Posted on 01/09/2018 7:02:20 AM PST by Rebelbase
"...Crime problem. Congestion problem..."
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Kick their asses off the board!
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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.
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).
“Who needs a HOA when a City has a Code Enforcement branch of the PD... “
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I thought that Texas was the land of the free.
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>>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?
"...why not vote to dissolve..."
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.
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).
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.
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