All Aboard Florida project that seeks to run at least 32 trains...
(Excerpt) Read more at coachisright.com ...
The fact that you did not have a problem in a 3 year time frame doesn’t invalidate the notion that it can (and does) happen in many cases.
The problem with HOAs is that you can not know the character of same until you are living there, invested. Well, I suppose if you can rent a unit and then query the neighbors. But then, things can change over time, and I’m not only not the busybody type who seeks to surveil his neighbors, but I don’t especially like those who are. It isn’t my preference. But people orders of magnitude more normal than I am may find it to their liking. Even if there were no HOA, I am not a fan of OWNING in that type of clustered, uniform environment. Renting an apartment is fine.
If you want to get a good idea of what is was like to live in east germany during the cold war, buy a house in an HOA ruled subdivision.
It’s like buying your own little slice of the socialist surveillance state. But if that is what you want, don’t whine when you get it.
I have an HOA in Portland - it works quite well for me....but if you want to use a chemical pesticide on bugs another resident threatens lawsuits. We’ve had a few altercations but overall it works quite well. I think it has helped maintain the value of our investment.
On the other hand, the HOA our Seattle condo - everyone lives in one building - was awful.
Lesson: before you buy, read the title report and all the documents listed in the title report. Consider buying extended title insurance. If the title company overlooked something that costs you, you can make a claim.
HEY! Just because I slaughter chickens, goats, and pigs in my back yard doesn't make this a bad place. ;)
/johnny
Gated communities put washing machines in their front yard?
Back in the early 70’s when condos were first becoming popular in FlyOver-Country, I bought a townhouse in a development that was being converted from apartments to condos.
We had the first developer/homeowners meeting and I got chosen as president. Served two years. More than 50% of the homeowners were upset with me for enforcing one rule or another (”why can’t I have more than the standard two reserved parking spaces?”, etc.). The HOA board had to hire a lawyer to force homeowners to pay their fair allotment for maintenance and repairs.
I was very glad when the two years was up. My first, last and only experience with a HOA.
Back in the early 70’s when condos were first becoming popular in FlyOver-Country, I bought a townhouse in a development that was being converted from apartments to condos.
We had the first developer/homeowners meeting and I got chosen as president. Served two years. More than 50% of the homeowners were upset with me for enforcing one rule or another (”why can’t I have more than the standard two reserved parking spaces?”, etc.). The HOA board had to hire a lawyer to force homeowners to pay their fair allotment for maintenance and repairs.
I was very glad when the two years was up. My first, last and only experience with a HOA.
There are too many Democrats and other such stupid people. Good leftists demonstrate their progressive chops by buying houses in HOAs to keep out the riff-raff. They need a helicopter mommy and daddy to tell them how to live, when to mow their lawn, what color to paint their house, what are the proper hobbies.
As long as Leftists need someone to wipe their bottoms, we'll have HOAs.
A business associate of mine spent two years dealing with a situation involving a foreclosure case that was based on a fraudulent lien that had been filed on his property. To be more accurate, there was never a lien on the property. Someone took a lien on a different property and altered it by hand before filing the foreclosure suit against him. He's now suing the condominium association and all of the officers involved in the foreclosure case.
P.S. The foreclosure case went down in flames after the attorney who filed the legal papers on behalf of the association informed the judge in the case that he had retained his own attorney in the matter.
That’s the message that I’m getting. No thanks.
“I live where there is a HOA, and never again.”
I am in my second HOA. Both very pleasurable experiences.
” Dont buy or live in a HOA neighborhood.
If enough people dont do this, developers will not create them because they will not sell houses.”
Perhaps they build them because people want them?
Ding, ding ding! We have a winner.
HOAs are no different from any other level of government. Keep them small and stay involved. We are in one because the house and property were planned that way from the start. There are only 39 homes but they are on acreage in a gorgeous rural setting. I made sure I got elected to the board (of 5) and I frequently talk to my neighbors so they will keep me there. And then I recruited like-minded people to run for the board as well.
This is my ballot statement that gets me reelected every two years:
The last thing any of us needs these days is another layer of rule-making government in our lives. It is my goal in serving on The Board to seek a balance between minimal intrusion in our lives and retaining an attractive neighborhood where we can tastefully personalize our own properties within the guidelines of the original quiet, rural vision for [development name].
“I cant imagine living in a neighborhood where my neighbors can tell me what color to paint my house.”
Perhaps people wouldn’t want to live next door to you after you paint your house?
These developers are finding that they can't get the financing for the projects if they are built as condominiums.
“As long as Leftists need someone to wipe their bottoms, we’ll have HOAs.”
Our HOA community is over 90% republican. It is nice also, to keep the riff-raff like you out.
I’m a fan of good fences and reasonable zoning laws, HOA restrictions and amendments just sort of multiply like bunnies, and heaven help you when a board member loses their job or retires and starts viewing the association as their mission.
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