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Homeowner's Associations suck!
Gene Kearns wrote:
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:54:28 -0400, "JimH" ask penned the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats: We have a HOA in our development. The Association officers are responsible for contracting out the care and upkeep of the main entrance to the development (landscaping and sidewalk snow removal) as well as enforcing Association bylaws. They also review and approve fence and shed installations. Annual cost to each homeowner is $80. That is pretty cheap compared to most HOAs. Folks purchasing houses in the developement are told up front of the Association and are given a copy of the bylaws. My guess is that nothing is binding, if they didn't also assent to and sign the restrictive covenants prior to purchase. The covenants come with the land. There is no option to dissent from the covenants. I don't mind it. It helps ensure we don't get junk cars and trailers parked in driveways and eventually adds to the worth of my house. I don't have any of that, now, and I can park my boat in the driveway and work on it whenever and as long as I want..... BTW: I can work on or store my boat on the trailer in my driveway for 2 full weeks/year, which is reasonable. .....which is convenient because if I couldn't, I'd be spending another $75-$350+/month to slip the boat. That makes that $80 look like $155-$430+ to me! |
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Homeowner's Associations suck!
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:15:03 +0000 (UTC), (Bob) wrote: Yes, this post is on-topic. I just have to vent...thanks for listening. I live in an apartment and store my 17' v-hull I/O runabout boat in a storage facility. Whenever I need to work on it, I go get the boat and bring it to her house for a day or two and work on it there...nothing major -- just routine stuff like winterizing, tuneups, and other minor repairs or modifications...it's not like I'm leaving a junky boat half torn apart in her driveway. All has been well with this situation for the past 3 years or so until now. A rep of the homeowner's association which regulates the neighborhood my girlfriend lives in called her today saying that the association regulations prohibit working on boats and that boats could be loaded or unloaded only on your property. Where does one practically work on their boat if they cannot work on it at their house? I cannot afford to have someone do every little thing to my boat when it needs something done to it. Sure, I could probably get away with doing small things to it, but what about the other things like winterizing or getting it ready to go in the Spring? The way I see it, I am screwed and don't have much choice but to get rid of the boat. What a depressing thought that is, especially since it is a boat that has been in my family for 35 years, is running better than it ever has, not to mention how much enjoyment we get from it. The short answer is screw them. If you really don't care and the boat is not there longer than it takes for them to bring legal action there is really not much they can do. Certainly they can be mad at you but it is really pretty hard to enforce rules that are only broken for a day at a time, fairly infrequently. Basically it is pretty hard for them to hit a moving target. This is from the former president of TWO HOAs I had people just tell me to go screw myself and there really wasn't much I could do about it. You can always jump through the hoops to get a lien on the property to try to enforce the fines but that only affects people who plan on selling soon and who actually have some equity in the property. If they walk away from the house (which will be happening about 8 million times in the next year) they walk away from your "fine" too. My condo association got in line at bankruptsy court on 5 uinits that were in arrears on fines and fees ... we didn't walk away with a dime. Most HOA's don't want to sue, they just attach a lien to your property to fix the items that are out of compliance. My HOA doesn't have enough money in the reserve fund to start or sustain a legal action. |
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