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Community upset after HOA tells them to leave garage doors open or face $200 fine
WCMH4 via WNCN ^ | January 9, 2018 | Staff

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: auburn; california; condo; condoboard; garage; garages; gatedcommunity; hoa; nannystate; thexfiles
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To: TheNext

"...Crime problem. Congestion problem..."


Agreed. HOA in my neighborhood is totally fine.
We elected the handful of board members to a two-year term and they’ve been fine to me.
Landscaping and snow removal is prompt and they have never asked to see the inside of my place. Fees are fair and reasonable.


141 posted on 01/09/2018 4:47:16 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Rebelbase

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Kick their asses off the board!
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142 posted on 01/09/2018 4:51:19 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: daniel1212

There are quite a few possibilities to teach the HOA a lesson. Perhaps knowing something about the HOA busy bodies would help determine which possibility is best.


143 posted on 01/09/2018 4:55:44 PM PST by scripter
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To: ronniesgal

Who needs a HOA when a City has a Code Enforcement branch of the PD... Inspecting how your grass is cut, trimmed up around trees and fences, citing folks for graffiti if their fences have been tagged and ... and .... and ....

In my town Cops in trouble don’t get the “Human Resources” transfer, they get the “Code Enforcement” transfer. They show up with a chip on their shoulder (no extra charge).


144 posted on 01/09/2018 5:01:57 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Did You Screw up your Life? You get a “Second Chance” every second.)
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To: TexasTransplant

“Who needs a HOA when a City has a Code Enforcement branch of the PD... “

I thought that Texas was the land of the free.

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145 posted on 01/09/2018 5:08:22 PM PST by Mears
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To: bgill

>>Move to the country and be relatively free from dictators.<<

That is exactly what I did the same week I retired, moved to an 87-acre farm in an area where no one EVER messes with anyone else. One question I’ve not seen addressed is what’s to prevent homeowners from voting to dissolve unpopular HOAs?


146 posted on 01/09/2018 5:46:22 PM PST by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: fortes fortuna juvat

"...why not vote to dissolve..."


HOAs are typically written into the original bylaws for that type of community.
It would be akin to legislative gungrabbers securing sufficient momentum to eliminate the Second Amendment.
It potentially could happen, yet is very highly unlikely.


147 posted on 01/09/2018 6:23:31 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Reno89519

You do have remedies besides your HOA when dealing with potential violations.

If you live in a town or city with a housing code they most likely are in violation especially if the converted space is now a sleeping area. By code living space is required to have a certain amount of square-footage, light, and ventilation, and for sleeping areas egress.

There may also be a local ordinance regarding the number of vehicles that can be parked in a SFR zone. So it would not hurt to contact the zoning department.


148 posted on 01/10/2018 9:46:43 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: j.havenfarm

I was wondering about that when I saw the photos of the development, especially the security shack (at least it looked like one to me).


149 posted on 01/10/2018 9:47:56 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
One question I’ve not seen addressed is what’s to prevent homeowners from voting to dissolve unpopular HOAs?

A couple of things...

1. You know you are joining an HOA when you buy the house. It is in the disclosure documents when you close. It is VERY hard to form an HOA after the fact and equally hard to dissolve one.

2. I hated our HOA, so I got elected to the board to keep them from doing stupid things. Found out that most of the "stupid things" I thought the board was doing was part of the HOA docs and they had a legal responsibility to enforce the rules that are in place. You may not like someone telling you to pull your weeds, but someone else bought into the neighborhood because they wanted it to look nice and expect you (as a board member) to enforce the rules.

3. Out here neighborhoods without HOA's look like war zones. There are LARGE weeds in the gravel yards (very little grass in Rio Rancho), paint chipping off houses, cars on blocks in the driveways, dirt bikes and ATV parked in the front yard, etc., etc. If you want to live in a nice neighborhood, you go to one with an HOA.

4. And to your question about dissolving the HOA - most have a provision that the HOA can only be dissolved by an 80% vote of the residents in a PHYSICAL meeting. We have over 370 homes in our HOA and can barely get a dozen people to any of the open meetings, even when we mentioned raising the assessment. We weren't going to, but we needed community involvement in other areas, so we thought suggesting we were going to raise the assessment would get them to turn out in droves. It didn't.

So, my advice to anyone who lives in an HOA and hates it - join the board. It will be a learning experience.

150 posted on 01/11/2018 8:05:04 AM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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