I’m sorry your experience with HOA’s has been negative. But there are so many people who just don’t want to follow the rules. I’m not a tyrant, which is why I’m the President, but if people don’t pay their dues, I go ballistic. This effects EVERYBODY and EVERYBODY ends up paying. You have a choice when you buy a home to buy into a HOA community, or not. YOU SIGN AN AGREEMENT. Once you do...you have to abide by the rules and if you don’t like the rules, there are ways to change them. HOA’s, like governments, are just people. If you don’t like it...VOTE THEM OUT. But like governments, people would rather complain than actually do something. Being on a Board is a thankless job, believe me.
Hoa’s should not have the power to foreclose on a home. Period. Normal credit collection, yes. Report dilinquencies to credit beareaus, yes. Take someone home, nope.
But, getting back to the issue at hand, again, assuming this story is true, you don't see anything even remotely resembling tyranny in selling a 300,000 dollar home for 3,500 dollars to collect an 800 dollar debt?
I still think there is more to this story than meets the eye.
Headaches come with any leadership position. There HAS to be a more level-headed approach to resolving issues.
Shalom.
Just because one CAN do something doesn’t mean one SHOULD do something.
There’s probably reason that the good Captain can’t quite “follow the rules”...There is a war on, after all.
It is a thankless job, most often deservedly so.
HOA boards all lack the ame zeal in fulfilling the association’s duties under the CC&R’s as they do enforcing dues payments.
HOAs are tyrannical little fiefdoms run mostly (not always) but easily led, dummies with leftist tendencies. They think just like the typical rat - pay your money and STFU. “We’ll do what we want when want to with YOUR money, chump.”