Posted on 01/09/2018 7:02:20 AM PST by Rebelbase
AUBURN, Calif. (WCMH) – Members of a California community are upset after their homeowners’ association told them they need to keep their garage doors open during the day.
A list left with homeowners in the Auburn Greens subdivision is giving many residents a cause for concern. It mandates leaving garage doors up from 8 a.m. through 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, KTXL reported.
Residents who fail to keep their garage door up face a $200 fine and an administrative hearing.
“I have nothing to hide. I understand that somebody had someone living in the garage. I don’t,” said Shelly Ia. “I am following the rules. All I am asking is a reasonable way of going around this. If you want to do a monthly, bi-monthly inspection of my garage, I have nothing to hide. If I have something stored in there and you don’t like it, I’ll remove it.”
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I have my own HOA story to tell. Normally HOAs aren’t as bad in the midwest as in many areas. Sometimes without them you get just lawsuits trying to enforce covenants on deeds.
20 years ago my wife and I built in a new neighborhood. While the HOA was still under control of the developer, they started the process setting up the Home Owners Association with actual property owners. I attended the first couple of meetings and found myself explaining how and why of certain issues during both meetings. Sure enough, no good deed goes unpunished, a few weeks later three neighbors show up at my door wanting to know if I will serve the first term of President of the HOA. I declined but they kept pleading as the only person running was the woman who was the biggest busy body in the neighbor hood.
I finally agreed with the proviso that I would resign a year later and made them all promise to never ask me to even attend a single meeting again.
I served the one year, played educator and peacemaker and then true to my promise I never attended another meeting for the next 15 years I lived there.
I got them off to a good start but after another 200 homes were built there were too many that came later to keep the lessons I taught them fresh in their minds and sure enough, they had a mess on their hands the last few years I was there. The last meeting i heard a report on had an open floor infidelity fist fight between two women.
“I value freedom above most anything. If someone buys a home with his money, he can paint the doors pink or any other color he darn well chooses.”
An older neighborhood near the university in my hometown was populated with liberal professors and their hippie peers tried to organize a neighborhood HOA.
One property owner told them to go to hell and painted his Dutch Colonial Barney Purple and striped the porch columns red and white. He then put two toilets in the front yard and used them for flower planters.
Stayed that way for years.
I earned no hate; I was one laid-back president. But I got hate in spades. No normal homeowner threatens pets. I’ll never live in another condo again.
Yes. I don’t like women-haters like you.
“Developer owned”
Another memory of a bank asset I worked on once.
At the peak of the market in the mountains of Western NC people were buying property site unseen.
When the crash happened just about every 2nd home development that was in the early phases failed.
The developer built a magnificent community center on the main road leading into the project and was to turn it over to the HOA upon sellout. This was a mountain lodge type dwelling large enough for weddings and had a indoor pool.
The neighborhood had sold about 40% of its lots when the developer went belly up. Since the lodge was financed by bank A and the lots financed by bank B, Bank A didn’t have any problem foreclosing and selling the lodge.
Anyone who had bought a lot under the premise of having use of the community center got screwed.
Someone bought it and turned into a really nice home.
“I hate HOA’s. Bunch of busybodies with time on their hands.”
The same thing is true for “covenants and restrictions” documents. When we built our home (one of seven) on a private road, the person who did the “minor subdivision” came around with a Covenants and Restrictions Document and asked us to sign it. He was mainly concerned that some of the new homeowners might want to have horses because due to the lot size, the county law would allow up to two horses per property. I just handed all back to him and refused to sign them. At the end of the day, all that the collective homeowners signed was a Road Maintenance Agreement.
Point is you can give away your rights to the use of your property in perpetuity, also by signing CCNR’s. I wouldn’t choose to live anywhere where any restrictions beyond local laws were in place
So my subdivision has an “HOA” which I really didn’t want to buy a house with one, but at the time didn’t have as much wiggle room as now.
I paid my little stipend every year to ‘maintain the common areas’. Then I thought - you know I should get a copy of the rules for the HOA. Never got em. Asked more than once. Then I figured out the dues were voluntary. So I stopped paying.
They asked me why - I told em 1) they’re voluntary and 2) you refuse to provide me with the rules - so in my mind that means you don’t really have any authority until you do provide them. Get the feeling it’s just a scam for the “board” to get extra money.
True. That’s why it’s important to choose wisely.
Now find something unique to only the unseated 3/5 board members.
Then BAN IT!
And what is wrong with semi trucks??
You eat food do you not?
Your RV is larger in size that you park in front of your neighbor’s house.
What does that have to do with it? I take a dump on a regular basis, too ... that doesn't mean it's a good idea to dump raw sewage on the street! LOL.
Your RV is larger in size that you park in front of your neighbor’s house.
I don't own an RV, and I've never seen one as large as a tractor-trailer anyway.
I'm sure there are HOAs all over the place that restrict RV parking in front of homes.
House is zoned for 3 bedrooms not 4.
House cannot hold 20 members.
Crime problem. Congestion problem.
Finally, someone who gets it.
HOA’s allow others to barge into your home/life where they have no business being.
My sister lives in a HOA community that fines you if you don’t close your garage door within 30 minutes of arriving home. They give the same time limit for retrieving your garbage bin after pickup.
Probably a county ordinance.
this sounds like the movie, Bananas, where the Castro-like leader orders the population to wear their underwear on the outside of their pants so police can easily tell if they’ve been changing their underwear regularly
Yeah. In our HOA in CA, we had only a few colors approved for painting our doors.
I hate HOAs; hubby loves them. We’re in one now in TN and I feel like I’m in prison every day.
Have the speed bumps put in front of the persons house that wants them. It won’t be long before they tire of the bump bump all day and night. Some in our town lasted maybe a month.
That would not bring as fast and as effective results as a large sign in the garage saying, "Jesus Christ came into the word to save sinners (including HOA members)."
The HOA could also be charged with being sexist and insensitive, since men are responsible for the majority of garages, and would be most offended by leaving them open.
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