Go to the link for a list of what has changed.
No more condos for me!
My HOA is wonderful. They do a great job of charging me. They do nothing else but they are efficient at collecting my money
Yeah they can be nuts. Depends on the board but usually the most demanding people get on the boards. My dad lived in a Condo and the board was always redecorating the lobby and the carpet and wallpaper on the floors. Drove him nuts. My aunt has a fixed income and any assessment in her building harms her. We lived for a short while in an HOA area home - we had one of those small moving containers for 2 days in the driveway in front of the garage. By the time it was emptied out and taken away we got an HOA letter in the mail “reminding us it needed to be removed within 24 hours of occupancy”. We laughed - it was gone before they could print off and mail the letter.
I’m no fan of most HOAs, but it seems ludicrous to use the authority of a state government to override legally binding real estate contracts.
It seems to me that people that live in HOAs bind themselves to their own hurt. I really don’t want another layer of government.
I’m currently embroiled in 3 different issues w/ my HOA, yet this is sort of stupid.
Private property in most cases. They can do what they want. At Lost Tree in NPB if you drive a pickup to play golf (as a guest) you park in the employee lot.
Ron DeSantis cures cancer.
DDS posters complain about the negative effect on the funeral industry.
As of July 1, 2024, HOAs will be prohibited from:
Excellent!
And therein lies the problem..
My own HOA diatribe:
2 years ago moved into a FL HOA community on an acre of land that backs up to an HOA “lake”. Really just a big pond.
Large male gator (~10 ft) since day one was curious but never came onto the property. 2 years later a “smaller” (9’) female moves in and regularly comes out onto my lawn and my kitty-corner neighbor’s. I have a dog and adult kids/grandkids who visit us on a regular basis.
I call FL fish and game and they send out a contractor to bait and remove the gators. The way it works in FL is the state bids out the job to gator hunters, who pay the state a stipend then then profit from the gator carcass anyway they can.
Gatgor guy shows up in his marked pickup and starts telling me how he’s gonna get the gators. This guys is about 60, knows his stuff, and has killed more gators than I’ve ever seen.
Not 3 minutes later, one of the HOA director’s wives pedals her little beach cruiser down to my lot and asks what’s going on. 5 minutes later her husband rolls up in his pickup.
Within 10 minutes all 4 of the HOA directors are on the street in front of my house asking on whose authority I’m having the gators removed, it’s not my lake, I don’t own the shoreline, etc...
To his credit, the gator hunter has seen this a thousand times, and quickly schools the HOA types on liability, FL law, and my rights.
The HOA busy bodies give me a few more stern warnings, tell me maybe I should move out of the neighborhood, and lecture me on the HOA covenants (which, strangely, aren’t applied to their friends in the neighborhood) before I tell them I have to get back to work, take it easy.
2 hours later I get an email from a member of the HOA board telling me they’ve “approved the removal of the gators” from the lake and I should keep them advised of what happens.
My guess is they had a quick call with an attorney and realized they were playing with a liability nightmare.
Bunch of know-nothing busybodies with an inflated sense of worth.
As my favorite author Patrick McManus once wrote: “There’s nothing worse than an ignorant individual smugly exercising authority far in excess of their intelligence.”
HOAs suck.
I left a fancy neighborhood in part because of them.
Years ago people didn’t give it a lot of thought. The idea of owning a home overshadowed this small extra cost and organization empowered to tell you what you may do on and with your property.
Today people think twice when they hear HOA and even government is getting involved in controlling them. Good-
Two things to remember when you hear HOA and especially if it’s a new development:
The developer is usually helping finance this HOA, not to scare away prospective buyers with high fees. Once the developer finishes, expect your rates to skyrocket.
No matter what the rules are today, tomorrow those can change and once the developer is gone (who normally has a disproportionate say) you often get people coming up with a lot of great new ideas, and who feel empowered in telling others what they may do.
Lived in two subdivisions with HOAs. Never had a single problem and really had no contact with them except for notices of HOA meetings, and the yearly bills, which were $500/yr in one (swimming pool and tennis courts) and $150/year in another (grass trimmed at the entrance, and some street signs put up).
I would like a law that required EVERY bylaw or rule on an HOA, of any kind, to be approved not just by a majority of residents in the HOA who vote on a measure, but by an absolute majority of all the residents in the HOA, and upon initiation of the law, to require those approvals on all the existing bylaws and rules when the law is adopted.
And further, than any 10% or more of HOA residents who later petition to have am existing bylaw or rule put up for a vote, MUST be granted an HOA wide vote in which an absolute majority of HOA residents must vote to keep the bylaw or rule, or it is rescinded and a 2nd vote must be held to consider a replacement bylaw or rule, again which must obtain a majority of HOA residents to put the new bylaw or rule in place.
THAT should clean out much the HOA leeway that allows for ruling cliques and petty dictators.
I believe in real democracy, not controlling cliques and petty dictators, even in an HOA.
I won’t be told what to do. Couldn’t live in those hellholes.
Don’t kid yourself. HOAs were created as a tool to deal with desegregation. It’s really that simple.
Nobody is forced to live in an HOA community. If you don’t like them then don’t live in one.
HOA’s just blow. No thanks.
Good. Somebody is finally challenging the Karens.
They are liberal dictators. Jase Robertson had his go-round with them. No gardens, no rain water, it affects the climate.