You can relly tell the demographic of the Freepers in this thread. Surprising how many are crotchety old bastards. As I age the sound of Big Wheels and children playing in my neighborhood are one of the things that comfort me, not listening to Frank Sinatra and playing Canasta with the Wilson’s.
The grandparents should never have voluntarily gotten involved with a HOA. Those things are pure, unadulterated evil. Now they have to live with their decision.
Just curious, but what's different about banning people from a community based on age versus say, race or religion? If HOA's can do this then what's to prevent them from doing it for the other reasons?
whaaaaat? O_o
Hey, they gave you three years.
Thank ‘em, and leave.
Three years is enuf time for this couple to resolve the problem. I give the association credit for allowing them three years leeway. That said, I back the homeowners' association for starting the legal process, which may take a long time to conclude.
Mandatory homeowners’ associations should be banned.
If an HOA can’t discriminate on race, gender, religion, etc., how can they discriminate based on age? Is there judicial precedent for this?
I think the HOA is being cruel. From what I’ve heard on this story, the grandparents had hoped that their custody of their granddaughter would be a temporary situation until the mother of the child could clean up her act. Obviously, that hasn’t worked and they have now accepted the responsibility for their granddaughter. God bless them for doing the right thing.
So a year ago, after deciding that they were going to be permanently raising their granddaughter, they put their house on the market. It has not sold yet. In my opinion, the HOA should be helping the grandparents, not threatening them. It is obvious after seeing the grandmother in an interview that they WANT to move as soon as possible! They want their granddaughter to be other children, they want a back yard for her to play in, and they want to downsize.
Surely the people who live in the HOA can back off and do the right thing by allowing these people to continue to care for their grandchild while trying to sell their home. It’s such a simple thing.
A lot of these HOAs are where holier than thou, nosy fascists are bred. IOW, they are prime constituents fro the DEMoncrat party.
The Fair Housing Laws:
Fair Housing Act
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act), as amended, prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of dwellings, and in other housing-related transactions, based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, familial status (including children under the age of 18 living with parents of legal custodians, pregnant women, and people securing custody of children under the age of 18), and handicap (disability). More on the Fair Housing Act
People htat would sue grandparents that step in to take care of a 3y/o, or any child, are bottom feeders.
KICK EM OUT! I wish they had this rule in my community.
It’s not difficult for the homeowners association to get an attorney to draw up a bullet proof, one time exception to the rules, based on compassion. I see no harm in giving the grandparents a deadline that they have to be out by the time the child is 6 or 7. These grandparents need help!
I live in FL and am very very familiar with the rules of home owner’s associations. I’m subject to them now.