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Posted on 03/27/2024 5:32:33 AM PDT by Twotone
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This is the exact reason I told our Real Estate agent: NO HOAs...................
Home Owner Associations!
Breeding grounds for sociopathic control freaks and corrupt politicians.
Totalitarian commies!
There’s a way to deal with people like this.
Quietly and late at night.
L
We moved to an older neighborhood 10 years ago that has no HOA, but it’s a nice area and people are fixing up the older homes (like we did to ours) or at least maintaining them well. We have large lots so you can store RVs and trailers off-street, and no-one seems to mind.
In our old neighborhood, you would get a letter if you left your trailer out overnight. I swear the guy must have been patrolling at 3am.
I ended up buying a home under ideal circumstances. It has a low-key, benign HOA with very few rules that are all reasonable. And the cost is very low because the HOA has hardly any common area maintenance responsibilities.
NEVER live in an area with an HOA.
NEVER.
I love living in an HOA community. They are all different, so be sure to read and understand the bylaws before deciding.
My HOA experience wasn’t horrible, but the BS was more than enough to NEVER want to be in an HOA neighborhood again. I understand how they can be useful, and some probably work great…. but you cannot fully control whether the next board president or board is good people or power hungry Karens.
I think this guy is full of crap. He talks about the “community,” but according to the information in the article he doesn’t even live there anymore and is renting his home to a tenant.
Full disclosure: In my experience, tenant-occupied homes are the source of at least 90% of the problems in an HOA. And in almost every case I’ve read about in media reports like this one, there seems to be one common issue: the homeowner rents the home to a tenant and doesn’t even inform the tenant about the HOA and its regulations.
Rubber hoses or tar & feathers.
C’mon, man.
That’s true, my wife and I currently have two residences both in HOAs, at one time we owned an office condo which also had an HOA and all three were PITAs.
The one potential area in this dispute I would question is the ability the Board to unilaterally change how the Board was elected, I would read the Covenants and Restrictions really closely to see if they grant the Board that type of power.
I personally have used this argument to stop the Board at one of our properties from changing the color of the building without a vote of the full ownership, once that happened the color change was voted down.
In general, most boards eventually end up in turmoil, they rock along just fine for years and suddenly a new neighbor decides to get on the board and the power goes to their head and the trouble begins.
IMO, HOA Boards have one role, maintain the property values in the community by taking care of the necessities.
Good! It is what they get for having a HOA.
“This is the exact reason I told our Real Estate agent: NO HOAs...................”
Same here, I told her I would be kicked out within the first month.
In my hood, every other house has a boat, trailer, RV’s, golf carts... Love it!
My yard has 2 Boats, 2 RV’s, and a small trailer. NO HOA.
He usually represented condo and HOA boards, so whenever I would mention a common complaint about HOA boards he would explain, in great detail, the legal rationale for why HOA boards do some of the things they do.
At the time, he was representing an HOA board that was being sued by one of the owners for enforcing their flag/banner restrictions. The homeowner claimed that his First Amendment rights were being violated because the HOA wouldn’t allow him to fly an Ohio State flag during college football season. The lawyer said he always advises HOA boards to enforce rules like this very strictly. I never forget his quote about that issue: ”If you let one homeowner fly an Ohio State flag, you can’t stop the one next door from flying a Nazi flag.”
When I lived in South Florida in the late 70’s, I lived next door to a town that was run like a HOA.
No cars in the driveway, had to be put in the garage by 6 pm.
No vans, even very expensive custom vans at the time were popular, were considered ‘work vehicles’.
Garbage cans had to be out of sight and in pristine condition, this was before the ubiquitous mechanically lifted cans of today.
Garbage cans had to be removed from the street before 10 am on Garbage Days.
No holiday decorations on homes before week of and after holiday.
Lights cannot blink, must be constant.
et al.....................
That is all pretty much rubbish that is used to justify HOA fees and punishments. HOA boards tend to attract petty tyrants and sociopaths.
What the HOA can do well is proper maintenance of common facilities. Most new subdivisions are built with walkways or small park areas which require care. The cities want nothing to do with such expenses and they get developers to assign them to the HOA that is organized with the subdivision.
A well-run HOA takes care of common properties. It is their only legitimate function.
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