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| The homeowners association from Hell |
| 2007-09-09 |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #10 HOAs are even more prone to takeover by lunatics than are school boards. The best thing that can happen in such a circumstance is for someone being oppressed to SLAPP suit the HOA board, and its board members as individuals. The idea is either to win a large judgment, or drive up attorneys fees so high, that the HOA board has to fold. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2007-09-09 16:05 |
| #9 I'll bet Marty Seinfeld wouldn't have stood for this at Del Boca Vista... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-09-09 12:14 |
| #8 Astroturf in a wide choice of school colors, my high falutin' friend. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-09-09 11:37 |
| #7 Cheez, Ed, get real, there's no such thing as grass under a mobile home. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2007-09-09 11:35 |
| #6 Dopes that include the grass under my mobile home propped up on cinder blocks? |
| Posted by: ed 2007-09-09 11:23 |
| #5 If there were government-mandated watering restrictions, the HOA could not over-ride them. For one thing, the local water department would be justified in simply shutting the development off. For another, no court would override emergency provisions in favor of a contract. I guess I'm lucky; my HOA has no problem accepting the brown turf we have right now. Everybody around here has brown grass, with the odd exception of athletic fields. They also don't get their tits in a bind over weedy flower beds. Hell, they even went around and cut down all the ornamental pear trees that started dropping lumbs every time the wind picked up. I suspect there's likely an economic class difference here; a more middle-class HOA is more likely to accept that you can't fight mother nature, while a more up-scale HOA would demand the world bend to their will. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2007-09-09 10:19 |
| #4 Of course, that might not be true where you are ... |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-09-09 09:49 |
| #3 Not so sure, gorb. We had a home within an HOA in North Carolina back in the early 90s and at least at that point the courts took the view that you signed onto the contract, you lived with it. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-09-09 09:49 |
| #2 Personally, I sort of doubt that the HOA would survive a lawsuit here. |
| Posted by: gorb 2007-09-09 07:16 |
| #1 This is why—on my list of life's achievements—"owning a condominium" comes right after "performing my own vasectomy". |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-09 02:53 |