OK, Before you spend any money on lawyers, here’s what you do...
1. Get all the names and contact info of the people on the HOA and as many and as high up in the home builder company.
2. Read up on legalize wording from the web and get as much info as you can on HOA.
3. Document the fire hazards...pics, etc.
4. Email AMD send a certified letter to as many of the contacts as you can.
5. This is the most important...your key word is “LIABILITY”...use it in every letter and email you send out. The idea is to place the burden of a catastrophic event(injury, death) squarely in their laps.
These people hate the “liability”,it scares them to death. Use it liberally!!
BTW..those are the exact steps a lawyer would take, so if you still don;t get some relief, pay a lawyer to send the same type of letter to the same people. It will show them 2 things:
1. You are not backing down
2. You are willing to escalate the matter
I have done this before myself and I will dollars to donuts you will get relief!!