HOA's serve a purpose
Posted on 10/29/2018 6:13:49 AM PDT by Kaslin
Our HOA sent an email complaining about mulch piles you can see from the road. My mulch pile is in a grove of trees next to the house which you can see from the road. I responded with “Are you complaining that there is wood...in the woods?”
A board rep responded “We mean the expensive black piles of mulch, not that ghetto free sh*t that you get from the grinder when it’s in the neighborhood”. Too funny.
Peoria is located in the desert.
The lesson here is mostly how expensive and inexperienced attorney can be for his or her clients.
“They were told that even if they were to eventually win, they would have to go through a lengthy appeals process that would cost them $50,000”
I am not sure who gave them this information but I think they should have sought a second opinion. Since the HOA clearly violated their own written rules and Arizona statute I would think remedies would be available to not only correct the violations but compensate legal costs.
I will never ever live in an HOA. Who needs some arbitrary and ever changing group of people with their own wicked agenda telling me what I can and can’t do on my property. I don’t even like living in city limits. They have higher taxes and lots more rules. Give me county land anytime. Minimum taxes and the fewest possible rules. I keep my property up and so do most my neighbors. We do it because we want to; not because some anal freaks will crawl up my ass if I don’t. Pun intended.
One more family learns the hard way why you NEVER EVER EVER buy a property that is subject to an HOA.
With an HOA, you will NEVER have TRUE OWNERSHIP of your home as you will always have to get permission from someone else to make any significant upgrades/improvements to your home.
Because 99% of all properties are under an HOA.
That also affects FHA financing. IIRC, they require 70% owner occupancy but can make case-by-case exceptions.
From the article it does appear that more and more HOA have become quasi government bodies. The answer might be to treat them as being along the same lines as community development agencies or historic preservation boards or other such entities which have quasi-government authority over property owners.
Statute must be clear that just like any other governing body there is a difference when an HOA board is acting in a legislative capacity versus a quasi-judicial capacity. And heavy fines levied for crossing the line.
You’re just proof of the nasty tyrants that occupy an HOA. We had a nasty like you and we made the little girl get out.
“Swine prefer living among other swine.”
So...those of us who live happily in nice neighborhoods without HOAs are pigs?
That is the one type of sign they cannot forbid. That is a lawsuit waiting to happen. One which you and other residents will end up paying for.
My sister and brother-in-law are living under a tyrannical HOA President (former power starved inner city school teacher).
People were lined up out the door to complain about him at a meeting and he LITERALLY brought out an egg timer and said everyone is limited to a three minute comment. Everyone in the room was screaming at him.
Get this, he doesn’t even live in the neighborhood, he rents his townhouse.
When people are free to do with their properties as they see fit, then it’s obvious who is self-motivated to keep things in order, and who is not.
Then what’s on the outside more accurately represents the priorities on the inside. The appearance is real, otherwise who knows - could be a line up of white-washed tombs, filled with the dead [who never miss voting demoncrat].
It all looks civil, sweet, and serene, until someone wears his MAGA hat to a neighborhood BBQ. Next thing you know his lawn might be 1” too high, or his deck needs to be repaired, or his roof immediately replaced.
Just down the street (no HOA) is the residence of a person running for a state office. It’s the most decrepit, ramshackle house on the road. Can you guess which political party? I knew you could.
HOA agreements, deed restrictions and covenants- these are all written down and available to potential home buyers.
>>>Would never live in a HMO<<<
Under Obamacare, you may have to.
This is exactly why I always refused to live in a community that had an HIA. Kind of detracts from home ownership, at least for me. That’s why I finally bought land and built my own home. Not the construction of it, but I hired and oversaw the people doing the construction.
They have to register with the state first and that would require a homeowners vote. Without notification it goes nowhere. With notification all forces come to alert for deployment :)
I have been waiting for you. You know nothing about our HOA which functions well. You know nothing about me or my role in the HOA. Yet, I am a nasty tyrant.
Getting rid of the tyrant little girl is exactly how a HOA should operate. That is good. You did the right thing. Getting involved in the HOA made your community better.
My wife was elected as president of our now defunct HOA. She quietly organized like minded candidates and they took the majority. The meeting was a doozy. The Nazi’s lost their minds. My wife and her insurgents voted to drop all HOA fees to $0. This was after the Nazi’s had hired a lawyer. Veins were bulging on the lawyers forehead. Who is going to pay my fees? Her response: Sue us, but good luck collecting. He stormed out. She then tabled all outstanding issues and scheduled the next HOA meeting/officers election for 2055. This was in Westfield. She had read that document with a lawyer resident insurgent candidate. It was all legal. A week later all the Nazi’s had put their homes up for sale. We had a block party and played this LOUD on a loop on a DJ/insurgent’s rig on a loop. Something north of 5,000 watts on very efficient speakers. 100+ Db at the 200 ft their homes were from the speakers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoyvvEWHodk
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