old story his wife is an idiot
If something like this happened to me, I'd probably get a sprayer truck, fill it with gasoline, and go on a drive through the yards of the board members...
The details of this “sale” need to be exposed.
There was unjust enrichment going on here, and you better believe the new owner knew someone on this board.
Anyone who buys in a neighborhood that has a homeowners association is stupid and deserves the headaches he gets. Anyone who agrees to form such an association in a neighborhood previously free ditto.
HOA’s are generally not good things. They easily become dictatorial and oppressive. I lived in a neighborhood once that had one - never again.
Now, a really serious question - why would Texas have a law that gave HOA’s so much power? This is asinine.
The place to start is where the lawyer lied ~ he’s got deep pockets. Time to clean them out for him.
Back in the day when people supported their troops this crap wouldn’t happen. There would have been a great amount of leeway, some tolerance given.
The bastards in the HOA should be crucified. Crucified in the public domain for their inpatients. I would guess that there is not one of the HOA leadership members that is a vet or has a member of their family in the military.
Yep, I smell some real dirt bags involved here.
As for the wife not handling business, if she is a depressant that is easily understood. Lots of depressants in their youth don’t understand the disease and are given to make bad judgments, lose their ability to cope when not treated, and turn to avoidance. And I can even understand her not wishing to share problems with a husband frequently involved in mortal combat.
As for the HOA, and their claiming the husband was not in combat at the time when he was, that gets into the dirt bag time, as the HOA had to know he was military, and most likely took advantage. Especially on a house that was free and clear and where there was no bank mortgage claim against the house a new owner would have to deal with. What an easy $296,500’s to be made.
They knew apparently the wife’s inability to cope, so they’d just hold the property and claim rent for awhile until she falls flat on her face trying to deal with it. Then evict them, and voila...a nice resale profit.
Under ‘Servicemembers Civil Relief Act’ somebody should be seeing a year behind bars - Oh, that’s right - Chicago laws only protect the crooks... 0 needs to GO!
The editor at Mother Jones must have had to pry this out of the typewriter...a story supportive of a {gasp!} soldier.
I find this article somewhat suspect and very surprising.
The Servicemembers Civil Relief Act of 2003 provides that an service member can stay a foreclosure proceeding during his active duty. And may even stop non judicial foreclosure as in this case.
Many of the answers to questions (and idiotic statements) are at this thread.