[Alberta's Child]

The problem with HOAs and condominiums is that an awful lot of them fall into two opposite ends of the spectrum: (1) overbearing management and governance, and (2) owners on a condominium board who simply don't give a sh!t and allow the property to fall into a state of disrepair.

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.

[C. Edmund Wright]

That’s reasonable.....HOAs can be awful, or a God send - because people are people and people are flawed. But the notion of an HOA is neither inherently good or bad with respects to rights. It’s case by case.